'Law & Order: SVU' Star Shares Bold Response to Diddy Trial Verdict

'Law & Order: SVU' Star Shares Bold Response to Diddy Trial Verdict

'Law & Order: SVU' Star Shares Bold Response to Diddy Trial Verdictoriginally appeared onParade. Law & Order: SVUstarMariska Hargitayis speaking out about Sean "Diddy" Combs's verdict. "Combs joins a long line of powerful and famous men who have allegedly engaged in abuse, yet faced minimal consequence," she wrote on herInstagram Storiesalongside a headline from Glamour magazine about the verdict. Mariska Hargitay responds to the Diddy trial verdict with a repost via Instagram Stories.pic.twitter.com/m4qG6YJkyY — Who Said What? (@whosaid_what4)July 3, 2025 Combs was acquitted of major racketeering and sex-trafficking charges butfound guiltyon two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution. Hargitay isn't the only Hollywood actress to speak out against the verdict. On Wednesday,Rosie O'Donnellposted a photo of the TV report about it on Instagram. "I guess a jury just never wants to believe that a woman stays because of power and coercion," she captioned the post. "Wow - they just think women stay because what? money - fame - 'they love the abuse' - what a f--king joke - this decision got me angry#cassie." View this post on Instagram A post shared by Rosie O'Donnell (@rosie) Former Diddy collaboratorAubrey O'Dayalso reacted strongly to news that he had been acquitted of three charges in his federal case. "Wow," O'Day, 41, wrote on her Instagram Stories on Wednesday, July 2, alongside a video of CNN anchors announcing the verdict. "This makes me physically ill," she added. "I'm gonna vomit." Outside the courthouse, the mood was drastically different. Diddy's supporters broke into celebration, with some fans captured on videodousing themselves in baby oilamid the post-verdict chaos. The baby oil references were a direct callback to the trial, where prosecutors repeatedly cited Combs' alleged use of it during drug-fueled sexual encounters known as "freak offs." The judge in Diddy's trial has sincedenied him bailand ordered the rapper to remain in jail until sentencing, which the judge suggested might be in October. 🎬SIGN UP for Parade's Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox🎬 'Law & Order: SVU' Star Shares Bold Response to Diddy Trial Verdictfirst appeared on Parade on Jul 3, 2025 This story was originally reported byParadeon Jul 3, 2025, where it first appeared.

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'Law & Order: SVU' Star Shares Bold Response to Diddy Trial Verdict

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Amal Clooney reveals why she and George Clooney don't share photos of kids

Amal Clooney reveals why she and George Clooney don't share photos of kids

Amal Clooneyis opening up about her famously private life with husbandGeorge Clooneyand theirtwin children. The 47-year-old international law and human rights lawyer, speaking toGlamour magazineabout her work in the U.K. withKing Charles'the King's Trustfor an interview published July 3, opened up about the secrets to her successful marriage with Clooney, 64, after more than a decade. "I have a partner in life who is so supportive of what I do. So I don't feel like I have to apologize for it or rein it in," she said. "And I remember when I became a mom, which was obviously a new frontier, (George) was the first one to say, 'I know you've got this speech at the Security Council. You have to go; I've got the kids, don't worry about it.'" The Clooneys share 8-year-old twins Ella and Alexander, born nearly three years after they were married in September 2014. Amal has spoken to the United Nations Security Council on multiple occasions, including about war crimes in Ukraine. "I feel so incredibly lucky to share every day with him. And now we're four. And I don't take any of it for granted," she added. "I treasure the laughter and the joy that I get from just being with them." The interview was published a week after she and George attended Buckingham Palace for the 2025 King's Trust Awards on June 25. The couple met with King Charles and young people recognized for inspiring work in their communities. A 19-year-old named Alice, who started a beadmaking business in Kenya, was recognized with the Amal Clooney Women's Empowerment Award. 'I had to cut it out':George Clooney shows off hair transformation at Tony Awards TheClooney Foundation for Justiceco-founder also opened up about the difficulty of maintaining privacy and the steps she's taken to protect her family. "Creating private moments and spaces is becoming increasingly difficult. But that's also why we entertain a lot at home," she told Glamour, adding that she uses "a phone basket" to collect guests' cell phones. She continued, "It's important to get that balance where you have time alone with your family and with your friends where people feel like you can have a safe and frank exchange." Clooney also alluded to "intrusions" that threaten her family's privacy. "I would say becoming a parent means you're more troubled by some of the intrusions. So we do the best we can to minimize any impact on our children," she said. "We don't put our children out there; we've never put their photo out there or anything like that." This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:Amal Clooney shares rare insight about George Clooney marriage

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Amal Clooney reveals why she and George Clooney don't share photos of kids

Amal Clooney reveals why she and George Clooney don't share photos of kids Amal Clooneyis opening up about her famously private life wit...

