Judge reopens portion of Kentucky teen’s defamation suit

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A federal judge in Kentucky is reopening a portion of a lawsuit that accused the Washington Post of defamatory statements in its coverage of a Kentucky teen’s encounter with a Native American man at the Lincoln Memorial.
U.S. District Judge William Bertlesman in July dismissed the lawsuit brought by Nicholas Sandmann that sought $250 million from the newspaper. Sandmann accused the Post of “targeting and bullying” in its articles about the Jan. 18 e