HPE Earnings Beat As Quarterly AI Server Revenue Hits $1.5 BillionNEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for Sean “Diddy” Combs tried for a third time Friday to persuade a judge to let him leave jail while he awaits his sex trafficking trial, but a decision won’t come until next week. Judge Arun Subramanian said at a hearing that he will release his decision on Combs' latest request for bail after Combs’ lawyers and federal prosecutors file letters addressing outstanding issues. Those letters are due at noon on Monday, Subramanian said. Combs’ lawyers pitched having him await trial under around-the-clock surveillance either his mansion on an island near Miami Beach or — after the judge scoffed at that location — an apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Their plan essentially amounts to putting Combs on house arrest, with strict limits on who he has contact with. But prosecutors argue that Combs has routinely flouted jail rules and can't be trusted not to interfere with witnesses or the judicial process. “The argument that he’s a lawless person who doesn’t follow instructions isn’t factually accurate,” Combs lawyer Anthony Ricco argued. “The idea that he’s an out-of-control individual who has to be detained isn’t factually accurate.” Combs, 55, has pleaded not guilty to charges that he coerced and abused women for years with help from a network of associates and employees while silencing victims through blackmail and violence, including kidnapping, arson and physical beatings. His trial is slated to begin May 5. The Bad Boy Records founder remains locked up at a Brooklyn federal jail, where he spent his Nov. 4 birthday. Two other judges previously concluded that Combs would be a danger to the community if he is released and an appeals court judge last month denied Combs’ immediate release while a three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals weighs his bail request. Friday's hearing was the second time Combs was in court this week. On Tuesday, a judge blocked prosecutors from using as evidence papers that were seized from his cell during jail-wide sweep for contraband and weapons at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. As he entered through a side door, Combs waved to relatives including his mother and several of his children in the courtroom gallery, tapping his hand to his heart and blowing kisses at them. He then hugged his lead attorney, Marc Agnifilo, before taking a seat at the defense table. He was not handcuffed or shackled and wore a beige jail uniform, occasionally pulling a pair of reading glasses from his pocket as he peered at papers in front of him. Prosecutors maintain that no bail conditions will mitigate the “risk of obstruction and dangerousness to others” of releasing Combs from jail. Prosecutors contend that while locked up the “I'll Be Missing You” artist has orchestrated social media campaigns aimed at tainting the jury pool. They allege that he has also attempted to publicly leak materials he thinks would be helpful to his case and is contacting potential witnesses via third parties. “Simply put, the defendant cannot be trusted,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Christy Slavik argued. Combs’ lawyer Teny Geragos countered that, given the strict release conditions proposed, “it would be impossible for him not to follow rules.”
NoneKelly Ripa is addressing her critics head-on. Controversy ensued after the Monday, November 25, episode of Live With Kelly and Mark , where the 54-year-old talk show host said dressing and stuffing are the same Thanksgiving side dish. "It depends on where you live. We here in the Northeast, we have stuffing. People in the South, because they're polite, they have dressing," Ripa explained. "Dressing and stuffing are the same thing. It's based on the region where you live, whether you call it stuffing or dressing." Ripa's comments were met with a slew of online hate as people argued that stuffing and dressing were not the same. Some claimed stuffing goes inside the turkey, and dressing goes on the side. However, there is no clear answer to the debate. On the Tuesday, November 26, episode, the TV personality admitted she didn't appreciate how fans came at her as she got her information from a Better Homes and Gardens article. "Yesterday, I simply read an article that I didn't write... so don't shoot the messenger, but the messenger was attacked viciously," the Hope & Faith alum stated. I mean, forget any political discourse. The real discourse are the people arguing about stuffing and dressing. [The] article says regionally, it depends on where you're from, whether you call it 'stuffing' or 'dressing' but you, you at home, informed me that I, Kelly Ripa, am wrong again,'" the All My Children alum told viewers. A post shared by instagram Referring to the harsh comments on her social media page, the New Jersey native sent a clear message to haters. "I'm going to say something: Get a life, honestly. Just get one. Calm down. If you're worried about this, then congratulations, you don't have actual problems," she remarked. The morning show mainstay then sarcastically thanked the online critics, saying, "Thank you for setting me straight internet." Scarlett Johansson — who was a guest on Tuesday's episode — shared her own take on the stuffing debate. "What I understand is dressing is Southern. It's stuffing, but they call it dressing," Johansson, 40, said.