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Healthcare groups blast passing of Trump's tax bill, warn it will harm millions

Healthcare groups blast passing of Trump's tax bill, warn it will harm millions

By Patrick Wingrove and Michael Erman (Reuters) -Healthcare groups slammed the passage of U.S. President Donald Trump's tax-cut and spending bill on Thursday, warning that its sweeping healthcare provisions would inflict widespread harm on millions of Americans. The bill, when enacted, will overhaul the government's Medicaid healthcare program that covers around 71 million low-income Americans, introducing changes including mandatory work requirements that are expected to leave nearly 12 million people uninsured, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Republicans have said the legislation will lower taxes for Americans across the income spectrum and spur economic growth. According to the CBO, the bill would lower tax revenue by $4.5 trillion over 10 years and cut spending by $1.1 trillion. Much of those spending cuts come from Medicaid. Bobby Mukkamala, president of the American Medical Association, an influential U.S. doctors' group, warned that the Medicaid cuts would limit access to care by leaving millions without health insurance and make it harder for them to see doctors. "It will make it more likely that acute, treatable illnesses will turn into life-threatening or costly chronic conditions. That is disappointing, maddening, and unacceptable," he said. The Alliance of Community Health Plans, which represents local, nonprofit health plans, also rebuked the bill's passage, saying it would drive up consumer costs while slashing federal health spending to historic levels. The group pledged to work with policymakers to minimize disruption for communities. Greg Kelley, president of the Service Employees International Union's healthcare branch, representing Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, and Kansas, called the bill a "moral failure" that threatened healthcare access, jobs, and the stability of the healthcare system. Craig Garthwaite, director of the healthcare program at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, said their research showed such cuts would hurt patient health. He said expanding Medicaid had saved lives and cutting it back was likely to have the opposite impact. Ge Bai, a Johns Hopkins health policy professor and adviser to the conservative Paragon Health Institute, said she expected the private market would step in as able-bodied adults lose Medicaid and subsidies. "These people will come back to the private market," she said. "The financial burden to purchase insurance will be shifted away from U.S. taxpayers to these people's shoulders." (Reporting by Patrick Wingrove and Michael Erman in New York; Additional reporting by Amina Niasse in New York and Julie Steenhuysen in Chicago; Editing by Bill Berkrot)

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Healthcare groups blast passing of Trump's tax bill, warn it will harm millions

Healthcare groups blast passing of Trump's tax bill, warn it will harm millions By Patrick Wingrove and Michael Erman (Reuters) -Healthc...

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US Supreme Court sides with Trump in South Sudan deportation fight

US Supreme Court sides with Trump in South Sudan deportation fight

By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court again sided with President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday in a legal fight over deporting migrants to countries other than their own, lifting limits a judge had imposed to protect eight men who the government sought to send to politically unstable South Sudan. Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin called the decision a "win for the rule of law, safety and security of the American people" and said the men would "be in South Sudan" by Friday. The court on June 23 put on hold Boston-based U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy's April 18 injunction requiring migrants set for removal to so-called "third countries" where they have no ties to be given a chance to tell officials that they are at risk of torture there, while a legal challenge plays out. The justices on Thursday granted a Justice Department request to clarify that their June 23 decision also extended to Murphy's separate May 21 ruling that the administration had violated his injunction in attempting to send a group of migrants to South Sudan. The U.S. State Department has urged Americans to avoid the African nation "due to crime, kidnapping and armed conflict." The court said that Murphy should now "cease enforcing the April 18 injunction through the May 21 remedial order." The Supreme Court has a 6-3 conservative majority. "The Supreme Court's ruling rewards the government for violating the injunction and delaying implementation of the remedy the district court ordered," said Trina Realmuto, executive director of the National Immigration Litigation Alliance, which helps represent the plaintiffs. "Eight men are now at imminent risk of deportation to perilous and unsafe conditions in South Sudan," Realmuto said. Two liberal justices, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson, dissented from Thursday's decision. "Today's order clarifies only one thing: Other litigants must follow the rules, but the administration has the Supreme Court on speed dial," Sotomayor wrote in a dissenting opinion. Fellow liberal Justice Elena Kagan, who dissented from the court's decision to lift Murphy's injunction, nevertheless agreed with the decision on Thursday. "I do not see how a district court can compel compliance with an order that this court has stayed," Kagan wrote. The administration has said its third-country policy is critical for removing migrants who commit crimes because their countries of origin are often unwilling to take them back. Murphy found that the administration's policy of "executing third-country removals without providing notice and a meaningful opportunity to present fear-based claims" likely violates due process requirements under the U.S. Constitution. Due process generally requires the government to provide notice and an opportunity for a hearing before taking certain adverse actions. The judge's May 21 order mandating further procedures for the South Sudan-destined migrants prompted the U.S. government to keep the migrants at a military base in Djibouti. After the Supreme Court lifted Murphy's April injunction on June 23, the judge promptly ruled that his May 21 order "remains in full force and effect." Calling that ruling by the judge a "lawless act of defiance," the Justice Department the next day urged the Supreme Court to clarify that its action applied to Murphy's May 21 decision as well. 'CLEAR REBUKE' Even as it accused the judge of defying the Supreme Court, the administration itself has been accused of violating judicial orders including in the third-country deportation litigation. "Today's decision makes clear it is district court judges who are defying Supreme Court orders, not the Trump administration. This decision is a clear rebuke of such judicial overreach," White House David Warrington said on Thursday. After the Department of Homeland Security moved in February to step up rapid deportations to third countries, immigrant rights groups filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of a group of migrants seeking to prevent their removal to such places without notice and a chance to assert the harms they could face. In March, the administration issued guidance providing that if a third country has given credible diplomatic assurance that it will not persecute or torture migrants, individuals may be deported there "without the need for further procedures." The Justice Department said in a filing that the United States has received credible diplomatic assurances from South Sudan that the migrants at issue will not be subject to torture. The Supreme Court has let Trump implement some contentious immigration policies while the fight over their legality continues to play out. In two decisions in May, it let Trump end humanitarian programs for hundreds of thousands of migrants to live and work in the United States temporarily. The justices, however, faulted the administration's treatment of some migrants as inadequate under constitutional due process protections. (Reporting by Andrew Chung; Editing by Will Dunham)

