Sarah Palin’s 8-year-old defamation claims against the New York Times were heard anew Tuesday by a Manhattan jury after they were revived by an appeals court last year.

Lawyers for the one-time Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate and the newspaper told the civil jury that they will show through testimony and exhibits how a 2017 editorial was written and corrected.

Palin has asserted that the newspaper defamed her by falsely linking her campaign rhetoric to a mass shooting.

In his opening statement, attorney Shane Vogt told jurors that the newspaper had engaged in a “sickeningly familiar pattern” by targeting a popular Republican personality.

He told jurors they would learn the effects of the editorial on his client when Palin testifies, likely early next week.

The Times admits it made an error, but its attorney Felicia Ellsworth said in her opening that the newspaper “corrected the record as loudly, clearly and quickly as possible.”

She said the correction was posted within 14 hours, and jurors will have to conclude that the newspaper’s editors knew they were saying something false and said it anyway to reach a verdict against the Times and its former editorial page editor, James Bennet.

Palin sued the Times for unspecified damages in 2017, accusing it of damaging her career as a political commentator with the editorial about gun control published after U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise, a Louisiana Republican, was wounded when a man with a history of anti-GOP activity opened fire on a congressional baseball team practice in Washington.

In the editorial, the Times wrote that before the 2011 mass shooting in Arizona that severely wounded former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords and killed six others, Palin’s political action committee had contributed to an atmosphere of violence by circulating a map of electoral districts that put Giffords and 19 other Democrats under stylized crosshairs as if in the sights of a gun.

In a correction, the Times said the editorial had “incorrectly stated that a link existed between political rhetoric and the 2011 shooting” and had “incorrectly described” the map.

Two U.S. troops killed in crash at Mexican border

Two service members deployed to the U.S. Southern border were killed and a third is in serious condition after a vehicle accident near Santa Teresa, N.M., the military announced late Tuesday.

The region where the accident took place is just over the state line and west of Fort Bliss, a major Army installation in West Texas that has played a critical role in dispatching military deportation flights and served as a touchpoint for thousands of soldiers and pieces of equipment now deployed along the border.

The troops are deployed there in support of President Donald Trump’s executive order to secure the U.S.-Mexico border.

4 journalists convicted over Navalny coverage

A Russian court on Tuesday convicted four journalists of extremism for working for an anti-corruption group founded by the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny and sentenced them to 51/2 years in prison each.

Antonina Favorskaya, Kostantin Gabov, Sergey Karelin and Artyom Kriger were found guilty of involvement with a group that had been labeled as extremist. All four had maintained their innocence, arguing they were being prosecuted for doing their jobs as journalists.

Favorskaya and Kriger worked with SotaVision, an independent Russian news outlet. Gabov is a freelance producer who has worked for multiple organizations, including Reuters. Karelin, a freelance video journalist, has done work for Western media outlets.

Navalny was President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest and most prominent foe and relentlessly campaigned against official corruption in Russia. He died in February 2024 in an Arctic penal colony.

Brazen L.A. jewel heist haul worth millions

Burglars tunneled through a concrete wall to gain access to a downtown Los Angeles jewelry store, making off with at least $10 million worth of watches, pendants, gold chains and other merchandise, police said.

The heist happened around 9:30 p.m. Sunday at Love Jewels on Broadway in the heart of the city’s jewelry district, according to Officer David Cuellar with the L.A. Police Department.

Investigators were reviewing security camera footage that shows the suspects entering the store from a large hole they drilled from the property next door, he said.

“They tunneled through multiple levels of concrete into the target location,” Cuellar said Tuesday.

An unknown number of suspects fled through the same hole and drove off in a late model Chevy truck, he said. The heist wasn’t discovered until store employees arrived for work Monday morning.

Hungary enshrines Pride ban into law

Hungary’s parliament on Monday passed an amendment to the constitution that allows the government to ban public events

by LGBTQ+ communities, a decision that legal scholars and critics call another step toward authoritarianism by the populist government.

The amendment, which required a two-thirds vote, passed along party lines with 140 votes for and 21 against. It was proposed by the ruling Fidesz-KDNP coalition led by populist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

Ahead of the vote — the final step for the amendment — opposition politicians and other protesters attempted to blockade the entrance to a parliament parking garage.

The amendment declares that children’s rights to moral, physical and spiritual development supersede any right other than the right to life, including that to peacefully assemble.

Brazil’s Bolsonaro recovering in hospital

Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro shared footage on social media on Tuesday of his recovery in Brasilia’s DF Star Hospital where he remains in intensive care following bowel surgery.

On Sunday, Bolsonaro underwent a 12-hour surgery to remove intestinal adhesions and reconstruct the abdominal wall. It was the sixth procedure related to long-term effects of being stabbed in the abdomen during a campaign rally in September 2018.

Doctors at the hospital issued a statement Tuesday saying there is no estimated discharge date from intensive care, and that Bolsonaro should not receive visitors.

Game-show host Wink Martindale dies at 91

Wink Martindale, the genial host of such hit network game shows as “Gambit” and “Tic-Tac-Dough,” and who also did one of the first recorded television interviews with a young Elvis Presley, died Tuesday. He was 91.

Martindale died at Eisenhower Health in Rancho Mirage, Calif., according to his publicist, Brian Mayes. Martindale had been battling lymphoma for a year.

“Gambit” debuted on the same day in September 1972 as “The Price is Right” with Bob Barker and “The Joker’s Wild” with Jack Barry.

“Tic-Tac-Dough,” the classic X’s and O’s game, ran on CBS from 1978 to 1985.

Martindale got his nickname from a childhood friend. Born Winston Conrad Martindale on Dec. 4, 1933, in Jackson, Tenn., he loved radio since childhood and at age 6 would read aloud the contents of advertisements in Life magazine.

He began his career as a disc jockey at age 17 at WPLI in his hometown, earning $25 a week.

Martindale was in the studio, although not working on-air that night, when the first Presley record “That’s All Right” was played on WHBQ on July 8, 1954.

Martindale approached fellow DJ Dewey Phillips, who had given Presley an early break by playing his song, to ask him and Presley to do a joint interview on Martindale’s TV show “Top Ten Dance Party” in 1956. By then, Presley had become a major star and agreed to the appearance.

— From news services