Navy veteran escalates defamation battle against Associated Press after local outlets pull article

FIRST ON FOX – U.S. Navy Veteran Zachary Young, who is seeking nearly $500 million in a defamation lawsuit against the Associated Press, continues to push for punitive damages after the outlet wrote he “helped smuggle people out of Afghanistan.” Young, who successfully sued CNN for defamation earlier this year, prevailed after alleging that CNN smeared him by implying…

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Literary journals might have a stuffy reputation. But since its conception in 1998 by author Dave Eggers, McSweeney’s Quarterly has been anything but, opting instead to be an endlessly mutating delivery system for writing and art. It has been a hardcover book, a paperback, a newspaper. Once it was a bundle of mail; another time,…

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