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US Supreme Court sides with Trump in South Sudan deportation fight

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Pop star Katy Perry and actor Orlando Bloom split 6 years after getting engaged

Pop star Katy Perry and actor Orlando Bloom split 6 years after getting engaged

NEW YORK (AP) — PopstarKaty Perryand actorOrlando Bloomhave split, multiple media outlets reported Thursday. Outlets including People and USA Today cited a statement that said the pair "have been shifting their relationship over the past many months to focus on co-parenting" and would continue to be seen in public with their daughter. The statement, attributed to representatives for both stars, said their priority would be raising their daughter with "love, stability, and mutual respect." The statement came a week after reports of the couple's breakup swirled ahead of the wedding of billionaire Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos, which Bloom attended alone. Perry has been on a world tour. Representatives for Perry and Bloom did not immediately respond to The Associated Press' request for comment. Perry, 40, and Bloom, 48, have been romantically linked since 2016. The pairsplit in 2017but rekindled shortly thereafter, getting engaged on Valentine's Day in 2019, as Perry revealed during an interview on "Jimmy Kimmel Live." In 2020, the pair welcomeda daughter named Daisy Dove Bloom.Perry and Bloom got UNICEF to announce the news on its Instagram account. Both are goodwill ambassadors for the United Nations agency that helps children. Bloom and his former wife, Australian modelMiranda Kerr,have a son, Flynn, who was born in 2011. Daisy is Perry's only child. Perry, born Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson, was previously married to comedian Russell Brand. Born and raised in California, the 13-time Grammy Award nominee helped usher in the sound of '00s pop, quickly becoming one of the bestselling artists of all time for her campy, big, belting anthems. She has released seven studio albums, most notably 2010's sugar-sweet "Teenage Dream." The album produced five No. 1s that tied a record set byMichael Jackson's1987 album "Bad." Bloom, who is from Canterbury, England, is best known for his roles asthe elf Legolasin "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" films as well as Will Turner in the"Pirates of the Caribbean"series.

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Pop star Katy Perry and actor Orlando Bloom split 6 years after getting engaged

Pop star Katy Perry and actor Orlando Bloom split 6 years after getting engaged NEW YORK (AP) — PopstarKaty Perryand actorOrlando Bloomhave ...

