(Rebecca Noble | The New York Times) Tucker Carlson speaks during a Turning Point USA event in Phoenix, Dec. 18, 2023. A federal judge on Nov. 27, 2024 tossed out a defamation lawsuit against Fox News brought by a man who claimed that the networkÕs former star host, Tucker Carlson, had falsely accused him of being a government provocateur who instigated the violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.