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By Matt Murphy
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has filed a lawsuit against the New York Times, alleging defamation, weeks after the newspaper falsely connected a political campaign map she made featuring crosshairs over Democratic districts with the 2011 shooting of Arizona U.S. Representative Gabby Giffords.
The 25-page lawsuit, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in White Plains, New York, charges the Times with "publishing a statement about [Palin] that it knew to be false: that Mrs. Palin was responsible for inciting a mass shooting at a political event in January 2011."