this morning trial delayed the surprise announcement in the $1.6 billion defamation case against fox news concerning false claims about the 2020 election. new fallout from that leak of classified pentagon documents. 21 year old arrested and now new details on who allegedly helped spread the secrets online after they were posted. protests in kansas city after a teenager who showed up at the wrong address to pick up his brothers is shot in the head . so far. no charges will police are saying mystery at the vatican. the new claims linking

pope john paul the second to the case of a missing girl, pope francis now speaking out, it's the most powerful rocket ever built. how elon musk is trying to bring etions back down to earth before the launch, moving on budweiser's new ad campaign following the bud lighw artificial intelligence is being used to make music. that sounds like your favorite artists. can you tell the difference? from abc news in new york. this is america this morning. good monday morning, everyone i'm andrew timber. happy monday. i'm really in an alley. we begin with a developing story. a judge has delayed the defamation trial of fox news, which was supposed to start today. dominion voting systems is suing fox from $1.6 billion for making false claims after the 2020 election about its voting machines. the judge did not explain the delay. the big question now is, will there be a settlement? a bcs lindsey watson's following this trial in

delaware, lindsay? good morning. good morning, rhiannon. we expected jury selection would continue here this morning, then onto opening arguments instead, a sudden delay. this morning, a late breaking change to a trial two years in the making, the judge overseeing dominion voting systems defamation case against fox news announced last night he was delaying the case until tuesday morning. the wall street journal, which is owned by fox boss rupert murdoch, reporting, fox has made a late push to settle the dispute out of court, citing people familiar with the decision. if it proceeds, the hi trial could put some of the biggest names at fox news on the witness stand. you're going to see superstar witnesses that could testify. dominion is suing fox news and its parent company, news corp for $1.6 billion, arguing the network damaged its business by knowingly airing false claims that dominion machines rigged the 2020 election in favor of joe biden. it will be impossible. ever know the true

fair, accurate election results . dominion alleges that while fox hosts were oting election lies pr expressing disbelief in texts and emails. fox has argued it was merely reporting on the allegations because they were newsworthy. but the judge in the case has already ruled fax can't use that defense, saying just because something is newsworthy doesn't mean you can defame somebody. this morning. a dominion spokesperson declined to comment on the wall street journal's reporting. fox news didn't respond to a request for comment. a press release from the court says the judge will make a statement on this case delay at nine a.m. eastern time . if the trial does move forward, it's expected to last 5 to 6 weeks. rhiannon alright, lindsay. thank you. also breaking overnight a deadly u. s raid on isis militants in syria , military officials say a senior isis leader is likely among three people killed. they believe that leader is responsible for terror attacks

in the middle east and europe. they say no us troops were injured details about the leak of top secret pentagon documents allegedly by 21 year old in the national guard, a new report reveals who may have helped spread the secrets online. this morning. there's word that a pro russian blogger may have played a key role in the spreading of classified documents allegedly leaked by a young air national guardsman in massachusetts, according to the wall street journal on april 5th, a social media account with the name translating to the donbass girl posted four of the allegedly leaked classified documents to its 65,000 followers. the wall street journal says that social media account is overseen by a former u. s. navy officer in washington state, whose actions reportedly prompted several large russian social media accounts to pick up on the documents. abc news has not confirmed the journal's reporting. some of the documents appear to show casualty numbers

in ukraine, weapons deliveries and a battle map to a key ukrainian city. the 21 year old massachusettswaits a detention hearing this wednesday . authorities say jack to share a had top secret clearance as a part of his job as an it specialist in the air national guard. lawmakers from both sides of the aisle say to share a should never have had access to the documents. was a captain in a major. i would be surprised if i had that kind of information. yes, the system failed. this is a major failure. some people need to be fired over this senator kristen gillibrand, a democrat on the intelligence committee, says she has a lot of questions for the biden administration. why were these documents lying around? why did this particular person have access to them? where was the custody of the documents? and who are they for? if convicted to share a could face 15 years in prison. police in alabama are asking for the public's help finding who's responsible for a mass shooting at a sweet 16 party. four people were killed at a dance hall in the small

town of david ville 28 under others critically. hundreds attended a prayer vigil for the victims, most of whom are teenagers. among the dead is an 18 year old high school football star. it was his sister's birthday party . no word yet on a possible motive. police in kansas city are investigating after a black teenager was shot in the head when he rang the wrong doorbell . 16 year old ralph ural is hospitalized with life threatening injuries. his family says he was picking up his younger brother's thursday night when he got the wrong address, and the person who answered the door opened fire. so far, no one has been charged protesters joining his family yesterday at the scene of the shooting to demand justice. he is healing. we have a lot to be thankful for that, right? there is a lot of hate. yeah that's right. here is a lot of love. we want the community to know that we are committed to justice in this case and every case and work every day to seek that justice for all victims of all crimes.

