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Trump Threatens To 'Test ABC' Over Jimmy Kimmel’s Return, Citing Earlier $16M Settlement
President Donald Trump is threatening to sue ABC over Jimmy Kimmel’s return to late night, accusing the network of misleading the White House and blasting the host’s show. On Tuesday night, Sept. 23, just before "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" was set to air again, Trump wrote on Truth Social, “I can’t believe ABC Fake News gave Jimmy Kimmel his job back. The White House was told by ABC that his Show was cancelled! Something happened between then and now because his audience is GONE, and his ‘talent’ was never there. "Why would they want someone back who does so poorly, who’s not funny, and who …
Politics
Judge Tosses Trump’s 85-Page Lawsuit Against New York Times: 'Too Long, Improper'
A federal judge in Florida has thrown out President Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit against "The New York Times," calling the sprawling 85-page complaint “improper and impermissible.” In an order filed Friday, Sept. 19, US District Judge Steven D. Merryday said the complaint failed to meet even the most basic requirements under Rule 8 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which requires “a short and plain statement of the claim.” Trump’s suit alleged defamation by the Times and several other defendants, but Judge Merryday noted that the two actual counts of defamation didn’t appear unt…
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Website Deletes Melania Trump Article, Apologizes To First Lady
The Daily Beast has retracted an article and podcast segment that linked First Lady Melania Trump to Jeffrey Epstein and issued a formal apology after her lawyers threatened a lawsuit. The outlet and Trump’s legal team settled the matter in August 2025, according to both sides. On Monday, Sept. 15, Melania Trump shared the outlet’s apology on X, highlighting an editor’s note that acknowledged the story “did not meet our standards” and had been removed. Retraction & Apology from The Daily Beast pic.twitter.com/WINb5r9wpN — MELANIA TRUMP (@MELANIATRUMP) September 15, 2025 The …
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'Full-Throated Mouthpiece': Trump Roasts New York Times In $15B Lawsuit
President Donald J. Trump has filed a $15 billion defamation lawsuit in federal court in Florida against the "New York Times," four of its reporters, and publisher Penguin Random House. The suit, filed Monday, Sept. 15 in the Middle District of Florida, targets the 2024 book "Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father’s Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success," and a series of Times articles. Trump claims they smeared him as a failed businessman propped up by his father’s wealth and accused him of tax fraud. His attorneys say the works were “false and defamatory,” publish…
Politics
Court Upholds Trump's $83.3M Penalty For Defaming Carroll In Sexual Abuse Case
President Donald Trump lost his effort to throw out an $83.3 million penalty after he was found liable for defaming and sexually abusing author E. Jean Carroll in the mid-1990s. A federal appeals court upheld the jury award against Trump on Monday, Sept. 8. Carroll was awarded $88.3 million after Trump was found liable for the sexual abuse and defamation. The $83.3 million penalty comes from Carroll's defamation lawsuit against Trump. That award includes $65 million in punitive damages after jurors found Trump acted with malice in attacking Carroll on social media, at news confere…
Politics
Appellate Court Throws Out Trump's $500M+ Fine For Inflating Wealth, Property Values
A New York appellate court struck down the half-billion-dollar penalty imposed on President Donald Trump and his company for lying about his wealth and inflating property values. The state supreme court's Appellate Division, First Judicial Department, overturned the roughly $527 million fine known as "disgorgement" on Thursday, Aug. 21. The appellate court justices were split on whether New York Attorney General Letitia James proved The Trump Organization committed fraud, but the majority said the fine was "excessive" and unconstitutional. James can appeal the decision to New…
Politics
First Lady Melania Trump Threatens To Sue Ex-First Son Hunter Biden For $1B Over Epstein Claim
First Lady Melania Trump is threatening to sue former first son Hunter Biden for $1 billion, accusing him of spreading “false, defamatory, disparaging, and inflammatory” claims, according to a brand-new report. Her legal team says Biden’s allegation — that she was introduced to former President Donald Trump by the late financier and convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein — is entirely untrue and damaging. On Wednesday, Aug. 13, Melania Trump’s attorney issued a stern demand letter to the 55-year-old Biden and his lawyer, insisting he immediately retract comments linking the her introd…
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Far-Right Podcaster Candace Owens Sued By French President For Claiming His Wife's A Man
French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte Macron, have filed a sweeping defamation lawsuit against American far-right commentator Candace Owens. They accuse her of orchestrating a “a campaign of global humiliation, turning their lives into fodder for profit-driven lies" by repeatedly and knowingly spreading the false claim that France’s first lady is a man. The suit, filed Wednesday, July 23, in Delaware Superior Court, alleges that Owens “disregarded all credible evidence disproving her claim in favor of platforming known conspiracy theorists and proven defame…
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Paramount Reportedly Settles Trump's '60 Minutes' Lawsuit Amid Free Speech Concerns
Paramount Global has reached a $16 million settlement in President Donald Trump's lawsuit over a "60 Minutes" interview before the 2024 Presidential election, according to reports. The agreement involving CBS's parent company was first reported by the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday, July 2. First Amendment experts have criticized Paramount's decision to settle the case, calling Trump's lawsuit frivolous. Paramount said the $16 million payment will cover Trump's legal fees and go to his Presidential library. "No amount will be paid directly or indirectly to President Trump," Paramount …
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$400M Lawsuit: Justin Baldoni Accuses Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds Of Smear Campaign
