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Gerard Gannon, a Department of Homeland Security special agent now testifying, was in charge of planning...Read complete article
Diddy trial live updates: Homeland Security agent Gerard Gannon testifies about federal raid in Sean Combs’s caseSean “Diddy” Combs’s federal sex-trafficking trial continues on Day 7, with former assistant David James, a personal chef and a male escort, among testimonies.
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Homeland Security special agent Gerard Gannon is giving an account of the planning and search of...
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Homeland Security special agent Gerard Gannon was tasked with planning the federal raid on Sean Combs’s...
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Moderate Republicans who have opposed President Donald Trump’s tax and immigration bill stood firm Tuesday in...
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Live updates: Trump, visiting Capitol Hill, warns House Republicans against opposing his billGet the latest news on President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the Republican-led Congress.
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Now for a change of pace: The government has called its next witness, Gerard Gannon, a...
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Sharay Hayes testifies more about whether Cassie Ventura enjoyed herself
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Possibly contradicting his earlier testimony that Cassie Ventura sometimes winced and sighed at Sean Combs’s instructions...
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Trump’s favorite food? Leavitt fields kids’ questions in briefing room.
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Hayes says he wrote self-help book that was also part roman à clef
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Under cross-examination by attorney Xavier Donaldson, Sharay Hayes, 51, said he began his exotic dancing career...
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Freak-offs were fairly predictable affairs, Sharay Hayes testified. The rooms were always dimly lit with electric...
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What’s in Trump and Republicans’ giant tax and immigration bill?How what Trump has called his “big, beautiful bill” could change the federal government and the U.S. economy.
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Van Hollen clashes with Rubio, says he regrets voting to confirm him
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Sharay Hayes has returned to the witness stand, where the government will continue questioning him about...
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Federal workers would lose protections or pay higher pension contributions
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Trump backs off ceasefire after call with Putin, letting fighting rage onAfter Trump’s third phone call with Putin since his inauguration, it appears there will be no letup in fighting and less U.S. pressure on Moscow.
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The court is on lunch break.
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Sharay Hayes said he didn’t recognize Sean Combs or Cassie Ventura during their first encounter, but...
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Sharay Hayes testified that Sean Combs would periodically give instructions during the freak-off, telling Cassie Ventura...
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Rubio defends resettlement of White South Africans amid refugee program pause
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Sharay Hayes said his first freak-off with Cassie Ventura and Sean Combs took place in 2012,...
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Sharay Hayes is bald and muscular, wearing a black suit and tie. He also speaks with...
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Prosecutors’ next witness is Sharay Hayes, 51, a male exotic dancer from Harlem whose stage name...
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Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), a conservative fiscal hawk who is demanding Republicans’ massive tax and immigration...
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Jeffries asks Johnson to reschedule meeting currently set for 1 a.m.
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Sean Combs’s lead counsel, Marc Agnifilo, declined to cross-examine Regina Ventura, Cassie Ventura’s mother, after she...
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Cassie Ventura’s mother, Regina Ventura, said her daughter first told her Sean Combs was physically...
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Noem botches definition of habeas corpus in Senate hearing
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Rubio faces off with Democrats opposed to Trump’s foreign policy movesIn his return to the Senate, Secretary of State Marco Rubio was met with intense questioning about the Trump administration’s bid to end the Russia-Ukraine war.
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Jurors previously heard testimony that Sean Combs was livid that Cassie Ventura had been dating rapper...
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Regina Ventura said she took out a home-equity loan in 2011 for $20,000 to satisfy a...
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Why Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs and Suge Knight have been rivals for decades
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Rubio claims ignorance of Trump meme coin dinner, Qatar jet future
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RFK Jr. slammed by both sides of the aisle in Congress
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Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky) appears to be shrugging off Donald Trump’s latest attacks on him as...
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Tracking who Trump is appointing to fill key administration rolesFollow President-elect Trump’s progress filling over 800 positions, among about 1,300 that require Senate confirmation, in this tracker from The Washington Post and the Partnership for Public Service.
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Colorful cross-examination of David James concludes
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The witness coming up is Regina Ventura, the mother of alleged victim Cassie Ventura. She’s about...
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During the redirect, the government asked David James if Sean Combs himself ever got violent with...
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James: Combs scolded him for altercation with female chef
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Elon Musk says he plans to do ‘a lot less’ political spending going forward“I think I’ve done enough,” the Tesla CEO said Tuesday, months after plowing at least $288 million into the 2024 election to help Trump and other Republicans.
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Burchett says Republicans ‘really close’ to bridging SALT disagreements
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Schumer calls Trump a ‘liar’ for state and local tax reversal
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President Donald Trump has left the Capitol after meeting with House Republicans for over an hour....
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More details emerge of what it’s like to be Combs’s assistant
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State and local tax deductions at issue in meeting with Trump
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President Donald Trump is speaking to reporters on Capitol Hill after leaving the closed-door House GOP...
