Trump says only 21 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza now believed to be alive

• May 7, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that three hostages held by Hamas in Gaza have died, leaving only 21 believed to be still living.

“As of today, it’s 21, three have died,” Trump said of the hostages being held by Hamas, noting until recently it had been 24 people believed to be living. He did not elaborate on the identities of those now believed to be dead, nor how he had come to learn of their deaths. “There’s 21, plus a lot of dead bodies,” Trump said.

One American, Edan Alexander, had been among the 24 hostages believed to be alive, with the bodies of several other Americans also held by Hamas after its Oct. 7, 2023 assault on Israel.

Hamas has been designated as a terrorist organization by the United States, Canada and the European Union.

The president’s comments came as Israel approved plans on Monday to seize the Gaza Strip and to stay in the Palestinian territory for an unspecified amount of time, in a bid to recover the hostages and try to fulfill its war aims of destroying Hamas. If implemented, the move would vastly expand Israel’s operations there and likely draw fierce international opposition.

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Smokey Robinson accused by former housekeepers of sexual assault and rape

• May 7, 2025

By ANDREW DALTON, Associated Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Four former housekeepers of Smokey Robinson allege in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that the Motown music luminary repeatedly sexually assaulted and raped them while they worked for him.

The suit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court seeks at least $50 million in damages over the alleged assaults, which the women say took place between 2007 and 2024, and labor violations including a hostile work environment, illegally long hours and lack of pay.

A message seeking comment from a representative for the 85-year-old Robinson was not immediately answered.

The four women each say that Robinson would wait until he was alone with them in his Los Angeles house then sexually assault and rape them over their objections.

“We believe that Mr. Robinson is a serial and sick rapist, and must be stopped,” the women’s attorney John Harris said at a news conference.

All said they eventually quit over the assaults, though in some cases it took several years. And all said they feared coming forward over fears of retaliation, public shame and possible effects on their immigration status.

“Having to tell their husband and children of these despicable actions left them filled with shame and embarrassment,” Harris said. “So throughout their dreadful experiences with Mr. Robinson, all four women remained silent.”

He said as low-wage earners, they also all feared “missing a payday, and not being able to afford rent or buy food for their families.”

All four women withheld their legal names citing privacy concerns and are identified as Jane Does in court documents. They appeared at the news conference with their attorneys, but did not speak, and covered their faces with masks.

The lawsuit also names Robinson’s wife Frances Robinson as a defendant, alleging that she enabled his behavior despite knowing about past sexual misconduct. It also blames her for the hostile work environment, saying she berated them with language that included ethnic slurs.

One woman said she worked for the Robinsons from 2012 until 2024, and was assaulted at least 20 times in that span. Another said she worked for them from 2014 until 2020, and was assaulted at least 23 times. Another said she worked for them for a year before quitting in 2024 and was assaulted at least seven times. The fourth woman, who said she also acted as Frances Robinson’s personal assistant, hairdresser and cook, worked for them for 18 years before resigning in 2024. She cited similar experiences to the other women, but did not say how often she was assaulted.

The women, some of whom worked for the Robinsons at the same time as each other, also kept stories of the assaults from one another, but are now bonding over their experience, the attorneys said. They declined to give details at the news conference about how they came forward and learned there were others.

The suit seeks damages based on sexual battery, assault, false imprisonment, gender violence and other allegations.

“Obviously, no amount of money can compensate these women for what Mr. Robinson put them through,” Harris said. But he said the $50 million was warranted “based on the gravity of Mr. Robinson’s despicable and reprehensible misconduct.”

Plaintiffs’ attorney Herbert Hayden said that while they felt the assaults are worthy of criminal investigation, the women have not filed police reports, based on the same fears that kept them from coming forward.

Robinson, a member of both the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame, was among the biggest hitmakers of the 1960s — both with his group the Miracles and as a solo artist, with songs including “Tears of a Clown” and “The Tracks of My Tears.”

He was a central part of the Motown Records music machine in his hometown of Detroit as an artist, producer and songwriter for other artists.

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Dodgers will be without Teoscar Hernandez for extended period

• May 7, 2025

MIAMI — The Dodgers will be without the major league’s RBI leader for an extended period of time.

