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A federal judge says writer E. Jean Carroll can be paid the $5 million that was set aside after a jury found that President Donald Trump sexually abused her in 1996 before he became president and defamed her after she publicly revealed the attack.
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35 sources across Left, Center, and Right all describe the same event.
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A federal judge says writer E. Jean Carroll can be paid the $5 million that was set aside after a jury found that President Donald Trump sexually abused her in 1996 before he became preside...
Judge Lewis A. Kaplan of Manhattan federal court cited the Supreme Court’s June 29 order, which denied Trump’s request for the court to review the case.
A judge on Wednesday authorised the payment of a multimillion-dollar award to magazine writer E. Jean Carroll to satisfy a 2023 civil verdict in which a jury found US President Donald Trum...
Un juez federal ordenó el miércoles la liberación de más de US$ 5 millones para E. Jean Carroll, rechazando el…
Order frees funds from Trump’s 2023 sexual abuse and defamation verdict after supreme court appeal failed Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email A Manhattan federal court judge h...
Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan ordered that writer E. Jean Carrol be paid $5 million plus interest in damages owed to her by President Donald Trump.
The U.S. Supreme Court last month declined to hear Trump's appeal of the case.
A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the release of $5.8 million to E. Jean Carroll three years after the jury awarded payment for damages caused by President Trump. District Judge Lewis Ka...
This is a breaking story and will be updated.
Writer E. Jean Carroll is to be paid $5.8 million in her long-running legal battle with President Donald Trump, a judge ruled Wednesday. The post Judge Rules E. Jean Carroll be Paid $5.8 Mi...
The Supreme Court declined to hear his appeal of the case, but Trump still sought to delay the payment.
President Trump has just appealed the decision of a judge to pay E. Jean Carroll nearly $6 million in penalties. A judge earlier ordered him to pay, with interest, the $5.8 million...
A federal judge has ordered President Donald Trump to release the more than $5 million payment he owes to E. Jean Carroll, a former magazine columnist who sued Trump for sexually abusing an...
A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the release of the $5.8 million that President Trump owes E. Jean Carroll. After the Supreme Court declined last week to hear Trump’s appeal of Carroll’...
A federal judge on Wednesday ordered President Trump to pay E Jean Carroll $5 million - plus interest - after the Supreme Court rejected Trump's bid to toss the sexual abuse case.
Federal Court Judge Lewis A. Kaplan issued an order that President Donald Trump's money be given to E. Jean Carroll after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to get involved in the case. There w...
NEW YORK (AP) — 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 p...
Ms. Carroll had asked a federal judge to order the president to pay the judgment after a jury found he sexually abused and defamed her.
Judge Lewis A. Kaplan issued an order that says the money can be paid to E. Jean Carroll, along with interest that has grown since the verdict.
A federal judge says writer E. Jean Carroll can be paid the $5 million that was set aside after a jury found that President Donald Trump sexually abused her in 1996 before he became preside...
A federal judge says writer E. Jean Carroll can be paid the $5 million that was set aside after a jury found that President Donald Trump sexually abused her in 1996 before he became preside...
A federal judge says writer E. Jean Carroll can be paid the $5 million that was set aside after a jury found that President Donald Trump sexually abused her in 1996 before he became preside...
A federal judge says writer E. Jean Carroll can be paid the $5 million that was set aside after a jury found that President Donald Trump sexually abused her in 1996 before he became preside...
A federal judge says writer E. Jean Carroll can be paid the $5 million that was set aside after a jury found that President Donald Trump sexually abused her in 1996 before he became preside...
A federal judge says writer E. Jean Carroll can be paid the $5 million that was set aside after a jury found that President Donald Trump sexually abused her in 1996 before he became preside...
A federal judge says writer E. Jean Carroll can be paid the $5 million that was set aside after a jury found that President Donald Trump sexually abused her in 1996 before he became preside...
A federal judge says writer E. Jean Carroll can be paid the $5 million that was set aside after a jury found that President Donald Trump sexually abused her in 1996 before he became preside...
A federal judge says writer E. Jean Carroll can be paid the $5 million that was set aside after a jury found that President Donald Trump sexually abused her in 1996 before he became preside...
A federal judge says writer E. Jean Carroll can be paid the $5 million that was set aside after a jury found that President Donald Trump sexually abused her in 1996 before he became preside...
A federal judge says writer E. Jean Carroll can be paid the $5 million that was set aside after a jury found that President Donald Trump sexually abused her in 1996 before he became preside...
A federal judge says writer E. Jean Carroll can be paid the $5 million that was set aside after a jury found that President Donald Trump sexually abused her in 1996 before he became preside...
A federal judge says writer E. Jean Carroll can be paid the $5 million that was set aside after a jury found that President Donald Trump sexually abused her in 1996 before he became preside...
A federal judge says writer E. Jean Carroll can be paid the $5 million that was set aside after a jury found that President Donald Trump sexually abused her in 1996 before he became preside...
The damages were awarded to Carroll, a writer, by a 2023 jury in a civil sexual abuse and defamation case.
Trump had resumed defamatory attacks against Carroll as his lawyers considered asking the high court to reconsider its decision.
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Now: Wording Gap is 90/99 and story health is stable · 35 sources · all three buckets · comparable news format.