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Johnny Depp has won his defamation case against Amber Heard as she was ordered to pay the actor $15m in damages. But the jury also awarded Ms Heard $2m for one part of her own counterclaim, that Mr Depp's lawyer had called her abuse allegations against her ex-husband a hoax. The jury of five men and two women returned its verdict on Wednesday after nearly 13 hours of deliberation spread over three days at the district court in Fairfax, Virginia. But the reading of the verdict was dramatically delayed as the judge had to send the jury back out as they had failed to fill out the damages section of the form. Mr Depp was not in court for the verdict but watched it on TV from the United Kingdom, where he is working and was spotted in a pub in Newcastle. Ms Heard was present for the reading of the verdict. |
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| Hinckley, now 67, shot then-president Ronald Reagan in 1981 |
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| 'Student had phoned 911 before getting killed |
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| Workers told they must spend a minimum of 40 hours in the office 'or depart Tesla' |
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| Agencies have been searching by foot, water and air |
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What do we know about Uvalde police chief Pete Arredondo? |
The Uvalde school district police chief Pedro "Pete" Arredondo is facing tough questions over the handling of the law enforcement response to last week's mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in the Texas town, where 19 children and two teachers were murdered by teen gunman Salvador Ramos. Ramos snuck into the school by an unlocked rear door and barricaded himself inside a classroom for over an hour, in which time he picked off his victims, some of whom used their phones to call 911 pleading for help while officers gathered outside the room awaiting the order to intervene. Eventually, US Border Patrol agents arrived, kicked down the door and shot Ramos dead but criticism has since fallen on Mr Arredondo, 50, from aggrieved members of the community, not least the families of the deceased, over the apparent decision to downgrade the incident from an "active shooter" situation to a "barricaded suspect" standoff, without which more might have been done to prevent the carnage. |
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– A 31-year-old woman who was conditionally approved for a medically assisted death has said that her life has been turned around by support and $65k donations she received from telling her story. |
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| "My administration sees you for who you are – deserving of dignity, respect, and support. I will always have your back as your president so that you can be yourself and reach your God-given potential." |
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