15 h. ago P Diddy hit with five new criminal counts while still in jail awaiting trial

Rapper P Diddy is currently being held in the Metropolitan Detention Centre in Brooklyn and has been charged with five new criminal counts while waiting for his trial in May

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19 h. ago P Diddy charged with five new criminal counts amid incarceration

Rapper Sean 'Diddy' Combs has been hit with a new federal indictment charging him with five new criminal counts

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20 h. ago Sean 'Diddy' Combs hit with new sex trafficking charges a month before trial

Federal prosecutors have added two charges to Sean “Diddy” Combs’ indictment, expanding on allegations that the jailed hip-hop mogul engaged in sex trafficking as recently as last year

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21 h. ago Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs faces new criminal counts alleging ‘forced labor’

Rap mogul has pleaded not guilty to charges of racketeering and sex trafficking as trial begins in Manhattan on 5 MaySean “Diddy” Combs was hit with a new federal indictment on Friday charging the hip-hop mogul with five criminal counts including racketeering and sex trafficking, court records showed.Combs had previously faced three criminal counts. He has pleaded not guilty. His trial in Manhattan federal court is scheduled to start on 5 May. Continue reading...

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23 h. ago What is the International Criminal Court and how can a member country like Hungary leave?

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has announced his intention to withdraw his country from the International Criminal Court

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49 h. ago Lucy Letby medical experts publish bombshell report claiming nurse killed NO babies

The 14-strong panel concluded that no criminal offences had been committed by Lucy Letby at the Countess of Chester Hospital in 2015 and 2016 and instead provided alternative causes of deterioration

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49 h. ago Hungary to pull out of ‘political’ ICC as Netanyahu visits Budapest

Israeli PM, who is wanted by the court, hails Viktor Orbán’s ‘bold and principled’ decision to leave the ‘corrupt’ bodyHungary will leave the international criminal court because it has become “political”, the country’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán, said as he welcomed his Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanhayu - the subject of an ICC arrest warrant - to Budapest for an official visit.Standing beside Netanyahu at the start of the four-day visit, Orbàn said on Thursday that Hungary was convinced the “otherwise very important court” had “diminished into a political forum”. Netanyahu hailed “a bold and principled” decision. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago There is no such thing as an ‘illegal immigrant’ | Mehdi Hasan

It is a factually inaccurate and totally, utterly wrong to say that undocumented people are ‘illegal’ and are ‘criminals’On 29 January, the second Trump administration held its first White House press briefing. “Of the 3,500 arrests Ice has made so far since President Trump came back into office, can you just tell us the numbers?” asked a reporter in the front row. “How many have a criminal record versus those who are just in the country illegally?”“All of them,” responded the new White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, making her debut in the briefing room, “because they illegally broke our nation’s laws, and, therefore, they are criminals, as far as this administration goes.” She continued: “I know the last administration didn’t see it that way, so it’s a big culture shift in our nation to view someone who breaks our immigration laws as a criminal. But that’s exactly what they are.”Mehdi Hasan is a broadcaster and author, and a former host on MSNBC. He is also a Guardian US...

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9 d. ago Luigi Mangione accused of violating ‘special treatment’ with handwritten notes hidden in argyle socks

Alleged assassin faces 11 criminal counts in New York, including murder as an act of terrorism, in connection with the December 4 killing of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson

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2 w. ago Thai cops uncover 'scam call centre farms' with 100,000 people forced to make calls

Scam call centre farms set up in Thailand are generating billions of dollars every year, as the criminal gangs that run them traffic people in from countries across Asia

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2 w. ago Actor Julianne Nicholson: ‘I would have loved to have been a nepo baby but alas’

The star on her new TV series Dope Girls, the benefits of intimacy coordinators and the joys of moving to the English countrysideJulianne Nicholson, 53, was born near Boston, Massachusetts, and worked as a model before training as an actor in New York. Her screen credits include August: Osage County, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Ally McBeal, I, Tonya and Boardwalk Empire. In 2021, she won an Emmy for her role as Lori in Mare Of Easttown. She recently played Samantha “Sinatra” Redmond in Disney+ political thriller Paradise and is now starring as nightclub owner Kate Galloway in BBC One’s period drama Dope Girls. Nicholson recently moved to the UK with her husband, British actor Jonathan Cake, and their two children.Your Dope Girls character is loosely based on real-life roaring 20s nightclub owner Kate “Ma” Meyrick. What drew you to the role?The story is such a fascinating look at that period. Normally when we see the post-first world war years on screen, the men are returning h...

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3 w. ago P Diddy pleads 'not guilty' to new charges with 'grey hair and beard' in court

Disgraced rapper P Diddy, real name Sean Combs, had a two-word response before pleading "not guilty" to allegations against him described in a superseding indictment

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3 w. ago Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs pleads not guilty ahead of sex trafficking trial

Sean "Diddy" Combs has pleaded not guilty to the sex trafficking charges he faces, and is expected to stand trial in May after having entered his plea

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3 w. ago Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs pleads not guilty in court to new charges of threatening and exploiting employees

Combs previously pleaded not guilty to charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution

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3 w. ago Law & Order actor Isaiah Stokes convicted of 'calculated murder' and faces up to 25 years to life in prison

The 45-year-old rapper-actor was found guilty of murder in the second degree and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree following a two-week jury trial

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3 w. ago Staff at Lucy Letby hospital where she killed seven babies in manslaughter probe

Detectives have upgraded their criminal investigation against the Countess of Chester Hospital from a corporate manslaughter inquiry following the Lucy Letby murders

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3 w. ago Former Trump spiritual adviser faces charges of lewd acts with a child

Texas megachurch founder Robert Morris indicted in Oklahoma on five counts over alleged misconduct in 1982The Texas megachurch founder and pastor Robert Morris has been indicted on five criminal counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child, from incidents that occurred in Oklahoma in the 1980s.A multi-county grand jury issued an indictment on 12 March, which alleges Morris was a traveling evangelist visiting in Hominy, Oklahoma, with the family of the alleged victim in December 1982. The indictment alleges Morris’s sexual misconduct began that Christmas and continued over four years. The alleged victim was 12 years old at the time and Morris was 21 years old. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Italian government approves draft law targeting femicide, with punishment up to life in prison

The Italian government has approved a draft law that for the first time introduces the legal definition of femicide in the country’s criminal law and punishes it with life imprisonment

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4 w. ago US plans to close European consulates and cut state department workforce

State department also looks into merging some bureaus in Washington amid Trump effort to slash US governmentThe US state department is preparing to shut down a number of consulates that are mainly in western Europe in the coming months and looking to reduce its workforce globally, multiple US officials said on Thursday.The state department is also looking into potentially merging a number of its expert bureaus at its headquarters in Washington that are working in areas such as human rights, refugees, global criminal justice, women’s issues and efforts to counter human trafficking, the officials said. Continue reading...

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