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A California civil jury has found Bill Cosby liable for sexually assaulting a woman in 1972.

Following a nearly two-week trial in Santa Monica, Steve Futterman reports a jury has ordered Cosby to pay more than $19 million in damages.

The Defense Department is revising its controversial media policy.

Monday's announcement came after a judge sided with the New York Times.

In a lawsuit over the limits the Pentagon imposed on reporters, a Pentagon spokesman says the new media policies are effective immediately, but that the Defense Department will appeal the ruling.

Asian financial markets mostly rebounding.

The benchmarks in Japan, Australia, South Korea and China rising in Tuesday trading.

However, oil prices also rebounding.

They had eased after President Trump said he's been talking with Iran about a potential end to the war.

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Israel has launched a new wave of attacks on Iran.

The Israeli military says the strikes have been named at targets in the Iranian capital.

And they come a day after President Trump said he told Israel not to repeat strikes on Iranian gas infrastructure.

Trump speaking at the White House Thursday alongside the visiting Japanese prime minister on social media.

Trump said he was not informed in advance of Israel's attack on Iran's South Pars gas field.

And Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel acted alone.

Tit-for-tat strikes on energy facilities have led to sharply escalating prices.

And as the Iran war escalates, the Trump administration plans to release 150 million barrels of oil from the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

From Houston Public Media, Natalie Weber reports that experts say the release will have little effect on the cost of the pump.