An appeals court in New York has thrown out a civil fraud penalty that would have cost United States President Donald Trump and his business associates nearly half a billion dollars, calling the fine “excessive”. On Thursday, a five-judge panel in New York’s Appellate Division rendered its decision after weighing Trump’s appeal for nearly 11 months. In its ruling, the panel cited the Eighth Amendment of the US...

First-year results show AI tool scanned 3.1m digital posts in drive to protect to tennis players from harmful content. Top men’s tennis players were shielded from more than 162,000 social media comments containing “severe” abuse during the first year of the artificial intelligence-powered ATP Safe Sport initiative, the sport’s governing body has announced. The abusive messages, which targeted 245 players, were found and then hidden in real time...