Teoscar Hernandez underwent an MRI on Tuesday that revealed a Grade 1 strain of the adductor muscle in his left thigh. Hernandez suffered the injury while running for a ball in the gap during Monday’s game against the Miami Marlins.

Hernandez was placed on the injured list on Tuesday but Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said there is no timetable at this point for when Hernandez might be able to return.

“It’s certainly weeks,” Roberts said. “But I just don’t know how long. I don’t know.”

Signed to a three-year, $66 million contract that brought him back after his All-Star season in 2024, Hernandez was off to an even better start this season. He was batting .315 with nine home runs and a .933 OPS and led the majors with 34 RBIs through Monday.

Hernandez’s subtraction puts a large hole in a Dodgers’ lineup that has been heavily reliant on the top four hitters in the order. James Outman was recalled from Triple-A Oklahoma City to take Hernandez’s roster spot, but the Dodgers certainly don’t expect him to replace Hernandez.

“He’s had a huge impact,” Roberts said of Hernandez. “I just think it’s going to be more of a platoon-based roster right now and we’ll kind of go from there.

“A guy that can take professional at-bats, drive in runs – he’s certainly going to be missed.”

Outman opened the 2024 season as the Dodgers’ primary center fielder but slumped badly and spent most of the season in Triple-A. He made some significant swing changes over the winter but didn’t make the Dodgers’ roster out of spring training. He got off to a slow start in Triple-A and was hitting .254 with eight home runs and an .830 OPS in 32 games at OKC but struck out 53 times in 146 at-bats.

“The last couple weeks he’s been very productive, taking good at-bats. So hopefully that continues here,” Roberts said.

“It (Outman’s swing) looked different early and then I just felt he started pressing in the middle of spring training and it became more mental versus mechanical to be quite honest.”

Roberts also said “it’s unlikely” that utility man Tommy Edman will be ready to return from his ankle injury this weekend as hoped.

Edman stretched a tendon in his ankle on a slide last week. He has been able to continue hitting in the cage but still feels discomfort when he tries to run.

“It’s just not responding. It’s just kind of slow moving,” Roberts said.

With Hernandez and Edman both out of the lineup, there could be more of an opportunity for Hyeseong Kim and Outman to get more playing time and a longer look at the major-league level.

“I think so. With Teo and Tommy not knowing when they’ll be back, they’re going to get a little runway, sure,” Roberts said.

PITCHING SHUFFLE

The Dodgers recalled right-hander J.P. Feyereisen from Triple-A OKC and designated right-hander Yoendrys Gomez for assignment.

Feyereisen was claimed on waivers from the Arizona Diamondbacks last Thursday. He was assigned to OKC but hadn’t pitched for them before being recalled on Tuesday.

Gomez was claimed on waivers from the New York Yankees 10 days ago and allowed seven runs on 10 hits in 4⅓ innings for the Dodgers.

Feyereisen might not be around for long. Right-hander Landon Knack also made the trip from OKC on Tuesday. He will be added to the roster and pitch Wednesday. Roberts said it hasn’t been decided yet whether Knack will start the game against the Marlins or follow an opener but “he’s going to take down the bulk of the game” as Ben Casparius did on Monday.

Knack has made three appearances with the Dodgers already this season (two starts) and allowed seven runs in 8⅔ innings.

ALSO

Left-hander Blake Snell was feeling “under the weather” and wasn’t at the stadium on Tuesday, according to Roberts. Snell has been on the IL with a shoulder injury and hasn’t pitched since April 2 but he was expected to start a throwing program during this trip.

UP NEXT

Dodgers (RHP Landon Knack, 1-0, 7.27 ERA) at Marlins (RHP Valente Bellozo, 0-2, 4.97 ERA), Wednesday, 1:40 p.m. PT, SportsNet LA, 570 AM

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Man barricaded in Brea home taken into custody

• May 7, 2025

A large police presence was felt in a Brea neighborhood Tuesday morning, May 6, as a SWAT team negotiated with a man wanted for felony assault who had barricaded himself in a home. He was arrested later that afternoon.

The barricade began around 10 a.m. after police responded to a report of a family disturbance at a home on the 400 block of Maravilla Lane. Police said officers arrived at the home and interacted with a man who then barricaded himself inside the residence.

