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Sean 'Diddy' Combs to stay in jail while appeals court takes up bail fight

Oct. 11, 2024 12:52 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court judge has ruled to keep Sean “Diddy” Combs locked up while he makes a third bid for bail in his sex trafficking case, which is slated to go to trial in May. In a decision filed Friday, Circuit Judge William J. Nardini denied the hip-hop...

Sean 'Diddy' Combs' sex trafficking trial set for May

Oct. 10, 2024 17:49 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — A May 5 trial date was set Thursday in Sean “Diddy” Combs'sex trafficking case, and a prosecutor argued that the jailed hip-hop mogul's lawyers were trying to exclude a “damning piece of evidence” by claiming it was leaked by the government. Assistant U.S....

Lawyers: Sean 'Diddy' Combs seeks trial next April or May on sex trafficking charges

Oct. 09, 2024 14:18 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs wants to go to trial on sex trafficking charges next spring, lawyers for the jailed hip-hop mogul told a judge on Wednesday. His preference for a trial in April or May was mentioned in a joint letter in which his lawyers and prosecutors...

Rights groups ask Filipinos to reject ex-Pres Duterte and detained preacher in upcoming elections

Oct. 09, 2024 05:36 AM EDT

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Human rights activists called on Filipino voters Wednesday to reject former President Rodrigo Duterte and detained televangelist Apollo Quiboloy in next year’s mid-term elections, citing the criminal allegations they’re facing. Duterte registered...

Attempts to cross the English Channel on small boats leave 4 migrants, including a child, dead

Oct. 05, 2024 13:42 PM EDT

PARIS (AP) — French authorities said four migrants, including a 2-year-old child, died Saturday in two separate incidents as they attempted to cross the English Channel toward Britain. France's Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau deplored a “terrible tragedy" on X, saying that...

6 migrants from Egypt, Peru and Honduras die near Guatemalan border after Mexican soldiers open fire

Oct. 03, 2024 17:05 PM EDT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican army troops opened fire on a truck carrying migrants from a half dozen countries, and six migrants from Egypt, Peru and Honduras died in an event that President Claudia Sheinbaum described Thursday as “deplorable.” Three of the dead were from Egypt,...

Sean 'Diddy' Combs appeals for release while he awaits sex trafficking trial

Sep. 30, 2024 17:44 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs is appealing a federal judge's decision to keep him in jail while he awaits trial on sex trafficking charges. The hip-hop mogul's lawyers filed a notice of appeal Monday in the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals after previously saying they...

Sean 'Diddy' Combs faces new sex assault allegations in woman's lawsuit

Sep. 27, 2024 15:50 PM EDT

Sean “Diddy” Combs was hit with new sexual assault allegations Friday as a woman filed a lawsuit in New York saying she was repeatedly raped and drugged at the music mogul's homes and became pregnant after one of the encounters. It's the latest of several similar lawsuits by...

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs joins list of Hollywood stars charged with sex crimes

Sep. 20, 2024 15:29 PM EDT

Since the #MeToo movement took off, a multitude of male celebrities have been accused of sexual misconduct, but only a handful of those in the music and film industries who have actually faced criminal charges. Sean “Diddy” Combs has now joined that short list of prosecuted...

Malaysian police detain CEO and other leaders of Islamic group as probe into child sex abuse widens

Sep. 19, 2024 04:15 AM EDT

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian police on Thursday detained the CEO and other top leaders of an Islamic business group that is under investigation after hundreds of children believed to be sexually abused were rescued this month from welfare homes linked to the group. ...