Sean "Diddy" Combs' lawyer Brian Steel just said Combs was nearly shanked in prison. "The guards stopped a person who was armed with a shank who was on top of Sean and about to cut him."

LUIGI: The DOJ wants more time to respond to their potential violations to pretrial publicity rules in Mangione's federal case. The judge wanted a reply by today. Prosecutors ask for Wednesday.

Sean "Diddy" Combs will likely get between 5 and 7 years in prison: The judge just revealed that his offense level and criminal history "yields an advisory guidelines range of 70-87 months in incarceration."

Diddy can wear non-prison clothes to his sentencing Friday:

NEW: In a scathing 161-page order, a judge finds Kristi Noem + Marco Rubio knowingly conspired to chill free speech by trying to deport pro-Palestine students. He likens ICE's masking to the KKK: "ICE goes masked for a single reason -- to terrorize Americans into quiescence."

“If there is one thing I have learned from this experience, it is that victims and survivors will never be safe.” Cassie Ventura writes to a federal judge in support of the feds’ 11-year sentence recommendation for Diddy. cc @courthousenews.bsky.social

Update: Since the feds won’t transfer Luigi Mangione to Pennsylvania, and Mangione is declining to appear remotely, this Nov. 7 hearing is now cancelled.

Update: The feds won’t transfer Luigi Mangione to PA for his hearing on Nov. 7. The best they can do is video conferencing from jail, which Mangione’s legal team has objected to.

Texas man indicted over terroristic threats to NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani @uebey.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/texas-man-in...

A Texas man has been charged with making terroristic threats to Zohran Mamdani, per Queens DA Melinda Katz. Some vile stuff in here:

Mahmoud Khalil lost his bid for a waiver of removability, making him one step closer to deportation. He claims his immigration judge took Marco Rubio's "misrepresentations" about him as gospel, and is asking a NJ judge to step in. Here's some of the immigration judge's ruling:

New: A judge finds that ICE likely “cherry picked” statistics that are “flawed and likely misleading” to make the conditions at Manhattan’s 26 Federal Plaza seem more humane. He granted class certification so detainees can sue the government. cc @courthousenews.bsky.social

Just 24 members of the public were allowed inside the Luigi Mangione courtroom today. Court officers repeatedly instructed them, “no outbursts, no cell phones.” Footage via @abc7.bsky.social

LUIGI: Mangione will be appearing for a hearing in the next ~30 minutes at the Manhattan criminal courthouse. I'm in court w/ more than 70 reporters and about two dozen members of the public — many of whom waited overnight for their seat. Following live for @courthousenews.bsky.social 🧵

New: George Santos loses his appeal in the Jimmy Kimmel “Will Santos Say It?” copyright claim. Santos sued in 2024 after Kimmel got him to say outlandish things on Cameo, then aired the clips on his late-night show. More @courthousenews.bsky.social

New: A federal judge is allowing ICE courthouse arrests in NYC to continue, denying a challenge brought by immigrant rights groups and @ACLU . But he DID block immigration judges from tossing cases to reduce caseload — a limited win for the groups. More coming @courthousenews.bsky.social

Feds across the board are now less equipped to solve certain crimes. Over the summer, a Homeland Security official testified that he had to pull agents from counterintelligence + terrorism units to focus on the White House’s initiative to deport pro-Palestine student protesters.

New: A federal judge was not a fan of Trump’s new tule to require citizenship checks for access to services like food pantries and homeless shelters. “The government’s new policy, across the board, seems to be this: ‘Show me your papers,’” she wrote.

Eataly's Flatiron location has been hit with a negligence suit from a woman who claims she bit into a ravioli filled with shards of a broken plate:

LUIGI: Mangione is now due in court for his PA case on Nov. 7, 2025. This is a hearing on LM's claims that he was unlawfully arrested at the Altoona McDonald's. The Feds have said they'll only let LM appear for these PA hearings remotely; LM wants to be there in-person.

New: NY’s high court seemed dubious today over a Republican-led effort to kill the state’s new even-year election law. Advocates say the law will boost voter turnout. Critics say that’ll lead to longer lines. More @courthousenews.bsky.social

Luigi Mangione on Friday lambasted federal prosecutors for likening him to New York City mass shooter Shane Tamura, claiming that the move was “an attempt to prejudice potential jurors.” @uebey.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/luigi-mangio...

Eric Adams is NOT dropping out, he says. "Andrew Cuomo is a snake and a liar. I am in this race and I’m the only one that can beat Mamdani. Andrew has had a career of pushing Black candidates out of races."

