Lawsuit

The Witkoff family and Witkoff Group threatened the New York Times with a defamation lawsuit last Thursday over an article that claimed Qatar had curried favor with the family.

Standard Chartered Bank was accused of indirectly supporting Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the Mahdi Army.

The filing sought judgment against multiple terrorist organizations for enabling and supporting the planning and execution of Hamas's October 7 massacre.

Trump has gone after major media outlets in his second term for what he describes as false or misleading coverage and has sought billions of dollars in damages from them.

The 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan rejected Trump's argument that the January 2024 verdict should be overturned because he deserved presidential immunity.

Emani Ellis, a former security guard, sued the singer for millions while alleging Cardi B assaulted her in 2018 during an interaction in the hallway of a medical office where Ellis was employed. 

The jury found Google liable on two of the three claims of privacy violations, but found that Google had not acted with malice, meaning it was not entitled to punitive damages.

Former FBI agent and self-alleged whistleblower Kyle Seraphin called Patel's partner "an agent of a foreign government, assigned to manipulate and compromise the director of the FBI.

In a video interview earlier in August, Hunter Biden, the son of former US president Joe Biden, claimed that "Epstein introduced Melania to Trump. The connections are, like, so wide and deep." 

During the exclusive interview, Netanyahu referenced the photo used on the front page of the NYT, saying that the newspaper's correction wasn't enough.