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Hoda Kotb Says She's 'Going Old School' as Her 2 Daughters Use a Landline Phone for the First Time

Hoda Kotb Says She's 'Going Old School' as Her 2 Daughters Use a Landline Phone for the First Time

hodakotb/Instagram (2) Hoda Kotb is "going old school" with her two daughters during the summer The famed television anchor is the mother of two daughters, Hope Catherine and Haley Joy Kotb first became a mother in February 2017 Hoda Kotbis giving her kids a blast of the past. On Wednesday, July 2, the journalist and TV personality, 60, shared a snap of her daughter Haley, 9, on Instagram using a landline phone. In the caption, she wrote, "We are going old school! Any landline fams out there?#summerofjoy." The next day, she shared an adorable videoon Instagramof her daughter Hope Catherine, 5, actually getting her first phone call on the landline. In the clip, her daughter can be heard saying, "I can't really believe that you actually got our number. It's really complicated." "First phone call from one of Hopey's besties !!" Kotb wrote in the caption. Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE's free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer​​, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Hoda Kotb (@hodakotb) Kotb, who shares her daughters with ex-fiancéJoel Schiffman, is soaking up every moment with her girls sinceleaving theTodayshow after 17 years. "As I write this, my heart is all over the map," the journalistwrote in a letterto staff of the NBC morning show, shared Thursday, Sept. 26. "I know I'm making the right decision, but it's a painful one. And you all are the reason why. They say two things can be right at the same time, and I'm feeling that so deeply right now. I love youandit's time for me to leave the show." Explaining her reasoning, Kotb added in part, "My broadcast career has been beyond meaningful, a new decade of my life lies ahead, and now my daughters and my momneed and deserve a bigger slice of my time pie. I will miss you all desperately, but I'm ready and excited." She has been staying true to her promise of giving her daughtersmore of her time. On Monday, Feb. 17, Kotb shared pictures on herInstagramof her and her daughters, enjoying a calm day outdoors fishing together. In the post, she shared a video of her daughter's excited reaction to catching a fish. "Look at me go!" Hope said as Kotb pulled the fish out of the water. "Wait… whaaaattt— each of my girls caught a fish today!!" Kotb wrote in the caption. "#wowthrew em back— but what a thrill!" View this post on Instagram A post shared by Hoda Kotb (@hodakotb) The PEOPLE Appis now available in the Apple App Store! Download it now for the most binge-worthy celeb content, exclusive video clips, astrology updates and more! Although they are no longer together, Kotb and Schiffman have a great co-parenting relationship. The former couplecalled off their engagementin early 2022. "I have two incredible children I share with him. And it's because of Joel that I have Haley and Hope, without question. I think I might have been too afraid to do it alone," she told PEOPLE. On Sunday, June 15, the mom of two celebrated Father's Day bypenning a special tributeto the proud dad. In the post, the mom of two shared photos of Schiffman with his two girls, calling him a "great dad." "A great father's day for a great dad ! Happy father's day Joel!" she wrote in the caption. Read the original article onPeople

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Hoda Kotb Says She's 'Going Old School' as Her 2 Daughters Use a Landline Phone for the First Time

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18 shot 'in a matter of seconds' in deadly mass shooting: Police

18 shot 'in a matter of seconds' in deadly mass shooting: Police

Four people were killed and 14 others wounded in a "deplorable and cowardly" mass shooting in Chicago on Wednesday night, according to the police superintendent. Around 11 p.m., people were exiting a venue in the River North neighborhood and standing on the sidewalk when a vehicle pulled up and someone in the car opened fire on the crowd, Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling said at a news conference. "They didn't care who was struck, and in a matter of seconds, they were able to shoot 18 people," Snelling said. The venue was targeted, but it's not clear who specifically was the target, police said. MORE: Bryan Kohberger admits to Idaho college killings in plea hearing The vehicle fled the scene immediately and no one has been taken into custody, police said. Two different calibers of shell casings were recovered, police said. Two men and two women were killed, all in their 20s, according to police. The two men were identified as Leon Andrew Henry, 25, and Devonte Terrell Williamson, 23, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office. Fourteen others were wounded, including several who were hospitalized in critical condition, according to police. The injured victims are all in their 20s and 30s, and 11 of the 14 people hurt are women, police said. "When I arrived last night it was absolute chaos," Pastor Donovan Price, who works to help victims of violence, told reporters. "From people screaming, to blood on the streets, to people laying on the streets, a massive police presence. Just horrific. More than I've ever seen." MORE: Congressional intern killed in Washington, DC shooting: Officials The hospitals were "almost as chaotic" as the crime scene as people searched for their loved ones, Price said. "It can happen anywhere," he warned. "It's devastating." A second mass shooting also erupted on Chicago's far South Side on Wednesday night, leaving four people hospitalized, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said. "We are frustrated, but we are also grieving," Johnson said, adding, "We will not rest until there is full accountability." Despite the shootings, murders were down 32% year-to-date in the city as of June 29 and shooting incidents were down 39%,according to Chicago's crime data.

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18 shot 'in a matter of seconds' in deadly mass shooting: Police

18 shot 'in a matter of seconds' in deadly mass shooting: Police Four people were killed and 14 others wounded in a "deplorable...

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