The legal battle is heating up between Navy veteran Zachary Young and Associated Press, with the AP calling Young's suit meritless in court filings.

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.

U.S. Navy veteran Zachary Young alleges that CNN smeared his security consulting company by implying it illegally profited when helping people flee Afghanistan in 2021.

CNN and Zachary Young, who is suing the network for defamation, were unable to reach a financial settlement as mediation talks between the parties fell apart last week.

The Navy veteran Zachary Young who's suing CNN for defamation said on the witness stand that CNN ignored facts he told the.

In June, Florida judges ruled Zachary Young and his company Nemex Enterprises Inc. offered enough evidence to move forward in a defamation suit against CNN.

In a Florida courtroom last month, a plaintiff’s attorney asked jurors to “send a message” by holding CNN accountable for defaming security contractor Zachary Young. The jury responded ...

Security contractor Zachary Young alleges that CNN defamed him in a November 2021 report, shown above, about Afghans' fears of exorbitant charges from people offering to get them out of the ...

Lawyers for Navy veteran Zachary Young claimed that CNN deleted 'troves of data' relevant to the case.

The plaintiff, U.S. Navy veteran Zachary Young, alleged that CNN smeared him by implying he illegally profited when helping people flee Afghanistan on the "black market" during the Biden ...

Zachary Young, the U.S. Navy veteran who was awarded $5 million after a jury found that CNN had defamed him, is now suing the Associated Press in Florida’s 14th Judicial Court. The 15-page ...