A toddler crawled through a White House fence on Tuesday, prompting a swift Secret Service response. Photos of the breach show the tiny intruder being caught by officers before being quickly reunited with his parents. While security alerts were rapidly lifted, it remains unclear if the infiltration resulted in a timeout.
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Fox News will pay more than $787 million to Dominion Voting Systems after the two sides agreed to a last-minute settlement Tuesday in the explosive defamation case brought against the right-wing network. Dominion, which sells election technology, said Fox destroyed its reputation by knowingly broadcasting lies that the company rigged the 2020 presidential election. Fox on Tuesday acknowledged the court’s rulings “finding certain claims about Dominion to be false.” However, Fox won’t have to admit on-air that it spread election lies, a Dominion representative told CNN. By settling, Fox will avoid a painful six-week trial that would have required some of the network’s top executives and prominent on-air personalities to testify about their misleading election coverage. The $787.5 million payout marks the largest publicly known defamation settlement in US history involving a media company.
The Supreme Court is expected to make a decision today regarding the legal battle over the drug mifepristone, the first pill given in a medical abortion. Nearly two weeks ago, a federal judge in Texas said mifepristone should not have been approved in 2000 and ruled to halt access to the drug nationwide. Last week, Justice Samuel Alito granted a request of the Biden administration to put a temporary hold on the decision to give the justices more time to review the case. Alito asked to hear…
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