‘No basis’: Judge dismisses Trump’s $15 billion NYT lawsuit; gives 28 days to refile

US President Donald Trump (Leon Neal, Pool via AP) A federal judge on Friday threw out US President Donald Trump’s $15 billion defamation lawsuit against The New York Times, ruling that the complaint was not “legally sufficient.” US district judge Steven Merryday of Florida said the filing “failed to provide a proper basis” for the […]

‘About time!’ Donald Trump ramps up attacks on NYT after $15bn lawsuit; accuses left-wing media of trying to ‘destroy US’

US president Donald Trump has launched a blistering new attack on The New York Times, filing a $15 billion lawsuit against the newspaper and accusing it of being part of a decades-long smear campaign intended to damage him politically. Trump, claimed the suit had sparked a wave of public support, declaring on Truth Social: “I […]

Elon Musk’s ‘black eye’ raises concern before he blames little X for it and trashes NYT drug addiction report

Elon Musk sported a black eye at the Oval Office press meet and blamed his son X for it. Elon Musk’s drug addiction dominated Friday’s news cycle as New York Times published a threadbare revelation of how much Elon Musk is overdosing on Ketamine, a drug that he earlier acknowledged to have used under prescription. […]

‘This was a terrorist attack’: US House panel slams NYT for ‘whitewashing’ Pahalgam terror attack on Hindus

The US house foreign affairs committee on Wednesday took sharp exception to a New York Times headline describing the April 22 Pahalgam terrorist attack, where 28 tourists were killed, as the work of “militants.” The Committee’s Republican majority posted a sharply worded correction on social media platform X, accusing the outlet of downplaying the severity […]

Bangladesh says NYT report claiming rise in Islamist extremism ‘misleading’

Bangladesh has strongly refuted a New York Times report claiming a rise in Islamist extremism. Chief adviser Muhammad Yunus’s press secretary criticized the report for oversimplifying the country’s political and social dynamics, emphasizing the significant progress made over the past year while recognizing the presence of hardliners. DHAKA: Bangladesh has dismissed as “misleading” an NYT […]