Officers learned the barricaded man was also wanted for felony assault against another family member, which occurred the day prior, said Brea Police Lt. Chris Haddad. After several hours, a SWAT team was called in to handle negotiations and the man was taken into custody around 3 p.m.

At one point, police said the man stabbed himself and was hospitalized but remained uncooperative.

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Lakers’ JJ Redick says team must be in ‘championship shape’ next season

• May 7, 2025

EL SEGUNDO — Not long after the Lakers’ 2024-25 season came to a disappointing conclusion with their Game 5 loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves last week, the analysis of what they can do to improve next season began.

And after witnessing his team struggle in the fourth quarters throughout the first-round playoff series, Coach JJ Redick immediately mentioned players’ conditioning as something that needs to improve if they want to contend for a championship in 2025-26.

“I’ll start with the offseason and the work that’s required in an offseason to be in championship shape,” Redick said during a joint end-of-season news conference with President of Basketball Operations Rob Pelinka. “And we have a ways to go as a roster. And certainly, there are individuals that were in phenomenal shape. There’s certainly other ones that could have been in better shape. That’s where my mind goes immediately is we have to get in championship shape.”

Redick didn’t mention any players by name with his critique, although it’s well known that conditioning was one of the criticisms the Dallas Mavericks had of 26-year-old Slovenian star Luka Doncic before shockingly trading him to the Lakers in early February.

But the Lakers’ team-wide struggles with not being able to match Minnesota’s stamina was one of the many factors that led to the Timberwolves winning the first-round series as decisively as they did.

“It’s hard sometimes to admit this and maybe this is hard sometimes for a coach or a player to admit this: we lost to a better team,” Redick said. “That’s just the reality. We did. And we put ourselves in a position to win Games 3, 4 and 5 and we weren’t able to do that in the fourth quarter. And that’s where you really have to evaluate and really try to grow from as a coach and certainly as a group, whatever that group looks like next year.”

The sixth-seeded Timberwolves won the fourth quarter in all five games of the playoff series, ultimately outscoring the third-seeded Lakers by a combined score of 127-85 in the final periods.

The Lakers failing to execute was a factor.

As was Minnesota’s stifling defense, leading to the Lakers shooting just 29.3% from the field and 23.1% from 3-point range in the fourth quarters.

But the Lakers’ not being as well-conditioned as they could be was also a factor in Redick’s eyes.

And it’s something they hope to fix by the time training camp begins in the fall.

“It’s something that we’ll build out over the next couple weeks with our player development coaches, our performance staff, our training staff,” Redick said. “We obviously recognize it’s a long season and some guys have routines and it’s not that we’re looking to completely break routines, but we do want to have a program in place for each guy so that when they come back in mid-August, September, we can build off of that and start training camp in a really good spot, conditioning-wise.”

Redick, who wrapped up his first season as a head coach, also acknowledged he could be better, saying he would use the offseason and feedback from multiple sectors of the franchise to figure out how he could improve.

“I’ll use my own thoughts to evaluate myself, I’ll use what my players say and what my coaching staff says to evaluate, but I know I can be better,” Redick said. “And I know I will get better. I don’t necessarily take any satisfaction from how the year went.

“That’s not to say I’m not proud of what the group was able to do, and how we were able to figure out things on the fly and put ourselves in a position to have homecourt in the first round. But there’s always ways to get better. And I can get a lot better.”

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These are the US cardinals who will vote for the next pope

• May 7, 2025

By DAVID CRARY and PETER SMITH, Associated Press

The United States is the home country for 10 of the 133 cardinals eligible to vote for the next pope. That’s more than any nation except Italy, home to 17 of the electors who will gather Wednesday for the Vatican conclave to choose the successor to Pope Francis.

Only four of the American electors actively serve as archbishops in the U.S.: Timothy Dolan of New York, Blase Cupich of Chicago, Joseph Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, and Robert McElroy of Washington. Two are retired archbishops: Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston and Wilton Gregory of Washington.

The other four have had long Vatican service: Robert Prevost, James Michael Harvey, Raymond Burke and Kevin Farrell.

