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Mary Jean Chan, Caleb Azumah Nelson and AK Blakemore are among the shortlistees for this year’s Swansea University Dylan Thomas prize.The award, worth £20,000, celebrates poetry, novels, short stories and drama by writers aged 39 and under in honour of the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, who died at that age.Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Catherine Lacey and Joshua Jones also made the shortlist. Jones was the only debut author selected, with his short story collection Local Fires, inspired by real events and people in his home town of…

The former president owes a lot of money in Manhattan Civil Court, and he has to prove he can pay it in order to appeal the rulings against him Donald Trump owes a lot of money in New York — including the state itself — after being found liable in multiple civil trials in Manhattan Court. He really, really, really, doesn’t want to pay up. On Friday, the former president posted a $91.6 million bond in order to appeal the ruling against him in a civil defamation case brought against him by author E.…

After what has felt like years of waiting since Marvel first confirmed it would be returning to one of its all time classics—the ‘90s X-Men animated cartoon—we finally have our first look at X-Men ‘97 in action, and... hmm. Hmm.Who Should Be The New Wolverine? io9 PicksDon’t get me wrong, there is a lot here to buzz the minds of anyone who grew up with X-Men The Animated Series’ take on Marvel’s mutants. The opening retro lookback at the final episode of the series, which saw Charles Xavier die and leave the legacy of…

You must be aware of Bobbie Jean Carter’s death, one of the siblings of popular singer Nick Carter. Bobbie died on 23rd December 2023 at the age of 41. There wasn’t any specific reason for her death revealed at that time but now the cause of death has been revealed. According to a medical report, she died because of intoxication. Bobbie is quite a well-known face, as the audience saw her on the TV show “House of Carters”. The show was about the Carter siblings who live together with Nick Carter, a famous singer from…

E. Jean Carroll says looking at Donald Trump during his defamation trial last week was “like looking at nothing” or “an emperor without clothes.” The author and journalist who sued the former reality star and U.S. president after he claimed that she fabricated a sexual assault allegation against him to sell a book — an allegation a Manhattan federal jury found Trump liable for last year — spoke to CNN This Morning‘s Poppy Harlow and Phil Mattingly Monday. With the duo, Carroll discussed being…

After a miserable NFL parody cold open and a cheeky monologue featuring host Dakota Johnson (dressed to the nines in a black jumpsuit reminiscent of Phoebe Waller-Bridge in Fleabag), musical guest Justin Timberlake, and his pal Jimmy Fallon, Saturday Night Live Weekend Update co-anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che took over. And you just knew they were going to address columnist E. Jean Carroll’s defamation trial win over Donald Trump. Yes, in June of 2019, Carroll penned a column in The Cut alleging that…

A jury has awarded a huge $83.3 million in additional damages to advice columnist E. Jean Carroll, who says former President Donald Trump damaged her reputation by calling her a liar after she accused him of sexual assault. The verdict was delivered Friday by a seven-man, two-woman jury in a trial regularly attended by Trump, who abruptly left the courtroom during closing arguments by Carroll’s lawyer, only to later return. Carroll smiled as the verdict was read. By then, Trump had left the…

NEW YORK —  A jury has awarded an additional $83.3 million to former advice columnist E. Jean Carroll, who says former President Trump damaged her reputation by calling her a liar after she accused him of sexual assault.Friday’s verdict was the second time in nine months that a jury addressed Carroll’s claim that Trump assaulted her in a New York City department store in 1996. Another jury last May found Trump liable for sexual abuse and ordered him to pay $5 million. This defamation trial was over things Trump said…

A New York jury ruled on Friday that Donald Trump must pay E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million in total damages for repeatedly defaming her after she accused him of sexual assault. Trump, the frontrunner to win the Republican nomination for president, must pay the author $7.3 million in compensatory damages, $11 million in reputation repair damages, and $65 million in putative damages. Trump was ordered to pay Carroll $5 million in a separate defamation ruling last May. Carroll has now twice successfully sued Trump…

Donald Trump stormed out of a Manhattan courtroom on Friday as lawyers for E. Jean Carroll delivered their closing arguments in the author’s second civil defamation case against the former president.  As Carroll’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, addressed the jury, Trump stood up from his place at the defense table and left the room. According to Politico, the former president’s outburst came shortly after Kaplan stated Trump hadn’t even waited 24 hours before disrespecting the verdict in Carroll’s first case against…