Fox News sanctioned by judge for withholding evidence in Dominion defamation case.

Fox News has been sanctioned by a judge overseeing the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems for withholding evidence until the eve of trial. The judge has given Dominion a fresh chance to gather evidence and is likely to appoint an outside investigator to probe Fox's late disclosure of evidence. The evidence at issue included recordings of Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer for former President Donald Trump, saying he did not have any evidence to back up false allegations of election rigging by Dominion. Fox has argued that its coverage of the vote-rigging claims was newsworthy and protected by the First Amendment.