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MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has been ordered to pay $5 million to an expert who debunked his data related to the 2020 election, according to a decision by the arbitration panel obtained by CNN. CNN’s Sara Murray reports.
Meanwhile… Stevie Nicks loves her namesake Barbie doll, Southern drawls are falling out of fashion, and Stephen brings back a beloved primate-focused segment from the past.
Dennis Purifoy survived the largest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history, the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. Sitting in his cubicle on the ground floor of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, he saw the flash of an explosion on his computer screen and was covered by debris. Sixteen of his co-workers and 24 visitors died. The attack opened his eyes to the reality of hate and terrorism, and he now urges law enforcement agencies to pay more attention to the rising threat of far-right extremism in the country. He believes that the divisions and polarizations in society make it easier for people to think in terms of “me or us versus them,” and he is more concerned about it today than he has been in a while.
The defamation trial against Fox News concluded before it even began. Dominion Voting Systems sued the right-wing network for knowingly broadcast lies that its voting machines were used to steal the 2020 presidential election. On Tuesday, Fox agreed to settle the case and pay Dominion $787 million. Geoff Bennett discussed the settlement with NPR’s David Folkenflik.
WATCH: Dominion Voting gives remarks after settlement with Fox News on 2020 election defamation case
The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee headed to New York for a hearing honing in on Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. He’s the prosecutor who brought criminal charges against former President Trump. The hearing was billed as a look at Bragg’s record on prosecuting crime, but turned into a back and forth between protesters, witnesses and members of Congress. Lisa Desjardins reports.
The pandemic highlighted the power of local health departments and brought backlash from people who said these authorities were overreaching. In the wake of the turmoil, many were overhauled, leaving an outsized impact on rural parts of the country. With support from the Pulitzer Center and in collaboration with the Global Health Reporting Center, Dr. Alok Patel reports for our series, Rural RX.
A week after the arraignment of Donald Trump, we’re learning new details about a covert effort by Russian and Chinese-backed actors aimed at sowing division among the American electorate and increasing distrust in institutions. Laura Barrón-López discussed the findings with Colin Clarke of the Soufan Center And Zach Schwitzky of the data science firm Limbik.
The country is closely watching how the battle over abortion medication unfolds in federal courts. It follows a Texas judge’s decision to overturn FDA approval of the mifepristone. But there’s also growing concern over what that ruling could mean for the drug approval process in general. Amna Nawaz discussed what’s at stake with Dr. Joshua Sharfstein, the former FDA principal deputy commissioner.
In our news wrap Tuesday, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg sued Republican Rep. Jim Jordan over a House Judiciary Committee inquiry into the Trump indictment, witnesses say Myanmar government airstrikes killed as many as 100 people including dozens of children and President Biden arrived in Northern Ireland to mark 25 years since the Good Friday Agreement.
During a 1991 interview on the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, former Chief Justice Warren Burger was asked what he would change in the Bill of Rights. He called out the Second Amendment.
“If I were writing the Bill of Rights now there wouldn’t be any such thing as the Second Amendment,” Burger told the NewsHour’s Charlayne Hunter-Gault. “This has been the subject of one of the greatest pieces of fraud – I repeat the word ‘fraud’ – on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime.”
The interview was part of a series marking the 200th anniversary of the Bill of Rights, the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
He pulled out his tiny copy of the constitution and read the Second Amendment aloud, which states that “a well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
“If the militia, which was going to be the state army, was going to be well-regulated,” Burger asked, “why shouldn’t 16 and 17 and 18, or any other age, persons be regulated in the use of arms the way an automobile is regulated?”
Months before Burger’s appearance on the NewsHour, former President Ronald Reagan called on Congress to pass the Brady bill, a piece of legislation named for his press secretary who was wounded during the 1981 assassination attempt against him.
“Every year, an average of 9,200 Americans are murdered by handguns, according to Department of Justice statistics. This does not include suicides or the tens of thousands of robberies, rapes and assaults committed with handguns,” Regan wrote in a March 1991 New York Times op-ed. “This level of violence must be stopped.”
It took another two years before President Bill Clinton signed the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act into law.
In the NBC News podcast “Truthers: Tiffany Dover is Dead*,” Brandy Zadrozny followed the story of a nurse who became an unwilling icon of the anti-vaccination movement. But the one person Brandy couldn’t track down was Tiffany Dover herself. Until now.
A proposed bill introduced in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario aimed at providing legal protections for members of the LGBTQ+ community and drag artists has sparked misinformation on social media. The 2SLGBTQI+ Community Safety Zones Act, introduced by four left-leaning lawmakers, would allow the Ontario attorney general to designate a space for 2SLGBTQI+ persons as a community safety zone where it would be illegal to commit acts of intimidation within 100 meters of the established boundary. However, social media users have misrepresented the bill’s content and status, using a clip from the April 4 press conference to inaccurately claim that Canada has outlawed protests against the LGBTQ+ community. While the bill is a private members’ bill and has not become law, it has raised awareness about the need for legal protections for the LGBTQ+ community.
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles is launching an investigation upon the Republican governor’s request for an expedited probe and pardon recommendation for a US Army sergeant convicted of killing a protester at a Black Lives Matter rally in 2020. CNN’s Ed Lavandera has the story.
CNBC’s Rick Santelli joins ‘Squawk Box’ to break down the September jobs report.
Everyone who works with Rep. Matt Gaetz thinks he’s a sleaze, the former president says he’ll go to Capitol Hill to help select the next House Speaker, and Rudy Giuliani’s alleged drinking problem is under the microscope.
A bed bug infestation is sweeping through Paris, with reports of the blood-sucking pests on buses and trains and inside movie theaters and hotels. As millions visit the popular city, the bed bugs could potentially travel home with visitors. NBC News’ Meagan Fitzgerald shares more as anxiety is quickly rising.
What is Fat Bear Week? We’re here to tell you. Get the scoop on everything Fat Bear Week as we gear up for the big tournament with Mike Fitz and Brian Byrd.
Immigrants who come to the U.S. without authorization have very limited access to government benefits. But an old falsehood revived by conservatives conflates aid given to authorized refugees with the limited assistance available to immigrants who entered the country illegally. The claim also inflates the benefits given to refugees.
WATCH: Viktor Hovland hit a hole-in-one on the par 4 5th hole during practice ahead of the 2023 Ryder Cup held at Marco Simone Golf & Country Club.