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Revised House GOP bill takes aim at health coverage for immigrants
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Defense counsel Marc Agnifilo was fairly aggressive as he cross-examined Sean Combs’s former assistant David James...
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A former assistant alleged setting up baby oil, drugs in separate lawsuit
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President Donald Trump has now been meeting with House Republicans for over an hour. Some members...
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Trump tries to persuade, and threaten, GOP to support his budget billThe massive tax and immigration bill, which is central to Trump’s second-term plans, faces continued resistance from both moderates and GOP hard-liners.
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The defense is suggesting the Suge Knight incident didn’t happen, at least not the way Sean...
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Former assistant seems to corroborate 2009 Cassie incident
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A couple of protesters were forcibly removed from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing room in...
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Before the trip to the diner, Sean Combs’s girlfriend Cassie Ventura was crying and begging him...
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Elon Musk says he’ll do ‘a lot less’ political spending going forward
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Sean Combs had three handguns on his lap when he ordered members of his entourage to...
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Trump tells House Republicans to get it together and pass his bill
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David James, describing the prep he would do for Sean Combs’s hotel rooms, said he was...
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Personal assistant describes Combs’s hotel supplies
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As President Donald Trump addresses House Republicans on Capitol Hill, the White House is promoting a...
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The White House has added a new event to President Donald Trump’s schedule for Tuesday: a...
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President Donald Trump is continuing to talk to House Republicans in their closed-door meeting after speaking...
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President Donald Trump, before meeting with House Republicans, claimed lawmakers are “not touching” Medicaid and then...
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Sean “Diddy” Combs traveled with a large supply of prescription and illegal drugs, including pills that...
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President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky), a critic of the president’s priority...
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President Donald Trump argued Tuesday that Republicans are a “very unified party” — but he also...
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David James, Sean Combs’s former personal assistant, told the court Monday afternoon that he would often...
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Judge Arun Subramanian has repeatedly praised the jury’s timeliness, noting at the start of court Tuesday...
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David James, a former personal assistant to Sean Combs, is back on the witness stand after...
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Judge Arun Subramanian said he would like to see Regina Ventura’s testimony before making a ruling...
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The defense is not denying that Sean Combs demanded $20,000 from his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura’s mother,...
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A closed-door House Republican conference meeting has started, but House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) just left...
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Prosecutors would like to ask Regina Ventura about a demand for $20,000 they say Sean Combs...
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Judge Arun Subramanian has greeted the defense and prosecution teams, who are discussing the defense’s pending...
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Diddy trial recap: Witnesses testify on Cassie Ventura, Sean Combs’s relationship and alleged violenceSean “Diddy” Combs’s federal sex-trafficking trial continued, with former Danity Kane singer Dawn Richard, Cassie’s ex-friend Kerry Morgan and David James testifying.
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Trump administration pulls $60M in Harvard grants in third round of cuts
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Prosecutors have said that Dawn Richard’s testimony would help establish that Cassie Ventura was coerced or...
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House GOP lawmakers continue to air reservations ahead of Trump speech
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We’ll be picking up where we left off Monday, when prosecutors questioned three witnesses: singer Dawn...
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House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-Louisiana) told reporters that Republican leadership still expects the massive tax...
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Tuesday morning was brisk and sunny, a welcome break from the gloom that has blanketed New...
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana), as he walked into a meeting of House Republicans, said President...
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Charles Kushner, father of Trump’s son-in-law, confirmed as ambassador to FrancePresident Donald Trump pardoned the real estate developer in 2020. Kushner went to prison for tax evasion, witness tampering and illegal campaign contributions.
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Trump officials allow massive New York offshore wind project to restart
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President Donald Trump is set to address House Republicans at 9 a.m. Eastern time on Capitol...
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Trump proposal to repatriate Ukrainians, Haitians would use foreign aid funds
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Who’s who in Diddy’s sex-trafficking trial: Witnesses, lawyers and more
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Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) announced Tuesday he is running for reelection in his highly competitive district...
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Rubio to face Democrats opposed to Trump’s foreign policy moves
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Trump-Putin call dampens hopes for ceasefire in Ukraine
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Analysis: What to watch as Trump heads to the Hill
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Ex-Atlanta mayor runs for Georgia governor, framing bid as a check on Trump
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Charles Kushner, father of Trump’s son-in-law, confirmed as ambassador to France
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Rep. LaMonica McIver to be charged in New Jersey ICE clash, Justice Dept. says
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Ex-Atlanta mayor runs for Georgia governor, framing bid as a check on TrumpKeisha Lance Bottoms’s candidacy will test the potency of an anti-Trump message in a state that helped elevate him to the presidency.
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Trump proposal to repatriate Ukrainians, Haitians would use foreign aid fundsDocuments reviewed by The Post call for leveraging foreign assistance accounts to return migrants to conflict-afflicted nations, even as officials seek to cut such spending.
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