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Sean “Diddy” Combs has been accused of sexually assaulting a 10-year-old boy in 2005, according to a new lawsuit that joins more than two dozen others accusing the music mogul of sexual misconduct. The civil lawsuit was one of two filed on Monday in a New York state court in Manhattan by Tony Buzbee, a lawyer who…

The first look at “The Bear” star Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen in biopic “Deliver Me From Nowhere” has been revealed as production gets underway. Directed and written by Scott Cooper (“Crazy Heart,” “Hostiles”), “Deliver Me From Nowhere” adapts Warren Zanes’ book of the same name about the making of Springsteen’s 1982 album “Nebraska.” Filming is…

Gisele Bündchen and her boyfriend Joaquim Valente are reportedly expecting their first child. “Gisele and Joaquim are happy for this new chapter in their life and they’re looking forward to creating a peaceful and loving environment for the whole family,” an insider close to the couple told People on Monday. News of the growing family comes exactly…

How does a once bustling and functioning town one day become abandoned? Scattered throughout the United States are towns like these, where residents left, but remnants of their lives remain frozen in time. For the curious traveler, wandering through these deserted settlements offers a glimpse into lost history, and, sometimes, sends chills down their spine. These neglected…

A heavy police response has stifled Halloween celebrations in Shanghai, in what many have viewed as an attempt by authorities to crack down on large public gatherings and freedom of expression. Witnesses have told the BBC they saw police dispersing crowds of costumed revellers on the streets of Shanghai, while photos of apparent arrests have spread on…

JPMorgan Chase has begun suing customers who allegedly stole thousands of dollars from ATMs by taking advantage of a technical glitch that allowed them to withdraw funds before a check bounced. The bank on Monday filed lawsuits in at least three federal courts, taking aim at some of the people who withdrew the highest amounts in the…

Iran has executed a California resident after Iranian agents abducted him during a flight layover in Dubai four years ago, officials said. Jamshid Sharmahd, 69, a German-Iranian dissident who lived in Glendora with his family, was accused by the Islamic Republic of planning a 2008 attack on a mosque that killed 14 people and wounded over 200…

Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani partially dislocated his left shoulder during the seventh inning of Saturday’s Game 2 of the World Series against the New York Yankees when he tried to steal second base. Ohtani’s status for Monday’s Game 3 in New York is unclear. Los Angeles manager Dave Roberts said Ohtani “had a little left shoulder subluxation”…

David Rem, a New York City sanitation worker, also called the vice president “the devil” A friend of Donald Trump’s referred to Vice President Kamala Harris as “the devil” and “the antichrist,” drawing an ecstatic roar from the MAGA-hatted crowd that filled Madison Square Garden on Sunday. Queens resident David Rem, a 60-year-old sanitation worker who was…

Japanese voters are today heading to the polls in a snap election, following a tumultuous few years for the ruling party which saw a “cascade” of scandals, widespread voter apathy and record-low approval ratings. The election was announced by Shigeru Ishiba three days after he was selected as the leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)…

When an Aboriginal Australian senator heckled King Charles moments after he delivered a speech in the nation’s Parliament House, it caught the world’s attention. Lidia Thorpe’s cries of “not my King” and “this is not your land” shone a light on a country that is still grappling with its colonial past. But in the debate that followed…

Diana Xue has always followed the politics of her husband, friends and neighbors in Orlando, Florida, and voted Republican. This Election Day, she’ll break that pattern. When Florida’s GOP-dominated Legislature and Republican governor enacted a law last year banning Chinese nationals without permanent U.S. residency from buying property or land, Xue, who became a U.S. citizen about…

“He was a circumnavigator of formerly unknown musical worlds. And more,” Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann write following Lesh’s death The surviving members of the Grateful Dead paid tribute to founding bassist Phil Lesh in a statement following his death Friday, “Today we lost a brother.” “Phil Lesh was irreplaceable. In one note from the…

