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A Delaware Superior Court Judge Tuesday ruled Fox Corp. of election fraud related to the 2020 US presidential election. Dominion alleged that Fox News adopted an election fraud narrative, centered on Dominion, to increase its viewers after the 2020 election. ” The post Delaware courtrules Fox Corp.
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.” The complaint goes on to argue that “it is possible to draw 16 reasonably compact majority-Black districts,” which would better reflect the number of Black Arkansans in the state population, according to data from the 2020 US Census.
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