Michael Daly

1 week ago | thedailybeast.com | Michael Daly

As President Donald Trump seeks to defund, devalue and maybe destroy Harvard, another prestigious university a little over a mile away is escaping his unreasoning wrath. Since Trump is always ultimately about himself, we can assume that the reason is one he has often been able to cite as supposed proof of his “good genes”: that his paternal uncle was a longtime professor of particular brilliance at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

2 weeks ago | thedailybeast.com | Michael Daly

Four years after unsung war hero Abdul Rahman Waziri flew out of Kabul Airport to start a new life in America, his remains returned there in a coffin. The 31-year-old was shot to death on April 27 while unarmed in a parking lot dispute by a Texas gunman who has so far escaped arrest by claiming self-defense.

3 weeks ago | thedailybeast.com | Michael Daly

At the start of her second day of testimony at the Sean Combs trial, Combs’ ex-girlfriend Casandra Ventura was asked by a prosecutor to identify two thumb drives. Ventura, eight months pregnant and wearing a gray turtleneck dress, said she had viewed what was in the drive and confirmed they contained sex videos extracted from broken laptops and cell phones she had given to the government to assist its investigation.

3 weeks ago | thedailybeast.com | Michael Daly

A new box of tissues was placed on the witness stand in preparation for what was sure to be wrenching testimony by the main witness in the Sean Combs sex trafficking and racketeering trial on Tuesday morning. Ventrua, known as Cassie, entered Courtroom 26A in Manhattan federal court to recount what she says was more than a decade of physical and sexual abuse by Combs. He turned in the defendant’s seat to see Ventura for the first time since 2018.

3 weeks ago | thedailybeast.com | Michael Daly

On the morning after Mother’s Day, Sean “Diddy” Combs’ mom made her way in a black suit through the crowd that had begun lining up outside Manhattan federal court the previous afternoon for a chance to attend the opening day of her son’s trial. To see the 82-year-old matriarch’s measured steps into the courthouse and up to the metal detector was to marvel at her resilience.