NEW YORK — Sean "Diddy" Combs is due in court Tuesday afternoon for a pretrial hearing. It comes after the music mogul dropped his bid to be released on bail ahead of his trial on sex trafficking charges, which is set to begin in May. Attorneys for combs had repeatedly tried to seek his release on bail, but those attempts were all denied.

A looming potential government shutdown means all nonessential government functions must stop, but thanks to other sources of funds, federal court cases, including Sean "Diddy" Combs' sex trafficking trial, would likely continue without interruption.