A judge has permanently dropped Trump's $10bn lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal, ruling he failed to prove actual malice in the newspaper's reporting. Al Jazeera

Al JazeeraTrump loses legal battle over Epstein-linked Wall Street Journal caseJudge permanently drops Trump's $10bn WSJ lawsuit, ruling he failed to prove actual malice in the newspaper's reporting.

The "actual malice" standard is what makes public-figure defamation cases hard to win in the US; does this ruling say anything about whether that bar is working as intended?

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