Quick Glance: Affair Rumors Surrounding Prince William and Kate Middleton
- Kate and William's friends were baffled by the absence of the wedding ring in a photoshopped picture, raising concerns about their marriage.
- Stephen Colbert's comments on alleged affairs involving Prince William spark controversy.
- Rumors of an affair between William and Rose Hanbury resurface.
- Speculations on Kate and William's marriage, especially after a mysterious photo without a wedding ring, add strain to the royal couple.
Quick Glance: 72% Loss Since Musk's Twitter Acquisition
- Fidelity devalues X stake by 72% since Musk's $44 billion payment.
- Monthly report lists the value of X Holdings Corp. stake as $5.6 million on November 30, 2023.
- It's unclear if Fidelity sold parts of its stake in November, but the recent loss isn't surprising given the Musk-related controversies.
- Based on the $44 billion Musk paid for Twitter over a year ago, Fidelity's devaluation would estimate the company to be worth about $12.5 billion.
Quick Glance: Elon Musk Brings Back Conspiracy Theorist to Twitter
- Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter led to changes on the platform.
- After a vote, Elon Musk brought back Infowars operator Alex Jones to Twitter/X.
- Elon Musk emphasized freedom of speech on the platform and surprisingly brought back Jones.
- Elon Musk reaffirmed freedom of speech as the platform's highest priority since taking over Twitter a year ago.
Quick Glance: Kareem Daniel is leaving Disney as Bob Iger plans to restructure the Media and Entertainment Distribution Division.
- In a message to staff this afternoon, newly reappointed CEO Bob Iger announced the news (read it in full here).
- Iger stated that he has charged Dana Walden, Alan Bergman, Jimmy Pitaro, and [...]
Quick Glance: Alex Jones Has Been Ordered to Pay $473 Million More for Sandy Hook Claims
- The Connecticut court adds to the $965 million in damages owed by the Infowars host to families and an FBI agent he defamed in the aftermath of the 2012 killing.
- Alex Jones, an internet broadcaster, was ordered in October to pay $965 million in damages to the families of eight Sandy Hook school shooting victims and one F.B.I. officer.
- It concluded a weeks-long trial to decide how much Mr. Jones should pay for saying the 2012 tragedy, in which a shooter killed 20 children and six adults, was a government conspiracy.
Quick Glance: Student loan forgiveness applications are no longer being accepted.
- "Courts have issued orders blocking our student debt relief program," the Education Department announced on its federal student aid website.
- Already, over 26 million people have applied, with 16 million applications granted.
- However, due to court judgements, none of the remedy has been distributed.
- Student loan forgiveness will almost certainly end up before the Supreme Court.
- During the pandemic, people with school loan debt were not obligated to make payments.
Quick Glance: Alex Jones Sandy Hook damages could follow him the rest of his life
- "Do these people actually think they're getting any of this money?
- " Jones stated.
- Lawyers told Insider that the damages were astounding for a slander case, with Barhoma calling the payout a "jaw-dropping" number.
- "Compensatory damages are looking to make a plaintiff whole," Barhoma said, adding that while Jones will almost certainly appeal the verdict, an appellate court will be less inclined to interfere with compensatory damages awarded by a jury.
- Furthermore, unlike punitive penalties, compensatory damages are not capped in Connecticut, according to some lawyers.
BREAKING: Jury awards hundreds of millions to Sandy Hook parents from Alex Jones. https://abcn.ws/3RXHx5h
Quick Glance: Alex Jones testifies in court about his Sandy Hook fake liesf
- Alex Jones testifies in a trial about how much he must pay in damages for calling the Sandy Hook school massacre a fabrication.
- "This is not really a trial," he explained.
- He said that the hoax lies were irresponsible and that the incident was "100% real."
- Jones said that the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy was staged by actors as part of gun control efforts.
Quick Glance: Alex Jones was ordered to pay $45.2 million to the Sandy Hook family.
- These punitive damages are in addition to the $4.1 million in compensatory damages he must pay to the mother and father of a 6-year-old boy slain in the 2012 shooting.
- Late Friday, jurors issued a decision against Alex Jones, ordering him to pay $45.2 million in punitive damages to the parents of a child slain in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
- "[Alex Jones] is worth almost $270 million that we know of."
- The verdict concluded off a terrible trial for the conspiracy theorist, which included his own lawyers handing a lawyer for the Sandy Hook victim's family two years' worth of Jones' damaging text conversations.