When the Minnesota Vikings had two of their key special teams players go down in the game against the Indianapolis Colts, there were real concerns that the special teams unit would take a massive dip. Thanks to the front office and special teams coach Matt Daniels, it's been solid throughout the last three games. When they made the move to fortify both kicker and long snapper, they chose to sign Jake McQuaide to the practice squad and not the active roster. On Wednesday, the cleared that up with McQuaide out of elevations. Vikings make three roster moves The Vikings made three roster moves on Wednesday to ensure that they could use McQuaide this upcoming week against the Arizona Cardinals. Signed LS Jake McQuaide to the active roster Signed TE Nick Muse to the practice squad Waived OLB Gabe Murphy from the active roster Adding Muse to the practice squad was only a matter of time after the Vikings waived him on Monday, which also happened to be his birthday . He was essentially activated from injured reserve for the game that Josh Oliver was out. We aren't sure if Oliver will return on Sunday afternoon but it feels likely. Murphy was also activated from injured reserve on Monday but it appears a move to the practice squad is in his future. He has yet to play a down for the Vikings due to the knee injury but should be in a good spot to develop on the practice squad. The Vikings will need to make room for one of Jones and Murphy on the practice squad, as the signing of Muse brings them up to 16. This article first appeared on A to Z Sports and was syndicated with permission.The top 100 Canadian songs of 2024Seibert misses an extra point late as the Commanders lose their 3rd in a row, 34-26 to the Cowboys
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The Yankees need Juan Soto more, that’s a well established baseball fact around here. The Yankees need him, and badly, because he helped put them back in the World Series for the first time in 15 years, and because he did as much as he did to get Aaron Judge nearly all the way back to 60 home runs. They need him because he is one of the most valuable players in baseball, one younger than Judge, younger than Shohei Ohtani, younger than Francisco Lindor and not even two years older than Bobby Witt Jr. But they need just as much for him not to go to the Mets who, if they win the Soto Sweepstakes, will not just be making a player acquisition as significant as anything they’ve done since Mike Piazza, they will have done something even more significant than that: They will have taken Soto away from the Yankees. Not once in the history of the New York Mets have they done anything as big or dramatic as that. The real fact of things is that nothing like this has ever happened with our two baseball teams, and might not ever happen again. It has become a perfect storm, mostly of money, even with other teams still in play. This is both the Knicks and Nets wanting Kevin Durant, just bigger and louder, because it’s baseball. Never a high-stakes game like this. Neither the Yankees nor the Mets was ever going to sign Yoshinobu Yamamoto last winter. Judge always felt like a free agent-ish, because no one really believed he was leaving. Again: There is no guarantee that Soto ends up with one of the New York teams. But this has turned into a classic bidding war between the Son of Steinbrenner and Uncle Steve Cohen: A star player like this, one who actually might just be entering his prime, they both want. And by the way? Both the Yankees and Mets will survive if they don’t end up with Juan Soto. He doesn’t guarantee either one of them a trip to the Canyon of Heroes. Twenty years ago, the Yankees made a trade for Alex Rodriguez after they’d just lost a World Series (to the Marlins that time), and the rest of baseball acted as if the Yankees had punched their ticket back to the Series for the next decade. If you’re keeping score at home, they didn’t go back for five years, and have won one Series in the last 20. The Padres traded away Soto and ended up winning 93 games after just 82 the year before; also ended up giving the Dodgers a harder time in October than the Yankees ultimately did. The Yankees got Jason Giambi a year after he’d won an MVP award, and after the Yankees had played in five of the last six World Series at that time, and only went back to the Series once with Giambi in pinstripes. And you know how things worked out for the Nets after they beat the Knicks out of Kevin Durant. Still: Soto is still just 26 years old. People keep talking about him as a generational talent, but what that really means and clearly, because we all saw it with our own eyes, is that he is a generational talent with a bat in his hands. He is a free agent at basically the same age as A-Rod was. Rodriguez broke a record when he signed with the Texas Rangers for $252 million. Now Soto may break another one if this particular bidding war gets past the $700 million total that Ohtani got, as much of that was deferred by the Dodgers in a brilliant way of gaming the system. Does Soto check all the boxes the Yankees need to check right now, all over the field, and even just having made the Series? We’ve gone over this. He doesn’t. Doesn’t solve their infield openings and outfield openings and this year’s round of openings on their pitching staff. And as well as the Mets finished this season, as hard as they pushed the Dodgers in the National League Championship Series, it’s not like David Stearns is just sitting with his feet up at Citi Field, not in a tougher division in which the Yankees play, or in a much better, and deeper, league. “I am so grateful for the incredible run this team went on,” is what Cohen said on social media after the Mets finally lost Game 6 to the Dodgers, then sat back and watched the Dodgers take out the Yankees in 5. Now he’s in the running for Soto, along with the Dodgers, and the Yankees, of course, and the Red Sox. It really has become a perfect storm of money and power and ego and what has always been the balance of power in baseball in the city, even when the Dodgers still represented National League New York along with the Giants. With rare and dynamic exceptions — Giants in ’54, Dodgers in ’55, the Mets in ’69 and ’86 — the Yankees have been the big game here. They just went deeper into the postseason, obviously. But the Mets did remind everybody how the balance of power can shift, and mightily, when they’re back in play. Now along comes Steve Cohen, with more money than anybody in this country in team