Appeals court rejects Trump's challenge of sexual abuse verdict in E. Jean Carroll case
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President-elect Donald Trump is not entitled to a new trial in the case in which a jury found him liable for sexual abuse and defamation of the writer E. Jean Carroll, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.
The court roundly rejected claims by Trump and his lawyers that the judge who presided over the trial made a series of decisions that harmed Trump's standing with the jury.
Trump asked for a new trial after a jury unanimously concluded in May 2023 that a preponderance of evidence supported Carroll's claim that Trump sexually abused her during a mid-1990s encounter in a New York City department store. Monday's 77-page decision rejected complaints made repeatedly by Trump before, during and after the nine-day trial.
The investigation into the deadly truck attack on New Orleans' Bourbon Street continues after a driver plowed into a crowd of New Year's Day revelers, killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens more. The attack is being investigated as an act of terrorism, according to the FBI.
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Officials in New Orleans are holding a news conference on an attack on Bourbon Street that killed at least 10 people and injured dozens of others in the early hours of New Year's Day as revelers were celebrating.