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Sarah Palin, New York Times to face off in defamation retrial

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Sarah Palin and the New York Times are headed back to a courtroom where the former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate will try convincing a second jury the newspaper defamed her in an editorial about gun control.

A retrial in Palin’s nearly eight-year-old lawsuit is scheduled to begin on Monday in Manhattan federal court.

Palin, 61, who was defeated in her 2008 bid for the nation’s second-highest office, lost her first trial against the Times and former editorial page editor James Bennet in 2022.

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