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NEW YORK —  A New York judge ruled Friday against Donald Trump, imposing a $364 million penalty over what the judge ruled was a yearslong scheme to dupe banks and others with financial statements that inflated the former president’s wealth.Trump also was barred from serving as an officer or director of any New York corporation for three years. Judge Arthur Engoron issued his decision after a 2½-month trial that saw the Republican presidential front-runner bristling under oath that he was the victim of a rigged legal…

Donald Trump has been ordered to pay $355 million in damages and barred the former president “from serving as an officer or director of any New York corporation or other legal entity in New York for a period of three years.” Judge Arthur Engoron handed the ruling down on Friday in the wake of Trump and the Trump Organization being found liable for financial fraud. Trump is expected to appeal the rulings. The scathing decision concludes a contentious, high-profile lawsuit that New York Attorney General Letitia…

A Canadian tribunal has ruled that Air Canada must pay damages to one of its passengers for misleading advice given by its customer service chatbot, which resulted in the passenger paying nearly double for their plane tickets.No Google AI Search, I Don’t Need to Learn About the “Benefits of Slavery” The case centered on the experience of Jake Moffatt, who flew round-trip from Vancouver to Toronto after his grandmother died in 2022. At the time, Moffatt visited Air Canada’s website to book a flight using the company’s…

Tushar Mehta / Digital Trends The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 is a technological marvel. Not content with creating some of the world’s most powerful smartphones, Samsung decided they had to bend in the middle as well, and the original Z Fold sprang from that seemingly insane decision. Several years later, the culmination of that process is the Galaxy Z Fold 5 — a folding phone with an enormous inner display, flagship hardware, and the most advanced hinge technology we’ve ever seen. I’ve just bought one, and I should be…

A jury on Thursday awarded $1 million US to climate scientist Michael Mann, who sued a pair of conservative writers 12 years ago after they compared his depictions of global warming to a convicted child molester.Mann, a professor of climate science at the University of Pennsylvania, rose to fame for a graph first published in 1998 in the journal Nature that was dubbed the "hockey stick" for its dramatic illustration of a warming planet.The work brought Mann wide exposure but also many skeptics, including the two writers…

Consumer court cases and their judgments in favor of the customer have become common news lately. The latest report now comes from Kerala’s Malappuram district where the consumer court has asked India’s largest car manufacturer, Maruti Suzuki, to refund the price of a car to the customer as its airbags didn’t deploy at the time of an accident. Maruti asked to refund money As per the reports, the accident happened three years ago and the customer Mohammed Musliar is a native of Indianoor region in Malappuram. As per the…

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…

Everything’s not what it seems: The Russos are back! Disney Channel has ordered a pilot for a Wizards of Waverly Place sequel, with both Selena Gomez and David Henrie reprising their roles as Justin and Alex Russo. “The Russos are excited to become a part of your family, once again, but we’ve grown,” Henrie wrote on Instagram. “2024, the year magic comes back!” Per Variety, Henrie will executive produce the potential series, which would pick up after a “mysterious incident at WizTech” where Justin Russo…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeJeanne du Barry director Maïwenn has been hit with a €400 (£344) fine for spitting on a French journalist last February ahead of the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. Last year, the French filmmaker, 47, who directed the Johnny Depp-starring biographical drama about the life of Louis XV and his mistress, Jeanne, made headlines after Médiapart magazine editor-in-chief Edwy Plenel filed a…

In an effort to reduce the spread of marine invasive species, Canada ordered lobster pounds to euthanize all egg-bearing female lobsters. But two years after the measure was introduced, some in the business are still unaware of the requirement.The Department of Fisheries and Oceans has banned the long-held practice of releasing egg-bearing or "berried" female lobsters when they are discovered in holding facilities.Instead pounds "must immediately euthanize the lobster," according to licence conditions quietly introduced…