The settlement was announced just a few hours after jury selection began in the lawsuit filed by Florida-based Smartmatic ...

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Newsmax, the Trump-happy news broadcasting network accused of spreading the former President’s addled 2020 election ...

Voting technology company Smartmatic and conservative cable channel Newsmax have reached a settlement, averting a defamation ...

Newsmax has decided not to risk court in the Smartmatic defamation case. On the eve of trial it has reached a settlement, so far kept confidential. The voting ...

Smartmatic settled a similar lawsuit against far-right One America News in April, also for an undisclosed sum.

Smartmatic sued Newsmax for defamation over false claims related to the 2020 presidential election. The trial was supposed to ...

The pro-Trump cable outlet Newsmax and voting technology company Smartmatic settled a major defamation lawsuit Thursday in a ...

Newsmax Media reached a confidential settlement of a lawsuit by Smartmatic, the voting machine maker that had alleged it was ...

In targeting the flow of illegal fentanyl into the country, Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to call for more ...

Smartmatic had zeroed in on 24 specific claims made on Newsmax that it considered defamatory. The company has consistently ...

Smartmatic sued Newsmax in 2021, alleging it broadcast damaging misinformation falsely claiming the company switched votes in the 2020 election, that its machines were hacked and ...