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It appears Diddy has welcomed a baby girl this weekend. Today (December 10) the rapper, producer, and entrepreneur announced via Twitter that his baby daughter was born.

“I’m so blessed to welcome my baby girl Love Sean Combs to the world,” he said. “Mama Combs, Quincy, Justin, Christian, Chance, D’Lila, Jessie and myself all love you so much! God is the Greatest!”

The news seems to be a surprise to everyone, as Diddy’s rumored girlfriend Caresha Brownlee, better known as Yung Miami of City Girls, hadn’t announced she was pregnant within the past year. The last time Miami announced a pregnancy was in 2019, when she revealed she was expecting her second child in the trailer for City Girls’ BET documentary, Point Blank Period, Part 2.

While the news of a baby may come as a shock, some fans are speculating that Diddy may not even be talking about a baby at all. Some believe the mogul is hinting at something else. Perhaps an album, or a liquor partnership, or fashion line.

“is this the new Album? It’s gotta be the new album,” said one Twitter user. “A new…. liquor? A new clothing line? A new self-help book. “Anyway, congrats on the new marketing!”

As some Twitter users had theories, some simply weren’t buying it, and immediately concluded that he was bluffing.

“Diddy talking about an Album and GossipTwitter losing their minds thinking he got somebody pregnant,” said another Twitter user.

At the time of writing, Miami had not commented on Diddy’s announcement.

Donald Trump has a lot of critics, but one of his biggest ones comes from his own family. For the last few years, Mary Trump, the former president’s estranged niece, has been a thorn in his side, using her insider status to trash him with intel few have. Now she’s taking her hatred of him one step further: She’s coming for his money.

As per Bloomberg, the psychologist and bestselling author motioned to revive a lawsuit from a couple years ago, which alleged that she’d been defrauded of millions during a family settlement. That case was thrown out in November of this year by a judge who said her claims were barred by a settlement she had signed back in 2001.

However, the new filing alleges that the agreement was signed “through coercion”:

A release from claims is only valid under New York law if it was “fairly and knowingly made,” Mary Trump’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, argued in the filing. The Trump family settlement, on the other hand, was achieved through coercion, she said, including threats to swamp Mary Trump with tax payments she couldn’t afford and discontinue health insurance for her nephew.

The former president and his siblings, Maryanne Trump Barry and the late Robert Trump, “placed young Mary in profoundly unfair circumstances, not only by threatening to bankrupt her” but also “by terminating the health insurance that was literally keeping her newborn nephew alive in an intensive care unit,” Kaplan said in the brief.

Donald Trump’s lawyer, James Kiley, didn’t immediately respond to a message seeking comment. Another Trump lawyer, Alina Habba, has previously called the suit “frivolous.”

Things sure aren’t going so hot for Mary Trump’s uncle. Last week his business was found guilty of 17 counts of fraud. On top of that, he’s having trouble finding money for his third presidential campaign, which has gotten off to a very bumpy start. Then again, the Donald somehow always manages to weasel out of his problems.

(Via Bloomberg)

The 2024 election is still a good ways away, but the GOP already has two candidates: Donald Trump and Kanye West. Already neither campaign is going well. Ye outed himself as a fan of Hitler. Trump, meanwhile, is under fire for having dinner with [checks notes] Kanye West, as well as Holocaust denying white supremacist Nick Fuentes. The former president is having trouble raising money, which is especially not great considering his other legal/financial woes. To make matters worse, a new poll has him getting decimated by a noted frenemy.

As per Mediaite, a new poll about the 2024 election shows GOP voters in Florida greatly favoring their governor over their most famous president. The poll was held by the GOP firm Ragnar Research Partners, and it shows that 86% of the state’s Republicans have a “favorable impression” of DeSantis. What’s more 79% of them have a “very favorable impression.”

How did Trump do?

In contrast, Trump’s “very favorable” rating is 48 percent in the poll. With 70 percent approving of him overall and 26 percent disapproving, Trump’s total net favorable rating is 44 points — 32 points lower than DeSantis among Republicans.

There’s more bad news for Trump:

The survey also found that, by 41-37 percent, more considered themselves Trump voters than traditional Republicans. Yet DeSantis marginally edged Trump with this subsection of voters, too, with a 95-point net approval rating compared to Trump’s 91 points.

So things aren’t going great for the big guy, who could really use a win these days.

(Via Mediaite)

France are headed to the World Cup semifinal. The tournament’s reigning champions battled England on Saturday, and thanks to a penalty skied by Harry Kane in the 84th minute, France was able to pick up a thrilling 2-1 win.

