Good morning. It's Monday, May 5th.
I'm Shamita Basu.
This is Apple News Today.
On today's show, at 94 years old, Warren Buffett is stepping down,
the Trump administration's plan to convince more Americans to have babies,
and a little history behind tonight's Met Gala theme.
But first, the trial of Sean Combs, the music mogul known as Diddy, starts today.
He faces federal charges including sex trafficking and racketeering.
Prosecutors say he ran a criminal enterprise that included kidnapping,
drugging, and threatening women into sexual activity.
Combs denies all the accusations against him,
and last week he turned down one last chance at a plea bargain.
If convicted, he could spend the rest of his life in prison.
Recently, The New Yorker profiled one of the lawyers on his defense team, a man named Brian Steele.
He first got on Combs' radar after defending the rapper Young Thug in a racketeering case.
Last fall, Steele helped Young Thug secure a plea deal for probation and community service,
far better than the alternative, which could have been decades in prison.
He told me that he likes to take on the most challenging cases possible.
Charles Bethea spent around four months reporting on Steele's career and courtroom style for The New Yorker.
He also doesn't seem interested in the money and the sort of toys that come with the millions of dollars he's paid to do this work.