The U.S. has said North Korean troops may have been deployed to a key front in Russia’s war against Ukraine, as speculation grows over how the international community may respond to a third party entering combat. The U.S. confirmed on October 23 that Pyongyang was joining Russia’s war against Ukraine, a claim made days earlier by Ukraine…

Mutant sharks. White sand laced with plutonium. Water tainted with strontium. Hub cap-sized hermit crabs eating coconuts containing caesium. A dome ‘coffin’ crammed with radioactive material in plastic bags. The Marshall Islands, a ring of coral reefs in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, looks like the perfect place to throw on a floppy sun hat and…

In arguing to keep Sean Combs in jail until his trial on federal racketeering and sex trafficking charges, prosecutors have portrayed him as a lavishly wealthy, well-connected music mogul who would be well positioned to flee. In court papers, prosecutors cited media reporting that estimated his wealth at close to a billion dollars. But as Mr. Combs’s…

Russian president Vladimir Putin is already in the early stages of gaining more territory by waging war on another country, and swinging elections by paying for votes Vladimir Putin is attempting to seize the country of Moldova before it joins the European Union, leading international observer fear. The Russian president is allegedly trying to get his claws…

Counties across the country have considered placing age restrictions on trick or treating since as early as the 1970s but not everyone is in agreement on what the cut off for Halloween should be Two towns in New Jersey ahead of the Halloween season have set age restrictions on trick or treating in the hopes of making…

Madison Square Garden, where Donald J. Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, are scheduled to hold a fund-raiser and rally on Sunday, has a long history of political events. Some have been peaceful. Some have not. It is where Marilyn Monroe sang “Happy Birthday, Mr. President” to a 45-year-old John F. Kennedy in May 1962, her…

Reuters News has restored to its website an investigation into mercenary hacking after a New Delhi court lifted a takedown order it issued last year. The article, originally published on Nov. 16, 2023, and titled “How an Indian startup hacked the world,” detailed the origins and operations of a New Delhi-based cybersecurity firm called Appin. Reuters found…

From paddleboarding to shabby-chic bars, a Reuters journalist shares her favorite ways to spend downtime in Hungary’s capital. Krisztina Than, deputy bureau chief for Central and Eastern Europe, writes our first City Memo, a new feature that gives you the inside view on what to do in the most interesting places around the world. My journalism career…

For two decades her neighbors have trusted Cindy Elgan to run elections in her small corner of Nevada. Now those same neighbors think she is part of a conspiracy to rob Donald Trump of the presidency. Never mind that in 2020 the Republican got 82 percent of the votes cast in Esmeralda County — whose 700-or-so people…

Tycoons have gotten in trouble for running their own foreign policy before. Elon Musk just vaulted himself into some troubling historical company. A bombshell report from The Wall Street Journal Friday morning revealed that Musk has secretly been in regular contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin for the past two years. Musk might pitch himself to Americans…

The Saturday event in Michigan marked the former first lady’s first appearance on the 2024 campaign trail alongside Vice President Kamala Harris. In her first stop on 2024 campaign trail, former first lady Michelle Obama delivered an urgent message to men, arguing that the election could have life or death consequences for the women they love. “I…

Russian President Vladimir Putin told BRICS leaders on Thursday that the Middle East was on the brink of a full-scale war after a sharp rise in tension between Israel and Iran, though the Kremlin chief also faced calls to end the war in Ukraine. The BRICS summit, attended by more than 20 leaders including Chinese President Xi…

Current climate policies will result in global warming of more than 3 degrees Celsius (5.4 degrees Fahrenheit) by the end of the century, according to a United Nations report on Thursday, more than twice the rise agreed to nearly a decade ago. The annual Emissions Gap report, which takes stock of countries’ promises to tackle climate change…

More than 10,000 people in Haiti have been internally displaced in the last week as armed gangs operating in and around the capital Port-au-Prince ramp up attacks on areas they do not yet control, according U.N. migration agency estimates on Thursday. The agency had said at the start of September that more than 700,000 people were internally…

