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[3] I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire Editor -in -Chief John Bickley.
[4] It's Monday, March 25th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update.
[5] The homes of Sean P. Diddy Combs were raided today by law enforcement agencies in connection with a sex trafficking investigation.
[6] Video showed dozens of law enforcement officers swarming Combs' homes.
[7] in the exclusive Beverly Hills neighborhood of Holmby Hills.
[8] According to TMZ, his Miami home was also rated today.
[9] Cassie Ventura, who had a decade -long relationship with Combs, had filed a civil lawsuit against him last year claiming sexual abuse and trafficking.
[10] The rapper has denied all charges.
[11] An appeals court has significantly decreased Donald Trump's $454 million judgment, down to $175 million.
[12] The former president has 10 days to pay.
[13] post the bond.
[14] The 11th hour ruling means state attorney general Letitia James's office cannot yet begin collecting on the judgment.
[15] Trump gave the following remarks after the ruling.
[16] I think that New York State was helped a lot today by the decision.
[17] I'll give you an example.
[18] Truth Social is doing very well.
[19] It's hot as a pistol.
[20] I'm doing great.
[21] And it's going public.
[22] And the New York Stock Exchange wants to have us badly.
[23] And I told them we can't do the New York I think she's you treated too badly in New York.
[24] Trump says he will post the bond using cash.
[25] In a separate New York courtroom, a judge set Trump's hush money trial for April 15th.
[26] Two suspects have pleaded guilty following Friday's deadly terror attack at a Moscow concert venue.
[27] At least 137 people were killed in the attack and many others were injured.
[28] The four suspects who have been linked to ISIS K were all charged with committing a group terrorist attack resulting in the death of others.
[29] The charge carries a maximum penalty of life in prison.
[30] A Mexican drug cartel known for brutally killing people in public are also behind a timeshare scam that's drained millions of dollars from many elderly Americans.
[31] Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce has the details.
[32] According to FBI statistics, the Helisco New Generation Cartel uses its timeshare network to target elderly U .S. citizens and steal their life savings.
[33] The Courier Journal investigated the cartel scheme and found one man who lost just shy of $1 .8 million.
[34] In that case, the victim was lured in by a promise of healthy profit from a time share.
[35] Then after the scam, the cartel came back with promises of reimbursement from a seemingly legitimate Mexican lawyer.
[36] In the end, the man had made 99 wire transfers.
[37] There were about 150 people involved in around 12 Mexican bank accounts.
[38] Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says her department remains committed to the administration's whole -of -government effort to disrupt the cartel's revenue sources and ability to traffic deadly drugs like fentanyahu.
[39] Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has canceled a diplomatic trip to Washington after the U .S. failed to block a UN Security Council resolution demanding a ceasefire in Gaza.
[40] The U .S. abstained from a vote, a move Netanyahu called a clear retreat from the position they've held on the Security Council since the beginning of the war.
[41] The result of the voting is at Sporos.
[42] 14 votes in favor.
[43] Zero vote against.
[44] One abstention.
[45] The draft.
[46] The resolution has been adopted at Resolution 27, 28, 224.
[47] The resolution demands an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza for the remaining days of Ramadan, a Muslim holy month.
[48] It also demands an unconditional release of hostages being held by Hamas terrorists.
[49] Before the vote, an Israeli delegation was slated to travel to Washington to discuss Israel's plans for Rafah, a city in the southern Gaza Strip.
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[53] Several senior Boeing executives, including the company's CEO, have announced that they're stepping down.
[54] The company made the announcement today as it continues to grapple with an ongoing scandal and federal investigation into the safety of its passenger jets.
[55] Boeing CEO David Calhoun released a statement in which he confirmed he was leaving the company by the end of the end.
[56] of the year.
[57] This all comes after a slew of negative stories since a door panel blew out on a Boeing 737 Max plane flown by Alaska Airlines earlier this year.
[58] Here's Calhoun on why he's not leaving right away.
[59] We have another mountain to climb.
[60] Let's not avoid what happened with Alaska Air.
[61] Let's not avoid the call for action.
[62] Let's not avoid the changes that we have to make in our factory.
[63] Let's not avoid the need to slow down a bit and let the supply chain catch up.
[64] We got to get at that, just like we got it the rest.
[65] And we will get through that.
[66] We will get through that.
[67] And I've committed myself to the board to do exactly that.
[68] A man has died and another was injured in California's first fatal mountain lion attack in two decades.
[69] According to the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office, they received a call on Saturday from a man reporting that he and his brother had been attacked by a mountain lion.
[70] Police say the caller at the time was separated from his brother and had suffered traumatic injuries to his face.
[71] His 21 -year -old brother died by the time first responders reached him.
[72] Shortly after their search started, they located a man down, and next to that individual was a mountline in a crouched position.
[73] And the space weather prediction center in Boulder, Colorado, has issued a geomagnetic storm watch through Monday.
[74] They say there is no reason for the public to be concerned, but high -frequency radio transmissions could be affected if there's an outburst of plasma from a solar flare.
[75] They also noted that such conditions could make for great aurora viewing for people living at higher latitudes.
[76] Radio interruptions could affect aircraft communication, but most commercial flights use satellites as backup.
[77] Those are your drive home updates this afternoon.
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