LOS ANGELES — During the 2014 NBA playoffs, secret recordings were released capturing former Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling making racist remarks about Black people, including NBA players.
Sterling was banned from the NBA for life by NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and forced to sell the team.
Ten years later, the Clippers are in great shape under new owner Steve Ballmer, as they prepare to move into their new arena, the Intuit Dome in Inglewood.
Prosecutors say Combs coerced women into drugged-up group sexual encounters, then kept them in line through violence.
Stock markets rose sharply as the globe's two major economic powers took a step back from a clash that has unsettled the global economy.
Hopes for a less-encumbered economy also sent crude oil prices up more than 3%.
He spoke in an audience with some of the 6,000 journalists who descended on Rome to cover his election as the first American pontiff.
