Full federal appeals court won’t rehear $83 million defamation verdict against Trump

A divided federal appeals court in Manhattan says it will not grant a rare meeting of all of its judges to hear an appeal of an $83 million verdict against President Donald Trump for defaming a magazine columnist. Wednesday's decision by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals comes several months after Trump asked the Supreme Court to hear an appeal of another jury's decision to grant $5 million the writer, E. Jean Carroll, after concluding that he had sexually abused her and later defamed her. T...