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Savewith a NBCUniversal ProfileCreate your free profile or log in to save this articleNov. 11, 2025, 2:30 AM ESTBy Adam Reiss and Chloe MelasSean Combs is participating in a drug rehabilitation program behind bars that could reduce his sentence by as much as a year, his spokesman Juda Engelmayer said.The founder of Bad Boy Entertainment is committed to sobriety, healing and trying to set an example for others, Engelmayer said.“Mr. Combs is an active participant in the Residential Drug Abuse Program (RDAP) and has taken his rehabilitation process seriously from the start,” Engelmayer said. “He is fully engaged in his work, focused on growth, and committed to positive change.”A federal inmate locator indicates Combs is expected to be released in May 2028. Completing the rehab program could mean an earlier release, though he would still face five years of supervision, as well as drug testing and mental health meetings prescribed under his sentence, which he’s appealing.Prosecutors had sought a sentence of more than 11 years. The disgraced music mogul was sentenced Oct. 3 to 50 months in prison following his conviction on two counts of transporting people for prostitution. He received credit for 14 months of time served before sentencing.The rehabilitation program is provided at Federal Correctional Institution Fort Dix — a low-security federal prison in New Jersey — where Combs arrived on Oct. 30th, Engelmayer said. Combs has been accepted into the program and is working in the chapel library there, the spokesman said.“He works in the chapel library, where he describes the environment as warm, respectful, and rewarding,” Engelmayer said.News of Combs participating in the rehab program was first reported by the New York Times.Combs during his sentencing on Oct. 3.Jane Rosenberg / ReutersDuring trial, ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura testified that Combs used violence to coerce her into participating in so-called freak-offs, drug-fueled sex parties with sex workers he hired. Afterward, she testified, she felt “disgusted” and “humiliated.”At Combs’ sentencing, U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian said Combs “abused the power and control with women you professed to love.””You abused them physically, emotionally and psychologically,” he said.Combs apologized to Ventura and another former girlfriend, describing his actions as “disgusting, shameful and sick.”After his conviction in July, Combs’ legal team reached out to President Donald Trump to seek a pardon, a source close to the defense said in early August.On Aug. 1, the president said in an interview with Newsmax that he was previously “very friendly” with Combs, but that Combs “was very hostile” when Trump ran for office. Asked if he was suggesting he wouldn’t pardon Combs, Trump said, “I would say so.”The music executive, meanwhile, is currently in a nine-person room in a large unit that houses 200 people, Engelmayer said.Combs has restarted “Free Game with Diddy,” an entrepreneurial class to help other inmates become entrepreneurs, value their self-worth and become productive citizens, Engelmayer said. Combs ran the program while he was at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, he said.Efforts to reach a spokesman for the Bureau of Prisons over the last several days have been unsuccessful due to the government shutdown.Adam ReissAdam Reiss is a reporter and producer for NBC and MSNBC.Chloe MelasChloe Melas is an entertainment correspondent for NBC News. Dennis Romero contributed.

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Sean Combs is participating in a drug rehabilitation program behind bars that could reduce his sentence by as much as a year, his spokesman Juda Engelmayer said

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Nov. 10, 2025, 10:30 PM ESTBy Zoë RichardsPresident Donald Trump on Monday doubled down on his criticism of air traffic controllers who have been absent during parts of the record-long government shutdown, when they’re required to work without pay.During a Fox News interview, Trump roundly dismissed the employees who in some cases have had to take on second jobs to pay their bills amid a funding lapse that will hit the six-week mark on Tuesday.“You know, a lot of people who showed up also had a second job. They took a second job temporarily. But they all know the money’s coming, and the money was coming,” Trump told host Laura Ingraham.Air traffic controllers are classified as essential government workers, meaning they must show for work during a shutdown, even though they’re not getting paid. Members of the military, who are also essential workers, have received paychecks during the funding lapse.Trump has been inconsistent in recent remarks about backpay for federal employees when the government reopens.He said last month that “it depends who we’re talking about,” when asked whether he supported back pay for federal employees, and that there “are some people that really don’t deserve to be taken care of, and we’ll take care of them in a different way.”The Trump administration has also explored ways to prevent furloughed workers from getting back pay, despite a 2019 federal law requiring back pay, including through a draft memo last month that White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said did not entitle federal workers to retroactive pay.The memo appeared to contradict the Office of Management and Budget’s earlier guidance which indicated that in the event of a shutdown, federal workers would be paid for any lapses in pay.Trump’s comments Monday on Fox News came after he urged air traffic controllers in a social media post earlier in the day to return to work, days after the Federal Aviation Administration began canceling flights at dozens of major U.S. airports in a move that officials said was intended offset staffing shortages.Trump threatened to dock the pay of those who didn’t report to work, while saying that he would recommend $10,000 bonuses for those who hadn’t been absent during the shutdown.“For those that did nothing but complain, and took time off, even though everyone knew they would be paid, IN FULL, shortly into the future, I am NOT HAPPY WITH YOU,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. He reiterated that sentiment on Fox News, saying, “I want to reward the people that showed up without a lot of nonsense, without a lot of talk.””They did their job and in many cases, they worked longer hours to get us through this period,” Trump added.Asked how he would pay the bonuses, Trump said: “I don’t know. I’ll get it from some place.”More broadly, Trump dismissed growing concerns about the economy among voters. After declaring that “the economy is the strongest it’s ever been,” Ingraham asked Trump why people are saying they’re anxious about the economy.”I don’t know what they are saying,” Trump responded. “I think polls are fake. We have the greatest economy we’ve ever had.”A recent NBC News poll found that about two-thirds of respondents nationwide said Trump hasn’t delivered on his promises to curb inflation and improve the economy.The president also weighed in on the legal fight over funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, saying the program “really puts the company, the country, in jeopardy.”He then expressed disdain for “able-bodied people” whom he claimed were leaving their jobs to obtain SNAP benefits.”People that need it have to get it. I’m all for it, but people that are able-bodied, can do a job, they leave their job because they figure they can pick this up, it’s easier,” Trump said. “That’s not the purpose of it.”The Trump administration on Monday filed a supplemental Supreme Court briefing seeking to extend a pause imposed last week to block full federal funding of food assistance program’s benefits to its roughly 42 million recipients.The Senate passed a bill Monday night to reopen the government, with a provision that would ensure SNAP benefits are available through next September. The measure now heads to the House.Zoë RichardsZoë Richards is a politics reporter for NBC News.

