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Trump discovered liable in civil sexual abuse case

A Manhattan jury discovered Donald Trump chargeable for sexually abusing and defaming the previous journal author E. Jean Carroll and awarded her $5 million in damages. More than a dozen ladies have accused the previous president of sexual misconduct through the years, however that is the one allegation to be affirmed by a jury. Read the finished jury verdict type.

In the civil case, the federal jury of six males and three ladies unanimously discovered that Carroll, 79, had sufficiently proved that Trump sexually abused her practically 30 years in the past in a Manhattan division retailer dressing room. It additionally discovered that Trump had defamed her in feedback concerning the case, however it didn’t discover he had raped her, as she had lengthy claimed.

Trump’s lawyer mentioned he meant to enchantment. The former president’s attorneys known as no witnesses, and he by no means appeared on the trial to listen to Carroll, who had sued him final yr, ship testimony concerning the assault she mentioned had ended her romantic life eternally. The findings are civil, not felony, which means Trump has not been convicted of any crime and faces no jail time.

Statement: After the decision, Carroll mentioned: “I filed this lawsuit against Donald Trump to clear my name and to get my life back. Today, the world finally knows the truth. This victory is not just for me but for every woman who has suffered because she was not believed.”

Response: Many of Trump’s political rivals and opponents, together with Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida and former Gov. Nikki Haley of South Carolina, stayed quiet concerning the verdict. It shouldn’t be clear the way it will have an effect on Trump’s presidential marketing campaign.

For extra: Why was Trump chargeable for sexual abuse, not rape? New York regulation gave jurors three kinds of battery to contemplate.

A muted warfare vacation in Russia

Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, yesterday used the annual celebration of Victory Day, a vacation that commemorates the Soviet Union’s triumph in World War II, as a platform to denounce the West and make fictitious claims about Ukraine, equating his warfare of alternative towards that nation with the Soviet Union’s struggle for survival towards Nazi Germany.

Putin’s listing of baseless justifications for his invasion has beforehand included echoes of World War II. But his rhetoric has shifted from discuss of a warfare of self-defense to drawing direct parallels to the struggle towards Nazism.

Reflecting the failures of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, yesterday’s parade in Red Square was significantly smaller than the huge spectacle of army may seen in previous years, missing the same old flyover by warplanes or the rows of state-of-the-art tanks. Russia has did not topple the federal government in Kyiv or seize all the territory it has claimed, and the loss of life toll is mounting. Now Putin faces the prospect of a counteroffensive by Ukraine.

Quotable: “A real war has been unleashed against our motherland again,” Putin mentioned in a 10-minute speech in Moscow’s Red Square, whose themes have been shortly repeated by the state news media. “Battles that decide the fate of our motherland have always become all-encompassing, patriotic and sacred.”

In different news from the warfare:

• A visit to Europe by China’s high diplomat, geared toward persuading European leaders that they will do business with Beijing, has been derailed by discussions about China’s ties to Russia.

• Arnan Soldin, a video journalist working for the news company Agence France-Presse, was killed by rocket fireplace in jap Ukraine. He is reported to be the seventeenth journalist killed in Ukraine since 2022.

Debate over anti-protest regulation in Britain

The police in London expressed remorse over their actions towards six of the 64 protesters they detained on the sidelines of the coronation of King Charles III on Saturday, fueling a nationwide debate concerning the policing of the occasion and concerning the new anti-protest regulation that officers utilized in some arrests.

The regulation, known as the Public Order Act 2023, got here into impact days earlier than the coronation, giving the police in England and Wales prolonged powers to detain and cost these they believe of finishing up or making ready doubtlessly disruptive protests. The laws was introduced ahead final yr after a wave of local weather protests and has drawn condemnation from rights teams and authorized consultants.

The British prime minister, Rishi Sunak, has to date defended the regulation and the police, telling broadcasters that his authorities had merely given officers “the powers that they need to tackle instances of serious disruption to people’s lives.”

Analysis: Leila Choukroune, a professor of worldwide regulation on the University of Portsmouth, mentioned the laws mirrored a rising pattern in democracies world wide wherein governments have restricted private freedoms, together with the correct to protest. “What’s just happened is an example, a very concrete example, but just one example,” she mentioned.

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The now-retired champion is busy enjoying, romping, posing and shedding, in addition to spending time together with his particular pal, a winsome Siberian husky bitch known as Awesome. “He wakes up happy and he’s like, ‘Let’s go!’” his proprietor mentioned. “He never has a bad day.”

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ARTS AND IDEAS

‘Down With Love,’ 20 years on

At the time of its launch, the retro-chic intercourse comedy “Down With Love” was written off as a flop. Roger Ebert praised the postmodern throwback to the midcentury intercourse farce as “a lot of fun,” however most critics shrugged at what they thought of a fluffy homage to a a lot better factor.

Made for $35 million, the movie is a ’60s interval piece certain up in a bawdier, extra sexually specific package deal than that of its predecessors. The garments — and the extravagant repartee — are each marvelous. But audiences didn’t present as much as see it, and the 2003 film ended its home run with about $20 million.

More not too long ago, “Down With Love” has change into one thing of a cult merchandise, a youthful era discovering new enchantment in its meta-referential charms.

“I recall seeing the film projected without sound at a bar-turned-dance club in Washington, D.C.,” Beatrice Loayza studies for The Times. “In February, at a packed Valentine’s Day-themed screening of the film in Brooklyn, the giddy audience was uninhibited with their oohs and aahs.”