Jury selection in the case began on Thursday morning, and the trial had been expected to take up to four weeks.

Smartmatic, an election technology company, has accused the right-wing cable news channel of knowingly spreading false vote-rigging claims.

Smartmatic, the voting machine company, has claimed that Newsmax program hosts and guests made false and defamatory statements in November and December 2020.

DOVER, Del. (AP) — A settlement was reached Thursday in a defamation lawsuit pitting an electronic voting machine manufacturer targeted by allies of former President Donald Trump against a conservative news outlet that aired accusations of vote manipulation in the 2020 election.

Right-wing cable news network Newsmax has reportedly agreed to a settlement with voting technology company Smartmatic over false claims that it aired in the wake of the 2020 election that accused the firm of "stealing" the election from Donald Trump.CNN's Marshall Cohen reports that Newsmax and Smar...