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A Texas jury on Aug. 5 ordered conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay $45.2 million in punitive damages to the parents of a child who was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, adding to the $4.1 million he must pay for the suffering he put them through by claiming for years that the nation's deadliest school shooting was a hoax.

Ljubljana – The outcome of a referendum on the right to abortion in the conservative US state of Kansas is not as surprising as it might seem initially, since it reaffirms what opinion polls have been saying all along, says Dnevnik on Thursday, highlighting that the divide on this issue is not as simple as the Republicans vs Democrats divide.

A Virginia judge on July 13 rejected an effort by actress Amber Heard to set aside the $10 million judgment awarded against her in favor of her ex-husband, Johnny Depp.

Depp won a defamation suit against Heard last month in a high-profile civil trial. Heard won a smaller, $2 million judgement on a counterclaim she filed against Depp.

Several hundred protesters marched Sunday in Akron, Ohio after the release of body camera footage that showed police fatally shooting a Black man with several dozen rounds of bullets.

The US state of New York moved to enshrine abortion rights and access to contraception in its constitution on July 1, becoming a vanguard in the pushback against a seismic ruling by the country's Supreme Court that upended reproductive rights nationwide.

Voluntary abortion is murder, says the Church

The Supreme Court overturned a ruling that legalized the right to abortion 50 years ago across the country.
The Supreme Court annulled the case of Roe v. Wade on Friday, considering that the federal constitutional right to abortion no longer exists.

Amber Heard said the "hate and vitriol" she suffered on social media during her libel trial against Johnny Depp was not "fair," but insisted in an interview released on June 13 she did not blame the jury for largely siding with her ex-husband.

A teenage gunman killed 19 young children and 2 adults at an elementary school in Texas on May 24, prompting a furious President Joe Biden to denounce the US gun lobby and vow to end the nation's cycle of mass shootings.