The Daily Populous

Friday November 17th, 2023 morning edition

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Cassie Ventura and Sean 'Diddy' Combs attend the Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & The Catholic Imagination Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 7, 2018 in New York City.

Hip-hop music and fashion mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs was hit Thursday with a civil lawsuit accusing him of raping and sex trafficking singer Cassie, his former romantic partner, over the course of a decade.

In addition to Combs, the suit names Bad Boy Records, Bad Boy Entertainment, Epic Records and Combs Enterprises as defendants.

Combs, one of the most influential and successful executives in music, founded Bad Boy in the early 1990s.

He also launched a clothing label, Sean John, and developed the Ciroc vodka brand.

Combs "vehemently denies these offensive and outrageous allegations," his lawyer Ben Brafman said in a statement.

Cassie's lawyer, Douglas Wigdor, shot back that Combs "offered Ms. Ventura eight figures to silence her and prevent the filing of this lawsuit. »

Ban on pelvic, rectal exams on unconscious, unknowing patients passes in Pa.

Authored by pennlive.com

If Shapiro signs the bill, Pennsylvania will join about 20 other states that outlaw such exams.

They have long been controversial, with some students over the years saying they were troubled by having to do the exams.

But the association stressed the need to obtain clear consent from patients, saying exams done on unconscious patients without their permission can be traumatic for both patients and students. »

Biden: Gaza operation will end when Hamas can no longer murder Israelis

Authored by jns.org

“I think it’s going to stop when Hamas no longer maintains the capacity to murder and abuse and just do horrific things to the Israelis.

“When Hamas said they plan on doing the same thing again—what they did on the 7th… they’re going to go in—they want to slaughter Israelis.

“And so, I just asked the rhetorical question, ‘I wonder what we would do if that were the case?'” »