the family's lawyer, ben crump, osecuted. now to the mostlys rn fo, but he's also tryingo bring his expectations back down to ear elon musk, tempering expectations as his company. spacex prepares to launch starship its most ambitious rocket yet into space if we get far enough away from the launch pad before something goes wrong , then i think that would consider that to be a success. starship is the largest and most powerful rocket ever built. in a twitter discussion sunday, musk noted the challenges that go along with putting the nearly 400 ft tall vehicle into space 33 engines. on booster gets engines on the upper stage. the ship was light engines. it's like having a box of grenades, really big grenades. if all goes perfectly starship will launch from texas and minutes later, we'll leave the atmosphere before completing a partial lap

of the planet and splashing down near hawaii should all that happened. it would be a resounding success considering mosque is just hoping the rocket won't explode on the launch pad. it would take us a probably several months to rebuild the launchpad. if we melt it, there's some my top hope is, please may fade smile upon us and we cleared the launch pad before anything goes wrong. that's all i'm asking, has a lot riding on starship spacex has a multi billion dollar contract with nasa, which is selected a variation of starship for use in a moon landing set for 2025. but mask has even more ambitious goals. we've got and arduous and in two or three years ahead of us with probably, you know many bumps on the road, but at the end of that, it's which we should have something that enables a base on the moon and based on mars. unlike many previous launches, the company is not trying to recover parts of the spacecraft or booster. in this case it wants to rocket stages to stink sink to the bottom of the ocean so that no

one can retrieve the technology. more than 30,000 runners amaratn the forecast. now this race marks 10 years since three people were killed in the twin bombings near the finish line. there were ceremonies over the weekend honoring those victims, and also the two police officers who died pursuing the attackers . time now for a look at your monday weather. warnings are posted in minnesota , wisconsin and michigan. some areas could see more than a foot of snow just days after parts of the midwest temperatures in the eighties. looking at the radar. there's rain for the morning commute in the northeast and a new storm moves into the northwest, with rain from washington to northern california and snow at the higher elevations. checking today's high temperatures only 39 in chicago seventies across the southeast today and around 50 in the pacific northwest 92 in phoenix.

that apparently crashed netflix last night, but first supporters of florida governor rhonda santis launched their first attack ad against donald trump. and the mystery at the vatican. pope francis is now defending john paul, the second from claims made in the case of a missing girl will have much

and ray romano love it all on morning america. the third day of fighting is now underway amid fears of a civil war in sudan. rival generals are fighting to control the country. more than 50 people have been killed in the violence dispute concerns the african nation's transition to civilian rule. supporters of florida governor ron de santis are coming out swinging, and he hasn't even announced he's running for president. a super pac supporting two, santis

released a new ad taking aim at the republican frontrunner. donald trump has been attacked by a democratic prosecutor in new york. so why is he spending millions attacking the republican governor of florida trump's stealing pages from the biden pelosi playbook? former president trump's campaign fired back claiming to santis is trying to gaslight voters about the future of medicare and social security. we turn now to the vatican and pope francis defending one of his predecessors amid questions about a missing girl. this morning, pope francis's defending john paul, the second after the brother of a missing teenager, linked her disappearance to the late pope often see the came from that, speaking in st peter's square yesterday, pope francis said, i express a grateful thought to the memory of saint john paul, who in these days has been the object of offensive and unfounded insinuations. days earlier, the brother of emanuela orlandi aired an audio recording

on italian tv, saying it was testimony from an italian mobster. the claim john paul, the second would secretly go out at night to harass underage girls that again, officials say the allegation lacks any evidence clues, testimony or corroboration. 15 year old daughter of a vatican employee manual is seemingly vanished in 1983 after a music lesson in rome. some theories link her disappearance to the failed assassination attempt on john paul, the second others case to a scandal involving the vatican bank was not an ordinary child. he wasn't a vatican girl. netflix documentary vatican girl explores the possible scenarios and provides new testimony from a friend who says emanuela told her one week before she went missing that a high ranking vatican cleric made advances toward her. she decided to go on one of her walks and the vatican gardens. a person very close to

the pope. aviva bothered her. the vatican has denied any involvement in emanuel has disappearance in 2019 officials agreed to excavate a tomb inside vatican city after emmanuel, his brother claimed he got a tip, saying her remains could be there. but the tomb was empty. john paul, the second longtime secretary, called the allegations false from beginning to end coming up another train crash in the u. s the second in two days ahead. budweiser's new move to turn the page after the bud light (vo) if you've had thyroid eye disease for years and the pain in the back of your eye is forcing bad words from your mouth, or...the bags under your eyes are looking more like purses, it's not too late for another treatment option for thyroid eye disease, also known as t-e-d. to learn more visit treatted.com

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