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  Updated 5m ago Drugs discussed in messages In a message, Ventura allegedly asked if she wrote to Combs if he had anymore pills on him. Ventura told the court she wasn’t sure which kind. What kinds of pills was she taking around that time in 2009, the defense asked. Opiates, Ventura said. Was Combs taking opiates the time?Ventura testified she didn’t know home much or what his intake was.  By Alice Gainer https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/live-updates/diddy-trial-live-updates-cassie-ventura-cross-examination/#post-update-f024cc0f   22m ago Explicit messages and videos discussed Cross-examination resumed after a short break. The defense showed some explicit messages from 2009 Ventura sent to Combs, including one sent ahead…

Painted portrait of Wong Kim Ark in the Asian American Community Heroes Mural, located in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Julie Caine/Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco hide caption toggle caption Julie Caine/Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco Painted portrait of Wong Kim Ark in the Asian American Community Heroes Mural, located in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Julie Caine/Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco Who was Wong Kim Ark and what is the story behind the Supreme Court case United States vs. Wong Kim Ark? Find out here, and listen to a full episode to learn more. Source link

President Trump’s push to remove people from the U.S. using the wartime Alien Enemies Act got a rare stamp of approval from a federal judge this week, as one of the more controversial parts of Mr. Trump’s immigration strategy faces a slew of court challenges.U.S. District Judge Stephanie Haines of Pennsylvania, a Trump nominee, ruled Tuesday the president is legally allowed to use the 18th-century law to deport Venezuelan migrants accused of belonging to the gang Tren de Aragua. However, Haines also said the administration hasn’t given people facing Alien Enemies Act removal enough notice to bring court challenges.The ruling…

Politics / Cultural Contradictions / May 15, 2025 As an undergrad, I mocked the radical leftist turned reactionary. But with his cruel, vindictive politics taking over the government, he had the last laugh. Ad Policy David Horowitz, who died in April, spoke on the CU Boulder campus on February 14, 2005, about what’s wrong with various professors in US universities today.(Brian Brainerd / The Denver Post via Getty Images) The first time I thought about David Horowitz was in 2006, when I was a 22-year-old senior at Horowitz’s alma mater, Columbia University. A friend—like me and Horowitz, a Jewish David—had…

One of the founders of Ben & Jerry’s, Ben Cohen, was arrested on Wednesday in Washington, D.C., after he interrupted a Senate committee hearing to protest Congress’s funding for Israel’s military as it wages war against Hamas in Gaza. Mr. Cohen, 74, was among a group of protesters that disrupted a Senate health committee hearing as Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, promoted President Trump’s budget for the next fiscal year. The protesters shouted and held up signs as Mr. Kennedy was speaking before Capitol Police officers escorted them out, according to a broadcast of the hearing. A video…

Firefighters hope for rain as Minnesota wildfires rage on Firefighters hope for rain as Minnesota wildfires rage on 07:01 Three massive, out of control wildfires continue to rage north of Duluth in northeastern Minnesota, as near critical fire weather conditions continue to plague the region, according to the National Weather Service.  Crews are also battling massive wildfires just north of Minnesota in Canada’s Manitoba and Ontario provinces.  As of Thursday morning, the Wildland Fire Application Information Portal reports the fires have spread across more than 37,000 acres:The Eastern Area Complex Incident Team announced on Wednesday that its taken command of both…

Attorney General Pam Bondi sold at least $1 million worth of shares in the company that owns Truth Social on the same day that President Trump announced his sweeping tariff measures, a government ethics transaction report shows.Bondi’s stake in the company, Trump Media, was worth somewhere between $1 million and $5.5 million at the time of the sale, which occurred on April 2, the day Mr. Trump dubbed “Liberation Day” in which he announced his wide-ranging tariffs on goods imported from all foreign countries, according to the document obtained Wednesday by CBS News.The day after the sale, the stock’s value…

Patricia Harrison is the president and CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which is suing the Trump administration over the abrupt firing of three of its five board members. STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images/AFP hide caption toggle caption STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images/AFP Public broadcasting officials from across the country plan to descend on Capitol Hill today in hopes of convincing lawmakers to preserve their federal funding despite pressure from President Trump and his allies. Money from the federal government accounts for fully half the annual budgets of some local public television and radio stations. The lobbying effort follows…

Flying can be a hassle even under the best of circumstances. When trips are marred by delays, cancellations and mishandled luggage, air travel can become a nightmare. In 2024, customers lodged a record 66,675 complaints against U.S. airlines, according to a new report from the U.S. PIRG Education Fund, a consumer advocacy group, based on data from the U.S. Department of Transportation. Passenger complaints have surged since the pandemic, rising every year since 2021, according to PIRG. “When you file a complaint, the DOT asks if you talked to airline, so it’s not like the DOT complaint line is your first stop,”…

Ad Policy American politician and diplomat Daniel Patrick Moynihan delivers a speech, United States, circa 1980. (The News World / FPG / Archive Photos / Getty Images) On this episode of American Prestige, Kevin Schultz, chair of the Department of History at the University of Illinois-Chicago, returns to the program to continue the discussion of his new book, Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals): A History. In this second part of the discussion, we get into the origins and power of the “radical chic” and “limousine liberal” criticisms, the concept of “positive polarization” as championed by figures like…