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After a one-day delay and amidst whispers of settlement talks, Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation trial against Fox News is set to begin Tuesday in Wilmington, DE. So, with final jury selection having just started and then opening statements looming before Judge Eric M. Davis, what are…

Fox News has reached a settlement with Venezuelan businessman Majed Khalil, who filed a defamation lawsuit over a Lou Dobbs tweet and broadcast linking him to rigging the 2020 presidential election. The lawsuit has been a bit of a sidelight to separate and more widely publicized defamation cases…

UPDATE, 12:39 PM ET: The judge presiding over Dominion’s defamation case against Fox pushed back on the network’s attorneys for their argument that Rupert Murdoch would be unable to testify live in the upcoming trial. In a hearing on Tuesday, Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis cited a letter…

A New York appellate court declined to toss out Smartmatic’s defamation lawsuit against Fox News and personalities including Lou Dobbs and Maria Bartiromo. The appeals court ruling (read it here) stems from Smartmatic’s $2.7 billion lawsuit against the network, contending that its personalities and…

A federal judge ruled that a Venezuelan businessman can move forward with his defamation lawsuit against Fox News and Lou Dobbs over claims that he was involved in rigging the 2020 presidential election. U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton rejected the defendants efforts to dismiss the case, finding that the…

Rudy Giuliani’s attorney rehashed conspiracy theories and was light on evidence when pressed by a judge Tuesday in a defamation suit brought by voting software firm Smartmatic. Joe Sibley of Camara & Sibley asked New York State Supreme Court Judge David Cohen to dismiss six of the claims against his client Giuliani…

Larry Kudlow's debut on Fox Business Network on Tuesday has generated a lot of attention, and most of it not good due to his expletive-filled big mouth. "Earlier on Fox News Channel, I made some comments about that clip, you might have read about it, if not you could Google it," the ex-director of Donald Trump's…

Fox Business will debut a new show with Larry Kudlow, former top economic adviser to Donald Trump, on February 16. The show will air weekdays at 4 p.m. ET, with a rebroadcast at 7 p.m. ET. The show will feature closing market analysis and interviews. On Friday, Fox News confirmed the cancellation of Lou Dobbs Tonight…

Fox News has canceled Lou Dobbs’ Fox Business show, Lou Dobbs Tonight, and will replace him with a rotating group of hosts. Dobbs, one of Donald Trump’s steadfast defenders, was among the defendants named in election systems company Smartmatic’s $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit filed on Thursday against Fox Corp. The…

Smartmatic, the election systems company, filed a $2.7 billion lawsuit against Fox Corp. on Thursday, claiming that Fox News “irreparably harmed” its reputation when some of its news personalities and guests targeted the company as responsible for rigging election results. Also named in the 285-page lawsuit (read it he…

Fox Business host Lou Dobbs aired a segment on Friday that amounted to a fact-checking refutation of claims that he and guests have made about an election tech company Smartmatic and its role in the 2020 presidential election, after the company threatened legal action. Other similar segments will be shown on Justice wi…

Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch and Fox News and Fox Business personalities Maria Bartiromo and Lou Dobbs were among the guests at tonight’s White House State Dinner for Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Also on the guest list: Marvel’s Ike Perlmutter and News Corp. CEO Robert Thomson. This is President Donald…