Donald Trump says he considers Sean ‘“Diddy” Combs “sort of half-innocent” despite his criminal conviction in federal court in July – but the president called pardoning the music mogul “more difficult” because of past criticism.

Trump spoke about Combs during an interview on Friday night on the friendly environs of Newsmax. Combs was found guilty on 2 July of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution, with each leaving him facing up to 10 years in prison – but he was acquitted of more serious sex-trafficking and racketeering conspiracy charges.

“He was essentially, I guess, sort of half-innocent,” Trump remarked to Newsmax host Rob Finnerty. “He was celebrating a victory,

Tulsi Gabbard, the director of US national intelligence, hoped to uncover evidence that Barack Obama and his national security team conspired to undermine Donald Trump in a slow-motion coup.

But if her crusade was aimed at proving that Obama embarked on a “treasonous conspiracy” to falsely show that Russia intervened in the 2016 presidential election to help Trump, Gabbard made a mistake. A previously classified annexe to a report by another special counsel, John Durham – appointed towards the end of Trump’s first presidency – has further undermined Gabbard’s case.

It was a quixotic enterprise from the start.

After all, the 2019 report from Robert Mueller, the original special counsel appointed to

The Kardashians want to monetize your chin

If you’ve got $48 and a burning desire to look like you’ve just had major jaw surgery, then you’re in luck! Kim Kardashian’s shapewear brand Skims has just come out with a contraption called the Seamless Sculpt Face Wrap, which it describes as its “first-ever face innovation”. It’s essentially a piece of Velcro that goes around your face to provide what the marketing copy describes as “targeted compression for shaping & sculpting” via “collagen yarn”. No, I don’t know what that means either.

While I may be a tad unclear on how “collagen yarn” is supposed to work, I can tell you exactly how

In a rare twist, last week’s qualifying at Spa did not decide the race, but it did offer plenty of drama. Lewis Hamilton fell foul of track limits to go out in Q1 and Oscar Piastri was pipped to pole by McLaren teammate Lando Norris. More of the same today, please.

Placing qualification at the Hungaroring in the 2025 season’s broader context, Norris said earlier this week that title will come down to “who qualifies first and second more often” while making the “least mistakes when they qualify first”. He noted that there have not been a lot of races where the lead has changed hands after turn one. This

Katie Ledecky once again proved untouchable in her signature event, holding off a star-studded field to win her seventh world title in the 800m freestyle on Saturday in Singapore, a feat no swimmer has ever achieved in a single event.

The 28-year-old American delivered a championship-record 8:05.62 to edge Australia’s Lani Pallister (8:05.98) and Canada’s Summer McIntosh (8:07.29) in one of the most anticipated races of the world swimming championships. The trio are the three fastest women in history over 800m and the amply hyped final more than lived up to the billing.

Ledecky trailed McIntosh by just 0.14 seconds at the 700m mark but surged ahead in the closing stretch,

For 50 long years, life in Hamilton, a town of 63,000 people a half-hour north of Cincinnati, was in decline.

Factories closed and thousands of residents moved away to Cincinnati, Columbus and beyond. The scourge of the opioid epidemic during the early 2000s sucked the life out of Butler county’s seat of government.

But then, slowly, immigrants came to town. And things began to get better.

Inside Mary’s Comida Casera, an unadorned Mexican restaurant serving Guanajuato food on Hamilton’s southside, a telenovela plays on a pair of televisions while two elementary-age kids watch cartoons on a tablet in the corner.

The restaurant, formerly a 136-year-old residential property, along with dozens of Latin American

Since Ghislaine Maxwell met with federal prosecutors last week, the imprisoned British socialite’s legal team has portrayed her as a beacon of truth willing to discuss all matters related to her child sex-trafficking co-conspirator Jeffrey Epstein’s many crimes.

“Ghislaine answered every single question asked of her over the last day and a half. She answered those questions honestly, truthfully, to the best of her ability,” attorney David Oscar Markus told reporters. “She never invoked a privilege. She never refused to answer a question.”

Maxwell’s highly unusual two-day sit-down with the deputy attorney general, Todd Blanche – who served as Donald Trump’s criminal defense attorney before working for his justice department