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Former President Donald Trump disparaged writer E. Jean Carroll in a CNN town hall Wednesday night, a day after a federal grand jury in New York found him responsible for assault and defamation in a civil suit stemming from allegations that he raped Carroll in a department store dressing room in the mid-1990s. The jury did not find that Trump was responsible for the rape, but he did sexually abuse Carroll and then defamed her when she came forward several years ago. Carroll was awarded a total of $5 million in damages. After the verdict, Trump claimed he did not…

ATLANTA — Atlanta police are investigating a shooting in southwest Atlanta. Authorities told Channel 2 News officers received reports of a person shot at Mechanicsville Crossing, an apartment complex on Wells Street SW, shortly after 2 a.m. Monday. We’ll have the latest breaking news on Channel 2 Action News this morning. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] When officers arrived, they found a man in his 20s who had been shot to death. The identity of the victim has not been released. TRENDING STORIES: Witnesses told Channel 2’s Steve Gehlbach that the victim was a resident…

The IFJ-led, EU-funded Rewriting the story project concluded its second “training of trainers” session in Zagreb, Croatia, with journalists from across Europe, on 4 June. The newly trained trainers will now be responsible for carrying out their own national training using their new skills and the project’s newly developed kit of training modules. “Mentioning the family status of a female politician automatically makes a news story fall into the category of gender bias if there is nothing in the story to justify mentioning that condition,” said the trainer of the FIP Marie Palmer as she wraps up the second day…

From the Apopka Police Department Update: “Mrs. Jay Ruth Sheppard was recovered on 05/29/23 in Orlando. She is in good health,” according to a statement from Sergeant Kim Walsh of the Apopka Police Department. Sheppard had been missing since May 9. This is breaking news and may be updated if more details become known. ***** The Apopka Police Department is seeking the public’s help in locating Jay Ruth Sheppard. Mrs. Sheppard is 72 years old, 5’7″ tall, 230 lbs., with brown eyes and black hair. She was last seen on 5/9/23 after being discharged from Advent Health Apopka. Ms Sheppard…

CNN — Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley participated in a CNN town hall in Iowa on Sunday. While the former South Carolina governor correctly cited a variety of facts and figures, not everything he said was accurate. Haley falsely claimed, as she has done before, that crime is at an all time high. While talking about Covid-19, he falsely claimed that all the drugs on pharmacy shelves are made in China. He also exaggerated the amount of unspent Covid-19 relief money. Here is a verification of these and other claims made by the former US ambassador to the United Nations….

NEW DELHI (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Monday spoke of an improved partnership with India, a major arms buyer, as both countries grapple with rising economic China and rising belligerence, officials said. Austin met with Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh, and both sides emphasized technology partnerships such as defense, clean energy and space. India is working to boost its domestic defense industry by acquiring technology and reducing dependence on imports, particularly from Russia, its biggest supplier of military hardware despite the ongoing war in Ukraine. “I am returning to India to meet with key leaders to discuss…

ARGYLE, N.Y. (AP) – Seth Jacobs has about 100 containers full of marijuana flowers stored on his farm in upstate New York. And that’s a problem. Not enough places to sell it. The 700 pounds (318 kilograms) of pungent flower were harvested last year as part of New York’s first legal pot harvest for recreational use. It also has approximately 220 pounds (100 kilograms) of distillate. Months later, there are only a dozen dispensaries statewide licensed to sell what Jacobs and more than 200 other farmers produced. Now, another growing season is underway and farmers who are still sitting on…

There are too many politicians who are protagonists. When there is a conflict, as there often is, between appearing to solve problems and actually helping to solve those problems, politicians can almost always be counted on to put appearance over substance. Unfortunately, politicians succumb to this bias even when their theatrics make real problems worse. Consider French President Emmanuel Macron’s conceit that his government banned many flights between cities less than 2.5 hours apart by rail. Nothing is more fashionable today than climate theater, sometimes at the expense of realistic and useful policies. Macron obviously relishes the opportunity to pose…