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(NEW YORK) -- Nine months after a New York jury convicted Sean "Diddy" Combs of transporting prostitutes across state lines for drug-fueled sex parties, the hip-hop mogul is set to appear in a federal appeals court on Thursday to challenge his lengthy prison sentence.Acquitted last year of the more serious charges of racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking, Combs argues that the judge imposed an overly harsh sentence by considering the […]

(NEW YORK) -- The status of several threatened species has been downgraded to endangered, and climate change is to blame, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.The Red List of Threatened Species, which was updated by the IUCN on Thursday, now includes the Emperor penguin and Antarctic fur seal on its endangered list.The IUCN is the world’s largest environmental network and provides scientific, data-driven expertise on biodiversity conservation.The […]

Mountains outside Patterson, California. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images) (PATTERSON, Calif.) -- The attorney of a man who was shot in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement-involved shooting in Patterson, California, is claiming ICE attempted to arrest his client based on wrong information.The shooting occurred on Tuesday near the I-5, when ICE Director Todd Lyons said federal officers were attempting to arrest a man they claimed was an 18th Street […]

(NEW YORK) -- The woman reportedly known as the "Ketamine Queen" was sentenced to 15 years in prison for providing the drug that killed Matthew Perry.Jasveen Sangha admitted in a plea agreement to working with another dealer to provide the "Friends" actor with dozens of vials of ketamine, including the dose that led to his fatal overdose in October 2023 at the age of 54.Sangha pleaded guilty last year to […]

(NEW YORK) -- March 2026 was a historic month for temperatures in the United States, fueled by an extraordinary and prolonged heat wave that shattered temperature records across much of the West, according to a new report released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).Last month not only shattered the previous March record set in 2012, but it also marked the first time any month has exceeded the long-term […]

Alleged serial killer Rex A. Heuermann appears inside Judge Tim Mazzei's courtroom with his attorney Michael Brown at Suffolk County Court in Riverhead for a frye hearing on July 17, 2025 in Riverhead, New York. (Photo by James Carbone-Pool/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) -- Accused Gilgo Beach, New York, serial killer Rex Heuermann admitted to the murders of eight women in court on Wednesday as he changed his plea to guilty.Heuermann, a New […]

Alleged serial killer Rex A. Heuermann appears inside Judge Tim Mazzei's courtroom with his attorney Michael Brown at Suffolk County Court in Riverhead for a frye hearing on July 17, 2025 in Riverhead, New York. (Photo by James Carbone-Pool/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) -- Accused Gilgo Beach, New York, serial killer Rex Heuermann might change his plea to guilty and admit to the murders at his scheduled court appearance on Wednesday, […]

(NEW YORK) -- The woman reportedly known as the "Ketamine Queen" is set to be sentenced on Wednesday for providing the ketamine that killed Matthew Perry.Jasveen Sangha admitted in a plea agreement to working with another dealer to provide the "Friends" actor with dozens of vials of ketamine, including the dose that led to his fatal overdose in October 2023 at the age of 54.Sangha pleaded guilty last year to […]

(OAHU, Hawaii) -- Closing arguments are underway in the trial of a Hawaii doctor accused of trying to kill his wife on a hiking trail.Dr. Gerhardt Konig, 47, has pleaded not guilty to second-degree attempted murder. Prosecutors allege the anesthesiologist attacked his wife, Arielle Konig, near a cliff while on the Pali Puka Trail on Oahu on March 24, 2025, by pushing her near the edge and then beating her multiple times with a […]