The actor and his California-based company Please You Can Touch LLC were seeking $9 million in damages.
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Ex-officer pleads guilty to manslaughter in Floyd killing
The deal comes during a week when the country is focused on the deaths of 10 Black people in Buffalo, New York, at the hands of an 18-year-old white man.
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Buffalo shooting leaves neighborhood without a grocery store
The fact that there are no other options shows the racial and economic divide that existed long before the killings.
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Robert C. Krueger, ex-Texas congressman and diplomat, dies at 86
The Democrat served as ambassador to Mexico, Burundi and Botswana at various points in his career.
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Ricardo Alarcón, Castro confidant and top Cuban envoy, dies at 84
He used harsh rhetoric and fine sarcasm to criticize U.S. policies, which he attributed to the influence of the exile community in Miami.
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Researchers returning for assessment of last U.S. slave ship
The Clotilda was scuttled in the Mobile River after illegally dropping off 110 West Africans on the Alabama coast in 1860.
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Morton Mower, co-inventor of implantable defibrillator, dies at 89
The device would correct a patient’s over-rapid or inefficient heartbeat with an electric shock to resume its regular rhythm.
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Marshals offer $10,000 reward for information on escaped inmate, missing officer
Vicky White had turned in her retirement papers the day before, the sheriff says.
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Woman rescued 50 hours after China building collapse
About 20 others remain trapped and another 39 have not been accounted for.
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Kim warns North Korea could preemptively use nuclear weapons
Negotiations between Washington and Pyongyang have been stalled since 2019.