30 Jan 2024

USA correspondent Danielle Kurtzleben

From Nine To Noon, 9:45 am on 30 January 2024
(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on May 09, 2023 shows
Writer E. Jean Carroll at the Manhattan Federal Court in New York on April 25, 2023 and former US president Donald Trump at the Manhattan Criminal Court in New York on April 4, 2023.. A New York jury ruled May 9, 2023 that Donald Trump was liable for the sexual abuse of an American former magazine columnist in the mid-1990s, multiple US media reported. (Photo by Kena Betancur and Andrew KELLY / various sources / AFP)

Writer E Jean Carroll and former US president Donald Trump. Photo: Kena Betancur and Andrew KELLY / various sources / AFP

Donald Trump has been ordered to pay journalist E. Jean Carroll US$83m in damages, in a defamation suit. The former president has defeated rival candidate Nikki Haley in the New Hampshire Primary. Meanwhile, Democratic House candidates are planning to run heavily on abortion this election year. President Joe Biden and vice-president Kamala Harris are both giving major addresses on reproductive rights.

Danielle Kurtzleben is a political correspondent assigned to NPR's Washington Desk