Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett and I'm Ammanovaz. On the news hour tonight

Rudy Giuliani is ordered to pay a hundred and forty eight million dollars to two election

workers for defamation.

Displaced gazan civilians bear the brunt of continuing Israeli airstrikes in areas where they

sought refuge as the US calls for a more

precise offensive and the latest court ruling over abortion access and Texas

highlights the roadblocks and dangers faced during pregnancy in much of

the country. Physicians are placed in a situation where they are unsure

whether what they consider to be their sound reasonable judgment would be

acceptable to our attorney general or to judges in the state of Texas. Welcome to the News Hour. As we come on the air a verdict tonight in one of the cases related to the 2020 election.

Earlier this evening, a federal jury in Washington ordered Rudy Giuliani,

Donald Trump's former campaign attorney to pay $148 million to two former

Georgia election workers for distress caused by lies he spread following the 2020 election.

NPR's Miles Park was in the courtroom today and joins us now.

So Miles, we should say this was a civil trial and the jury was asked only to decide the amount of damages.

Here's what Rudy Giuliani told reporters

on his way out of the courtroom today.

Very little I could say right now.

I have to analyze this.

Obviously, possibly we'll move for a new trial certainly will appeal the

absurdity of the number merely underscores the absurdity of the entire

proceeding so he's calling that number the 148 million dollars of the

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