Profiles of the cardinal electors:

Raymond Burke

Burke, 76, a staunch Catholic traditionalist, often clashed with the more reform-minded Francis. Born in Wisconsin, he was a bishop there before becoming archbishop of St. Louis from 2004 to 2008. Pope Benedict XVI made Burke a cardinal in 2010, after he appointed him prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, the Vatican’s high court. After Francis removed him from that post in 2014, he made Burke the cardinal patron of the Knights of Malta, a prestigious but limited role. There, too, Burke and Francis clashed over a governance crisis at the chivalric order; Francis pushed him aside. Burke has been outspoken in saying Catholic politicians shouldn’t take Communion if they support abortion rights.

Blase Cupich

Cupich, 76, archbishop of Chicago, was a close adviser to Francis and served on several Vatican committees. He’s considered a moderate, having balanced upholding conservative Catholic teachings on social issues like same-sex marriage and abortion with advocacy for compassionate responses to the affected communities. Cupich, who inherited clergy sex abuse crises in dioceses he led, helped push reforms to combat the problem. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, he was ordained in 1975 and appointed by Pope John Paul II in 1998 as bishop of Rapid City, South Dakota. Benedict transferred him in 2010 to Spokane, Washington. In 2014, Francis — in his first major U.S. appointment as pope — made him archbishop of Chicago, and then cardinal in 2016.

Daniel DiNardo

DiNardo, 75, retired this year as archbishop of Galveston-Houston — the fifth-largest U.S. diocese, with 1.7 million Catholics. DiNardo was ordained in his native Diocese of Pittsburgh in 1977. He earned degrees from Catholic universities in Washington and Rome and worked in the Vatican office overseeing appointments of bishops. He served as bishop of Sioux City, Iowa, before moving to Houston in 2004. DiNardo was named a cardinal in 2007 by Benedict. He was president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops from 2016 to 2019 — a tumultuous time when the USCCB faced allegations of coverups of sexual abuse by priests. DiNardo shared Francis’ strong support for migrants while defending traditional church teachings on sexuality.

Timothy Dolan

Dolan, 75, has been archbishop of New York since 2009. He previously served nearly seven years as archbishop of Milwaukee. He grew up in Missouri, where he was ordained in 1976. Among other duties, Dolan was chairman of Catholic Relief Services and served a term as president of the USCCB. In 2012, Benedict appointed him a cardinal. Dolan is widely viewed as conservative, writing a 2018 Wall Street Journal column headlined “The Democrats Abandon Catholics.” Yet in 2023, he wrote a letter of welcome to a conference at Fordham University celebrating outreach programs aimed at LGBTQ+ Catholics.

Kevin Farrell

Farrell, 77, was selected by Francis in 2019 as the camerlengo, the Vatican official who runs the Holy See after the death of a pope and before the election of another. Farrell was born in Dublin in 1947, entered the Legionaries of Christ religious order in 1966 and was ordained a priest in 1978. He left six years later — before revelations that its founder was a pedophile — and became a priest in the Washington Archdiocese. He worked in several parishes and helped manage the archdiocese’s finances. He became auxiliary bishop of Washington in 2001 and served under ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick before becoming bishop of Dallas in 2007.

Wilton Gregory

Francis tapped Gregory to lead the Archdiocese of Washington in 2019 and made him the first Black cardinal from the U.S. in 2020. Gregory, 77, retired this year from leading the prominent archdiocese, which he shepherded through significant turmoil. Its two previous leaders, McCarrick and Cardinal Donald Wuerl, were implicated in a new wave of the clergy sex abuse scandal. Gregory has supported social justice and solidarity with immigrants. He drew notice for his relatively inclusive approach for LGBTQ+ Catholics. He told an LGBTQ+ group in January: “I apologize for my own lack of courage to bring healing and hope, and I ask forgiveness.” Gregory was born in Chicago and ordained there in 1973, serving as auxiliary bishop beginning in 1983. After 11 years as bishop in Belleville, Illinois, he was appointed in 2004 by John Paul II to be archbishop of Atlanta.

James Michael Harvey

Harvey, 76, has pursued a long career at the Vatican, initially as a diplomat and more recently as manager of the papal household. Born in Milwaukee, he studied at seminary there before completing his formation in Rome. He was ordained by Pope Paul VI in Rome in 1975 and entered the Holy See’s diplomatic service in 1980. John Paul II appointed Harvey prefect of the Papal Household in 1998, managing the pope’s official activities. Benedict made him a cardinal in 2012.

