Trump Admin Pays Page $1.25M in Surveillance Case

0:00It's April 23rd. This is Entertainment and Celebrity News, today pop culture powered by AI. The Trump administration just agreed to pay $1,250,000 to Carter Page, a former adviser on the 2016 campaign. This settles his long fight over secret surveillance tied to the Russia election probe. Page claimed the FBI and Justice Department spied on him illegally, pointing to flaws in their request to the secret spy court. Lower courts throughout his suit, so he took it all the way to the Supreme Court. Folks are seeing this as a big win against government overreach, especially after years of him calling out political targeting of Americans. Earlier this week, the solicitor general dropped the news in the Supreme Court filing. A Justice Department rep backed it up, stressing their push to end abuses by bad actors inside the system. This payout wraps up a key chapter in the surveillance wars, showing accountability might finally be hitting home.