5. Trump said his team had greenlit a military budget “in the vicinity” of $1 trillion - the biggest in U.S history. The plan marks a massive jump from the current $850 billion defense budget.

6. Cassie Ventura is set to testify under her real name next month in Diddy’s federal sex trafficking and racketeering trial. She said she was abused for years, forced to find sex workers for drug-fueled “Freak-Offs” that prosecutors now say were part of a criminal operation.

7. Erik and Lyle Menendez, serving life for the 1989 murder of their parents, say they remain hopeful despite legal setbacks. In a new jailhouse interview, the brothers detailed their trauma, prison activism, and ongoing bid for resentencing