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Jury finds 'The New York Times' did not libel former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin

4:35pm April 22, 2025

A jury concluded that The New York Times did not libel former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who had argued that an error in a 2017 Times editorial damaged her reputation.

Former President Trump Campaigns With House Candidate Sarah Palin And Senate Candidate Kelly Tshibaka In Anchorage, Alaska

A retrial of Sarah Palin's case against 'New York Times' begins Monday

5:02am April 13, 2025

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has the rare opportunity to retry her defamation case against The New York Times even though she lost it — twice in a 24-hour-period — in early 2022.

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin answers questions from the media as she arrives at a federal court in Manhattan on February 15, 2022. The 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate filed on April 1, 2022, to run for the open House seat in Alaska.

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Sarah Palin files to run for the late Alaska Rep. Don Young's seat

10:42pm April 01, 2022

by NPR Staff

The former vice presidential candidate filed with the Federal Election Commission to run for the late Don Young's House seat.

Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin speaks with reporters as she leaves federal court on Feb. 14 in New York City.

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Sarah Palin loses defamation case against 'The New York Times'

5:10pm February 15, 2022

by David Folkenflik

It was a one-two punch for Sarah Palin: The verdict came a day after the presiding judge said he would dismiss the case because Palin's lawyers failed to meet the legal standard of actual malice.

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin arrives at a federal court in Manhattan to testify in her defamation case against The New York Times.

Sarah Palin testifies she felt powerless to fight 'New York Times' over editorial

10:10am February 11, 2022

by David Folkenflik

Sarah Palin said she lost sleep after a 2017 New York Times editorial falsely linked an ad from her political action committee to a mass shooting years earlier. She has sued the paper for defamation.

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Former New York Times editorial page editor James Bennet, shown here in a photo from 2017, said Tuesday he accepted blame for an editorial that falsely linked a graphic from former Gov. Sarah Palin's political action committee with a mass shooting in Ariz

Former 'New York Times' editor testifies on Sarah Palin editorial: 'This is my fault'

2:42pm February 09, 2022

by David Folkenflik

Former New York Times editorial page editor James Bennet testified Tuesday he was to blame for an incorrect passage about former Gov. Sarah Palin in a 2017 editorial on heated political rhetoric.

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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's suit against The New York Times is expected to put a spotlight on the balance of free speech and defamation claims.

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Sarah Palin's defamation suit against 'The New York Times' gets its day in court

8:51am January 23, 2022

by David Folkenflik

Jury selection begins Monday in the former Alaska governor's case. A 2017 Times editorial wrongly connected an ad from her political action committee to the shooting that wounded Rep. Gabby Giffords.

Sarah Palin, political commentator and former governor of Alaska, has accused The New York Times of slander over an editorial tying her to a 2011 mass shooting in Tucson, Ariz.

Appeals Court Revives Sarah Palin's Defamation Lawsuit Against 'The New York Times'

1:33pm August 06, 2019

by Merrit Kennedy

Federal judges said a lower court was wrong to dismiss the former vice presidential candidate's lawsuit against the newspaper over an editorial that linked her to a 2011 mass shooting.

Russian official Alexander Torshin, appearing in Moscow in 2016, was sanctioned by the U.S. government in April, suspending years of travel back to 2009 during which he cultivated ties with American conservatives.

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Documents Reveal How Russian Official Courted Conservatives In U.S. Since 2009

2:02pm May 11, 2018

by Tim Mak

President Trump and Sarah Palin were among figures on the right targeted by outreach from Alexander Torshin, a Russian official recently sanctioned by the U.S., according to documents obtained by NPR.

Sen. John McCain's upcoming memoir, The Restless Wave, discusses the partisan divide in the nation and some thoughts on how to do address it.

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John McCain Makes An Appeal For Civility And Humility

1:08pm May 01, 2018

by Domenico Montanaro

The Arizona senator and former prisoner of war, dealing with the effects of brain cancer, writes in a forthcoming book about what contributes to toxicity in U.S. politics, predating the Trump era.