The wife of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has taken the Daily Mail to federal court. Her new lawsuit says the paper's story that her husband was trying to get her on the DHS payroll was false, that the Mail was told so before it ran, and that another national outlet heard the same denial and passed. The Digital Free Press read the complaint. Here is what it alleges.

A Boston jury just handed former MIT scientist David Sabatini $6 million, finding that a colleague who accused him of sexual misconduct defamed him and cost him his livelihood. Her lawyers say they will appeal. Here is how the case started, what each side argued, and why the verdict matters for speech and due process.