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After Sexual Assault Suits, Are Sean Combs’ Empire and Brand at Risk?
A few months ago, Sean Combs was doing a victory lap for his three-decade career as a producer, music executive and all-around hip-hop showman. At the MTV Video Music Awards in September, he accepted the network’s global icon award and performed vintage hits like “I’ll Be Missing You.” That month, Combs — who has also been known throughout his career as Puff Daddy or Diddy — released his first solo studio album in 17 years, and a flurry of approving media coverage celebrated his signature achievement of helping to transform hip-hop into a major pop movement.
Surging U.S. Oil Production Brings Down Prices and Raises Climate Fears
HOUSTON — American oil fields are gushing again, helping to drive down fuel prices but also threatening to undercut efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Only three years after U.S. oil production collapsed during the pandemic, energy companies are cranking out a record 13.2 million barrels a day, more than Russia or Saudi Arabia. The flow of oil has grown by roughly 800,000 barrels a day since early 2022 and analysts expect the industry to add another 500,000 barrels a day next year.
Sandra Day O’Connor, First Woman on the Supreme Court, Is Dead at 93
Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court, a rancher’s daughter who wielded great power over American law from her seat at the center of the court’s ideological spectrum, died Friday in Phoenix. She was 93.
Brain Study Suggests Traumatic Memories Are Processed as Present Experience
At the root of post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, is a memory that cannot be controlled. It may intrude on everyday activity, thrusting a person into the middle of a horrifying event, or surface as night terrors or flashbacks.
Harris to Stand In for Biden at U.N. Climate Conference
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris will attend the annual United Nations climate summit in Dubai on Friday and Saturday, standing in for President Joe Biden, who will skip the event for the first time since taking office.
Family of Former First Lady Says Goodbye in Her Georgia Church
PLAINS, Ga. — Friends and family gathered at a small church in Plains on Wednesday to say goodbye to former first lady Rosalynn Carter, who died Nov. 19 at the age of 96. The intimate service was held at the Maranatha Baptist Church, where she and her husband, former President Jimmy Carter, worshipped for years, in the town that served as their home as they rose in Georgia politics, arrived at the White House and then traveled the world championing humanitarian causes.
Taking on Trump, a Super PAC Backing Haley Aims at Independent Voters
A group of entrepreneurs is forming a super political action committee to try to draw independent voters to Nikki Haley, in the latest sign that many opponents of former President Donald Trump in the business world are coalescing around Haley as their favored alternative.
Make Sure Your Google Accounts Are Active, or They Might Be Deleted
If you have not used one of your Google accounts for a long time, you might want to this week. Inactive accounts will start vanishing Friday. Google announced in May that it would start deleting accounts that had been idle for two years and said that the policy would begin in December.
Koch Network Endorses Nikki Haley in Bid to Push GOP Past Trump
The political network founded by billionaire industrialist brothers Charles and David Koch has endorsed Nikki Haley in the Republican presidential nominating contest, giving her organizational muscle and financial heft as she battles Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida to be the top rival to former President Donald Trump.
On a Single Day, Two Men Are Cleared in Decades-Old Manhattan Murders
NEW YORK — The killings happened eight blocks apart within nine months, near the height of New York City’s crack wars, in a Harlem precinct that was becoming synonymous with police corruption.
Car Crash Victims Seek Justice in a New Way: Talking to the Drivers
NEW YORK — Bill Penny was the center of attention in a tense room. It had been about nine months since he drove the wrong way down a one-way road in Brooklyn, hitting and critically injuring a woman who was crossing.
Unvaccinated and Vulnerable: Children Drive Surge in Deadly Outbreaks
ACCRA, Ghana — Large outbreaks of diseases that primarily kill children are spreading around the world, a grim legacy of disruptions to health systems during the COVID-19 pandemic that have left more than 60 million children without a single dose of standard childhood vaccines.
Girls Thrive in Many Sports. Now They’re Coming for Football, Too.
Honesty Butler was not planning to go to college, let alone leave her home state of New York. She loved art class but hated math and history. Art school was too expensive, so she began to give up on the idea of higher education entirely.
Stabbing of Derek Chauvin Raises Questions About Inmate Safety
WASHINGTON — The stabbing Friday of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd in 2020, at a special unit inside a Tucson, Arizona, prison is the latest in a series of attacks against high-profile inmates in the troubled, short-staffed federal Bureau of Prisons.
At Meta, Millions of Underage Users Were an ‘Open Secret,’ States Say
Meta has received more than 1.1 million reports of users younger than 13 on its Instagram platform since early 2019, yet it “disabled only a fraction” of those accounts, according to a newly unsealed legal complaint against the company brought by the attorneys general of 33 states.
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