The number of older workers on the job is creeping higher. Roughly 1 in 5 Americans ages 65 and older (19%) were employed in 2023, four times the number in the mid-1980s. That tallies up to around 11 million workers and is on par with the number of those in that age cohort who were […]
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Jury awards $148 million in damages to Georgia election workers over Rudy Giuliani’s 2020 vote lies
WASHINGTON (AP) — A jury awarded $148 million in damages on Friday to two former Georgia election workers who sued Rudy Giuliani for defamation over lies he spread about them in 2020 that upended their lives with racist threats and harassment. The damages verdict follows emotional testimony from Wandrea “Shaye” Moss and her mother, Ruby […]
Giuliani ordered to pay $148 million to Georgia election workers in defamation trial
By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Rudy Giuliani must pay more than $148 million in damages to two former Georgia election workers he defamed through false accusations that they helped rig the 2020 election against Donald Trump, a jury decided on Friday. The jury in federal court in Washington found that Giuliani owes the workers, […]
GM’s Cruise Robotaxi Unit Lays off 900 Workers With Investigation Into San Francisco Crash Ongoing
NEW YORK (AP) — General Motors’ troubled Cruise autonomous vehicle unit is cutting over 900 jobs, about a quarter of its workforce, as it moves to reduce costs and remake itself after a series of safety problems in San Francisco. The subsidiary announced the cuts Thursday in a letter to Cruise’s 3,800 workers from President […]
Foreign Workers Caught in the Chaos of Israel-Hamas War | Best Countries
JERUSALEM – When Pranita Chhetri learned on Oct. 7 that Hamas terrorists from Gaza had infiltrated southern Israel that morning, murdering more than 1,000 Israelis and foreign nationals and kidnapping many others, she was horrified but not fearful for her own personal safety. Chhetri, who moved from her home in India to Israel seven months […]
Rudy Giuliani to testify in defamation trial against two former election workers – live | US politics
Rudy Giuliani set to testify in defamation trial Rudy Giuliani is set to testify on Thursday in the closely watched federal defamation trial involving two former Atlanta election workers he spread defamatory and false statements about following the 2020 presidential election. The testimony from Donald Trump’s former lawyer will follow the harrowing testimonies delivered earlier […]
Giuliani caused ‘perpetual nightmare’ for 2020 election workers, jury told | Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani “disgraced” the names of two Atlanta election workers as part of a call to action, causing them to suffer a “perpetual nightmare” since December 2020, attorneys representing the two women said during opening statements in a closely watched defamation trial. “It was vicious,” Von DuBose, a lawyer representing Ruby Freeman and her daughter […]
Georgia election workers seek ‘tens of millions’ from Giuliani
Freeman plans to take the stand and describe emotional pain caused by Giuliani’s attacks, including nightmares about her and her family being killed, one of their lawyers said. And Moss intends to describe walking out of a job interview at Chick-fil-A — after leaving her eight-year career as an election worker — when the manager […]
Rudy Giuliani faces trial over defamation of 2020 election workers
Rudy Giuliani arrived slightly late to the Washington DC federal courtroom where a defamation lawsuit seeking to force him to pay tens of millions of dollars in damages to two election workers after making inflammatory false statements about them in the aftermath of the 2020 election. Related: Georgia prosecutors predict jail sentences in Trump 2020 […]
Jury trial will decide how much Giuliani must pay election workers over false election fraud claims
WASHINGTON — A trial set to get underway in Washington on Monday will determine how much Rudy Giuliani will have to pay two Georgia election workers who he falsely accused of fraud while pushing Donald Trump‘s baseless claims after he lost the 2020 election. The former New York City mayor has already been found liable […]
Giuliani spread lies about Georgia election workers. A jury will decide what he owes them.
The damages trial is the latest form of accountability for those who aided Trump’s bid to subvert the 2020 election. While criminal proceedings against Trump, Giuliani and others have inched along, efforts to punish the perpetrators in other ways — from civil lawsuits to disbarment proceedings — have moved more briskly. For example, Giuliani’s law […]
Giuliani spread lies about Georgia election workers. A jury will decide what he owes them.
When Rudy Giuliani steps into federal court on Monday, the only mystery will be how severely he is sanctioned for lies about the 2020 election. U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell has already found him liable for defaming two Georgia election workers — Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss — who faced threats and harassment after […]