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Sean 'Diddy' Combs jailed by judge after sex trafficking indictment 09/17/2024 07:16pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs headed to jail Tuesday to await trial in a federal sex trafficking case that accuses him of presiding over a sordid empire of sexual crimes protected by blackmail and shocking acts of violence. The music mogul is charged with racketeering conspiracy and sex t The Latest: Music mogul Sean 'Diddy' Combs pleads not guilty to sex trafficking charges 09/17/2024 06:37pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs pleaded not guilty Tuesday to federal sex trafficking and racketeering charges. An indictment says the music mogul “engaged in a persistent and pervasive pattern of abuse toward women and other individuals.” Later Tuesday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Robyn Tarn Editorial Roundup: United States 09/17/2024 06:08pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Sept. 14 The Washington Post on the effects of legalized gambling The new National Football League season will see plenty of records set on the field — and it’s expected to hit new heights off the field, too: specifically, the The US and UN condemn the killing of an environmentalist in Honduras 09/17/2024 04:55pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. State Department and other global leaders on Tuesday denounced the slaying of another environmental leader in rural Honduras, adding to mounting concern of ongoing violence against environmentalists in Latin America. Honduran President Xiomara Castro confirmed the killi Husband charged in double homicide inside Fairfax Co. home in alleged plot with au pair 09/17/2024 12:40pm • Inside a Fairfax County, Virginia, house, a woman was stabbed to death and a man fatally shot in February 2023 in a complicated double homicide involving an alleged affair and a fetish website. Now, her husband is being charged with murder in both of their killings, nearly a year after the couple's UN experts decry worsening repression in Venezuela after contested election 09/17/2024 10:25am • GENEVA (AP) — Independent U.N. human rights experts said in a new report Tuesday that their findings show Venezuela's government has intensified the use of “harshest and most violent" tools of repression following the disputed July presidential election. The official results of the July 28 vote 'I am a rapist, like the others in this room,' Frenchman tells court 09/17/2024 05:50am • ▶ Watch Video: Man admits drugging, raping wife at trial in France Avignon, France — "I am a rapist," Dominique Pelicot, the 71-year-old Frenchman accused of drugging his wife so he and scores of strangers could assault her, told a court Tuesday, returning to the dock after being ill The Latest: Trump addresses apparent assassination attempt on X 09/16/2024 08:48pm • The FBI said former President Donald Trump was the target of “what appears to be an attempted assassination ” at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday, just nine weeks after the Republican presidential nominee survived another attempt on his life. U.S. Secret Service agents opened Brazilian firefighters battle national park wildfire that is enveloping Brasilia in smoke 09/16/2024 06:43pm • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Firefighters on Monday battled flames spreading through a national park in Brazil that is enveloping Brasilia in smoke. It's the latest wildfire in the country, which is experiencing an historic drought. More than 490 firefighters were trying to extinguish blazes that have al Wisconsin's voter-approved cash bail measures will stand under judge's ruling 09/16/2024 05:47pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Stricter cash bail measures approved by voters last year will stand despite procedural flaws, a judge ruled Monday. The decision from Dane County Circuit Judge Rhonda Lanford came in a lawsuit filed by criminal justice advocates over two constitutional amendments. State electi A secretive group recruited far-right candidates in key US House races. It could help Democrats 09/16/2024 02:44pm • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Joe Wiederien was an unlikely candidate to challenge a Republican congressman in one of the nation’s most competitive House districts. A fervent supporter of former President Donald Trump, Wiederien was registered as a Republican until months earlier. A debilitating strok Trial for missing Manassas Park mother's husband to begin in December 09/16/2024 01:50pm • After disagreements between prosecutors and the defense, a trial date was set for a Manassas Park, Virginia, husband who is accused of concealing the body of his wife, who has not been seen since July. Naresh Bhatt’s trial is scheduled for Dec. 9.  Prosecutors and Bhatt’s attorney, Shale A secretive group recruited far-right candidates in key US House races. It could help Democrats 09/16/2024 10:55am • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Joe Wiederien was an unlikely candidate to challenge a Republican congressman in one of the nation’s most competitive districts. A fervent supporter of former President Donald Trump, Wiederien was registered as a Republican until months earlier. A debilitating stroke had Ahmaud Arbery's family is still waiting for ex-prosecutor's misconduct trial after 3 years 09/15/2024 09:02pm • SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Three years after a former Georgia district attorney was indicted on charges alleging she interfered with police investigating the 2020 killing of Ahmaud Arbery, the case's slow progression through the court system has sputtered to a halt, one the presiding judge insists is te Kansas cold case ends 44 years later as man is sentenced for killing his former neighbor in 1980 09/14/2024 02:18pm • GREAT BEND, Kan. (AP) — More than 44 years after a nursing student was slain in her trailer home in central Kansas, her former neighbor has been sentenced to 10 to 25 years in prison for killing her. The investigation into the Jan. 24, 1980, shooting death of Mary Robin Walter, 23, of Great Bend,