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Supreme Court denies Trump plea to overturn E. Jean Carroll verdict

WASHINGTON | The Supreme Court on Monday again rebuffed President Donald Trump’s push to throw out a jury’s $5 million finding that he sexually abused the writer E. Jean Carroll at a New York City department store in the mid-1990s and later defamed her. The Republican president’s lawyers had asked the justices to reconsider their […]

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Supreme Court denies Trump plea to overturn E. Jean Carroll verdict

WASHINGTON | The Supreme Court on Monday again rebuffed President Donald Trump’s push to throw out a jury’s $5 million finding that he sexually abused the writer E. Jean Carroll at a New York City department store in the mid-1990s and later defamed her. The Republican president’s lawyers had asked the justices to reconsider their […]

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Trump and DOJ ask Supreme Court to toss $83 million defamation verdict in E. Jean Carroll case

WASHINGTON | President Donald Trump and the Justice Department are asking the Supreme Court to toss an $83 million defamation verdict won by writer E. Jean Carroll after she accused him of sexual assault, saying he can’t be sued for comments he made while he was president. It’s the second time Trump has asked the […]

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E. Jean Carroll is finally paid $5.6 million in Trump sex abuse and defamation case

NEW YORK | The writer E. Jean Carroll has collected over $5.6 million that a jury awarded in her sexual abuse and defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump, court records and her lawyers said. The payment — representing the $5 million jury award, plus interest — was made Monday from an account where it had […]

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Judge rules Trump must pay $5.8 million to E. Jean Carroll

NEW YORK | E. Jean Carroll can be paid the $5.8 million that was set aside after a jury found three years ago that President Donald Trump sexually abused her in 1996 before he became president and defamed her after she publicly revealed the attack, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan issued […]

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Writer E. Jean Carroll calls for Trump to pay $5.8M after high court appeal fails

NEW YORK | Advice columnist E. Jean Carroll asked a judge Tuesday to require President Donald Trump to pay her $5 million from a jury verdict that concluded Trump sexually abused her in the 1990s and defamed her after she publicly described the attack in 2019. Lawyers for Carroll filed papers in Manhattan federal court […]

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Supreme Court rejects Trump’s push to toss $5 million verdict in E. Jean Carroll sexual abuse case

WASHINGTON | The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a push by President Donald Trump to throw out a jury’s $5 million finding that he sexually abused the writer E. Jean Carroll at a New York City department store in the mid-1990s and later defamed her. The high court declined to take up the case in […]

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Trump fumes after judge throws out Kennedy Center renovation plan, name change

WASHINGTON | President Donald Trump on Saturday branded the federal judge who blocked his renovation of the Kennedy Center as “an anti Trump Hater” and predicted that the nation’s premier performing arts center he wanted to shutter for a two-year overhaul will “soon be closed, probably never to open again.” In a lengthy post on […]

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Trump fumes after judge throws out Kennedy Center renovation plan, name change

WASHINGTON | President Donald Trump on Saturday branded the federal judge who blocked his renovation of the Kennedy Center as “an anti Trump Hater” and predicted that the nation’s premier performing arts center he wanted to shutter for a two-year overhaul will “soon be closed, probably never to open again.” In a lengthy post on […]

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Justice Department opens investigation into E. Jean Carroll, who accused Trump of assault: AP source

WASHINGTON | The Justice Department has opened an investigation into whether E. Jean Carroll, the longtime advice columnist who has said Donald Trump sexually assaulted her in a New York department store 30 years ago, lied during the course of civil litigation against the Republican president, according to a person familiar with the matter. The […]