A federal appeals court has rejected fallen R&B star R. Kelly’s bid to overturn his New York sex trafficking and racketeering conviction. Kelly, 58, who was sentenced to 30 years in prison in June 2022 on racketeering and sex trafficking charges, argued through his attorneys that he didn’t run a racketeering enterprise because his employees … Read more
Disgraced music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs has filed a $100 million defamation lawsuit over a new documentary that details his alleged crimes. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Manhattan Supreme Court, lists NBCUniversal, streaming service Peacock and production company Ample Entertainment as defendants, accusing them of causing Combs “severe reputational and economic harm” with their “Diddy: … Read more
President Trump Wednesday said Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to begin talks to end the war in Ukraine during a “lengthy and highly productive” phone call. Framing Putin as a potential partner on the world stage, Trump said they would “work together, very closely” toward winding down the Ukraine conflict, which started when Putin invaded … Read more
Oh, baby — Gotham’s newest New Yorker is already a straphanger, born Wednesday morning on a southbound W train beneath Midtown, transit sources said. EMS was called to the 34th St. station of the M, N, Q, R and W trains just before 11:40 a.m., an FDNY spokesperson told the Daily News. Sources told The … Read more
There was never a question what Kendrick Lamar’s era-hopping Super Bowl LIX halftime show was building up to. For the past nine months, Lamar’s “Not Like Us” has been the pop-culture anthem, the gem of the rapper’s decade-long feud with Drake, which reached a fever pitch with the song’s release last spring. It was a … Read more
The mother of a 6-year-old girl whose body was found in the bathtub of their Brooklyn apartment told police she was baptizing her daughter when the child tragically drowned, prosecutors revealed on Sunday. Mother Karla Espinal, 26, faces charges of felony assault, child endangerment and reckless endangerment after her daughter Madelyne Tavarez’s death at the … Read more
Taylor Swift was ready for it. The pop superstar attended Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans with rapper Ice Spice, who also sat with Swift at the NFL title game last year. Swift wore a “T” necklace around her neck, perhaps in support of her boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce. The necklace … Read more
Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce, and Andy Reid were trying to pursue history. But no one told the Eagles after a stunning defensive performance en route to their second Lombardi Trophy. Eagles (18-3) registered six sacks on their way to a 40-22 victory over the Chiefs (17-2) in Super Bowl LIX as the confetti came down … Read more
Democratic congressional leaders Thursday unveiled a bill aimed at pushing back against what they called improper snooping by aides to billionaire Elon Musk, who’s been enlisted by President Trump to slash the federal budget. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said the new Taxpayer Data Protection Act would bar Musk’s team at the Department of Government … Read more
Sometimes the old reference points still work in sports, and so it is with this Super Bowl game between the Chiefs and the Eagles. This one is like a great heavyweight fight out of the past, when styles made fights like that great, and when you were lucky enough to have the No. 1 contender … Read more