Palin, Sarah
Palin Leads Special Election for House Seat in Alaska
Former Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska leads the 48-candidate field in a special primary election for the state’s sole congressional seat, according to a preliminary count of ballots on Sunday. The top four candidates in the race will advance to the special election in August. Ms. Palin has nearly 30 percent of the vote tallied […]
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In Alaska, the Race to Succeed Don Young Is Raucous and Crowded
ANCHORAGE — The race began, fittingly, in the spring season known here as breakup. As sheets of ice cracked into pieces across the rivers, melting snow exposed the gravel and dust on roads, and preparations began for hunting and fishing, dozens of congressional campaigns were springing to life with barely a few days of planning. […]
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Sarah Palin Announces She’s Running for Congress in Alaska
Sarah Palin, a former Alaska governor and the Republican nominee for vice president in 2008, said Friday that she was entering the race for Alaska’s lone congressional seat, marking her return to national politics after she helped revive the anti-establishment rhetoric that has come to define the Republican Party. She will be joining a crowded […]
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Palin Libel Case Isn’t Likely to End Efforts to Weaken Press Protections
Sarah Palin’s loss of her defamation lawsuit against The New York Times has reaffirmed, for now, more than a half-century of legal precedent that protects journalists when they make inadvertent — even sloppy — mistakes. But her case still may have achieved another aim that she and her lawyers said they had all along: to […]
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Where Fox News and Donald Trump Took Us
Over Memorial Day weekend in 2011, a caravan of journalists chased her up the East Coast during a six-day trip from Washington to New Hampshire, believing she might use the occasion to announce that she would run against Mr. Obama. The trip also included a dinnertime stop at Trump Tower, where she and its most […]
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Sarah Palin Recently Dined Indoors in NYC While Unvaccinated
Sarah Palin, who is not vaccinated against the coronavirus, dined indoors Saturday night at Elio’s, an Italian restaurant on the Upper East Side of Manhattan that regularly draws celebrities, despite New York City’s requirement that all indoor guests show proof of vaccination. She tested positive for the virus on Monday. “We just made a mistake,” […]
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Sarah Palin Has Covid, Delaying Libel Case Against The New York Times
Sarah Palin has tested positive for the coronavirus, forcing the delay of her defamation trial against The New York Times until next week. The trial, which was set to begin with jury selection on Monday morning, is now scheduled to start on Feb. 3. Ms. Palin’s in-person testimony in a federal courtroom in Lower Manhattan […]
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Sarah Palin v. New York Times Spotlights Push to Loosen Libel Law
When former President Donald J. Trump called for scrapping laws that offer the news media broad protection from libel suits — “We’re going to have people sue you like you’ve never got sued before,” he said in 2016 — many journalists and the lawyers who defend them brushed it off as an empty threat. But […]
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