The Daily Populous

Saturday February 10th, 2024 morning edition

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Judge Lewis Kaplan entered the judgment on Thursday, February 8, which gives Trump 30 days to post a bond pending post-trial motions to have the award lowered.

A jury decided in January that Trump should pay Carroll $83.3 million for claiming she was lying when she said Trump sexually assaulted her in the mid-1990s.

Donald Trump speaks during a Caucus Night watch party in Las Vegas, Nevada, on February 8, 2024.

Trump now has 30 days to post a bond while seeking to reduce the $83.3 million a jury awarded E. Jean Carroll in her defamation case against him.

Alternatively, Trump could secure a bond and only have to post a small percentage of the award upfront.

Throughout the case, even after the May ruling, Trump has been adamant that he is innocent of the allegations brought against him by Carroll.

"Trump also has 28 days after the entry of judgment to move for a new trial or to "alter or amend" the judgment. »

Canadians won't be fooled by Putin propaganda on Ukraine, Trudeau says

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Canadians are too smart to fall for Russian propaganda about the war in Ukraine, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday.

Trudeau told reporters on Friday Putin will use "whatever propaganda he can" to try and justify the ongoing invasion of Ukraine.

"But I can tell you, Canadians will not be fooled," he said at a news conference in King City, Ont. »

AI cannot be used to deny health care coverage, feds clarify to insurers

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The lawsuits, which seek class-action status, center on the same AI tool, called nH Predict, used by both insurers and developed by NaviHealth, a UnitedHealth subsidiary.

In the lawsuits, patients claimed that when coverage of their physician-recommended care was unexpectedly wrongfully denied, insurers didn't give them full explanations.

The CMS warned insurers to ensure any AI tool or algorithm they use "is not perpetuating or exacerbating existing bias, or introducing new biases.". »

Crucial ocean current system could be on course to collapse with catastrophic impacts on global weather

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For decades, scientists have been sounding the alarm on the circulation’s stability as climate change warms the ocean and melts ice, disrupting the balance of heat and salt that determines the currents’ strength.

“It confirms that the AMOC has a tipping point beyond which it breaks down if the Northern Atlantic Ocean is diluted with freshwater,” he told CNN.

“(It) adds significantly to the rising concern about an AMOC collapse in the not too distant future,” he said. »