Breaking news: Infowars founder Alex Jones was ordered by an Austin jury on Friday to pay $45.2 million in punitive damages to the parents of a 6-year-old ... Show more https://wapo.st/3zD6WKo
Quick Glance: Alex Jones' ex-wife will seek phone records after her lawyer'messed up'
- A lawyer for the Sandy Hook parents told Alex Jones on Wednesday that his counsel "messed up" and disclosed two years of phone data.
- Kelly Jones, Alex Jones' ex-wife, wants access to a treasure trove of information – several years of phone records — thanks to a blunder by Alex Jones' attorneys.
- Kelly Jones told Insider that, like the January 6 committee, she is ready to subpoena phone records because she feels they would help her in her current child custody dispute with Alex Jones.
- "Another stunning and unbelievable attorney gaffe by Alex Jones' attorneys," said Kelly Jones on Wednesday.
The Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in December 2012 was described by Jones as a hoax. The conspiracy theorist is now being held liable for his lies ... Show more
Students arriving at the Bennett Valley Strawberry Elementary School Tuesday were greeted by fifth-graders holding up messages of kindness and encouragement ... Show more https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/kindness-crew-at-elementary-school-in-santa-rosa-greets-students-with-happy/
Quick Glance: Alex Jones must pay for Sandy Hook deceptions, according to parents' lawyer as defamation trial begins
- "Mr. Jones was continually churning out this idea that Sandy Hook was fake," Bankston told jurors.
- Jones and Infowars, he claimed, were behind the "most despicable and vile campaign of defamation and slander in American history."
- During the Alex Jones jury trial in Austin, a video of a Sandy Hook shooting victim is shown on the screen.
- The defamation suit, filed in Texas, where Infowars is situated, is one of several filed by victims' families who allege they were harassed and suffered emotional distress after Jones claimed the shooting was staged.
Quick Glance: Alex Jones, the owner of Free Speech Systems, declares bankruptcy.
- Alex Jones has previously declared bankruptcy.
- Jones was found liable in Sandy Hook families' lawsuits last year after falsely claiming that the 2012 school shooting was a fake.
- The Sandy Hook families had criticized Jones' last bankruptcy filing in April as a "sinister" attempt to shelter his assets from liability.
- In explaining the current bankruptcy petition, Schwartz stated that the Sandy Hook litigation caused InfoWars to be avoided by major internet, social media, and financial organizations.
Quick Glance: "Your attorneys messed up": Alex Jones confronted in Sandy Hook defamation trial with texts from his phone
- #AlexJones' attorney, Mark Bankston, told him that his attorney made a mistake and handed him Jones' entire cell phone history.
- Jones' attorney, Andino Reynal, argued during closing arguments that the plaintiffs failed to prove that Jones' acts and words caused actual harm, and that the trial lacked evidence of the harassment, pain, and reputation defamation that the parents claimed.
- "A COWARDLY DISPLAY": Alex Jones fails to testify during his Sandy Hook deposition.
- HOW MUCH WILL ALEX JONES PAY? : The trial has begun after a court determined that he defamed the Sandy Hook parents.
Quick Glance: Indiana Rep. Jackie Walorski and two staff members were murdered in an automobile accident.
- Jackie Walorski was murdered in an automobile crash in her northern Indiana district on Wednesday, along with two members of her congressional staff and another individual, according to authorities.
- According to the sheriff's office, Zachery Potts, 27, of Mishawaka, Indiana, Emma Thomson, 28, of Washington, D.C., and Edith Schmucker, 56, of Nappanee, Indiana, were also killed in the crash.
- Potts and Thomson were members of Walorski's congressional staff, according to Cummings.
- Indiana mourns her demise, as well as the unfortunate deaths of her employees Emma Thomson and Zach Potts.
In the aftermath of the Texas elementary school shooting, there are "serious" bipartisan negotiations on a new gun law intended to reduce future killings ... Show more Senator Chris Murphy https://abcn.ws/3N18eUL
Pres. Joe Biden : "After Columbine, after Sandy Hook, after Charleston, after Orlando, after Las Vegas, after Parkland—nothing has been done ... Show more abcn.ws/3Q27Tn0
Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg says Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene should apologize to families of Parkland, Las Vegas and Sandy Hook ... https://cnn.it/3ttkjsA