E. Jean Carroll says she's going to 'do something good' with the $83.3 million in defamation damages that Trump owes her: 'I'm not going to waste a cent'

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E. Jean Carroll.

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  • Donald Trump on Friday was ordered to pay $83.3 million to E. Jean Carroll in a defamation case.
  • "I'm not going to waste a cent of this," Carroll told The New York Times in a Saturday interview.
  • Trump has vowed to appeal, but Carroll said she already has plans to buy "premium" food for her dogs.

After a judge on Friday awarded E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million in

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A man opened a plane's emergency exit and walked onto its wing after his flight was delayed on the tarmac for 4 hours. His fellow passengers are now defending him: 'He saved our lives'

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Aeromexico.

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  • An Aeromexico passenger opened a plane's emergency exit and walked onto the wing on Thursday. 
  • At least 77 plane passengers defended the man's actions with a handwritten signed statement.
  • Passengers said the flight was delayed four hours, endangering their health. 

An Aeromexico passenger opened a plane's emergency exit and walked onto the wing, but his fellow

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hits out at hostages' families for helping Hamas, say reports

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L: Relatives and supporters lift placards bearing portraits of Israelis held hostage by Palestinian Hamas militants in Gaza since October 7, during a rally demanding their release outside Israeli Premier's private residence in Caesarea, north of Tel Aviv, on January 27, 2024. R: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
L:Relatives and supporters lift placards bearing portraits of Israelis held hostage by Palestinian Hamas militants in Gaza since October 7, during a rally demanding their release outside Israeli Premier's private residence in Caesarea, north of Tel Aviv, on January 27, 2024. R: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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  • Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu criticized protests by the families
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X confirms it blocked Taylor Swift searches to ‘prioritize safety’

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X has confirmed it’s preventing users from searching Taylor Swift’s name after pornographic deepfakes of the artist began circulating on the platform this week. Visitors to the site started noticing on Saturday that some searches containing Swift’s name would only return an error message. In a statement to the Wall Street Journal on Saturday night, Joe Benarroch, X’s head of business operations

I quit Amazon Prime and it was way easier than I expected. It's made me reevaluate everything.

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"I still regularly buy things from Amazon with free shipping, but I'm happily out on Prime," writes Alex Kantrowitz.

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  • Big Technology is a newsletter about tech and society by independent journalist Alex Kantrowitz. 
  • He canceled Amazon Prime after hearing that the company makes it difficult for people to disenroll.
  • Ultra-fast delivery just wasn't as important as he thought, and

US special operations forces are searching for a new extreme long-range rifle for their next big fight as Ukraine shows the damage that snipers can do

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A team of Green Berets from 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne) fire at long range targets during the Menton 2022 Best Sniper Competition at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., Dec. 8, 2022
A team of Green Berets from 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne) fire at long range targets during the Menton 2022 Best Sniper Competition at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., Dec. 8, 2022

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  • Snipers are valuable force multipliers within small special operations teams.
  • SOCOM is looking for an new extreme long-range sniper rifle for future conflict.
  • The war in Ukraine

Top Putin ally says a 'destructive civil confrontation' could happen in the US over Texas border standoff

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Migrants wait in line adjacent to the border fence under the watch of the Texas National Guard to enter into El Paso, Texas, May 10, 2023.
Migrants wait in line adjacent to the border fence under the watch of the Texas National Guard to enter into El Paso, Texas, May 10, 2023.

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  • Dmitry Medvedev taunted the Biden administration over the escalating Texas border standoff.
  • He predicted a "destructive civil confrontation" and suggested Texas could become a separate country.
  • The border standoff has catapulted debates
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The top 4 ways big corporations are fueling global wealth inequality: report

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Occupy Wall Street protesters in 2011.

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  • It could take centuries to address poverty and wealth inequality, reports have found.
  • Meanwhile, many big corporations and billionaires continue to see exponential growth.
  • Corporations drive wealth inequality through labor laws, tax evasion, and even climate change.

Addressing wealth inequality will take some big commitments — especially

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X is blocking Taylor Swift searches... barely

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X has blocked searches for Taylor Swift in reaction to a recent trend of graphic AI fakes of the world-famous recording artist being posted to the site. Right now, if you search “Taylor Swift” or “Taylor Swift AI” on X, formerly Twitter, you may see a “Something went wrong” message. X head of business Joe Benarroch acknowledged the “temporary”