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Fox News host Jeanine Pirro, shown here addressing the Conservative Political Action Conference in February 2017, has been placed at the center of a $1.6 billion defamation suit against Fox by Dominion Voting Systems over false claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential elections.

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Fox's Jeanine Pirro is back in the hot seat in $1.6 billion election defamation case

Dominion Voting Systems' lawyers want to question the Fox News star again over texts they got just hours before she sat for a sworn deposition. Dominion sued Fox over false claims of election fraud.

October 01, 2022
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  • David Folkenflik
Among the stars being questioned under oath for Dominion Voting Systems' defamation suit against Fox News are Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Maria Bartiromo. Banners bearing their images hang from Fox Corp. headquarters in New York City, first, second and fourth from left, respectively.

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Fox producer's warning against Jeanine Pirro surfaces in Dominion defamation suit

Jeanine Pirro, Tucker Carlson and others are being grilled under oath in a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News for spreading lies about a voting tech company's role in the 2020 elections.

September 06, 2022
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  • David Folkenflik
<em></em>Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch, shown above in 2019 in Sun Valley, Idaho, is threatening to sue an Australian news site for defamation over a June 29th column about rhetoric on Fox. In the U.S., Fox News is defending itself against two defamation suits, saying "Freedom of the press is foundational to our democracy and must be protected."<em></em>

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Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch threatened Aussie news site 'Crikey.' It's fighting back

Murdoch threatened to sue the Australian news site Crikey over a column connecting him to rhetoric on Fox News ahead of the Jan. 6 siege at the U.S. Capitol. Crikey's response? Bring it on.

August 22, 2022
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  • David Folkenflik
Fox News Channel and other conservative media largely leapt to former President Donald Trump's defense after the FBI searched his Mar-a-Lago resort. Here, Fox star and ally Sean Hannity (L) interviews Trump before a campaign rally in 2018 in Las Vegas.

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Analysis: Fox and right-wing media snap to Trump's defense after FBI search

After FBI agents searched Mar-A-Lago, Fox News stars and right-wing media outlets largely defended former President Trump, claiming he was a victim of politics.

August 10, 2022
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  • David Folkenflik
A tour group led by Rep. Barry Loudermilk includes at least one person present outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

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Political Rewind: Loudermilk under scrutiny; Abrams blasts Kemp for receiving Daniel Defense funds

Thursday on Political Rewind: The January 6th Committee wants to talk to Rep. Barry Loudermilk of Georgia about a tour he led on the 5th. Plus, Abrams calls out Daniel Defense's campaign donations to Kemp. Meanwhile, Fox News featured only one candidate in the 2nd Congressional District race.

June 16, 2022
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
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Mary Rich, shown with her husband, Joel, at their home in Omaha, Neb., says self-promoters they trusted to help solve the killing of their son took advantage of them. "You're a total sucker," Mary Rich says. "I think every day: Who's going to bug us? What's coming at us? I will always think that."

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Seth Rich's killing was exploited on Fox News and online. His parents are fed up

Seth Rich's killing brought incalculable loss to Joel and Mary Rich. Baseless conspiracy theories on Fox News made it even worse. They're speaking out for the first time since settling with Fox.

June 15, 2022
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  • David Folkenflik
Former Fox News political editor Chris Stirewalt spoke to NPR minutes after testifying Monday to the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. "Television ... really damaged the capacity of Americans to be good citizens in a republic because they confused the TV show with the real thing," Stirewalt told NPR.

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Fired Fox News politics editor: Trump's ire at election night call led to 'panic'

In an interview with NPR, former Fox News politics editor Chris Stirewalt says that network should have been proud of being first to project that Joe Biden would win Arizona.

June 14, 2022
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  • David Folkenflik
Fox News personalities adorn the front of the News Corporation building in 2019 in New York City.

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Only one major cable news channel did not carry the Jan. 6 hearing live: Fox News

Airing the hearing would have required Fox to broadcast flat contradictions of what its personalities have told their audience in the past year and a half: that the riot was a mere legal protest.

June 11, 2022
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  • David Folkenflik
Rupert Murdoch speaks in San Francisco in 2011. Murdoch's media empire has included News Corp, Fox News, Fox Sports, 21st Century Fox, HarperCollins,<em> The New York Post</em> and <em>The</em> <em>Wall Street Journal.</em>

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In the Murdoch family succession battle, Fox News and democracy hang in the balance

The new CNN+ docuseries The Murdochs looks inside the Fox media empire and the family's behind-the-scenes in-fighting. Journalist Jim Rutenberg says the real-life drama rivals HBO's Succession.

April 21, 2022
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  • Terry Gross
Voters cast their ballots Election Day in 2020 in East Los Angeles. Smartmatic says it's the only county they were operating in for the presidential election, but Fox News mentioned the company 137 times in a month afterward as President Trump and his allies pressed baseless claims of a rigged election.

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Fox News countersues a voting machine maker, saying its damage estimate is inflated

Smartmatic says claims aired by the network contributed to losing $2.7 billion in business through 2025. In a new suit, Fox says that figure represents absurdly huge growth for the small business.

March 18, 2022
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  • Christopher Dean Hopkins
Neil Cavuto, a Fox Business Network veteran anchor, said a second bout with COVID-19 landed him in the intensive care unit and told viewers, "Let me be clear. Doctors say had I not been vaccinated at all, I wouldn't be here."

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Lauding vaccines, Fox's Neil Cavuto says a 2nd bout of COVID nearly killed him

Returning from a prolonged absence on Monday, Cavuto — who is immunocompromised — said COVID-19 pneumonia had landed him in the intensive care unit and credited the vaccine with saving his life.

February 22, 2022
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  • Rachel Treisman
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has faced a barrage of conservative criticism and violent threats over the handling of the highly politicized coronavirus pandemic.

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Fauci calls on Fox News to fire host who urged 'kill shot' in 'ambush' interviews

Fox News host Jesse Watters is facing blowback for using violent rhetoric to explain how citizen journalists should confront Dr. Anthony Fauci in the hopes of going viral.

December 22, 2021
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  • Rachel Treisman
Chris Wallace of Fox News moderates a 2020 presidential debate. Wallace says he's leaving the network after 18 years and is "ready for a new adventure."

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Chris Wallace announces abrupt departure from Fox News to join CNN streaming service

The respected journalist, who kept the news of his exit secret from colleagues, will head to CNN's new streaming service.

December 12, 2021
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  • Matthew S. Schwartz
Fox News host Tucker Carlson's special on the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol was the last straw for two network commentators. Stephen Hayes and Jonah Goldberg have resigned.

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2 Fox News commentators resign over Tucker Carlson series on the Jan. 6 siege

Stephen Hayes and Jonah Goldberg have resigned after the Fox News star hosted a series that relied on fabrications and conspiracy theories about the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

November 22, 2021
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  • David Folkenflik
Tucker Carlson, host of "Tucker Carlson Tonight," poses for photos in a Fox News Channel studio, in New York.

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'Off the rails': New Tucker Carlson project for Fox embraces conspiracy theories

Tucker Carlson's new three-part series on the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol relies on a rogue's gallery of conspiracy theorists to divert blame from supporters of former President Donald Trump.

November 04, 2021
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  • David Folkenflik and
  • Tom Dreisbach
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