Jury awards $45.2 million in punitive damages in Alex Jones Sandy Hook trial

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U.S. conspiracy theorist Alex Jones must pay the parents of a 6-year-old boy killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre $45.2 million in punitive damages — on top of $4.1 million in compensatory damages already awarded — for falsely claiming the shooting was a hoax, a Texas jury decided on Friday. Neil Heslin and Scarlett

What do most mass shooters have in common? They bought their guns legally.

A women leaves flowers at a makeshift memorial on Monday to the victims of Saturday's mass shooting at Tops supermarket in Buffalo in the state of New York. | GABRIELA BHASKAR / THE NEW YORK TIMES

WASHINGTON – Of all the wrenching similarities between the massacres at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, the Walmart in El Paso, Texas, and the Tops supermarket in Buffalo, New York, one stands out most starkly: Each gun used was purchased legally. From 1966 to 2019,

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