Newspaper headlines: Trump ordered to pay sex abuse accuser $5m

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E Jean Carroll, the woman who accused Donald Trump, left court smiling on Tuesday

Donald Trump's legal problems dominate the front pages on Wednesday.

"Is this the end of Trump's new bid to be president?" asks the Daily Mail, which leads on the verdict that he sexually abused a magazine columnist in the 1990s. The paper says the outcome of the civil case "deals a potentially devastating blow" to his chances of retaking the White House next year.

The Times agrees the verdict "is likely to hamper his chances of winning crucial independent female voters". But a strategist tells the paper there is "nothing he can do" to put off the 25-30% of Republicans who vote for their party nominee in the primaries. The Mirror describes the former president as a "disgraced sex attacker" and says people in the court gallery were "crying tears of joy" when the verdict was read out.

The Daily Telegraph says a new apprenticeship scheme is being launched to allow school leavers to work as doctors without a traditional medical degree. They would get training straight after their A-Levels. The paper says the scheme will begin this autumn in a bid to tackle NHS staff shortages. The chief executive of NHS England describes it as a "radical new approach".

The i says the Archbishop of Canterbury will condemn the government's Illegal Migration Bill, and what the paper calls "increasingly incendiary language" from ministers around the issue, in the House of Lords later today. It claims some Tory MPs think the legislation may be "dismembered" in the upper chamber. Writing in The Times, Home Secretary Suella Braverman and Justice Secretary Alex Chalk warn peers not to defy the "will of the British people" by blocking the plans.

The Times reports that the UK will blacklist Russia's mercenary fighters, the Wagner Group, within weeks. The paper says it will be formally proscribed as a terrorist organisation, like the so-called Islamic State group and al-Qaeda, meaning it will be a criminal offence to be a member of Wagner. It says the move will also trigger financial sanctions against the group.

The Guardian reveals details of how a baby was created with DNA from three people, a first in the UK. It says the law was changed in 2015 to permit the procedure and two years later the Newcastle Fertility Centre became the first and only national clinic licenced to perform it. A professor of reproductive genetics who took part in the research, Dagan Wells, warns that the number of reported cases is far too small to draw any definitive conclusions about safety or efficacy, and long-term follow-up of the children born is essential.

A columnist in the Daily Express, Tom Hunt, says the police "did a very good job" at the Coronation in "extremely difficult" circumstances. He claims peaceful protest has recently stretched into "deliberately disruptive acts", and argues the new Public Order Act is needed to stop people being inconvenienced. The Guardian, in its editorial, says "the government criticises repressive laws in dictatorships but is emulating them at home". It claims "officers are being cowed into serving ministerial interests" and argues that freedom of expression and assembly should be protected "however inconvenient it might seem".