Law

The trial over Fox News' false election fraud claims is settled at the last minute

7:21am April 19, 2023

NPR's Michel Martin talks to Justin Nelson, co-lead counsel for Dominion Voting Systems, about its $787 million settlement with Fox News over the falsehoods it aired about the 2020 election.

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Fox News settles defamation lawsuit with election tech firm Dominion Voting Systems

6:33am April 19, 2023

Fox News has settled a lawsuit over false claims it aired following the 2020 presidential election. It will pay nearly $790 million to Dominion Voting Systems.

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Morning news brief

6:33am April 19, 2023

Fox News settles a major defamation lawsuit. Abortion pills could be heavily restricted in many states unless the Supreme Court intervenes. Pentagon reviews the way classified data is distributed.

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A police officer drives past the Kansas City home where 16-year-old Ralph Yarl was shot last week.

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2 shootings at mistaken addresses have renewed the focus on 'stand your ground' laws

5:12am April 19, 2023

by Becky Sullivan

Stand your ground laws have proliferated in the years since the shooting of Trayvon Martin, the Black teenager killed in 2012. Research shows the laws have led to an increase in firearm homicides.

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Without Supreme Court intervention, abortion pill could be heavily restricted

5:07am April 19, 2023

An administrative stay from the Supreme Court in a federal abortion pill case out of Texas expires late Wednesday, once again putting access to mifepristone in jeopardy.

Multiple white nationalist groups march with torches through the University of Virginia campus on Aug. 11, 2017, in Charlottesville, Va.

National

Multiple torch-carrying marchers in the Charlottesville rally are indicted

1:48am April 19, 2023

by The Associated Press

Nearly six years after white nationalists in Virginia clashed with counter-protesters, a grand jury indicted multiple people on felony charges for carrying flaming torches intended to intimidate.

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Fox News averts major defamation trial by settling with Dominion Voting Systems

7:00pm April 18, 2023

by David Folkenflik

Fox News lawyers reached a settlement with Dominion Voting Systems just before trial was to begin. The voting-tech company sued Fox for falsehoods it broadcast after the 2020 presidential election.

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The U.S. Supreme Court is pictured on March 22.

Supreme Court conservatives seem divided in major religion case

5:36pm April 18, 2023

by Nina Totenberg

The justices heard arguments Tuesday in a case about how far employers must go to accommodate the religious views of their employees.

Texas continues to exonerate people who were wrongly convicted during 'satanic panic'

4:41pm April 18, 2023

by Paul Flahive

Texas courts are still exonerating people who were falsely convicted and imprisoned amid the "moral satanic panic" of the 1980s and '90s. Their persecution was based on lies and conspiracy theories.

Congress ramps up investigation into migrant child labor in the U.S.

4:26pm April 18, 2023

by Claudia Grisales

Congress is ramping up its probe into hundreds of reports of migrant child labor in the U.S. A House panel grilled a top official of a program responsible for placing these children in safe homes.