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Sean “Diddy” Combs welcomed droves of Hollywood’s biggest stars to his Hamptons mansion decades before the feds started looking into his “Freak Off” parties. Following the disgraced rapper’s arrest, photos from some of his star-studded White Parties have resurfaced online, showing everyone from teen heartthrobs to some of fashion’s biggest names attending Diddy’s parties out East. One photo, from July 2000, shows Diddy and then-girlfriend Jennifer Lopez lounging on a massive white bed covered in pillows. The pair dated from 1999 to 2001. During the same party, the pair were pictured alongside Kimora Lee Simmons and then-husband Russell Simmons, Matthew...

Former President Donald Trump is expected to spend much of the next two months in New York City while he attends his criminal trial, a development that has forced him to reimagine political campaigning to match his unprecedented circumstances.Since the trial began earlier this month, he has begun campaigning throughout New York City with the intensity of a competitive mayoral candidate, despite the Big Apple’s status as a Democratic bastion.Pinning him to his hometown is Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who has charged Trump with 34 counts of falsifying business records in connection with a 2016 payment Trump’s then-attorney, Michael...

When Admiral Michael Gilday, chief of U.S. naval operations, gave an interview in 2022, he made a point of saying he believed China could invade Taiwan in 2022 or 2023. As of the last week of April 2024, China has not invaded Taiwan. Does this mean that Taiwan and the international community can breathe a collective sigh of relief? Maybe. A compelling case can be made that if China does intend to take Taiwan, then the period between now and January 2025 is as favorable a time as it is likely to have over the near term.There is an array...