sports, to wanting it to shift permanently. Who knows when we get another Subway Series? But here is this Subway Series over a single ballplayer. Yankees had Juan Soto, want to keep him. Cohen wants to take him away from them. He grew up a Mets fan, knows everything there is to know about them being — with two remarkable exceptions — the Other Team in town. He also knows he can’t change the past. Just the narrative. Not just beat the Yankees out of Soto. Beat them back to the Canyon of Heroes and do it with one of theirs.Taoiseach Simon Harris has said he is taking a “project truth” approach to calling out Sinn Fein’s spending pledges as fears over future economic threats took centre stage in the Irish General Election campaign. Election results on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean have set the background for the final stretch of campaigning for Irish parties ahead of polling day on Friday. Donald Trump’s presidential election victory in the US has brought heightened concern that his administration’s proposals around corporation tax and tariffs would significantly impact Ireland’s economic model. Mr Harris, leader of Fine Gael, has argued Ireland and other EU countries need to prepare for the possibility of trade shocks as he criticised the scale of Sinn Fein’s spending pledges as well as their saving plans. He said: “I think that is irresponsible, I think it is dangerous and I think it is reckless.” He accused Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald of not being able to say what her party was prepared to do in the event of an economic crash, adding that Fine Gael would borrow and stop putting money towards a rainy-day fund. Asked if the party was engaging in “project fear” to dissuade voters against Sinn Fein, Mr Harris said: “I call it ‘project truth’. It’s telling people what’s being discussed right across European capitals.” Ms McDonald told an RTE interview on Wednesday morning that a Sinn Fein government would also be prepared to start borrowing in the event of an economic downturn. Both Mr Harris and Fianna Fail leader Micheal Martin, who were partners in the last coalition government in Ireland, have made clear they will not countenance Sinn Fein as a potential partner in the next administration in Dublin. One day after the only three-way debate featuring the leaders of the main parties, Mr Martin accused Sinn Fein of being “dishonest” about how they will fund their manifesto plans. Speaking in Dublin on Wednesday, he said he is anxious to get clarity on the issue. “I think Sinn Fein have been very dishonest, frankly, in terms of the funds, because if you go through their figures, and this is a matter of fact, not opinion, they’re predicting a surplus of a billion in 2026, a billion in 2027. “Even in 2025, they’re talking about a mini budget, which would mean reducing the surplus that we’re anticipating in 2025. “There’s a legislative obligation now on any new government to put 0.8% of GDP to one side, and into the funds. There’s no way you can do that with a surplus of a billion in 2026 or 2027, and we would argue they would not have enough funds next year either to put into the funds.” He added: “It means they have no room to manoeuvre if things go wrong, if there’s headwinds come externally, or there are shocks internationally, Sinn Fein is not allowing any headroom at all in terms of room to respond or to move it.” Ms McDonald accused the other two parties of conspiring to keep Sinn Fein out of government and prevent change in Ireland. She said the two men were now “indistinguishable” from each other as she claimed they were suffering “acute amnesia” in regard to their records in government. On a visit to Naas fire station in Co Kildare, she said: “To listen to them, you’d imagine they had just arrived on the scene and that they were going to come up with all of these solutions. “They have had ample chances, ample opportunity, to make things better, and they have failed, and in between the two of them I make the case that now we ask for our chance, with our plans, with our team, to demonstrate how change can happen, how your community, your family, yourself, can be supported when the government is actually on your side.” Mr Martin’s and Mr Harris’ coalition partner Roderic O’Gorman, the leader of the Greens, issued a warning to the public over a future government without his party. On Wednesday, he said it is looking likely that Fianna Fail and Fine Gael will be returned to government – but cautioned they may not want the Greens to continue “fighting hard” on policies. He told reporters: “My sense is certainly the mood music from Fianna Fail and Fine Gael is that they’d like an easier life in the next government – and my concern is they use these small populist parties and right-wing independents.” Mr O’Gorman argued that the Greens could continue to provide stability to government at a time when economic shocks may be around the corner. As the Green leader suggested that relying on independents would be unstable, Mr Martin has also argued that “too much fragmentation would lead to incoherence in government”. Reflecting on Tuesday night’s debate, the Fianna Fail leader said the race remained “too close to call” while Mr Harris said it is “all to play for”. The leaders of Ireland’s three main political parties clashed on housing, healthcare and financial management in the last televised debate before Friday’s General Election. The tetchy debate, which was marked by several interruptions, saw the parties set out their stalls in a broadcast that commentators said did little to move the dial before polling day. The latest opinion poll on Monday put the parties in a tight grouping, with Fianna Fail slightly ahead of Sinn Fein, and Fine Gael in a close third after a significant slide in a campaign marked with several hiccups for Mr Harris’s party. After the 2020 general election delivered an inconclusive result, Fine Gael and Fianna Fail, two parties forged from opposing sides of Ireland’s Civil War of the 1920s, agreed to set aside almost a century of animosity and share power – with the Greens as a junior partner. From 2016 to 2020, Fianna Fail had supported Fine Gael in power through a confidence-and-supply arrangement from the Opposition benches in the Dail parliament. Sinn Fein won the popular vote in 2020 but a failure to run enough candidates meant it did not secure sufficient seats in the Dail to give it a realistic chance of forming a government.
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