Trump keeps facing off against news organizations in court. He also keeps losing.

A federal judge has thrown out Donald Trump's defamation suit against The Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch, the latest in a long run of courtroom defeats for the president against news outlets. U.S. District Judge Darrin Gayles ruled that Trump had not shown the paper acted with actual malice. The suit, which sought at least $10 billion, grew out of the Journal's reporting on an alleged 2003 birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein, which Trump denies writing. His lawyers had refiled after an earlier dismissal, according to MS NOW.

About five weeks earlier, Iowa District Judge Scott Beattie dismissed Trump's case against The Des Moines Register and pollster Ann Selzer, warning that it could discourage reporting on public affairs. A federal judge also tossed a $3.8 billion suit by Trump Media & Technology Group against The Washington Post. MS NOW's Steve Benen lists other failed actions, including those against CNN, The New York Times, Bob Woodward and The Guardian. The BBC case remains pending.

Benen contrasts those outcomes with ABC News and CBS News, whose parent companies each paid $16 million to settle. He argues that resisting Trump has worked better than appeasing him.

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