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Houston (AFP) - A US judge on Friday approved the liquidation of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' personal assets, setting the stage for the repayment of a fraction of the nearly $1.5 billion in damages he owes families whose loved ones were killed in a school shooting. But the bankruptcy judge in Houston spared Jones from liquidating the parent company of his far-right website InfoWars -- long notorious for peddling misinformation -- in a reprieve that will allow it to remain in business. The serial provocateur had been ordered to pay the damages for calling a 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook ...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Supreme Court ruled on Friday that a ban introduced by ex-president Donald Trump's administration on bump stocks -- devices which allow semi-automatic rifles to fire like a machine gun -- is unconstitutional. The case stems from the worst mass shooting in US history, in October 2017, when a man fired on a crowd attending an outdoor music concert in Las Vegas, killing 58 people and wounding around 500. Most of his 22 guns were equipped with bump stocks, allowing them to fire as many as nine bullets a second. The court voted along ideological lines, 6-3 in favor of the ...
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Houston (AFP) - A US judge on Friday approved the liquidation of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' personal assets, media reports said, setting the stage for the repayment of nearly $1.5 billion in damages he owes the victims of a school mass shooting. The ruling by a bankruptcy court in Houston throws into doubt the future of Jones's far-right website InfoWars -- long notorious for peddling misinformation -- which dangled the prospect of a "potential last broadcast" on Friday. The serial provocateur had been ordered to pay nearly $1.5 billion in damages for calling a 2012 mass shooting at Sandy...
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Houston (AFP) - A US judge on Friday approved the liquidation of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' personal assets to help repay the nearly $1.5 billion in damages he owes the families of a mass shooting at a Connecticut school, media reported. The ruling by a bankruptcy court in Houston throws into doubt the future of Jones's far-right website InfoWars that has long been notorious for peddling misinformation. The serial provocateur had been ordered to pay nearly $1.5 billion in damages for calling a 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook elementary school in the state of Connecticut –- which left 20 ...
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By Selim SAHEB ETTABA Washington (AFP) - La Cour suprême américaine a porté un coup aux efforts pour un contrôle accru des armes à feu en annulant l'interdiction des "bump stocks", un appareil démultipliant la cadence de tir des fusils semi-automatiques, qui les convertit de facto en mitraillettes. Les appels se sont aussitôt multipliés pour une intervention du Congrès afin de modifier la loi. En toile de fond de cette affaire figure le massacre de Las Vegas (ouest), le pire de l'Histoire américaine moderne, dans lequel 58 personnes avaient été tuées et plus de 500 blessées le 1er octobre 2017...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a bid to restrict a pill widely used to terminate pregnancies, but President Joe Biden warned the decision will not defuse a bitter election fight over abortion. The top court, in a unanimous opinion, said the anti-abortion groups and doctors challenging the medication, mifepristone, lacked the legal standing to bring the case. Abortion rights are one of the key issues in the November election and the Biden administration had urged the court to maintain the availability of the drug, which was approved by the Food and Drug Administrat...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Supreme Court on Thursday rejected an attempt by a California man to trademark the suggestive phrase "Trump too small." The court, in a unanimous opinion, ruled that the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) had correctly turned down the request to trademark the slogan about Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Steve Elster, who wanted to print T-shirts with the phrase, had claimed before the court that the PTO's rejection of his trademark application was a violation of his First Amendment free speech rights. The Supreme Court rebuffed the argument, noting that...
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By Anne-Laure MONDESERT avec Geza MOLNAR à Budapest Bruxelles (Belgique) (AFP) - La justice européenne a condamné jeudi la Hongrie à payer une amende record de 200 millions d'euros, ainsi qu'une astreinte d'un million d'euros par jour, pour non-respect du droit de l'UE en matière d'asile, une décision aussitôt fustigée par Viktor Orban. Budapest a été sanctionné pour ne pas s'être conformé à une décision précédente de la Cour de justice de l'UE en décembre 2020, en persistant à ne pas appliquer "les règles du droit de l'Union en matière, notamment, de procédures relatives à l'octroi de la prot...
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The Republican-controlled US House of Representatives on Wednesday voted in favour of holding US Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress over his handling of the Biden classified documents case, in a move that is expected to be of little consequence. Just one Republican sided with the Democrats against prosecution. Seven Democrats and one Republican abstained. In a statement released after the vote, Garland said Republicans had "turned a serious congressional authority into a partisan weapon." Republicans have been calling on the attorney general to release a tape from a probe...
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Washington (AFP) - The Republican-led US House of Representatives voted Wednesday to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over audio of President Joe Biden's questioning in a criminal investigation. The move -- seen as symbolic, since Garland's Justice Department would ultimately decide whether to press charges -- is the latest escalation in hostilities between allies of Republican Donald Trump and the White House ahead of November's election. Republicans have been demanding the tapes of Biden's October deposition with Special Counsel Robert Hur, w...
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