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UNITED STATES

Trump's bid to overturn verdict turned down

A US federal appeals court on Monday upheld a jury verdict ordering President-elect Donald Trump to pay $5 million for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll. A New York jury found after a nine-day civil trial in 2023 that the former president had sexually abused Carroll at a Manhattan department store in 1996. Trump denied the allegations. The three-judge panel of the Second US Circuit Court of Appeals said: "We conclude that Mr Trump has not demonstrated that the district court erred in any of the challenged rulings."