A federal jury in Alabama has ordered The New York Times to pay more than nine million dollars in damages to a former college athlete over a retracted investigative report. The high-profile verdict

The president has argued that the news organization sought to undermine his 2024 presidential campaign by disparaging his reputation as a businessman. The Times has moved to dismiss the lawsuit.

An Alabama jury awarded $9.25 million in damages after finding that The New York Times defamed a former college basketball player, Kai Spears, of the Alabama Crimson Tide, in a story about a fatal shooting.

During the nine-day trial, Witz testified that the article he wrote "had a mistake, no question," per the Tuscaloosa Patch. The Alabama jury found that the Times owes Spears $9.25 million in damages.

New York Times pop culture writer and awards columnist Kyle Buchanan has left the newspaper after eight years. I can exclusively report that Buchanan is launching a new video podcast about Hollywood,

Kai Spears was an 18-year-old freshman walk-on basketball player for the University of Alabama's Crimson Tide when New York Times sports writer Billy Witz falsely identified Spears as being a passenger in the car at the site of a January 2023 fatal shooting of 23-year-old Jamea Harris.

In an order signed on Monday, District Court Judge Steven D. Merryday deferred on the Times’ motion to dismiss Trump’s defamation suit against the paper, allowing the president to file an amended complaint by Aug. 27. Merryday’s order on Monday did ...

An Alabama jury awarded $9.25 million in damages on Thursday to a former Alabama college basketball player who sued The New York Times two years ago after […]

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