A US federal judge has thrown out Donald Trump's $475m defamation lawsuit against CNN, in which the former US president claimed the network's description of his election fraud as the "big lie" associated him with Adolf Hitler. In a ruling late last night, US Judge Raag Singhal, who was nominated by Mr Trump in 2019, said CNN's words were opinion, not fact, and therefore could not be the subject of a defamation claim. "CNN's statements while repugnant, were not, as a matter of law, defamatory," wrote Judge Singhal, who sits in federal court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, near Mr Trump's...