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Trump Sues New York Times Seeks $15B In Major Defamation Case

Trump Seeks $15B From New York Times In Defamation Suit

September 24, 2025 4:06 am

US President Donald Trump has filed a $15 billion defamation lawsuit against The New York Times, escalating his long-running feud with the newspaper and other mainstream media outlets.

The 85-page complaint, filed in federal court in Tampa, Florida, also names four Times reporters and book publisher Penguin Random House. The filing accuses the Times of publishing “false and defamatory statements” about Trump, his family, and his business empire, and cites the book “Lucky Loser: How the American President Squandered His Father’s Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success” as central to the claims.

The American President announced the lawsuit late …

NYTimes marks grim US virus milestone with front page victim list

NYTimes Marks US Virus Milestone With Front Page Victim List

May 24, 2020 5:16 pm

As the United States approached 100,000 coronavirus deaths, The New York Times on Sunday marked the grim milestone with a stark memorial on its front page — one-line obituaries for 1,000 victims.

“The 1,000 people here reflect just one percent of the toll. None were mere numbers,” the newspaper said in a short introduction on the front page, which was entirely covered in text.

The United States has been the hardest-hit country in the coronavirus pandemic by far, in deaths and number of infections.

As of Saturday evening, the US had recorded 97,048 deaths and 1.6 million cases of the …

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