Glenn Beck will no longer have a daily program on Fox News.

According to a joint release from Fox News and Beck's production company, Mercury Radio Arts, Beck "intends to transition" off the program at some point this year.

The release said the afternoon host will not be leaving the network entirely. It said that Fox and Beck's production company plan to "produce a variety of television projects" that will air both on Fox News Channel and other platforms, including Fox News' digital properties.

"Glenn Beck is a powerful communicator, a creative entrepreneur and a true success by anybody's standards," said Fox News chairman and CEO Roger Ailes. "I look forward to continuing to work with him."

Beck said in the release that "America owes a lot to Roger Ailes and Fox News."

"I cannot repay Roger for the lessons I've learned and will continue to learn from him and I look forward to starting this new phase of our partnership," he said.

With less than three days to go before the latest deadline to avoid a government shutdown, Congress appears far apart on a deal to fund the government for the next six months (through the end of the fiscal year). And while President Obama has made clear his desire to avoid such a possibility, a shutdown is starting to look increasingly likely.

Federal agencies are currently preparing for the possibility of such an event, but questions about the tangible impact of a government shutdown loom - particularly in terms of what it means for millions of Americans who are employed by or rely on the federal government for services.

Below, Hotsheet takes a look at who and what would be directly affected by a government shutdown - who gets paid, who goes home, and whose blackberries go dark - and how that could affect the rest of us.

One of President Barack Obama's high school friends from Hawaii was caught in a prostitution sting Monday night, according to reports from local television stations.

Robert Richard "Bobby" Titcomb, 49, is scheduled to appear at Honolulu District Court next month, after he allegedly solicited sex from an undercover officer posing as a prostitute.

Titcomb and Mr. Obama frequently go golfing when the president visits Hawaii, and Titcomb is often seen at family picnics with the whole Obama family.

Investigators scouring dense undergrowth for victims of a suspected serial killer along a remote Long Island beach area found three more sets of remains Monday, authorities said, bringing the total number of bodies to eight.

Criminologist Casey Jordan told CBS News' The Early Show Tuesday that the killer or killers may have a sexual motivation.

Jordan said the police are likely dealing with a "power control killer" or "hedonistic lust killer," because the women were lured through Craigslist.

The new remains are in addition to the remains of a victim found in the area last week, about 45 miles east of New York City. That victim has not been identified, and police have not positively connected those remains to the bodies of four prostitutes found nearby in December.

Police discovered the bodies while searching for 24-year-old Shannan Gilbert, who went missing in May in the area, and are investigating whether any of the newly-discovered remains are hers.

After locking her two children outside during Monday's severe storms, Louisville woman Ashley White is charged with endangering the welfare of a minor, police say.

While the children, ages 1 and 3, were locked out near an "extremely high traffic street," White was reportedly sleeping. Police say although Good Samaritans knocked on her door, there was no answer.

According to CBS affiliate WLKY, the children remained outside in the rain for 10-15 minutes before neighbors heard them crying from across the street.

Dany Jones told WLKY that her daughter brought the children home and called the police, then fed and bathed the kids.

"The little girl, she said, 'I want my mommy. I want my mommy,' and I felt so bad," Jones recalls. "Oh, that poor child."

Melanie Gilbert knew she was in for a long night.

"The wind just kicked up. I mean, it was really, really fast, and I was just peeking through the bedroom window," she said of Monday night's storms. "I could tell it was just gaining momentum like I'd never seen."

Next came the loud crash, then the panic.

"Really scary like, what was gonna happen next?" she said. "Didn't know what to do. I tried to call 911 and couldn't get through. So I thought, well, we've got to contact somebody."

While fears have been largely dismissed, many still recommend minimal exposure to the rain

The Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety (KINS) and the Korea Meteorological Association (KMA) are causing confusion and unease with shifting statements on whether radioactive material from Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant will mix with rain and fall in South Korea, with heavy rain forecasted nationwide for Thursday.

The KMA forecasted Wednesday that due to a low pressure system, 20 to 70mm of rain would fall starting early morning Thursday through Friday nationwide. KINS President Yun Choul-ho held a press conference with KMA spokesman Kim Seung-bae at the Central Government Complex on Sejongno.

"According to the KMA's atmospheric models, there is no possibility that radioactive material released from the Fukushima nuclear plant would spread via the winds from the East China Sea to southwestern South Korea," said Kim. This would mean "radioactive rain" will not fall.

On Monday, however, KINS said during a press conference that its own models showed that minute amounts of radioactive material could spread into Korea's airspace on Thursday. They also showed a screen from their mock test. The KMA, too, also distributed a forecast that due to a high-pressure system over southern Japan, southwesterly air currents would drive rain clouds over the West Sea towards inland Korea on Wednesday or Thursday. Monday's press conference was held after a Norwegian atmospheric research institute released a prediction that radioactivity would spread over Korea around Thursday, and was interpreted as a belated acknowledgement by both the KINS and KMA that "radioactive rain" would fall.

Atlanta -- Former President Jimmy Carter says much of the discrimination and abuse suffered by women around the world is attributable to a belief "that women are inferior in the eyes of God."

Carter said such teachings by "leaders in Christianity, Islam and other religions" allow men to beat their wives and deny women their fundamental rights as human beings.

The former president made the remarks at a gathering of human rights activists and religious leaders from more than 20 countries at the Carter Center in Atlanta.

The trial of Italian prime minister and media mogul Silvio Berlusconi on charges of sex with an underage prostitute and abuse of power opened Wednesday and was rapidly adjourned as throngs of journalists and international TV crews crowded the Milan courthouse.

Neither Berlusconi nor Moroccan pole dancer Karima El Mahroug, known as Ruby, attended the first hearing of one of Italy's most anticipated courtroom events, which the judge postponed until May 31.

Prosecutors in the case, which touches tangentially on Berlusconi's Mediaset TV empire, accuse the TV-tycoon-turned-politician of paying for sex with Mahroug when she was 17.

The alleged sexual encounters supposedly took place at Berlusconi's villa at Arcore, outside Milan, during sex parties attended by dozens of women, some of whom were aspiring TV starlets, according to local reports.

Entire country loses internet for five hours after woman, 75, slices through cable while scavenging for copper

An elderly Georgian woman was scavenging for copper to sell as scrap when she accidentally sliced through an underground cable and cut off internet services to all of neighbouring Armenia, it emerged on Wednesday.

The woman, 75, had been digging for the metal not far from the capital Tbilisi when her spade damaged the fibre-optic cable on 28 March.

As Georgia provides 90% of Armenia's internet, the woman's unwitting sabotage had catastrophic consequences. Web users in the nation of 3.2 million people were left twiddling their thumbs for up to five hours as the country's main internet providers - ArmenTel, FiberNet Communication and GNC-Alfa - were prevented from supplying their normal service. Television pictures showed reporters at a news agency in the capital Yerevan staring glumly at blank screens.