A jury hits The New York Times with a $9.25 million defamation verdict after its reporting wrongly links an 18-year-old Alabama basketball player to the scene o

A jury hits The New York Times with a $9.25 million defamation verdict after its reporting wrongly links an 18-year-old Alabama basketball player to the scene of a fatal shooting. Kai Spears was a freshman walk-on when the Times identified him as a passenger in a car at the scene of the 2023 shooti…