14-year-old Sewell Setzer III became obsessed with the chatbot that “abused and preyed” on the boy, according to his mother who is suing the company behind the tech. The mother of a 14-year-old boy who killed himself after becoming obsessed with artificial intelligence chatbots is suing the company behind the technology. Megan Garcia, the mother of Sewell…

Pussycat Dolls alum Nicole Scherzinger was allegedly in contact with Liam Payne on the day he died. Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber — who is working with Scherzinger on the Broadway musical “Sunset Blvd.” — addressed her relationship with the late One Direction singer during an interview with Billboard published Thursday. “I suppose something that hasn’t been said,…

Beyoncé will appear with presidential candidate Kamala Harris at a rally in Houston on Friday, according to multiple news reports attributing sources close to the campaign. The rally was already set to feature another Texas music icon, Willie Nelson (who, coincidentally, makes a cameo spoken-word appearance on Beyoncé’s latest album, “Cowboy Carter”). Tina Knowles, Beyoncé’s mother, who…

OpenAI plans to launch Orion, its next frontier model, by December, The Verge has learned. Unlike the release of OpenAI’s last two models, GPT-4o and o1, Orion won’t initially be released widely through ChatGPT. Instead, OpenAI is planning to grant access first to companies it works closely with in order for them to build their own products…

Tesla (TSLA.O), opens new tab CEO Elon Musk on Wednesday said the electric vehicle maker will roll out driverless ride-hailing services to the public in California and Texas next year, a claim likely to face significant regulatory and technical challenges. “We think that we’ll be able to have driverless Teslas doing paid rides next year,” Musk said…

U.S. officials have told their Indian counterparts they want a speedy result and more accountability after their investigation into Indian involvement in a foiled murder plot against a Sikh activist in the United States, according to a U.S. official. An Indian Enquiry Committee visited Washington last week to discuss India’s own investigations after the Justice Department alleged…

The U.S. economy will continue to provide most of the thrust for global growth through the balance of this year and in 2025, led by robust consumer spending that has held up through a wrenching bout of inflation and the high interest rates used to tame it, the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday. In its latest…

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has visited missile bases to examine their readiness to undertake actions of “strategic deterrence”, while calling U.S. nuclear capabilities a growing threat to the country, state media reported on Wednesday. The U.S. strategic nuclear arsenal poses an “ever-increasing threat” to North Korea’s security environment, which demands that Pyongyang maintain a strict…

PM Modi and Vladimir Putin held bilateral talks on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in Kazan. During the meeting, Pm Modi and Putin shared a lighter moment. The Russian President said that India and Russia relations are so close that that he thought PM Modi would not need any translation. Kazan: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on…

Donald Trump has lashed out at former president Barack Obama after he mocked his successor’s dancing at a rally earlier. Watch below as Mr Obama campaigns for Kamala Harris in Michigan. Listen to a Sky News podcast as you scroll. That’s all for our live coverage of the US election for the night, but we’ll be back…

Georgia’s top court declined on Tuesday to hear an expedited appeal by Republicans of a decision blocking a new rule that would have required poll workers to hand-count ballots, a change that voting rights groups warned could have caused chaos. The decision also means that county-level officials in the state, one of seven battlegrounds expected to play…

Hawaii’s capital generates about 650,000 tons of trash a year Honolulu is running out of room to dump the city’s refuse — so officials are considering shipping 650,000 tons of trash a year overseas until they can open a new landfill. The city issued a request for information earlier this month from companies willing to offer a…

Meta said the actions were taken because of “the risk of physical harm to individuals.” Meta has banned a series of accounts that post location updates on private jets belonging to some of the world’s richest and most powerful people, including Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and former President Donald Trump. Those accounts have been deleted from Threads…

With just two weeks remaining until the presidential election, former President Donald Trump has used his most recent appearances on podcast and cable interviews to escalate attacks on fellow Americans whom he calls “the enemy from within.” In one recent interview, Trump said that if “radical left lunatics” disrupt the election, “it should be very easily handled…

Riyadh has not confirmed it will join the exercises with regional rival Tehran, with which it severed diplomatic ties for years until 2023 TEHRAN, Iran — Iran and Saudi Arabia are planning to conduct joint military exercises in the Red Sea, according to an Iranian report not confirmed by Riyadh, in what would be a first for…