France started the scoring thanks to a wonder strike by Aurélien Tchouaméni. The 22-year-old Real Madrid standout found the ball at his feet in the 17th minute after a lovely passage of play by the French and ripped a shot from 30 yards out that snuck past Jordan Pickford.

England kept trying to pick the lock but was unable to find the breakthrough in the first half. And then, less than 10 minutes into the second half, the breakthrough came. Bukayo Saka made his way through the French box, with Tchouaméni’s attempt to challenge him wiping him off his feet for a penalty.

Kane stepped up to the spot and stared down Hugo Lloris, his teammate at Tottenham. Even if Lloris guessed correctly, he had no chance of stopping this effort from hitting the back of the net.

England seemed the more likely of the two sides to break the deadlock until Olivier Giroud, in the 78th minute, got his head to a ball whipped into the box by Antoine Griezmann. It was a picture-perfect cross, while Giroud got inside of Harry Maguire and rifled the ball past the outstretched arms of Pickford.

goal https://twitter.com/FOXSoccer/status/1601677954081234950

England was thrown a lifeline less than 10 minutes later. A rash and unnecessary foul by Theo Hernández on Mason Mount in the box originally went uncalled, but after a VAR review, it was determined that England would be awarded its second penalty of the game.

Unfortunately for the Three Lions, the usually-reliable Kane put the ball over the crossbar. England hardly threatened again until essentially the final kick of the game, when Marcus Rashford got a free kick just outside of the box. Lloris was dead to rights, but the ball simply did not find the back of the net.

The win sets up a semifinal matchup between France and Morocco on Wednesday.

John Fetterman ran easily the most entertaining political campaign this year, and he did it all while recovering from a stroke. Now Dr. Oz has been defeated and Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor is ready to graduate to D.C. But before his tenure begins, he gets to have some fun. That includes pasting on some mutton chops and old timey clothes to do a cameo in a Christian Bale movie.

On Friday, the incoming senator posted a photo from the set of The Pale Blue Eye, the forthcoming mystery set in 1830s New York. The film stars Christian Bale as a veteran detective investigating murders at West Point, with some help from real-life figure Edgar Allan Poe (Harry Melling). They recruited Fetterman for a tavern scene, during which he, his wife Gisele, Bale, and director Scott Cooper posed for a fun little photo, the first three in period garb.

Bale talked about enlisting Fetterman during a Q&A a couple weeks back, talking about his “incredible” face. “I said to Scott, ‘we got to have him in the tavern. You got to have that face. That’s a face that fits in the 1830s because a lot of faces don’t fit in the 1830s,’” Bale recalled.

Fetterman and Bale and Cooper go a ways back. Cooper’s 2013 thriller Out of the Furnace, which starred Bale, was shot in the Pittsburgh area, including in Braddock, where Fetterman was then mayor. Bale even took inspiration from Fetterman for one of his character’s tattoos.

The Pale Blue Eye is set to open in theaters on December 23 before hitting Netflix on January 6, 2023, so you can see Fetterman disappearing into the scenery then.

(Via Mediaite)

Morocco’s magical run at the 2022 World Cup will continue on to the semifinal. The African side took on Portugal in a World Cup quarterfinal match on Saturday, and thanks to a goal right before halftime by Youssef En-Nesyri, Morocco earned a matchup with either England or France next week with a spot in the final on the line.

It was an historic moment for Morocco’s national team, as they became the first African side to ever earn a spot in a World Cup semifinal. It also marked the potential end of the line for the game’s most well-known player, as Portugal star Cristiano Ronaldo has been relegated to a role off the bench during the World Cup and currently has a murky club situation after he and Manchester United agreed to a mutual contract termination in the lead-up to the tournament.

While there is no guarantee that his international career is over, Ronaldo will be 41 when the next World Cup comes around in 2026. And in the immediate aftermath of the game, the greatest Portuguese player of all time made his way into the locker room with tears coming down his face.

Ronaldo came into the game in the 51st minute with the team needing a goal. After the game, Portugal manager Fernando Santos expressed zero regrets about his decision to use Ronaldo off the bench in the team’s last two games.

“I don’t think so, no regrets,” Santos said, per ESPN. “I think this was a team which played very well against Switzerland. Cristiano Ronaldo is a great player, he came in when we thought it was necessary, so no regrets.

“If we take two persons that were the most upset it is Cristiano Ronaldo and myself. Of course we are upset, but that is part of the job of the coach and the player.”

