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Sarah Palin was defeated Wednesday in her effort to win an Alaska U.S. House seat, as Democrat Mary Peltola emerged the victor in the state’s first ranke–choice voting election. Palin, the former governor of the state and the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee alongside John McCain, sought to succeed Rep. Don…

UPDATE: Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), soundly defeated in her primary against a Trump-backed challenger, said that “now the real work begins,” as she vowed to prevent the former president from returning to the presidency. As pundits weighed the possibility that Cheney would wage a 2024 presidential run, she used her…

Amber Heard is replacing most of her legal team and leaning into the Constitution as she prepares to appeal the multimillion-dollar defamation verdict awarded to Johnny Depp. Not entirely unexpected, the move by the Aquaman actress to cut loose her main attorney Elaine Bredehoft follows weeks of judicial jockeying by…

Why was Tina Fey trending on Twitter Friday night? It’s because Sarah Palin, the former 2008 vice presidential candidate who was Fey’s doppelgänger and constant foil on Saturday Night Live, is throwing her hat in the national politics ring once again. Palin, also the former Alaska governor, said Friday that she was…

Before the jury rendered its verdict in favor of the New York Times in Sarah Palin’s libel trial, some of its members say that they were tipped to the judge’s plan to dismiss the case. U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff revealed on Wednesday that several jurors volunteered to the law clerk that they learned of his plan to…

A jury found that New York Times and one of its top editors were not liable in Sarah Palin’s defamation lawsuit, affirming a judge’s earlier announcement that he would dismiss the case regardless of their decision. The jury’s verdict was unanimous. As the jury continued its deliberations on Monday, U.S. District Judge…

A federal judge on Monday said he will dismiss Sarah Palin’s libel case against the New York Times, concluding that Palin’s lawyers had failed to produce sufficient evidence to show the publication acted with actual malice. “I think this is an example of very unfortunate editorializing on the part of the Times,” said…

Attorneys for Sarah Palin and The New York Times wrapped up their case on Friday with lengthy closing arguments, leaving it to jurors to decide whether a faulty 2017 editorial that linked the former governor’s political action committee to a mass shooting was merely “a mess up” or actual malice. Jurors went into…

UPDATE, 2:29 PM PT: Closing arguments are scheduled for Friday in Sarah Palin’s libel case against The New York Times, after both sides rested their case. PREVIOUSLY: Sarah Palin completed her testimony in her libel case against The New York Times, as she told a New York federal court that the publication’s editorial…

Sarah Palin briefly took the stand in her libel trial against the New York Times on Wednesday, while the editor responsible for inserting incorrect language in a 2017 op-ed said that he “felt terrible” about the mistake, but denied that it was intentional. The trial in a New York federal court has been moving rather…

EXCLUSIVE, SPOILER ALERT: Rudy Giuliani was unmasked as an exiting costumed contestant in last week’s taping of the first Season 7 episode of Fox’s popular primetime series The Masked Singer. Deadline hears that as soon as they saw Giuliani, judges Ken Jeong and Robin Thicke quickly left the stage in protest. The show…

UPDATE, 8:22 AM PT: A federal judge has pushed back the start of the trial in Sarah Palin’s libel suit against The New York Times after she tested positive for Covid multiple times. U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff instead has set Feb. 3 for jury selection. Rakoff had earlier delayed Monday’s proceedings for about 90…