Tag: Sandy Hook

Democrats Introduce Bill to Open DOJ Office to Provide Gun Violence Data to Other Agencies

A Florida congressman and two senators announced legislation to establish an Office of Gun Violence Prevention in the U.S. Department of Justice on March 22. Author of the bill, Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.), says gun violence is the defining issue of his generation. “This issue is robbing our kids of their childhoods,” Frost said at…


LIVE 6:30 PM ET: NTD Evening News (Dec. 14): Lawmakers Want to Ban TikTok in the US; Parents Reflect 10 Years After Sandy Hook Shooting

Republican senators introduced legislation that would ban TikTok from operating in the United States, citing concerns about TikTok’s parent company Bytedance and its affiliation with the Chinese regime. Meanwhile, 15 state attorneys general wrote a letter to Apple and Google on Dec. 14 demanding they increase their age ratings for the TikTok app. Residents of…


NTD Evening News (Dec. 14): Lawmakers Want to Ban TikTok in the US; Parents Reflect 10 Years After Sandy Hook Shooting

Republican senators introduced legislation that would ban TikTok from operating in the United States, citing concerns about TikTok’s parent company Bytedance and its affiliation with the Chinese regime. Meanwhile, 15 state attorneys general wrote a letter to Apple and Google on Dec. 14 demanding they increase their age ratings for the TikTok app. Residents of…


Alex Jones Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy After $1.5 Billion Verdict

InfoWars host Alex Jones filed for bankruptcy on Friday after he was ordered to pay about $1.5 billion for his comments about the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting. A filing from Jones said that he has between $1 million and $10 million in assets and between $1 billion and $10 billion in liabilities. His lawyers made…


Texas Judge Rejects Alex Jones’ Bid to Reduce $50 Million Defamation Verdict

Infowars host Alex Jones’s bid to decrease the millions of dollars in damages he’s required to pay to the family of a 6-year-old killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting was rejected by a Texas judge on Tuesday. In August, a Texas jury determined that Jones and his company, Free Speech Systems LLC—Infowars’ parent company—must pay $4.1 million in compensatory…


Sandy Hook Memorial Opens Nearly 10 Years After 26 Killed

NEWTOWN, Conn.—Bouquets of flowers floated counterclockwise in the waters of the circular memorial pool, passing the engraved names of the 20 first graders and six educators killed a short distance away at Sandy Hook Elementary School nearly 10 years ago. The long-awaited memorial to the victims officially opened to the public on Sunday, drawing visitors…


Alex Jones Seeks New Trial as Sandy Hook Families Seek up to $2.75 Trillion in Punitive Damages

Alex Jones has asked a Connecticut judge to throw out a nearly $1 billion verdict against him and order a new trial in a lawsuit by Sandy Hook victims’ relatives over public claims he made about the mass shooting, while the families have asked the judge to impose the harshest possible punitive damages against the…


Alex Jones Says He Won’t Pay $965 Million Verdict: ‘They’re Gravely Mistaken’

InfoWars founder Alex Jones said that he will appeal the $965 million verdict and indicated it’s unlikely he will pay the full amount. Jones was sued by Sandy Hook victims’ families over public claims he made about the mass shooting.  A jury in a Waterbury, Connecticut, state court found that Jones and the parent company of his…


Alex Jones Must Pay Sandy Hook Families Nearly $1 Billion for Claims About Massacre: Jury

Alex Jones must pay nearly $1 billion to families of victims of a mass shooting in Connecticut, a jury in the state said on Oct. 12. The jury said Jones, the InfoWars host, must pay the money for defamation, slander, and emotional damages. Jurors said the plaintiffs should also be awarded attorney’s fees, which are…


Jury Orders Alex Jones to Pay $42.5 Million in Punitive Damages in Sandy Hook Trial

A Texas jury has determined that Alex Jones, host of the show Infowars, must pay $42.5 million in punitive damages in a defamation lawsuit over his false claims that the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting was a “hoax.” Jones was not in the courtroom to hear the verdict, which came a day after the same…