Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs appeals for release while he awaits sex trafficking trial
Sean “Diddy” Combs is appealing a federal judge’s decision to keep him in jail while he awaits trial on sex trafficking charges. The hip-hop mogul’s lawyers filed a ...
Here’s how Helene and other storms dumped a whopping 40 trillion gallons of rain on the South
More than 40 trillion gallons of rain drenched the Southeast United States in the last week from Hurricane Helene and a run-of-the-mill rainstorm that sloshed in ahead of it — an unheard of amount ...
Orion Sun unveils her path to self-discovery in a new album
Amid a creative spiral, Orion Sun found comfort among the words of the late Audre Lorde’s essay “Poetry is not a luxury.” The poet’s writing provided a mental redirection for ...
Hunger in Haiti reaches famine levels as gangs squeeze life out of the capital and beyond
Nearly 6,000 people in Haiti are starving, with nearly half the country’s population of more than 11 million people experiencing crisis levels of hunger or worse ...
Media Day in the NBA: Optimism abounds, and new faces settle into new homes
Klay Thompson walked through the Dallas Mavericks’ facility in his new uniform for the first time. Chris Paul posed side-by-side with Victor Wembanyama in San Antonio, one standing about a ...
Major League Baseball scraps criticized All-Star Game uniforms and goes back to team jerseys
Major League Baseball is going back to using primary team uniforms for the All-Star Game, scrapping criticized special jerseys used for the past four years. Club uniforms were used ...
Triangle families desperate to reach loved ones missing after Helene; Ham Radio operators help relay messages
With hundreds of people still missing in Western North Carolina and little communication from those hard-hit areas, people here in the Triangle are desperate to find missing loved ones.
Kris Kristofferson was ‘a walking contradiction,’ a renegade and pilgrim surrounded by friends
If Kris Kristofferson’s life were fiction, it would feel a little implausible. He was a Texas-born Golden Gloves boxer and star football player, a Rhodes Scholar and a ...
UN extends Kenya-led force to tackle gangs in Haiti, but sidelines call for UN peacekeepers
The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Monday to extend the mandate of the Kenya-led multinational force helping to tackle gang violence in Haiti, after brushing off a ...
Durham man convicted of sexually assaulting his daughter for two decades: DA
A Durham man will likely spend the rest of his life in prison after the county prosecutor’s office announced he was convicted of sexually assaulting his daughter for two decades and ...
Knicks tiptoe into training camp while waiting for acquisition of Towns to become official
Karl-Anthony Towns was in the Knicks’ building, though not yet on their team. The trade bringing the All-Star center to New York and sending out Julius Randle and ...
Death toll reaches 40 in Hurricane Helene’s aftermath in NC, county officials say
Countless homes, businesses and roadways were washed away in North Carolina during the wrath of Hurricane Helene—and now 40 lives have been lost, according to a Monday ...