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The latest court filings have been released in the lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News, and at one point in the documents, the lawyers give examples of News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch's influence over the network.

At one point in the documents, Dominion lawyers illustrate that power by highlighting Murdoch's power by describing his use of the network to lobby for the GOP's tax bill.

Behind the scenes at Fox News after the 2020 election, it was becoming clear that conservative prime-time hosts were saying one thing to viewers and another thing privately.

According to court filings by Dominion Voting Systems in their lawsuit against Fox News, the hosts of the network knew very well that Donald Trump lost the election and that his election conspiracies were all lies.

The court documents in the Dominion defamation lawsuit against Fox News were released online Monday and exposed some of the conversations that News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch had with Republicans about the 2020 election lies.

One of those conversations was with then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who remained largely silent during the two-month period between the November election and the Jan. 6 attack on Congress.

Among the key comments revealed by Dominion Voting Systems in their court filing Monday was the revelation that News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch and Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott discussed whether or not they should dispel some of the lies about the 2020 election on Jan. 5, 2021.

The documents show that for months, Fox executives debated whether or not to continue the 2020 election lies coming from their hosts, pundits and advisers to Donald Trump that were welcomed on air to spin the Trump loss into a win.

Former Speaker Paul Ryan may have handed Donald Trump another reason to hate him.

Trump has been raging about Ryan on his personal social media site over the weekend, after Ryan said he won't attend the Republican Party's convention if Trump is the nominee. Trump responded by attacking Ryan as someone who couldn't be elected to a low-level office like a dogcatcher.

Both Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems have filed court documents Monday making the case that the judge should either dismiss the case or make a summary judgment without a trial.

Among the details that were documented in the Dominion filing was the revelation that Fox Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch met with Lachlan Murdoch and Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott about the "mounting viewer backlash to Fox" that they were facing as a result of calling Arizona for Joe Biden.

New court documents from the lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News were released on Monday, revealing even more details about the head of the network allegedly prioritizing money over truth.

Reuters reported ahead of the document drop that each side is submitting a filing saying that they oppose the other's motion for summary judgment, which would prevent an actual trial.

Fox News will air a selectively edited "documentary" about the Jan. 6 attacks based on the 44,000 hours of footage delivered to the network's prime-time personality, Tucker Carlson. Carlson will not post all 44,000 hours for the public to view. Instead, he will make his own edits.

The move comes after Carlson spent months arguing that there was no insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021.

No one was injured during multiple shootings in an area of Oakland, California, Sunday, but the gunshots did trigger a Comcast outage, the company reported.

The bullets apparently damaged Comcast cable fiber.

MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan pointed out on Sunday that there's one thing that Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) loves to talk about, and it's "freedom" in his state. But the latest moves are working to restrict academic freedom, freedom of speech, business freedom and others.

The latest piece of legislation would remove many degree programs in public universities blocking the freedom of students who opt to study such subjects.

Donald Trump's former Catholic priest religious adviser and head of anti-abortion group Priests for Life has been hit with multiple sexual misconduct accusations, according to reports by the Catholic media outlet The Pillar and the Daily Beast.

Vehement anti-abortionist Frank Pavone was ousted from the priesthood — defrocked — by the Vatican in December after he repeatedly disobeyed orders from his bishop to stop posting unspecified "blasphemous" messages on social media. He often posted incendiary political messages, and posted videos of an aborted fetus on an altar.

Former Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks can't understand why Donald Trump wasn't immediately indicted after leaving the White House.

Speaking to MSNBC on Sunday with Vanity Fair reporter Molly Jong-Fast, Wine-Banks explained that even before Jan. 6 and the documents scandal, Trump had a list of crimes involving obstruction of justice and campaign finance violations linked to the Stormy Daniels hush money payments.

Shipments of contaminated waste from a toxic train derailment in Ohio earlier this month will resume on Monday to two approved sites, officials announced.

The Environmental Protection Agency had ordered Norfolk Southern to pause the shipments from the derailment in East Palestine to arrange additional oversight measures concerning where waste was shipped, The Associated Press reported. Some of the waste had already been delivered to sites in Michigan and Texas.