Eminem spoke at Kamala Harris’ campaign rally tonight in Detroit and introduced former president Barack Obama to the crowd. Barack Obama broke out into rap after being introduced by Eminem at a Harris rally in Detroit. The rapper spoke briefly to urge his fellow Michigans to vote on November 5, before introducing Obama onto the stage. Eminem,…

Kim Kardashian is reportedly parenting mostly solo these days. The reality star-turned-billionaire mogul is “pretty much a single mom” to daughter North, 11, son Saint, 8, daughter Chicago, 6, and son Psalm, 5, whom she shares with ex-husband Kanye West, according to People. Per the outlet, the controversial rapper-turned-fashion designer is “sadly not around very much.” “Although…

Some Indigenous leaders have criticised an Australian senator’s heckling of King Charles, as she faces a backlash over a violent image of the monarch briefly posted to her social media account. Lidia Thorpe, an Aboriginal woman, made global headlines when she shouted “you are not my king” and “this is not your land” before being escorted away…

Two weeks out from Election Day, the crisis in the Middle East is looming over the race for the White House, with one candidate struggling to find just the right words to navigate its difficult cross-currents and the other making bold pronouncements that the age-old conflict can quickly be set right. Vice President Kamala Harris has been…

Harvey Weinstein has been diagnosed with cancer. Per NBC News, the disgraced movie producer has chronic myeloid leukemia, a form of bone marrow cancer. “Craig Rothfeld, Mr. Weinstein’s authorized legal healthcare representative in New York State, expresses profound dismay at the speculation surrounding Mr. Weinstein’s medical condition,” said Weinstein’s spokesperson Juda Engelmayer in a statement provided to…

When asked what should happen to the Palestinians currently living in the territory, one Israeli woman replied: “We should kill them. Every last one of them.” As the sun beats down on us near Kibbutz Be’eri in Israel, Avi looks out towards the place he really wants to live. It’s only two miles away and it shimmers…

The huge chunk of space rock is estimated to have been up to 200 times larger than the meteorite that killed the dinosaurs and analysis suggests it triggered a tsunami that mixed up the ocean and flushed debris from the land into coastal areas. A meteorite four times the size of Mount Everest may have helped life…

Police said 15 other people had been taken to hospital after the incident on the line near Llanbrynmair in Mid Wales. A man has died and 15 others have been taken to hospital after two trains collided in Wales on Monday evening. The incident happened on the line near the village of Llanbrynmair in Mid Wales at…

An American Civil Liberties Union lawyer will make history in December as the first openly transgender attorney to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court, opposing Tennessee’s Republican-backed law banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors. The ACLU’s Chase Strangio, 41, represents a group of transgender people who pursued a lawsuit challenging the measure that prohibits medical treatments…

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives in Israel on Tuesday, the first stop of a wider Middle East tour aimed at reviving Gaza ceasefire talks and discussing the enclave’s future following the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, but any breakthrough ahead of the looming U.S. election looks elusive. The top U.S. diplomat’s latest trip –…

The presently incarcerated Sean “Diddy” Combs is approaching the first anniversary of Cassie Ventura‘s quickly settled sexual assault and abuse case against him. Now, seven new lawsuits filed in the past few hours accuse the onetime music mogul of rape and more, including an attack on a teenage girl with other celebrities in the room and participating.…

The lawsuit accuses Musk of creating AI-generated promotional materials to promote Tesla’s cybercab robotaxi. A production company for Blade Runner 2049 has sued Tesla, which allegedly fed images from the movie into an artificial intelligence image generator to create unlicensed promotional materials. Alcon Entertainment, in a lawsuit filed Monday in California federal court, accuses Elon Musk and…

Yulia Navalnaya intends to be president of Russia, she tells me. She looks me straight in the eye. No hesitation or wavering. This, like so many of the decisions she made with her husband, the opposition leader Alexei Navalny, is unambiguous. Navalnaya knows she faces arrest if she returns home while President Putin is still in power.…

