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Court slashes Alex Jones damages

A Texas appeals court dramatically reduced the amount conspiracy theorist Alex Jones owes the parents of a 6-year-old boy killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, cutting a nearly $50 million judgment to about $5.6 million.

The ruling Friday upheld $4.1 million in compensatory damages awarded to Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, whose son Jesse Lewis was among the 20 first graders and six educators murdered at the Connecticut school in 2012.

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