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Donald Trump has finally paid E. Jean Caroll.The columnist has received $5,625,000 from a court-controlled trust, according to court documents filed Tuesday.The distribution of funds comes more than three years after Trump was found civilly liable for sexually abusing Carroll in a department store in late 1995. “Three years ago, a unanimous nine-person jury found President Trump liable for sexually assaulting and defaming E. Jean Carroll,” Carroll’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, told CBS News. “Today, we are pleased to report that she has received the damages payment the jury awarded her as a result of that verdict.”After many legal challenges, Judge Lewis Kaplan (who shares no relation to Carroll’s attorney) decided last week that Carroll should receive the money, despite yet another pending appeal from Trump’s team on the Supreme Court docket. The Supreme Court had originally declined to hear Trump’s petition on June 29. That day, Carroll wrote on her Substack: “THIS WIN IS FOR EVERY WOMAN IN THE WORLD!”In a six-page memorandum penned Wednesday, Judge Kaplan noted that Trump “has been stalling this case for years.” “It is time for him to ‘do equity’ and pay the judgement,” Kaplan ordered.The aggregate payment consists of $5 million owed from the original case, along with an additional $625,000 in interest. Yet it’s really just the tip of the iceberg for how much Trump owes the beleaguered writer.After the 2023 civil case, Trump tried and failed to sue Carroll for defamation. Kaplan later ruled that Trump had continued to defame the advice columnist by denying the sexual abuse on the basis that she wasn’t his “type,” and by accusing her of making up the sexual assault allegations against him for the benefit of her book. A jury awarded Carroll $83.3 million in that case, though Carroll has not yet seen any proceeds from that decision.This story has been updated.

Jessica Corbett Common Dreams “It is horrific. ICE needs to be disbanded. People who work for ICE are untrained. And we want them out of Biddeford,” one resident said. “Killing people in cold blood. They need to be out of Maine.” Mainers descended on the city of Biddeford Monday after a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer […]

The man Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shot and killed in Biddeford, Maine, on Monday was not their intended target, Maine Senator Angus King said.King, an independent who caucuses with Democrats, said that Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told him that ICE had a warrant for a different person. This is similar to the case of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston, who was also shot and killed by ICE last week.“This development makes this tragedy even more disturbing and infuriating, and it underscores the reckless and haphazard manner in which immigration enforcement operations are being conducted in Maine and across the country. This has to end,” Maine Governor Janet Mills said on X Monday evening.Just like in that case, ICE is claiming that the man, a 26-year-old from Colombia identified as Joan Sebastian Guerrero by King’s office, tried to “weaponize” his vehicle by running into or ramming agents. Eyewitnesses dispute that account, and say that agents instead shot at the man’s car. Video shows the Kia sedan riddled with bullet holes, and it was still running afterward. When agents finally stopped the car, the man’s body slumped to the ground as soon as they opened the driver’s side door.An eyewitness told the Portland Press Herald that the man was “bleeding profusely from the head” when they pulled him out of the car.“He was talking. He said, ‘I tried to stop,’” the eyewitness said. Agents surrounded the man on the ground in an intersection. Another witness told the newspaper that a young child, reportedly the victim’s daughter and no older than three years old, was at the scene crying in her Bluey pajamas.In a statement posted to X Monday evening, the Department of Homeland Security said that “the vehicle attempted to flee the scene and, fearing for public safety, an officer discharged his weapon.“The driver of the vehicle was struck, and emergency services were immediately contacted. He passed away from his injuries,” the statement read. It made no mention of whether the driver was ICE’s intended target.

The killing of 26-year-old Colombian immigrant Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero by ICE agents in Biddeford, Maine, has put the sparsely populated state back in the national spotlight amid the ongoing fallout from a sexual assault allegation that led insurgent Democratic nominee Graham Platner to suspend his campaign for Senate. The nomination will now be determined by Maine Democratic Party delegates in an accelerated — and more crowded — version of the race’s contentious primary. Platner had been running to unseat longtime Republican incumbent Susan Collins, a supporter of Donald Trump and his administration’s intensifying immigration enforcement policies. Protesters chanting “Vote her out!” marched to Collins’s office after Durán Guerrero’s shooting was made public. Collins was the deciding vote to approve an additional $70 billion in federal funding for ICE last month. “Voters all across Maine, they don’t think there is a way to reform this agency. They think it needs to be abolished,” says Nathan Bernard, a Drop Site News correspondent in Maine.

Just days after the killing of a Mexican immigrant in Texas, immigration agents fatally shot another immigrant, also driving to work, this time in a small town in southern Maine. Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, originally from Colombia, was 25 years old and the father of a 3-year-old daughter. He was reportedly authorized to work in the United States, had been issued a Social Security number and was not the target of any warrant. The Department of Homeland Security has defended the shooting, saying that ICE fired on Durán Guerrero in his car out of fear for “public safety.” Witnesses say they say they saw agents dragging Durán Guerrero from the car after the shooting as he told them that he had been trying to “stop.” For more, we speak to Biddeford, Maine, resident Eisha Khan, the wife of the town’s mayor, Liam LaFountain, about the community’s “shell-shocked” response to Guerrero’s death.

“They were hunting for Latinos.” Outcry is continuing over the ICE shooting death of 52-year-old Mexican immigrant Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in a majority-Latino neighborhood in Houston, Texas, last week. Events pieced together by eyewitness videos and texts sent by the agents involved in Araujo’s killing suggest that agents largely ignored Araujo’s cries for help after he was shot. “They really just strung him along for hours until finally sending him to the hospital,” says Juan Proaño, CEO of LULAC, the largest and oldest Latino civil rights organization in the United States. Meanwhile, the three men carpooling with Araujo to work are still languishing in ICE detention, where they were initially pressured to sign self-deportation orders. “But the fact of the matter is, we need them to stay in the United States. They are witnesses to a crime, and the only witnesses to what actually happened on that day.” Houston police have begun investigating the shooting as a homicide, “but my expectation is that their investigation will similarly be hampered by DHS,” says Proaño. “I don’t believe there will be justice here. There’s no way to bring him back.”