In an escalating legal battle featuring Hollywood heavyweights, actor Justin Baldoni is suing Blake Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds for $400 million allegedly orchestrating a smear campaign to ruin his career. The lawsuit, filed in the Southern District of New York, alleges that Lively and Reynolds used their influence to seize control of Baldoni's film "It Ends With Us," an adaptation of Colleen Hoover's bestselling novel. Baldoni directed, co-starred in, and co-financed the production through his company, Wayfarer Studios. “This is not a case about celebrities sniping at each …
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Alex Jones' InfoWars Up For Auction To Pay Sandy Hook Victims' Families: Report
The tools Alex Jones used to build his conspiracy theory and supplement-hawking empire could soon be yours, NPR reported. A court-appointed trustee will soon begin to auction off pieces of Free Speech Systems, the parent company of InfoWars, to pay back the families of the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting victims, the report continued. Jones owes them $1.5 billion in a defamation judgment after he claimed the massacre, which killed 26 people — 20 of them children – was a hoax. The trustee will sell everything from chairs and production equipment to the InfoWars brand name, th…
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Trump Defamation Case: Westchester Juror Among Those Awarding E. Jean Carroll $83.3M In Damages
For the second time in less than a year, a Manhattan federal jury has ordered former President Donald Trump to pay columnist E. Jean Carroll, a longtime Hudson Valley resident, millions of dollars in damages for repeatedly defaming her. The seven men and two women – including Hudson Valley residents from Westchester, Putnam, and Rockland counties – awarded Carroll a combined $83.3 million after deliberating for three hours on Friday, Jan. 26. The other jurors were from New York County (Manhattan) and the Bronx. Specifically, jurors decided that Trump should pay Carroll $11 million to fund a…
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Liable Again: Trump Defamed E. Jean Carroll Second Time By Denying Sexual Abuse, Judge Rules
Months after a jury concluded that former President Donald Trump sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll decades ago and then defamed her by calling her a liar, a federal judge in New York has found Trump liable in Carroll’s second defamation lawsuit. In his ruling issued Wednesday, Sept. 6, in US District Court in Manhattan, Judge Lewis Kaplan said Carroll has already proven that Trump defamed her, and the upcoming trial will only decide how much the former president must pay her in damages. Wednesday’s ruling comes after a federal jury in the first lawsuit awarded Carroll, now age 79 and l…
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E. Jean Carroll Wants New Damages From Trump After His Comments At CNN Town Hall, Report Says
Former President Donald Trump’s words at a televised town hall may come back to bite him if writer E. Jean Carroll gets her way. On Monday, May 22, Carroll asked a Manhattan federal court to award her a “very substantial” additional amount of damages in her civil sexual abuse and defamation case against Trump, CNN reports. According to the outlet, the move is in direct response to Trump’s appearance at a CNN town hall on May 10, in which he continued to deny Carroll’s claims that he sexually abused her in a Manhattan department store dressing room in the 1990s, calling the allegation “fake”…
Politics
Trump's 'Past Words, Actions' Cited In Judge's Ruling For Anonymous Jurors In Sex Assault Trial
Jurors set to hear arguments in former President Donald Trump’s upcoming civil sexual assault trial brought by New York columnist E. Jean Carroll will remain anonymous, a federal judge ruled. In his ruling issued Thursday, March 23, US District Judge Lewis Kaplan cited Trump’s “past words and actions,” in part for his decision, saying the former president has “repeatedly attacked courts, judges, various law enforcement officials and other public officials, and even individual jurors in other matters.” Earlier Report: Trump Rape Accuser From Hudson Valley To File Lawsuit Under New NY '…
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Alex Jones Ordered To Pay Sandy Hook Shooting Victim's Family A Total Of $49M
Far-right radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been ordered by a Texas jury to pay nearly $50 million to the family of a young boy killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. In a unanimous decision Friday, Aug. 5, the jury said Jones must pay $45.2 million in punitive damages in a lawsuit filed by the parents of 6-year-old victim Jesse Lewis. That’s in addition to the $4.1 million in compensatory damages the jury awarded the family the day prior. Jones had already been found liable in a default judgment for defamation and “intentional inflicti…
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Judge Tosses Sarah Palin's Lawsuit Against The New York Times
Former vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin had her defamation lawsuit against The New York Times thrown out by the judge overseeing the case, according to multiple reports. On Monday, Feb. 14, Manhattan federal court judge Jed Rakoff said that he will dismiss Palin’s suit, determining that her team of lawyers did not sufficiently prove a key element of the case. Rakoff’s ruling came while jury deliberation was still in progress. The judge said he will allow the jury to reach a verdict, and he will dismiss the case once they have done so. According to Rakoff, Palin’s team failed to prove …
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Alex Jones Found Guilty By Default In Sandy Hook Defamation Case
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, the host of Infowars who claimed that the Sandy Hook school shooting was a “giant hoax,” was found guilty by default in four defamation cases brought against him by family members of the victims. On Monday, Nov. 15, Connecticut Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis ruled against Jones by default for failing to comply with the discovery process. According to Bellis, Jones and the entities he controls used “willful noncompliance” with the discovery process as the basis of the ruling against him. “All the defendants have failed to fully and fairly comply with the…
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