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Update, 12:39 Pm Et: The judge presiding over Dominion’s defamation case against Fox pushed back on the network’s attorneys for their argument that Rupert Murdoch would be unable to testify live in the upcoming trial.

In a hearing on Tuesday, Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis cited a letter he received from the Fox legal team arguing that “under Covid, he couldn’t travel, that he doesn’t have knowledge, that it can be difficult for him to come down.”

“Mr. Murdoch has claimed that he is traveling and that it would be an inconvenience,” Davis said. “But I also have people telling me that he has done some things recently that show he is hardly infirm and unable to travel around.”

Davis referred to reports of Murdoch’s engagement on St. Patrick’s Day, and his talk of traveling “between his various residences between L.A., Montana,...

This low budget horror effort from Texas stars Matthew Carter as Jasper Hawkins, a rather disturbed individual who finds himself traveling on foot to Backroad, a small Texas community, while a memorial service for his recently deceased father is being held. Jasper has sex with a girl in a motel room and makes off with her money. While he at first appears as somebody being haunted by personal demons (including unpleasant memories of his father from childhood), soon real-life demons (in both the literal and figurative sense) come into play when Jasper is hitchhiking and picked up by a seemingly kind and accommodating salesman named Joseph Iblis (Greg Dean) in a black 1969 Plymouth Roadrunner. After pulling off the road when the salesman has some car trouble, Jasper kills him after he doesn’t laugh properly at a joke he tells him. Jasper then steals his car (after it’s been...