A Florida jury found CNN liable on Friday in a high-stakes defamation trial against U.S. Navy veteran Zachary Young, who alleged that the network maligned him as an “illegal profiteer” with a ...

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The jury awarded Zachary Young $5 million in compensatory damages and found that the security contractor was also owed punitive damages. The network eventually settled with Young on the punitive ...

Harry Enten said the president is "trying to get away from" a story that doesn't appear to have lost the public's interest.

A lex Marquardt, CNN's chief national security correspondent, announced his departure four months after he cost the network at least $5 million for a slanderous story on Zachary Young, a Navy veteran.

A CNN correspondent at the center of a nefarious report that cost the network at least $5 million for defaming a US Navy veteran is leaving the struggling network.