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10-Year-Old Ohio Girl Became Flash Point in Abortion Debate

For nearly two weeks, the story of a 10-year-old Ohio girl who was raped and crossed state lines to get an abortion became a flash point in the national abortion debate. President Biden and other Democrats argued that it showed the harm resulting from the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade. But the facts […]

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Infighting Overshadows Big Plans at The Washington Post

When Sally Buzbee joined The Washington Post a year ago this month, she took over a newsroom that had nearly doubled to more than 1,000 journalists under the ownership of Jeff Bezos, who bought it in 2013. Its coverage regularly won Pulitzer Prizes. The newspaper has continued growing in the months since. It has opened […]

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Barry Sussman, Washington Post Watergate Editor, Dies at 87

“While it is common for a president’s popularity to increase at a time of national crisis,” he wrote in The Post, “the rise for Reagan appears as sharp as any yet recorded.” Mr. Sussman left The Post in 1987 to be the managing editor, national news, for United Press International. But he left that troubled […]

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Kate Moss Testifies That Johnny Depp Did Not Push Her Down Stairs

Earlier in the trial, Ellen Barkin, with whom Mr. Depp was also romantically involved in the 1990s, called him a “controlling” and “jealous man,” recounting an incident in a Las Vegas in which, she said, Mr. Depp threw a wine bottle across a hotel room. She said there had been a fight going on between […]

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Amber Heard Testifies About a ‘Pattern’ of Violence by Johnny Depp

Amber Heard, an actress defending herself against a defamation lawsuit filed by her ex-husband, Johnny Depp, took the stand on Wednesday, recalling how a whirlwind romance that started on a movie set descended into a “pattern” of violence perpetrated against her by the actor. The couple first got to know each other in 2009 on […]

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Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard: What We Know

The defamation trial in Virginia between the actors Johnny Depp and Amber Heard has become a fierce battleground over the truth about their relationship, with both sides accusing the other of repeated domestic abuse in what was an unquestionably tumultuous marriage. Before a seven-person jury in Fairfax County Circuit Court, lawyers have questioned witnesses about […]

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Johnny Depp’s Texts Shown to Jurors in Defamation Case

Lawyers for Amber Heard worked on Thursday to point out inconsistencies in Johnny Depp’s testimony in the defamation trial between the formerly married actors, presenting text messages sent by Mr. Depp and audio recordings of the couple’s arguments. Ms. Heard has asserted in court papers that Mr. Depp repeatedly assaulted her throughout their marriage, including […]

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Johnny Depp and Amber Heard to Face Off in Defamation Trial

The actor Johnny Depp could not convince a judge in London that he was innocent of allegations that he had abused his former wife, the actress Amber Heard, but in a trial starting Monday, the actor will take his defamation complaint to a jury in Virginia. The U.S. trial centers on a lawsuit Mr. Depp […]

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Trump Campaign Owes $300,000 in Legal Fees After Another Failed NDA Case

Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaign has been ordered to pay more than $300,000 in legal fees and expenses to a former employee who the campaign’s lawyers said had violated the terms of a nondisclosure agreement when she accused Mr. Trump of forcibly kissing her in 2016. The award, the culmination of an arbitration claim that […]

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