LUIGI: Mangione hits back at prosecutors for comparing him to Manhattan mass shooter Shane Tamura. “The Government is well-aware that there is absolutely no link between Mr. Mangione and Mr. Tamura.” cc: @courthousenews.bsky.social

Update: NY prosecutors don’t want to give Luigi Mangione more time to decide whether he’ll offer psychological evidence at trial. cc @courthousenews.bsky.social

The Trump administration "used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities" when it slashed billions in research grants from Harvard, a judge just ruled. cc @courthousenews.bsky.social

New: NYAG Letitia James is suing to shut down VDARE, an alt-right nonprofit associated with white nationalism. James says VDARE’s owners used donor funds to buy a $1.4 million castle in West Virginia that they used as a home.

Oh golly. Check out the (likely AI generated) model SHEIN was using to hawk an $11 shirt. Looks familiar, eh? SHEIN has since taken the link down. But this was real — I’ll link an archived version of the store page below.

NEW: Prosecutors liken Luigi Mangione to Shane Tamura, the gunman behind July’s chilling mass shooting in NYC. They used an article from the Manhattan Institute to draw the comparison:

LUIGI: Prosecutors compare Mangione to the July NYC mass shooter in a new doc's footnote. "Like Mangione, [Shane] Tamura left behind a piece of evidence for investigators to find..." This is in response to Mangione's ask for more info about their pursuit of the death penalty.

Donald Trump is appealing last week’s ruling in his civil fraud case, which erased the $500 million disgorgement penalty. He wants the rest of the judgment vacated, too.

A Trump-appointed judge is letting POTUS strip Medicaid from a group of Maine clinics offering abortions. He jabbed at other judges ruling against Trump’s agenda, writing that it takes “a special kind of judicial hubris” to defy his Big Beautiful Bill.

LUIGI: Small update here. Mangione's team wants an extension on disclosing whether it will offer psychiatric evidence at his state trial. (Criminal Procedure Law § 250.10 requires notifying in advance whether psychiatric evidence will be proffered.)

A federal appeals court just upheld Connecticut's Sandy Hook-era ban on AR-15s, finding that restricting "unusually dangerous weapons" is not a violation of the 2nd Amendment. Pro-gun groups say it's "disappointing but not surprising." cc @courthousenews.bsky.social

Bill Clinton "absolutely never went" to Epstein's island, according to Ghislaine Maxwell.

Ghislaine Maxwell predictably denies Donald Trump ever behaving inappropriately alongside Jeffrey Epstein:

Judge finds Alina Habba has been unlawfully serving as US attorney in New Jersey @uebey.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/judge-finds-...

via @uebey.bsky.social - NYAG Letitia James will be appealing the appellate court’s ruling against Trump’s $500 million civil fraud penalty:

Breaking: Donald Trump's $500 million civil fraud penalty is gone after a NY appeals court found the fine "excessive." cc @courthousenews.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/new-york-app...

#BREAKING: Federal judge keeps Epstein grand jury transcript under wraps @uebey.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/federal-judg...

Judge Berman says the feds' move to unseal grand jury minutes seems to be a "diversion" to distract from Trump not releasing the more voluminous Epstein files. "The government's 100,000 pages of Epstein files and materials dwarf the 70 odd pages of Epstein grand jury materials."

Just in: A federal judge DENIES the Trump administration's request to unseal Jeffrey Epstein's grand jury materials in SDNY. cc @courthousenews.bsky.social

New: Eric Adams is unwilling to settle his sexual assault suit, even after a lawyer for his accuser said their side is open to settlement talks. Adams has “no interest,” a city lawyer said today. More 🫵

LUIGI: Mangione’s defense team lambasts prosecutors for their response to the Aetna drama. They reiterate the need for an evidentiary hearing to “uncover the full scope of prosecution's conduct.” cc @courthousenews.bsky.social

LUIGI: Mangione’s defense team lambasts prosecutors for their response to the Aetna drama. They reiterate the need for an evidentiary hearing to “uncover the full scope of prosecution's conduct.” cc @courthousenews.bsky.social

New: A judge just ripped ICE for arresting a NYC asylum-seeker, who claimed he was shot 10 times in an anti-gay hate crime in Jamaica. ICE arrested the guy before an immigration court hearing, a move the judge said “offends” the Fifth Amendment.

New: A judge just ripped ICE for arresting a NYC asylum-seeker, who claimed he was shot 10 times in an anti-gay hate crime in Jamaica. ICE arrested the guy before an immigration court hearing, a move the judge said “offends” the Fifth Amendment.

Mike Lindell’s My Pillow, Inc. owes a textile manufacturer more than $500,000, per a new lawsuit in SDNY.

Eric Adams is off the hook, but his straw donors aren't. Brooklyn construction tycoon Erden Arkan just got sentenced for sending illegal campaign funds to Adams' 2021 campaign. The judge was miffed when Arkan's lawyer brought up the "tainted" Adams case. More @courthousenews.bsky.social

Update: ICE says they can’t comply with all of the 26 Federal Plaza demands. They say giving detainees toothbrushes and access to their meds is a “safety concern.” They also say they can’t provide translators for legal calls — apparently they’ve never done that before.