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Francis Ford Coppola filed a $15 million suit against Variety accusing the far-left outlet of knowingly libeling him in an article alleging #MeToo misconduct.

Britain’s 95-year-old monarch has reportedly lost patience with Prince Harry and his wife, American ex-actress Meghan Markle, having “lawyered up” after her woke grandson’s announcement of a tell-all memoir.

A federal judge in the nation’s capital rejected the Washington Post’s motion to dismiss a defamation lawsuit against the newspaper from Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) late Wednesday, instead allowing the suit to proceed to discovery where the powerful California conservative will be able to gather information about the newspaper’s internal communications about the congressman and the 2016 election.

Meghan and Harry have threatened legal action against the BBC over a claim that they did not consult the Queen about their child’s name.

“Alan Dershowitz will be able to move to discovery after surviving the first round of a defamation lawsuit against CNN,” reports the far-left Hollywood Reporter.

Russian dissident Alexei Navalny appeared by video in a Moscow court on Thursday to appeal a libel case against him. Navalny was difficult to recognize, shaven-headed and skeletal after losing 50 pounds in a hunger strike, but he gave a fiery speech to the court in an unsuccessful effort to get the charges dismissed.

(AFP) — A UK court on Thursday refused Hollywood superstar Johnny Depp the right to appeal a ruling that upheld claims in a newspaper article that he beat his ex-wife Amber Heard.

Johnny Depp has lost his libel case against the U.K. Sun newspaper over an article that called him a “wife beater.”

London – Johnny Depp’s ex-wife Amber Heard “stole” her personal assistant’s story of being a victim of sexual assault, the former employee told a UK court Wednesday on day seven of the Hollywood star’s libel trial.

President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign has filed a libel lawsuit against the Washington Post for “millions of dollars” on Tuesday, claiming the outlet published “false and defamatory statements” about an alleged conspiracy with Russia.

House Intelligence Committee ranking member Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against CNN for a fake news story the outlet printed about him before Thanksgiving.

House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence ranking member Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) intends to file lawsuits against both CNN and the Daily Beast over fake hit pieces the outlets have published about him in recent days, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.

“He could now have a good chance of winning. Go Nick!” Trump wrote.

Covington Catholic students are taking legal action against 12 individuals, including celebrities, lawmakers, and media personalities.

A federal judge dismissed a $250 million defamation suit Friday, which Covington student Nicholas Sandmann filed against the Washington Post.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday said he would sue the leaders of the Blue and White party for libel after one top would-be MK suggested his behavior in a corruption case involving submarine purchases “could constitute treason.”

President Trump is doing no more than adopting the view of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who did not believe the First Amendment was intended to cover libel.

President Donald Trump responded to Bob Woodward’s book on Wednesday by acknowledging his own leadership style.

TEL AVIV – An Egyptian historian wildly claimed that the Jews perpetrated a “counter Holocaust” in which Germans were captured, put in camps, tortured and killed.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas claimed that Israel is flooding Palestinian society with a “frightening” amount of drugs that are destroying its youth, footage from a broadcast last week on PA official TV shows.

BEIRUT, Lebanon — A Lebanese military court handed down a six-month prison sentence to a journalist for presenting views critical of the army, a court official told AFP on Thursday.

Actor and musical icon Barbra Streisand upped her criticism of President Donald Trump on Thursday, accusing the president of regularly lying to deflect from critics.

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley commented on President Trump’s call to change libel laws by stating such calls are troubling and changing the standard would require Supreme Court justices who want

Under the apparent belief that all of the legal problems stemming from a discredited 2014 story about an unproven gang rape at the University of Virginia (UVA) were now over, Jann Wenner, founder and majority-owner of Rolling Stone magazine, put his “Bible of the Counterculture” up for sale. But just days after announcing the sale, the leftwing publication has been hit with yet-another legal setback involving the UVA debacle.

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s lawyers will reportedly subpoena nearly two dozen New York Times reporters, editors, and employees and ask the Times to produce “every internal communication it has had about her since 2011” for her defamation lawsuit.

Better to offer Sarah Palin an apology, a full retraction, and generous compensation. The New York Times really has no defense.

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is considering suing the New York Times for libel after the Times published a Wednesday editorial falsely accusing her of inciting Jared Lee Loughner to shoot Rep. Gabby Giffords in 2011 even though it has long been established that there has never been any evidence whatsoever linking Palin to the attempted assassination.

Monday on CNN’s “New Day,” host Chris Cuomo opined about President Donald Trump’s willingness to attack a “free press” in his public appearances. Cuomo acknowledged he was within his right to do so, but said given it is the role

Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large and In-house Counsel Joel B. Pollak told Canadan journalist Evan Solomon that Howard Dean’s best defense against a defamation lawsuit for calling Stephen K. Bannon a “Nazi” would be that no one takes Dean seriously.

Former Democratic National Committee chair Howard Dean called incoming White House Chief Strategist and Senior Counselor Stephen K. Bannon a “Nazi” on Sunday during an interview with journalist Evan Solomon of Canada’s CTV.

TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority’s official TV network has been airing a video several times a day accusing Israel of poisoning former leader Yasser Arafat and further claiming that Israel is targeting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas next.

JERUSALEM – Israel is plotting to assassinate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas just as it murdered PLO chief Yasser Arafat, members of the Palestinian Authority and Fatah have claimed.

JERUSALEM – The Palestinian Authority’s official daily published a cartoon propagating the libel that Jews and Israel control the world by controlling every move the U.S. makes.

TEL AVIV – Newsweek corrected an article that included the misleading claim that Israeli authorities have been shooting dead “any Palestinian” suspected of targeting Israeli civilians. The article analyses the past six months of Palestinian violence and Israel’s response to it. Early in the