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The president, whose staff explored ways to skirt a law requiring backpay for federal workers after the shutdown ends, insisted “they all knew the money is coming.”

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Nov. 11, 2025, 1:26 AM EST / Updated Nov. 11, 2025, 1:52 AM ESTBy Mithil Aggarwal and Jay GanglaniIndian authorities are investigating “all options” after at least eight people were killed Monday night in a rare car blast that tore through a neighborhood in the capital that is popular with tourists.At least 20 others were injured in the explosion near the historic Red Fort in Delhi, which took place at 6:52 p.m. local time (8:22 a.m. ET) and left the surrounding area laced with charred vehicles.A “slow-moving vehicle” had stopped at a red light at an intersection when it exploded, Delhi Police Commissioner Satish Golcha told reporters Monday, starting a large fire that spread to nearby cars and rickshaws. Officials have not said what caused the explosion or identified any suspects. Delhi Police have registered a case under anti-terrorism laws and are building the “sequence of events,” Deputy Commissioner Raja Banthia told reporters Tuesday morning. “It is too premature to comment upon anything,” he added.Footage verified by NBC News showed burned vehicles at the scene of the explosion, where investigators are combing for forensic evidence that could help determine the cause.Witnesses described seeing body parts strewn around the area.“It was like an earthquake, the impact and intensity was very powerful,” said Wadqas Shaikh, a 34-year-old pharmacy owner in the nearby Chandni Chowk market.“We were shocked,” he said. Home Minister Amit Shah said Monday night that it was too early to say whether the blast was a terrorist attack, telling reporters that investigators are exploring all possibilities.“We will investigate all angles with determination,” he said.Shah was expected to chair a meeting with top intelligence officials on Tuesday morning. Forensic experts inspecting the blast site in Delhi on Tuesday.Arun Sankar / AFP – Getty ImagesDefense Minister Rajnath Singh said Tuesday that the investigation findings “will soon be made public.”“Those responsible for this tragedy will be brought to justice and will not be spared under any circumstances,” he said.The blast has rattled nerves in India, which almost went to war with its neighbor and fellow nuclear power, Pakistan, over an April terrorist attack in the disputed region of Kashmir that killed 26 people, mostly Indian tourists. India, which said Pakistan-backed armed militants were responsible, launched airstrikes on Pakistan, which denied involvement in the attack. Dozens of people were killed on both sides of the border in the following days before a ceasefire agreement was reached. Monday’s blast occurred outside the 17th-century Red Fort, once the seat of Mughal emperors and now a major tourist destination, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivers an address every Aug. 15 to mark India’s Independence Day.Security has been ramped up at key locations around Delhi, which has a population of nearly 33 million people, including the country’s busiest airport, several monuments, and train stations, India’s federal police unit, the CISF, said in a post on X.The Red Fort metro station was closed on Tuesday “due to security reasons,” the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation said on X. The fort itself has also been closed until Thursday, the archaeology agency said.Neighboring states Uttar Pradesh — the country’s most populous and home to the Taj Mahal — and Haryana have also been put on high alert, police there said. India’s financial hub, Mumbai, in the country’s south, is also on high alert, police said.The State Department expressed its condolences and advised U.S. citizens to stay away from crowded areas, especially around the Red Fort. The blast occurred hours before President Donald Trump swore in Sergio Gor as the U.S. ambassador to India.Modi, whose Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party governs Delhi and also faces key elections this week in the northern state of Bihar, shared his condolences Monday in a post on X and said he had “reviewed the situation” with Shah.The blast occurred hours after police in Kashmir, India’s only Muslim-majority region, said they had arrested several people linked to prominent terrorist groups and seized over 6,300 pounds of explosive materials in a joint operation involving police in Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. It was not clear whether the arrests were related.While blasts such as the one on Monday are rare, it evoked memories of previous attacks targeting Delhi.A briefcase bomb killed about 12 people when it went off outside the High Court in 2011, a decade after gunmen stormed the parliament and killed more than a dozen people.Mithil AggarwalMithil Aggarwal is a Hong Kong-based reporter/producer for NBC News.Jay GanglaniJay Ganglani is NBC News’s 2025-26 Asia Desk Fellow. Previously he was an NBC News Asia Desk intern and a Hong Kong-based freelance journalist who has contributed to news publications such as CNN, Fortune and the South China Morning Post.