Robert McElroy

Francis named McElroy archbishop of Washington in January, tapping one of his most progressive allies to head the Catholic Church in the U.S. capital at the start of President Donald Trump’s second term. McElroy criticized Trump’s threats of mass deportations of immigrants as “incompatible with Catholic doctrine.” Francis appointed McElroy bishop of San Diego in 2015 and elevated him to cardinal in 2022. McElroy, 71, was one of a few U.S. bishops assailing a campaign to exclude Catholic politicians who support abortion rights from Communion. He has also expressed support for greater LGBTQ+ inclusion in the church. A native San Franciscan, McElroy received a bachelor’s degree from Harvard, a master’s degree and doctorate from Stanford, and a doctorate from the Gregorian University in Rome.

Robert Francis Prevost

The Chicago-born Prevost, 69, is prefect of the Vatican’s powerful dicastery for bishops, in charge of vetting nominations for bishops around the world. He has extensive experience in Peru, first as a missionary and then archbishop. Francis had an eye on him for years, sending him to run the diocese of Chiclayo, Peru, in 2014. He held that position until 2023, when Francis brought him to Rome for his current role.

Joseph Tobin

Tobin, 72, is archbishop of Newark, New Jersey, and a veteran of the Vatican bureaucracy who speaks five languages. The Detroit native was ordained in 1978 and earned master’s degrees in religious education and divinity at Mount St. Alphonsus Seminary in Esopus, New York. Benedict appointed Tobin in 2010 as secretary of the Vatican’s office overseeing religious orders. Tobin reportedly ruffled feathers by seeking to mend its frayed ties with U.S. nuns facing complaints they had become too liberal. Benedict appointed Tobin archbishop of Indianapolis in 2012. Francis made him cardinal and archbishop of Newark in 2016. Tobin welcomed Syrian refugees to Indiana despite opposition from then-Gov. Mike Pence. He has a welcoming stance toward LGBTQ+ people.

Seven U.S. cardinals, due to being 80 or older, are not conclave electors: Edwin O’Brien, Roger Mahony, Adam Maida, Seán Patrick O’Malley, Justin Rigali, James Francis Stafford, Donald Wuerl.

AP journalists Holly Meyer and Tiffany Stanley contributed.

Associated Press religion coverage receives support through the AP’s collaboration with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content.

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Top US officials will meet with Chinese delegation in Switzerland in first major talks of trade war

• May 7, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — Top U.S. officials are set to meet with a high-level Chinese delegation this weekend in Switzerland in the first major talks between the two nations since President Donald Trump sparked a trade war with stiff tariffs on imports.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer will meet with their counterparts in Geneva in the most-senior known conversations between the two countries in months, the Trump administration announced Tuesday. It comes amid growing U.S. market worry over the impact of the tariffs on the prices and supply of consumer goods.

No country has been hit harder by Trump’s trade war than China, the world’s biggest exporter and second largest economy. When Trump announced his “Liberation Day” tariffs on April 2, China retaliated with tariffs of its own, a move that Trump viewed as demonstrating a lack of respect. The tariffs on each other’s goods have been mounting since then, with the U.S. tariffs against China now at 145% and China tariffs on the U.S. at 125%.

American firms have already begun canceling orders from China, postponing expansion plans and hunkering down as a result of the tariff war.

Trump had claimed previously that the U.S. and China were holding negotiations on lowering tariffs, which Beijing has denied, saying Trump must first lower his stiff tariffs. Bessent earlier Tuesday testified to a House committee that the U.S. and China “have not engaged in negotiations” but “as early as this week,” the U.S. will be announcing trade deals with some of the largest U.S. trading partners.

The Chinese Commerce Ministry on Tuesday confirmed the meeting between its vice premier and Bessent in Switzerland.

“The Chinese side carefully evaluated the information from the U.S. side and decided to agree to have contact with the U.S. side after fully considering global expectations, Chinese interests and calls from U.S. businesses and consumers,” said a ministry spokesperson.

