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WASHINGTON (AP) — A voting technology company targeted by bogus fraud claims related to the 2020 presidential election has settled a defamation lawsuit against a conservative news outlet. The settlement reached Tuesday between Florida-based Smartmatic and One America News Network is the latest development in a larger legal pushback by voting equipment companies that became ensnared in wild conspiracy theories falsely claiming they had flipped votes and cost former President Donald Trump reelection.
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- First seven jurors are chosen for Donald Trump's hush money criminal trial; 11 more still needed.
- Facing a Republican revolt, House Speaker Johnson pushes ahead on US aid for Ukraine, allies.
- Only 1 in 3 US adults think Trump acted illegally in New York hush money case, an AP-NORC poll shows.
- Bob Graham, ex-U.S. senator and Florida governor, dies at 87.
- The IMF Outlook for the world's economy is brighter, though still modest by historical standards.
- ABBA, Blondie, and the Notorious B.I.G. enter the National Recording Registry.
- The first two games of the NBA Play In schedule are contested, a six time All Star announces his retirement, positional battles in the NHL, injuries to key players in MLB and a Hall of Fame manager dies.
—The Associated Press
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Host Terry Lipshetz is managing editor of the national newsroom for Lee Enterprises. Besides producing the daily Hot off the Wire news podcast, Terry conducts periodic interviews for this Behind the Headlines program, co-hosts the Streamed & Screened movies and television program and is the former producer of Across the Sky, a podcast dedicated to weather and climate.