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Diddy spends Memorial Day behind bars with card games and basketball, soccer tournaments offered

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Diddy spends Memorial Day behind bars with card games and basketball, soccer tournaments offered

Sean "Diddy" Combs' federal trial received a brief break Monday as New York City courthouses honored Memorial Day.Diddy, 55, will spend the holiday behind bars at Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC), where the fallen music mogul has been incarcerated since his September arrest.While the "Last Night" rapper received a brief respite from testimony in his ongoing sex crimes trial, Diddy and his fellow inmates will be offered a number of […]

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Billy Joel’s wife remains ‘hopeful’ as legendary musician battles brain disorder

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Billy Joel’s wife remains ‘hopeful’ as legendary musician battles brain disorder

Billy Joel's wife Alexis remained optimistic about her husband's recovery days after revealing the "Piano Man" was diagnosed with a brain disorder and subsequently canceled his upcoming live performances.The "Uptown Girl" singer was diagnosed with normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH), which affects his vision, hearing and balance, according to a social media post on Joel's account."Thank you for the outpouring of love and support," Alexis wrote on Joel's Instagram page. "We are so […]

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Transportation Dept offers air traffic controllers 20% bonus to delay retirement as staffing crisis deepens

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Transportation Dept offers air traffic controllers 20% bonus to delay retirement as staffing crisis deepens

Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said a key to alleviating the shortage of air traffic workers is offering retirees a bonus to incentivize them to stay in the workforce longer. In an interview with CBS News, Duffy said that it is going to take time to boost the air traffic controller workforce, but a key piece in doing so is keeping the more experienced controllers in the field longer."I think what […]

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Trump accuses Harvard of being ‘very slow’ to turn over foreign student info

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Trump accuses Harvard of being ‘very slow’ to turn over foreign student info

President Donald Trump has accused Harvard University of being "very slow" to turn over information on foreign students. "We are still waiting for the Foreign Student Lists from Harvard so that we can determine, after a ridiculous expenditure of BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, how many radicalized lunatics, troublemakers all, should not be let back into our Country," Trump wrote on Truth Social Monday. "Harvard is very slow in the presentation of these documents, […]

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Former NY Democratic Rep Charlie Rangel dead at 94

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Former NY Democratic Rep Charlie Rangel dead at 94

Former Rep. Charles Rangel, who served in Congress for more than four decades, has died at the age of 94.The New York Democrat, who served from 1971 until 2017, was a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus, and the first Black lawmaker to helm the House Ways and Means Committee, according to the City College of New York. A Korean War veteran, Rangel earned a Purple Heart and Bronze […]

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GOP lawmaker blasts ‘dumb’ Trump comment on Zelenskyy despite ‘perfect’ criticism of Putin

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GOP lawmaker blasts ‘dumb’ Trump comment on Zelenskyy despite ‘perfect’ criticism of Putin

A House Republican sharply criticized comments President Donald Trump made regarding the Russia-Ukraine war, flatly calling some of them "dumb."In a Truth Social post, Trump first called out Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying the foreign leader "has gone absolutely CRAZY!" and is "needlessly killing" — but then the president pivoted to slam Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, declaring, "Everything out of his mouth causes problems, I don’t like it, and it […]

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Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano erupts with 1,000-foot ‘lava fountaining’

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Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano erupts with 1,000-foot ‘lava fountaining’

Kīlauea Volcano – located along the southeastern shore of Hawaii Island – experienced "lava fountaining" that reached at least 1,000 feet high over the weekend. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) describes Kīlauea as one of the world's most active volcanoes. It has been erupting intermittently since Dec. 23, 2024, within the summit caldera in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park. The 23rd episode of precursory activity began late last week with "low-level spattering […]

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Memorial Day travelers face flight delays across multiple US airports due to weather

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Memorial Day travelers face flight delays across multiple US airports due to weather

Certain flights headed to Colorado, Texas and California airports are experiencing delays due to unfavorable weather conditions on Memorial Day, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). As of 9 a.m. ET Monday morning, there is a Traffic Management Program in effect for planes arriving at Denver International Airport due to weather, causing some arriving flights to be delayed an average of 30 minutes, according to an update from the FAA's […]

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Military veterans of US’ ‘toxic soup’ Uzbekistan base fighting for proper care 20 years after its shutter

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Military veterans of US’ ‘toxic soup’ Uzbekistan base fighting for proper care 20 years after its shutter

At the former Soviet base-turned-CIA black site and U.S. military base in Uzbekistan, researchers knew early on danger lingered not just from the enemy but from the ground itself. Karshi-Khanabad Air Base, known as K2, was a launchpad for U.S. operations into Afghanistan after 9/11. But for thousands of American troops who served there, it may have been a death sentence.Matthew "Nick" Nicholls, an Army environmental technician and preventive medicine specialist, was […]

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