There are two parallel universes in the Lucy Letby story. One can be witnessed every day in Liverpool at the public inquiry into her case. Here, the matter of Letby’s guilt is settled. The question for the judge is why Letby was able to harm babies for so long. In the other universe, doubts about the evidence…

It’s perhaps no surprise that the décor of TV BRA’s new studio is shocking pink. It’s the favourite colour of two of the station’s reporters, Emily Ann Riedel – who is wearing a pink top when I visit – and Petter Bjørkmo. “I even had pink hair!” Bjørkmo tells me, laughing, before adding that he had to…

A dramatic and unprecedented surge in hoax bomb threats targeting Indian airlines is wreaking havoc on flight schedules, diverting planes and causing widespread disruptions. A video posted on social media last week showed passengers draped in woollens, walking down the icy ladder of an Air India plane into the frigid air of Iqaluit, a remote city in…

Israel has carried out more air strikes in Beirut and southern Lebanon, including on branches of a bank that it says is supporting Hezbollah. Explosions were heard in southern Beirut’s Dahieh district, an area controlled by Hezbollah, as well as the Bekaa Valley and southern Lebanon. It is unclear whether there are any casualties. The Israeli military…

Fans have gathered in London, Glasgow, and other cities around the world, including Argentina where Liam Payne died on Wednesday. Tearful Liam Payne fans comforted one another as they came together to remember him at a vigil in London’s Hyde Park. Hundreds of people gathered at the park’s Peter Pan statue on Sunday. Many were seen crying…

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Sunday canceled his trip to Russia for the BRICS summit, following medical advice to temporarily avoid long-haul flights after a head injury at home that caused a minor brain hemorrhage. In a statement, the presidential office said Lula, 78, will now participate in the BRICS meeting via videoconference. He…

Kenya’s impeached deputy president, Rigathi Gachagua, said on Sunday his security protection team had been withdrawn and that President William Ruto would be responsible if anything happened to him. Gachagua – who has dismissed the charges against him as politically motivated – told journalists his safety was at risk. “It’s the most unfortunate thing that has ever…

With the U.S. presidential election just over two weeks away, Democrat Kamala Harris visited two churches on Sunday while her Republican rival, Donald Trump, visited another kind of American temple: a McDonald’s, where he again accused Harris of lying about having previously worked at the fast-food chain. Both candidates were scrambling for votes in the most competitive…

Though he is provided with a straw mat, Matthew says he prefers to sleep on the concrete floor of his cell in the maximum-security wing of Singapore’s Changi Prison. “It’s more cooling that way,” says the 41-year-old former schoolteacher, who was sentenced to more than seven years in prison and seven strokes of the cane for selling…

Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar’s wife was reportedly spotted fleeing into a Gaza tunnel with a $32,000 Birkin bag hours before the Oct. 7 massacre, Israeli officials claimed. Sinwar, 61, and his wife Abu Zamar — holding what appears to be a super lux Hermes bag — can be seen helping their two young sons through the narrow…

Less than 24 hours after Donald Trump went on a bizarre rant about golf legend Arnold Palmer, the athlete’s oldest daughter dismissed the former president’s vulgar comments about the size of her father’s penis. “I thought it was an unfortunate way to remember my dad,” Peggy Palmer told The Independent. At a Saturday campaign rally at the…

The name Shapurji Saklatvala may not be one that leaps out of the history books to most people. But as with any good tale from the past, the son of a cotton merchant – who was a member of India’s supremely wealthy Tata clan – has quite a story. At every turn, it seems his life was…

Cuba’s efforts to restore power to the island were derailed for a third time late on Saturday, Cuban authorities said shortly before midnight, leaving millions in the dark and raising fresh questions over the viability of the government’s bid to reestablish electrical service. Cuba’s national electrical grid first crashed around midday on Friday after the island’s largest…

Israel struck what it said were Hezbollah arms facilities in southern Beirut on Saturday after the Lebanese armed group fired rockets into northern Israel and a spokesman said a drone was launched at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s holiday home. Netanyahu was not there at the time, and it was not immediately clear if the building was hit.…

