A US judge has dismissed a case against the Wall Street Journal over a story about ties the US president had to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

A federal judge on Monday dismissed President Trump ’s defamation lawsuit against the publisher of The Wall Street Journal.

In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Darrin P. Gayles said the complaint "comes nowhere close" to the actual malice standard used to determine whether a high-profile figure has been defamed, and is "qui...