NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs “committed crime after crime” but thought his “fame, wealth and power” put him above the law, a prosecutor told jurors Thursday as the hip-hop mogul’s sex trafficking trial shifted to closing arguments. “That ends now,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Christy Slavik said. “It’s time to find…
New York Mets right-hander Griffin Canning left Thursday night’s game against Atlanta in the third inning after suffering a left ankle injury on a non-contact play. Canning struck out three and allowed just one baserunner — Eli White’s single leading off the inning — before he was hurt while breaking toward the left side of…
Traders work at the New York Stock Exchange on June 23, 2025. NYSE S&P 500 futures sat near flat Thursday night with investors on all-time high watch and awaiting inflation data. Futures tied to the broad index traded around their flatline, as did Nasdaq 100 futures. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures added 47 points, or…
A worker checks a finished vehicle on the production line for electric vehicle maker Zeekr at its factory on May 29, 2025 in Ningbo, China. Kevin Frayer | Getty Images News | Getty Images China’s industrial profits plunged 9.1% in May from a year earlier, in the latest sign that Beijing’s stimulus efforts are falling…
The U.S. stock market is underperforming the rest of the world this year but that doesn’t mean American exceptionalism is dead, according to Apollo Global CEO Marc Rowan. The S & P 500 is a little more than 4% higher in 2025, underperforming other overseas markets that have surged this year as investors diversified away…
Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., and Omead Afshar, left, leave an event at the site of the company’s manufacturing facility in Shanghai, China, on Monday, Jan. 7, 2019. Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tesla CEO Elon Musk has fired Omead Afshar, the automaker’s vice president of manufacturing and operations, CNBC…
Lalo Schifrin, the composer who wrote the endlessly catchy theme for “Mission: Impossible” and more than 100 other arrangements for film and television, died Thursday. He was 93. Schifrin’s sons William and Ryan confirmed his death to trade outlets. The Associated Press’ messages to Schifrin’s publicist and representatives for either brother were not immediately returned….
Keyshawn Johnson weighs in on whether it would be a mistake for the Cleveland Browns to start Kenny Pickett over rookie quarterback Shedeur Sanders. <
Aerial view of Osaka Skyline Nikada | E+ | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets mostly rose Friday, tracking Wall Street’s gains after White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt downplayed the impending start of the tariff deals, which have weighed on investor sentiment. July 8 is when the so-called liberation day tariffs are set to take effect after…
UBS thinks Nvidia , Broadcom and Micron will continue to win big as artificial intelligence demand ramps up. In a note published Thursday, UBS highlighted three major pillars that will drive AI demand going forward: Model training for providers such as OpenAI, Google and Meta Consumer-facing products such as ChatGPT and AI overviews The building…
