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NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt

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🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Cassie Ventura testifies about physical abuse and rape at Diddy trial; Trump in Qatar on high-stakes Mideast trip; Dangerous early heat wave scorches Texas; and more on tonight’s broadcast.

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0:00.0	Tonight, the intense day of testimony in the sex trafficking trial of Sean Diddy Combs,
0:05.0	former girlfriend Cassie Ventura detailing years of abuse and accusing the music mogul of raping her,
0:11.0	as well as blackmailing her with videos of sexual encounters.
0:15.0	Ventura breaking down on the stand.
0:17.0	Diddy has pleaded not guilty on all counts and why a contentious cross-examination
0:22.5	could be ahead. President Trump's Middle East trip, closing a deal for Qatar to buy
0:27.5	billions worth of Boeing jets, but it's the one the royal family is offering the president
0:32.9	that has top Republicans now pushing back. The shocking resentencing for the Menendez brothers, will they get parole or even clemency?
0:41.6	Spring extremes near record highs in Texas test the power grid and a day of delays up and down
0:48.1	the East Coast.
0:49.7	Plus the Maryland washout, floodwaters coursing through the streets, a 12-year-old boy
0:54.6	swept away.
0:56.0	Plus Al Roker on the new severe weather threat.
0:58.8	A Georgetown scholar released from immigration detention after a lengthy legal battle.
1:04.7	Why the health secretary said Americans shouldn't, quote, be taking medical advice from me.
1:10.0	The climbers killed from a 200-foot
1:12.2	fall when their ropes gave way, how one man managed to survive. And old-time rock and roll,
1:18.7	the guitar maker using Old Wood to make new axes for some of music's biggest names.
1:26.0	This is NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt.
1:30.7	Good evening and welcome.
1:32.2	A New York courtroom today was transfixed by the gripping testimony of Cassie Ventura.
1:37.4	She's the woman at the heart of the government's racketeering and sex trafficking case against music moguls Sean Diddy Combs.
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