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Texas judge refuses to dismiss lawsuit against the conspiracy theorist, who promoted falsehoods about the 2012 massacre. A Texas judge ordered conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay $100,000 in legal fees and refused to dismiss a lawsuit that targets the Infowars host for using his show to promote falsehoods that the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax. Jones is being sued for defamation in Austin, Texas, by the parents of a six-year-old who was among the 26 people killed in the Newtown, Connecticut, attack at an elementary school. Similar lawsuits against Jones have been filed by other Sandy Hook families in Connecticut courts. In what is now the most recent court setback for Jones, State District Judge Scott Jenkins of Texas - where Jones operates Infowars - rul...

Critics say African American activist Christopher Daniels has been held since December because FBI policed his views. A US judge has ordered that Christopher Daniels, considered by many to be the first person arrested under the FBI's Black Identity Extremist (BIE) designation, be released from pre-trial detention and dismissed the indictment against him. Daniels, a cofounder of the Huey P Newton Gun Club and Guerilla Mainframe (GMF), two armed organisations based in Dallas who regularly protest against alleged police brutality, "is entitled to be released from pre-trial detention based on the dismissal of the indictment", Judge Sidney Fitzwater wrote in the order issued on May 1. Daniels was arrested in December by the FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms for possessing rifles ...

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Judge orders Alex Jones to pay $100,000 in Sandy Hook case

US judge orders release of ‘first Black Identity Extremist’