Hurricane Oscar formed Saturday off the coast of the Bahamas and brushed past the Turks and Caicos islands to the south during the night. The National Hurricane Center in Miami characterized the storm as “tiny,” but hurricane warnings were in place for Turks and Caicos, the southeastern Bahamas and the north coast of Cuba in Holguin and…

The United States is investigating an unauthorized release of classified documents that assess Israel’s plans to attack Iran, three U.S. officials told The Associated Press. A fourth U.S. official said the documents appear to be legitimate. The documents are attributed to the U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency, and note that Israel was still moving…

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner were spotted together again at an event also attended by his estranged wife, Jennifer Lopez. They were photographed arriving for the nighttime event in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles on Friday. Exes Affleck and Garner, both 52, attended with their 15-year-old child, Seraphina. They were all dressed casually for the outing,…

A federal judge has blocked Florida officials from threatening television stations with prosecution for running advertisements supporting a pro-abortion rights measure in next month’s election. Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker in Tallahassee ruled on Thursday that the threats clearly violated the right to free speech under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. “To keep it simple for…

The political action committee funded by billionaire Elon Musk to help re-elect former U.S. President Donald Trump is struggling in some swing states to meet doorknocking goals and is investigating claims that some canvassers lied about the number of voters they have contacted, according to people involved in the group’s efforts. The difficulties, in pivotal battleground states…

The U.S. military trained him in explosives and battlefield tactics. Now the Iraq War veteran and enlisted National Guard member was calling for taking up arms against police and government officials in his own country. Standing in the North Carolina woods, Chris Arthur warned about a coming civil war. Videos he posted publicly on YouTube bore titles…

Nine monkeys who died in Hong Kong’s oldest zoo in two days this week had been infected with an endemic disease, possibly after some digging work near their cages, officials said on Friday. Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism Kevin Yeung said in a press briefing that the animals in the Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens…

Hideko Hakamada, 91, spent much of her life working to free her brother from nearly a half-century on death row. Now that he has been acquitted she feels that the siblings are beginning a new chapter of their lives. She backed her brother, Iwao Hakamada, the world’s longest-serving death row inmate, through decades of frustrating, at times…

The killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, a mastermind of the attack that ignited the war in the Gaza Strip, marked a major triumph for Israel. But Israeli leaders are also seeking to lock in strategic gains that go beyond military victories – to reshape the regional landscape in Israel’s favour and shield its borders from any…

The Palestinian militant group Hamas will likely replace Yahya Sinwar with a new political leader based outside Gaza while his brother – Mohammad Sinwar – is expected to assume a bigger role directing the war against Israel in the territory, experts say. In its leadership deliberations, Hamas must consider not only the preferences of its main backer…

The first named storm of the season is set to batter the UK with winds of up to 80mph in some areas, with power loss, damage to buildings and delays to transport services likely. Danger to life is “likely” as the first named storm of the season is set to hit the UK and Northern Ireland this…

Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump paced up and down the stage at a campaign event in Detroit, Michigan, after his mic stopped working. Donald Trump’s mic cut failed at a campaign event in Detroit. Pic: APDonald Trump’s microphone cut out for almost 20 minutes during a campaign event in Detroit, Michigan, leaving the Republican presidential candidate visibly…

They’re ready for it. The Kelce family — including Donna, Jason and his wife Kylie supported Travis Kelce’s superstar girlfriend, Taylor Swift, as she kicked off the final leg of the Eras Tour in Miami Friday night. Fans spotted the retired NFL player and Kylie, along with two of their children Wyatt, 4, and Elliotte, 3, entering…

Liam Payne was under the influence of potent hallucinogenic drugs that cause psychotic attacks and hallucinations when he died in Argentina on Wednesday, TMZ reports. Buenos Aires police officers told the outlet Friday that the former One Direction star was high on “Cristal,” which is a dangerous substance that “causes users to experience extreme highs and extreme…