| | | Hello, these are your top stories for Tuesday, May 27, 2025. Get up-to-date news any time on our website. | | | | | May 27 , 2025 at 01:00:52 p.m. EDT • : | A former top aide to Sean (Diddy) Combs testified Tuesday that the music mogul threatened her with death on her first day on the job and later kidnapped her at gunpoint to join him in an effort to kill rapper Kid Cudi. | Read more | | | | May 26 , 2025 at 01:55:13 p.m. EDT • : | Phil Robertson, who turned his small duck-calling interest in northern Louisiana into a big business and was the head of the family featured on the reality show Duck Dynasty, died Sunday, according to his family. He was 79. | Read more | | | | May 26 , 2025 at 04:22:33 p.m. EDT • : | At 95, Robert Bateman is still showing his work at solo exhibitions and international shows, painting every day and enjoying the nature surrounding his Salt Spring Island, B.C., home, where he's lived for 40 years. | Read more | | | | | May 24 , 2025 at 01:54:52 p.m. EDT • : | Iranian dissident filmmaker Jafar Panahi's revenge thriller It Was Just an Accident won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday, handing the festival's top prize to a director who had been banned from leaving Iran for more than 15 years. | Read more | | | | May 23 , 2025 at 01:45:41 p.m. EDT • : | U.S. singer-songwriter and pianist Billy Joel said Friday he is cancelling all of his scheduled concerts, including a stop in Toronto, after he was recently diagnosed with normal pressure hydrocephalus, a brain disorder. | Read more | | | | | | May 23 , 2025 at 03:01:24 p.m. EDT • : | | Read more | | | | | | May 23 , 2025 at 07:33:53 a.m. EDT • : | | Read more | | | | | | May 23 , 2025 at 04:00:00 a.m. EDT • : | | Read more | | | | | | May 23 , 2025 at 04:00:00 a.m. EDT • : | | Read more | | | | | | May 26 , 2025 at 02:10:14 p.m. EDT • : | | Read more | | | | Enjoying this newsletter? You may also like CBC News Morning Brief, the news you need to know to start the day. Delivered weekday mornings. Sign up here | | | | That's all for now. Check cbc.ca/news throughout the day for the most recent headlines. | | | | | |