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UPDATED, with Smartmatic statement: A New York judge rejected Fox News’ efforts to dismiss a $2.7 billion lawsuit filed by Smartmatic, which sued over the network’s amplification of unfounded claims that it rigged the 2020 presidential election. Judge David Cohen also declined to dismiss Smartmatic’s claims against…

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…

Fox News is asking a Delaware judge to dismiss Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion lawsuit against the network, contending that the litigation is an attack on their First Amendment right to report on Donald Trump’s claim that the 2020 election was stolen from him. “It was a newsworthy ‘fact’ that the sitting…

Former President Donald Trump told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo that he would recommend that viewers get the Covid-19 vaccine, despite polls showing higher skepticism and resistance among his own supporters. Calling in to Fox News Primetime, Trump said, “I would recommend it, and I would recommend it to a lot of people…

Fox News personalities Maria Bartiromo, Lou Dobbs and Jeanine Pirro contend that they were well within the bounds of First Amendment protection as they covered ultimately false claims that Smartmatic rigged the election results against Donald Trump. “Smartmatic's 285-page, $2.7 billion complaint is not just…

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…

Maria Bartiromo, Brian Kilmeade and Trey Gowdy are among the list of rotating hosts who will anchor Fox News Primetime, set for its debut in the 7 PM hour as part of a plan to fill the slot with opinion programming. Last week, Fox News announced that the newscast The Story with Martha MacCallum would be moved to 3 PM…

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…

Maria Bartiromo will anchor a one-hour Fox Business documentary America vs. China,  at a time when President Donald Trump and others are casting blame on Beijing for their handling of the coronavirus outbreak. The network says that the documentary — airing at 7 PM on Saturday on Fox Business and 10 PM ET on Sunday on…

Rudy Giuliani appeared on Fox Business Network on Monday, a day after Joe Biden’s presidential campaign sent out a letter to the networks asking them not to book President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer for “pushing out outlandish falsehoods and disinformation.” Giuliani addressed the Biden campaign letter right off…

Maria Bartiromo is extending her tenure with Fox News and Fox Business with a new multiyear contract. Bartiromo, who has been with the networks for more than five years, currently anchors Mornings with Maria and Maria Bartiromo’s Wall Street on Fox Business Network and Sunday Morning Futures on Fox News Channel. Fox…

President Donald Trump feels the border situation is “like Disneyland now,” and blames a too-humane approach to family arrivals as the root cause. Speaking via phone to Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on her show Sunday Morning Futures, Trump said stopping the separation of families illegally crossing the southern…