The U.S. West Texas Intermediate futures price -- a key measure of U.S. oil prices -- surged more than 7% on Friday. Brent crude future prices, another top measure of oil prices, also climbed more than 7%.  ????? ???????

Oil prices surged and stocks slumped on Friday morning in the immediate hours after Israel began an attack on Iran targeting nuclear sites and senior military officers. ????????????  

In a statement responding to Friday's decision, Carroll's attorney, Roberta Kaplan, said, "E. Jean Carroll is very pleased with today’s decision. Although President Trump continues to try every possible maneuver to challenge the findings of two separate juries, those efforts have failed. He remains liable for sexual assault and defamation.” ??

In dissent, Judge Steven Menashi, a Trump appointee, said the district court should have allowed the defense to present evidence that Trump believed Carroll's lawsuit "had been concocted by his political opposition -- and therefore that he was not speaking with actual malice" when he allegedly defamed her. ????? ???????  

A jury in Manhattan federal court found in 2023 that Trump attacked Carroll in the dressing room of a Bergdorf Goodman department store in the 1990s and later defamed her when he denied her claim. ????????????