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A jury on Friday ordered former President Donald Trump to pay $83.3 million in damages to a writer who accused him of him of ruining her reputation by denying he raped her in 1995 or 1996. The jury awarded $18.3 million in compensatory damages and $65 million in punitive damages. That's far more than the $10 million writer E. Jean Carroll had sought. Carroll sued Trump in 2019 after he denied that he had raped her in 1995 or 1996 in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room. Trump had said he never met Carroll. His attorneys argued Carroll had sought fame and attention. Trump said she made up the story to boost sales of her memoir. Trump said Friday's verdict was a sign the nation's legal system was broken. "Absolutely ridiculous!," he wrote on Truth Social. "I fully disagree with both verdicts, and will be appealing this whole Biden Directed Witch Hunt focused on me and the Republican Party. Our Legal System is out of control, and being used as a Politica...

  A federal judge on Friday denied former President Donald Trump's motion to delay his classified documents trial until after the 2024 presidential election. Trump, 77, the frontrunner for the GOP nomination to challenge incumbent President Joe Biden, has pleaded not guilty to 40 felony counts that allege he kept sensitive military documents, shared them with people who didn't have security clearance and tried to thwart the government's attempts to get them back. Trump and his attorneys have argued that prosecutors have proposed an unrealistic schedule for what's expected to be a complex case, especially in light of Trump's pending criminal charges in Washington D.C., Georgia and New York. U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon agreed Friday to push back some pre-trial deadlines but said it was "premature" to postpone the trial date. The trial is set to start in May 2024, right in the middle of the Republican presidential primary calendar. The j...