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A federal judge declined to toss a defamation lawsuit against President Trump over his remarks last year about five Black and Hispanic men wrongly convicted of a 1989 rape, dubbed the Central Park Five.

U.S. District Judge Wendy Beetlestone on Thursday ruled the lawsuit, which stems from Trump’s remarks about the men at a 2024 presidential debate, can move forward. She said Trump’s commentary can be “‘objectively determined’ to be false,” as reason for the challenge to continue.

However, she did dismiss a claim contending the president intentionally caused the men emotional distress.

The Central Park Five — Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise — were teenagers when they were wrongfully convicted of the 1989 rape and assault of a white woman jogging in New York City’s Central Park. They spent years in prison before the true culprit confessed, backed by DNA evidence, resulting in their 2002 exoneration.

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A Spanish family of five on an aerial sightseeing tour of New York City died along with their pilot when their helicopter crashed upside down into the Hudson River.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams said the single-engine Bell 206 helicopter operated by sightseeing company New York Helicopter crashed into the river separating Manhattan from New Jersey shortly after 3:15 p.m. on April 10.

Adams said the victims were five members of a Spanish family — two adults and three children — and the pilot. Divers helped remove the victims from the water. Four were pronounced dead at the scene, while two others were taken to area hospitals where they died, officials said.

A California man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to trying to kill Brett Kavanaugh at the US supreme court justice’s home in a suburb of Washington DC nearly three years ago.

Nicholas Roske was arrested near Kavanaugh’s home in Chevy Chase, Maryland, in June 2022. Roske was armed with a gun and a knife, was carrying zip ties and was dressed in black when he arrived in the neighborhood by taxi just after 1am, authorities said.

US district judge Deborah Boardman is scheduled to sentence Roske on 3 October. Prosecutors say federal sentencing guidelines call for a term of 30 years to life in prison.

Roske, 29, of Simi Valley, California, pleaded guilty to attempting to murder a justice of the United States without reaching a plea agreement with federal prosecutors.

A trial for Roske had been scheduled to start on 9 June.

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Information about Harriet Tubman has been restored to a National Park Service website about the Underground Railroad

The National Park Service said Monday that a portrait and a quote from Tubman had been removed “without approval.”

As the internet archive Wayback Machine shows, the website "What is the Underground Railroad" in February began with a picture and a quote from Tubman, the formerly enslaved woman who helped shepherd others to freedom in the North.

But by the end of February, the website heading showed a collection of stamps honoring those who helped people escape slavery, including Tubman among others. The website change was first reported in a Washington Post investigation.

Actor Val Kilmer died Tuesday at 65. His daughter told The Associated Press the cause was pneumonia. He had recovered from throat cancer.

More than a hundred roles in a nearly four-decade career let Val Kilmer explore a wealth of human experience. He gave life to characters from all walks of life – from superhero to alcoholic, thief to detective. Here are a few of the more intriguing moods he embodied along the way.

Top Gun was a testosterone fest in all its corners, from volleyball on the beach to dogfights in the stratosphere, but the reigning cock of the walk, and the one Tom Cruise had to contend with, was Kilmer's Iceman – a cool customer, until he got hot under the collar.

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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has fired all of the workers in its program that seeks to help low-income Americans pay their energy bills.

Everyone who had been working on the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) was let go on Tuesday, according to now-former employee Andrew Germain.

“Every single federal staff member that worked on LIHEAP was let go, so there are no federal staff members left to work on the program,” Germain told The Hill.

He said that prior to both probationary cuts and the latest round of firings, there had been about 15 people working on LIHEAP.

The program doles out funds to states, which in turn use the money to help people pay to heat and cool their homes and prevent utilities from shutting off the air or heat.

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