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A former employee of Sean “Diddy” Combs took center stage in his federal criminal trial Thursday and testified that he physically and sexually assaulted her on multiple occasions during the time she worked for him. The employee, who is testifying under the pseudonym “Mia,” is expected to return to the stand on Friday to end the third week of testimony. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Police and fire investigators who looked into the rapper Kid Cudi’s allegations and a celebrity stylist who said he witnessed several assaults testified Wednesday in the third week of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ federal criminal trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A former employee of Sean “Diddy” Combs testified Tuesday that Combs threatened to kill rapper Kid Cudi after learning that the fellow musician was dating Cassie Ventura. Capricorn Clark, who worked for Combs and his companies off and on from 2004-2018, offered the dramatic details to begin the third week of testimony in Combs’ federal racketeering and sex trafficking trial. Combs has pleaded not guilty. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

International Harvard students say they are experiencing “pure panic” amid the Trump administration’s move to bar foreign enrollment, as students from around the world told CNN they are coming to grips with the possibility of revoked visas, suspended research and being blocked from reentry to the United States if they leave this summer. A federal judge temporarily halted the Trump administration’s ban on Friday, after the nation’s oldest and wealthiest college filed a suit in federal court. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Rapper Kid Cudi — who had a brief relationship with Cassie Ventura — testified about his interactions with Combs. Ventura testified last week that she endured physical and sexual abuse from Combs and detailed how he orchestrated drug-fueled sex performances called “Freak Offs.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Prosecutors said they plan to call Scott Mescudi, the musician known as Kid Cudi, to the stand Wednesday or Thursday. The prosecution has argued Combs and some in his inner circle used threats, violence, drugs, bribery, arson, kidnapping and lies to coerce Ventura and another woman into participating in sex parties he called “Freak Offs” and to protect the music mogul’s reputation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As week two of the RICO and sex trafficking trial against Sean “Diddy” Combs continues, Laura Coates sits down with Suzi Siegel, one of Combs’ former assistants, to hear more about what went down in Diddy’s world behind the scenes. Plus, we learn from CNN’s Elizabeth Wagmeister about a key piece of testimony from Cassie Ventura’s mother. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Cassie Ventura is no longer on the stand, but she was the central character in testimony from three witnesses on Monday in the federal criminal case against Sean “Diddy” Combs. Pop singer Dawn Richard, Ventura’s former best friend and one of Combs’ former assistants each testified about their interactions with Ventura as the prosecution sought to bolster Ventura’s testimony last week that Combs physically abused her and controlled her life for over a decade. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The singer Cassie Ventura wrapped up her dramatic testimony Friday afternoon after answering questions for nearly 20 hours over four days at Sean “Diddy” Combs’ racketeering and sex-trafficking trial. Ventura, Combs’ former longtime girlfriend, is the star witness in the case and has alleged Combs physically and sexually abused her and used violence and blackmail to make her participate in drug-fueled sex parties known as “Freak Offs” over more than a decade. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Laura Coates catches entertainment correspondent Elizabeth Wagmeister just after court concludes for the week for a breakdown of the most important moments and the biggest shocks from the first week of the federal criminal trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs. They get into Cassie Ventura’s emotional testimony, the potential impact of the settlements she’s now disclosed, and the surprising testimony from another witness that puts the case in a new light. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices