A view of the News Corporation building in Manhattan, which houses the Wall Street Journal and other parts of Rupert Murdoch’s sprawling media empire.
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A federal judge on Saturday dismissed President Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal over its reporting on a lewd birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein bearing Trump’s name.

US District Judge Darrin P. Gayles ruled that Trump failed to plausibly allege that the Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper acted with “actual malice” when it published the story.