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US federal judge Darrin P Gayles dismissed former President Donald Trump's $10 billion defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) for the second time this year. The judge ruled that Trump had failed to establish that the newspaper acted with "actual malice" in its reporting on an alleged birthday letter linked to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The lawsuit, which arose from a WSJ report published last year, accused Dow Jones, WSJ's parent company, and others of "knowingly and recklessly" publishing false, defamatory, and disparaging statements. The judge described Trump's amended complaint as "grasping at straws" and stated that it failed to meet the legal threshold for establishing defamation.

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