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Reuters/Lee SmithSandro Tonali, the already-suspended soccer star in hot water for gambling on matches in Italy, was slapped with dozens of similar charges by Britain’s Football Association on Thursday.Tonali, 23, is now accused of placing bets on soccer matches in England while he was a member of Newcastle United. Authorities said he placed 50 wagers, all within a three-month span that included his first months with his new club after joining them from AC Milan for a fee of $75.6 million.Thursday’s allegations add to Tonali and Newcastle’s headache, as he’s been unavailable to feature since he was slapped with similar charges by the governing body of Italian soccer. He was suspended 10 months in that case—a ban he’s currently halfway through.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Reuters/Shannon StapletonDonald Trump once again went scorched earth against the daughter of the judge overseeing his New York hush-money trial on Thursday, posting a fiery rant to Truth Social that called her out by name.That woman, Loren Merchan, has become the focal point of Trump’s attacks against her dad, Judge Juan Merchan, in his longshot attempt to have him ousted as the judge presiding over his criminal case in New York. Trump has decried that Loren’s position as president of a political consulting firm that’s worked with Democrats, as well as anti-Trump social media posts he wrongly attributed to her, should disqualify Judge Merchan from his case because it somehow shows he’s biased.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Reuters/Rick OsentoskiThe embattled MLB star Wander Franco was taken off the Tampa Bay Rays’ 40-man roster and placed on administrative leave Thursday—an Opening Day move that keeps the 23-year-old on the payroll despite him not featuring for the team since August, multiple reports said Thursday. Franco stands accused of having a sexual relationship with a minor and for breaking money-laundering laws in his native Dominican Republican, but he’s yet to be criminally charged there. Franco’s move to administrative leave was a joint decision between Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association, the Tampa Bay Times and ESPN reported, citing sources.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Getty Images/Charley GallayThe rapper Al B. Sure! has publicly reached out to his biological son, Quincy Brown, who was raised by Diddy—telling his child, 32, to “come home” amid a pair of FBI raids at his stepdad’s homes this week.Brown, who was born to Al B. (whose real name is Albert Joseph Brown III) and the late Kim Porter, has always called Sean Combs his “pops” and accused his biological dad of being absent during his childhood. In the wake of a slew of sexual assault and trafficking allegations against Combs, however, Al B. appears to be using the difficult time to have a bigger role in his son’s life. Read more at The Daily Beast.

Getty Images/James DevaneyPop megastar Beyoncé gave fans some more insight into her highly-anticipated foray into country music on Wednesday, revealing the track list for Cowboy Carter and hinting that it may include a cover of a beloved Dolly Parton classic and feature Willie Nelson himself.Beyoncé posted the titles for the 27-song album in a graphic on Instagram, which wasn’t accompanied by a caption. The album is set to drop Friday—Beyoncé’s first since 2022, when her Renaissance album was released to universal acclaim.Among the titles shared Wednesday included the track “Jolene,” the name of one of Parton’s most beloved tracks, which has also been covered by The White Stripes, Miley Cyrus, and the late Olivia Newton-John. Read more at The Daily Beast.

GettyA couple in their 70s won a lawsuit against a cruise operator after they successfully argued the company was in the wrong to cancel their Arctic cruise over cold weather without returning their money.The couple said they were suing because their cruise of a lifetime, billed as a voyage through the “Northwest Passage—in the Wake of the Great Explorers,” was hardly that. Instead of sailing through the treacherous waters of Arctic Canada, the couple said they mostly just cruised the coast of Greenland, with some time at Baffin Island. The cruise operator, Reader Offers, offered apologies and cited abnormally cold weather and ice as the reason the trip couldn’t go on as planned but offered no compensation for the letdown. Read more at The Daily Beast.

Reuters/Brian SnyderThe life of someone in New Jersey just changed overnight.Lottery officials announced that one lucky person bought a ticket in the Garden State that matched all six numbers in Tuesday night’s Mega Millions drawing, snapping a 31-drawing drought that’d raised the jackpot to a whopping $1.13 billion—the fifth highest in history. The cash option is $537.5 million.The lucky numbers were 7, 11, 22, 29, 38, and the gold Mega ball was 4.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty ImagesThe GOP campaign operative who accused Matt Schlapp of inappropriately groping his groin in 2022 has dropped lawsuits filed against the CPAC chairman, his associates, and his wife, Mercedes. The dropped suits appear to end a long saga involving the Schlapps and Carlton Huffman, an ex-campaign staffer for the former Senate hopeful Herschel Walker who has since been accused of sexual assault himself. In a statement shared with Politico by Schlapp’s lawyers, Huffman apologized to the Schlapp family and said he regretted ever filing the lawsuits against them, CPAC, the ACU, and Caroline Wren, an adviser to Matt Schlapp. Read more at The Daily Beast.

Reuters/Adam CairnsSwedish soccer star Emil Forsberg’s partner of 19 years slammed him a missive posted to Instagram Monday, writing that she’s filing for divorce from the New York Red Bulls captain after he effectively ghosted her and their two young children when he moved to the U.S. to join MLS this winter. Posting to Instagram in Swedish, Shanga Forsberg wrote that she and Emil “will part ways,” adding that those are words she thought she’d “never utter after two children and 19 years together that still feel unreal.”“Being taken for granted and neglected is not love,” she said. “A new start in New York was apparently a new start for you and your life.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

Reuters/Elizabeth FrantzSen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) revealed in a nine-minute video announcement on Thursday that he plans to run for Senate again this fall—but not as a Democrat. Instead, he suggested he hopes to run as an “Independent Democrat” candidate, but only if he’s exonerated on federal bribery charges that have roiled his office and personal life in recent months. New Jersey’s filing deadline to run in the state’s Democratic primary was Monday, and Menendez declined to put his name in the mix this time.Read more at The Daily Beast.