CNN's Alex Marquardt was reluctant to admit he made money as a journalist while covering war zones after he took aim at Zachary Young's Afghanistan evacuation fees.

Freedman also argued that CNN's internal mentions of "extortion" and "fraud" from the report's inception make it clear the network knew from the beginning that they were investigating Young for ...

The plaintiff in CNN’s ongoing defamation trial accused CNN correspondent Alex Marquardt of staging a phone call to him for "theater," but the reporter insists the call was made and simply ...

Lawyers delivered powerful closing arguments on Thursday as U.S. Navy veteran Zachary Young’s high-profile defamation trial against CNN heads to the jury. Young alleges CNN smeared him in a ...

Freedman argued that CNN has since handed over thousands of pages of documents but has failed to turn over cash flow records. "CNN’s response has been, ‘Well we don’t have them,’" Freedman ...

Freedman has suggested Marquardt didn’t actually call Young, but the CNN reporter insists he did. Marquardt dismissed the "theater" line as a reference to an old "Saturday Night Live" sketch.

Young's lead counsel Vel Freedman informed Judge Henry on Wednesday that his client had just learned he lost his security clearance, which had been previously renewed right after the CNN report aired.

CNN moved last week to keep the fact that correspondent Alex Marquardt received a raise and promotion out of an upcoming defamation trial against the network, but U.S. Navy veteran Zachary Young ...

The plaintiff in the defamation lawsuit trial against CNN, U.S. Navy veteran Zachary Young, testified that he helped several women flee Afghanistan but the network ignored that fact.

CNN settled with a security consultant after a Florida jury found the network had defamed him in a story that suggested he was charging "exorbitant prices" to evacuate people from Afghanistan in 2021.