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flipboard.com | Anna Kaufman
iOS 26: New Messages and Phone App Features Leaked Ahead of WWDCApple is planning to announce several new features for the Messages and Phone apps on iOS 26, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. In a lengthy report outlining his WWDC 2025 expectations today, Gurman said that the two main changes in the Messages app will be the ability to create polls, as well as …
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usatoday.com | Anna Kaufman
Victoria Goodwin, the ex-wife of "Ghost Adventures" star Aaron Goodwin, is heading to prison for helping orchestrate a murder-for-hire plot to kill him. Goodwin's lawyers confirmed to USA TODAY Thursday, June 5, that she had been sentenced to 36-90 months in prison following a guilty plea in April.
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1 week ago | 
usatoday.com | Anna Kaufman
After years of anticipation, "Tha Carter VI" is finally here. The sixth installment in Lil Wayne's signature musical series, which dropped Friday, June 6, is a 19-track opus, flexing the rapper's tongue-twistingly fast rhymes and dirty South style. Blending soulful background vocals with a high-pitched trill, Wayne name-drops everything from Taco Bell to Tupac.
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usatoday.com | Jay Stahl |Anna Kaufman |Gina Barton
The federal judge in the Sean "Diddy" Combs' sex-crimes case threatened to oust the embattled music mogul from court for the remainder of his highly publicized trial on Thursday. Judge Arun Subramanian slammed Combs shortly after the jury was excused for a lunch break on Thursday, June 5, admonishing him for attempting to influence jurors.
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1 week ago | 
shelbystar.com | Jay Stahl |Anna Kaufman |Gina Barton
The federal judge in the Sean "Diddy" Combs' sex-crimes case threatened to oust the embattled music mogul from court for the remainder of his highly publicized trial on Thursday. Judge Arun Subramanian slammed Combs shortly after the jury was excused for a lunch break on Thursday, June 5, admonishing him for attempting to influence jurors.
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1 week ago | 
usatoday.com | Anna Kaufman |Gina Barton
For weeks, Sean "Diddy" Combs has watched from a courtroom table as witness after witness has taken the stand, unraveling a wide-ranging tale of alleged abuse and conspiracy. The common thread uniting many of the witnesses? They used to work for Combs. Ex-assistants, stylists and artists for his label Bad Boy Records have come forward – some willingly and some not – and testified about a man whose status as a public icon allegedly enabled him to be a private monster.
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1 week ago | 
usatoday.com | Anna Kaufman
It's the Birkin bag to end all Birkin bags. This summer, Sotheby's auction house will solicit bidders for Jane Birkin's original Hermès bag, designed and named after the British actress and singer. Now a cultural institution – and status symbol for the ultra-wealthy – the original bag will hit the auction block July 10 in Paris as part of Sotheby's inaugural Fashion Icons sale.
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1 week ago | 
usatoday.com | Anna Kaufman
The latest season of "Love Island" isn't yet a week old, and already it's mired in scandal. Contestant Yulissa Escobar was abruptly ousted from the villa with little explanation from narrator Iain Stirling during the second episode of Season 7, which aired June 4. Different from the traditional departures, in which contestants are either voted off by the public or their fellow "islanders," Escobar seems to have been removed by the powers that be.
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1 week ago | 
usatoday.com | Anna Kaufman
In 2023, a stalemate between then-President Joe Biden and congressional Republicans over the debt ceiling prompted panic among financial analysts and everyday Americans alike. The deal they struck, called the "Fiscal Responsibility Act," capped annual discretionary spending for two years. It also pushed the next action on the federal debt ceiling until after the 2024 presidential election. Now, that deal has expired.
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1 week ago | 
usatoday.com | Anna Kaufman
As Sean "Diddy" Combs' sex-crimes trial stretches on in New York, another woman is expected to take the stand to testify to abuse and coercion at the hands of the music mogul. The witness, who is going simply by "Jane," will remain anonymous – a request granted by the judge, who has explicitly warned jurors and court attendees against sharing information that could reveal her identity.