The spokesperson said China would not “sacrifice its principles or global equity or justice in seeking any agreement.”

Most economists have said the cost of the tariffs would get passed along to consumers in the form of higher prices for autos, groceries, housing and other goods. And the higher prices are already becoming a burden on U.S. consumers, who are in the biggest economic funk since the COVID-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, economists say the risk of a recession is growing.

Wendy Cutler, a former U.S. trade official and now vice president of the Asia Society Policy Institute, said the upcoming meeting is a welcome development.

“As the first face to face meeting between senior U.S. and Chinese officials since Trump’s inauguration, it’s an important opportunity to have initial talks on unwinding some tariffs, mapping out a path forward, as well as raising concerns,” Cutler said. “We should not expect any quick victories — this will be a process that will take time.”

In Switzerland, Bessent and Greer also plan to meet with Swiss President Karin Keller-Sutter, according to readouts from their respective offices.

Both Greer and Bessent had talked with their counterparts before the beginning of the trade war.

Greer told Fox News Channel last month that he spoke with his Chinese counterpart for over an hour before the trade war started. “I thought it was constructive,” he said, adding: “This is not a plan just to encircle China. It’s a plan to fix the American economy, to have a greater share of manufacturing as GDP, to have real wages go up, to be producing things instead of having an economy that’s financed by the government.”

And Bessent in February spoke with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng “to exchange views on the bilateral economic relationship,” according to a Treasury news release.

Associated Press writer Paul Wiseman in Washington contributed to this report.

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Jury selection in the Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sex trafficking trial expected to be completed Wednesday

• May 7, 2025

By LARRY NEUMEISTER, Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — A jury in the sex trafficking trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs is expected to be in place sometime Wednesday, lawyers told a federal judge after dozens of prospective jurors were questioned over two days to see if they can judge the music mogul fairly.

The lawyers measured the progress made over two days after Judge Arun Subramanian completed questioning dozens of prospective jurors to weed out any biases.

Opening statements are scheduled for Monday, when prosecutors will cast Combs as the head of a criminal organization who exploited his fame and fortune to sexually abuse women and destroy young lives. Defense attorneys plan to counter by saying Combs was not committing crimes when he engaged in sexual activity with consenting adults.

Combs, 55, has pleaded not guilty to a five-count indictment charging him with leading a racketeering conspiracy from 2004 to 2024 that resulted in various crimes, including kidnapping, arson, bribery and sex trafficking.

The Bad Boy Records founder has been held without bail since his arrest at a Manhattan hotel last September.

On Monday and Tuesday, the judge assembled a pool of 35 potential jurors, 10 individuals short of the group of 45 would-be jurors that are one step from sitting on the jury for a trial projected to last up to two months.

The last step in the process will occur when lawyers on both sides strike a limited number of individuals off the jury for reasons they usually are not required to disclose.

Numerous possible jurors were disqualified on Tuesday after answering questions in ways that left lawyers and the judge to believe they could not be fair and unbiased. One man was dismissed after expressing doubt that he could follow an order by the judge not to smoke marijuana for the duration of the trial.

“He was honest,” Subramanian quipped, eliciting laughter throughout the courtroom where he interviewed prospective jurors one at a time.

Throughout the day, Combs seemed engaged with the process. Sometimes he was the first to rise from his chair at the defense table each time a potential juror entered or left the courtroom. Near the end of the day, he stretched several times in his cushioned chair.

Several who were eliminated from the jury pool had seen or heard media reports related to the case, including some who said they saw a video in which Combs was hitting and kicking one of his accusers in a Los Angeles hotel hallway in 2016.

But one man who had written on a questionnaire that the video left him with the “impression of an angry hostile person who is entitled” was not dismissed from the jury pool.

After the video aired on CNN last year, Combs apologized, saying, “I take full responsibility for my actions in that video. I was disgusted then when I did it. I’m disgusted now.”

In a court filing Tuesday, prosecutors complained that a prominent attorney — the father of one of the lawyers on Combs’ legal team — had a long-standing relationship with Combs and seemed to be acting as an adviser to Combs and the defense team even as he spoke out about the case repeatedly on his podcast.

Prosecutors urged the judge to require the attorney to obey rules that require lawyers working on the case to limit their public comments.

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