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LITTLE ROCK — Jake Tapper is leaving the White House beat atABC News to become CNN’s chief Washington correspondent and anchor of a onehour weekday news program.CNN spokesman Jennifer Scoggins said last week that Tapper’s show would take an hour from the threehour Situation Room newscast, which Wolf Blitzer currently hosts from 3 to 6 p.m. Central time on weekdays. It hasn’t been determined when Tapper’s show will start. Tapper has been at ABC since 2003, most recently as its senior White House correspondent and author of the Political Punch blog. He’s also author of The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor, about the war in Afghanistan.He’s been ABC’s primary substitute for the Sunday This Week talk show. But he was twice passed over for the top job, once when Christiane Amanpour replaced George Stephanopoulos and again when Stephanopoulos returned to replace Amanpour earlier this year. Tapper worked at Salon.com before joining ABC, but he also had experience at CNN a decade ago, co-hosting a weekend show featuring young journalists talking about politics and pop culture. He’ll be joining CNN at a time of change, with former NBC Universal chief Jeff Zucker starting in January as head of the network. Tapper’s exit triggered changes at ABC News. Veteran Washington hand Jonathan Karl will be ABC’s new chief Washington correspondent, ABC News President Ben Sherwood said. MarthaRaddatz’s role will expand as the new chief global affairs correspondent. Raddatz, who won praise this fall as moderator of the vice presidential debate, will become Stephanopoulos’ chief substitute on Sunday mornings.

Bethenny Frankel and husband Jason Hoppy areseparating. The 42-year-old TV personality, chef, author and entrepreneur said Sunday that the split bringsher “great sadness.” “This was an extremely difficult decision that as a woman and a mother, I have to accept as the best choice for our family,” Frankel said. Frankel and Hoppy were married in 2010 and have a daughter, Bryn, who was born that same year. The couple’s courtship and marriage were documented in two reality series, Bethenny Getting Married? and Bethenny Ever After ... Frankel gained fame as a star of The Real Housewives of New York City.