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The top story we're following for you tonight The Delaware judge overseeing a voting machines, voting machine companies, $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News announced late this evening that he was delaying the start of the trial until Tuesday. He did not cite a reason. The trial which has drawn international interest has been scheduled to start Monday morning with jury selection and opening statements, the case centers on whether Fox defamed dominion voting systems by spreading false claims that the company rigged the 2020 presidential election to prevent former president Donald Trump's reelection. Records produced as part of the lawsuit show that many of the network's hosts and executives didn't believe the allegations, but aired them anyway. Law enforcement officers are imploring people in an Alabama town to come forward with information about a shooting that killed four people and injured 28 others at a teenager's birthday party. Among those killed, a high school senior who planned to play college football and was celebrating his sister's 16th birthday, Saturday night, when gunfire erupted in dadeville about an hour northeast of Montgomery, Alabama. Phil dowdle was a dayville high school senior who had committed to Jacksonville state university. His grandmother tells the Montgomery advertiser that he was celebrating his sister Alexis party, before he was shot to death. Police gathered evidence on Sunday at a dance duty where the party was held, it did not say whether a suspect was in custody or even identified. It's 1132. President Biden says he's not concerned about the information contained in the leaked classified documents from The Pentagon, but rather that the leak happened in the first place. At The White House, CBS is Willie James inman with more. The leak of classified documents apparently went undetected for months. They appear to reveal U.S. surveillance of enemies and allies. The Washington Post reports some of the leaked pages included intelligence on at least four more Chinese spy balloons. The incident has put the Biden administration and damage control, restricting access to the nation's most guarded secrets. The Biden administration says it's seeking minimal damage from the disclosure of the classified documents related to the war in Ukraine and U.S. views of its allies and partners, but that assessment coming under a test this weekend in Japan, where Secretary of State Anthony blinken is meeting with counterparts from 6 of America's closest foreign friends for three days of talks. The G 7 talks among foreign ministers may shed light on whether the disclosure has harmed trust between the allies or merely an embarrassment for the U.S. over the past decade, the U.S. had been grappling with the fallout from leaks of highly sensitive documents. It's 1134 the next development in the argument over the availability of a widely used abortion pill is expected early this week at the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court wants to hear by Tuesday from the parties involved in a case not resulted in effectively a total ban on a widely used abortion pill on appellate court ruled against some of that but not all, so the Biden administration and the pill maker filed an emergency Supreme Court appeal and did get a brief hold pending those filings. The president offered his thoughts on the case as he arrived in over Delaware from a trip to Ireland. I

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