President Trump and Rupert Murdoch's on-again, off-again relationship hit a new wall Thursday after the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal reported that a racy birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein bore Trump's name — despite Trump urging Murdoch to kill the story.

President Trump is suing media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his company News Corporation over a story published by the Wall Street Journal about Trump's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, with Trump claiming the letter in the story is a fake.

The two are constrained by the thing that has kept them linked for a decade: their shared reliance on Fox News die-hards.

If Rupert Murdoch becomes a white knight standing up to a rampantly bullying US president, the world has moved into the upside-down. This is, after all, the media mogul whose US television network, Fox News,

The Epstein story, currently fracturing the Trump coalition, is now poised to pit two NewsCorp properties against each other.

If Donald Trump's defamation suit doesn't settle, the discovery process could raise more questions about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

President Donald Trump hosted NewsCorp CEO Rupert Murdoch at the FIFA Club World Cup Final just days before The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump had written a "bawdy" birthday letter to disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein for Epstein's 50th birthday.

It’s not just a lawsuit. Donald Trump is attacking The Wall Street Journal on a new front after the paper reported on a birthday letter he sent Jeffrey Epstein.

What happens when a president sues a press baron?