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Nov. 10, 2025, 10:34 PM ESTBy Phil Helsel, Joe Kottke and Chelsea DambergThe families of six children and two counselors killed in a flooding disaster that struck a Texas summer camp for girls in July filed two separate lawsuits Monday against the camp’s owners and others, alleging negligence.Twenty-seven children and counselors died in the July disaster in Kerr County, which was caused by slow-moving thunderstorms. More than 100 people died overall.The two suits say the camp was located in a known flash flood area along the Guadalupe River. Lawyers for the families of five of the children and two counselors said it was “in a region known as ‘Flash Flood Alley.’”“Camp Mystic has long operated in a high-risk flood zone. Despite this known danger, the petition asserts that the camp failed to adopt legally required evacuation plans, ignored repeated weather warnings, and implemented unsafe policies,” attorneys for the plaintiffs said.The lawsuit also alleges camp staff prioritized protecting equipment rather than the lives of campers and counselors.”With the river rising, the Camp chose to direct its groundskeepers to spend over an hour evacuating camp equipment, not its campers and counselors,” the suit says, adding that campers and counselors in two cabins were ordered to stay put even as others had been moved to higher ground 300 feet away.”Finally, when it was too late, the Camp made a hopeless ‘rescue’ effort from its self-created disaster in which 25 campers, two counselors, and the Camp director died,” the suit says.A Sheriff’s deputy pauses while combing through the banks of the Guadalupe River near Camp Mystic on July 5.Julio Cortez / AP fileJeff Ray, a lawyer for Camp Mystic, in a statement to NBC Dallas-Fort Worth Monday said that the magnitude of the flooding was unexpected. He said there was “misinformation” in the suits about the actions of Camp Mystic and Dick Eastland, the camp’s owner and director, who also died.”We intend to demonstrate and prove that this sudden surge of floodwaters far exceeded any previous flood in the area by several magnitudes, that it was unexpected and that no adequate warning systems existed in the area,” Ray said.The family of another child who was killed, 8-year-old Eloise “Lulu” Peck, filed a separate lawsuit Monday against Camp Mystic and others.The suit alleges owners of the camp, which it says has been in the family for generations, knew as far back as 1932 that cabins “sat in the bullseye of potential flood waters from the Guadalupe River and never said a word about it to trusting parents.” Since that time, the suit says, the owners had been playing “Russian Roulette with the lives of the little girls.”The lawsuit, filed by Eloise’s parents Timothy and Melissa Peck, seeks unspecified damages in excess of $1 million for wrongful death, mental pain and anguish and other causes.“There is no greater trust than when a parent entrusts the care of their child to another. Parents don’t send their children to summer camp to die,” they said in the lawsuit.Camp Mystic “and the people who ran it betrayed that trust,” they said.During the early morning hours of July 4, the Guadalupe River in Kerr County rose over 20 feet in just a few hours, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration has said.The Texas counties affected by the flash flooding had been experiencing drought since late 2021, the agency said. Drought conditions raise the risk that heavy rain will cause flash flooding because it hardens soils.The remnants of Tropical Storm Barry, which had hit southeastern Mexico on June 29, had a circulation that merged with a trough and moisture from the Eastern Pacific to cause the thunderstorms, NASA has said.Those factors created “a large, organized cluster of thunderstorms that remained nearly stationary over the Texas Hill Country from July 4 to 7,” NASA said. Around 11 inches fell in a few hours, and more than 20 inches fell in some areas overall.More than 130 people died in the floods across six counties, according to a count of official reports conducted by NBC News. At least 117 died in Kerr County, where Camp Mystic is located, the county government said in August. Two people remained missing as of Aug. 8.Camp Mystic said it plans to partially reopen next year with a monument to the victims.“Our clients are devastated by the loss of Lulu,” Randy R. Howry, lawyer for the Pecks, said in a statement. “It was a terrible tragedy that could have been avoided. Camp Mystic must be held accountable for their failure to take care of Lulu and her friends.”Phil HelselPhil Helsel is a reporter for NBC News.Joe KottkeJoe Kottke is an assignment editor at NBC News covering domestic news, including politics, crime, natural disasters, immigration and LGBTQ issues.Chelsea DambergChelsea Damberg is an associate booking producer at TODAY.

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The families of six children and two counselors killed in a flooding disaster that struck a Texas summer camp for girls in July filed two separate lawsuits Monday against the.

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