Time will tell what the future has in store for Ronaldo. The present, however, is all about the accomplishments of the Moroccans.

Like crypto, NFTs have not had a great year. In 2021, non-fungible tokens seemed like they would be all the rage, another way for artists to make bank. Then the bottom fell out, with things like hackers stealing millions in NFTs. Now celebrities who promoted a specific brand of NFTs are being sued.

As per The Hollywood Reporter, Jimmy Fallon, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Kevin Hart are just some of the many high-profile names in a proposed class action suit for their role in promoting Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs. The complaint accuses them of fraud, claiming that the named celebrities misled their followers into buying the tokens, as well as other unregistered securities issued by Yuga Labs. That, it’s alleged, caused buyers to purchase “losing investments at drastically inflated prices.” They, along with the company, are thus accused of fraud.

“The truth is that the Company’s entire business model relies on using insidious marketing and promotional activities from A-list celebrities that are highly compensated (without disclosing such), to increase demand of the Yuga securities by convincing potential retail investors that the price of these digital assets would appreciate,” reads the complaint, which was filed on Thursday.

Fallon played a key role in one of more humiliating episodes in the NFT saga. Earlier this year on The Tonight Show, he and guest Paris Hilton did a bit involving Bored Ape tokens, which led to an awkward response when few in attendance knew what they were talking about. Surely Fallon regretted it then surely he’s regretting it even more now.

Also named in the proposed lawsuit are a number of musicians, including Justin Bieber and Madonna.

(Via THR)

The Inside the NBA guys try to bust each other’s chops every chance they get. This included on a recent episode of “The Steam Room,” in which Ernie Johnson and Charles Barkley tried to do their best impressions of Shaq. The results were … well, they could have been better, but they could have been worse, too.

The prompt was an easy one: Who is Chuck’s best impression? He didn’t even have to think that hard to get to Shaq, and immediately, both himself and Johnson started to crack one another up with their efforts to sound like the big fella. I especially enjoyed the guys doing the tried and true Shaq bit of talking about how high of a bar he has for guys to dominate, particularly when Chuck said it’s easy to score 28 points if you just score seven points a quarter.

This is by no means the first time we’ve seen Barkley do an impression of Shaq, as he played the Hall of Fame inductee when he hosted Saturday Night Live and there was an Inside sketch.

Shaq, it must be said, is apparently a big fan of doing impressions, too. On a recent podcast cameo, Godfrey claimed that Shaq will frequently call him up and try to do impressions, and according to Godfrey, he has a way to go.

Elon Musk has been king of Twitter for over a month now, and it’s going great. Soon as he took over, bigoted slurs skyrocketed. Advertisers have fled. Nice people have left while banned annoyances are back. A fair amount of grim intel from inside the Musk era has leaked to the press, and now free speech absolutist has a solution to stop that: sue any whistle blowers.

“This will be said only once: If you clearly and deliberately violate the NDA that you signed when you joined, you accept liability to the full extent of the law & Twitter will immediately seek damages,” Musk reportedly told staff in an email that was, well, leaked to Journalist Zoe Schiffer

In the email, Musk said slip-ups were understandable “but breaking your word by sending detailed info to the media” about the inner workings of his version of Twitter “will receive the response it deserves.”

Schiffer said she was reluctant to make the email public “as it’s clear Twitter is doing everything it can to catch sources.”

Musk, who is the richest person on the planet, has been on a firing spree ever since he took over. But at least he cleared a very low bar: He’s also against Donald Trump’s demands to shred the Constitution so he can be reinstated as president.

(Via The Daily Beast)

The biggest sore loser in history is almost certainly Donald Trump. The second biggest is probably Kari Lake. The anti-Trump news anchor turned MAGA candidate lost her gubernatorial race to lord over Arizona over a month ago, and she still hasn’t gotten over it. Now she’s making an unprecedented move: She’s suing state election officials, demanding they make her governor.

As per The Daily Beast, Lake spent her Friday night filing a lawsuit against election officials in Arizona’s Maricopa County, which Lake and cohorts have zeroed in on, claiming malfeasance. The 70-page filing brazenly demands “an order setting aside the certified result of the 2022 Arizona gubernatorial election and declaring that Kari Lake is the winner.”

“If the process was illegitimate then so are the results. Stay tuned, folks,” Lake later tweeted. “Furthermore, if the process was legitimate then so are the results. Let’s find out.”

Maricopa County officially certified their election results on Tuesday, despite one of the losers demanding they don’t. Lake has been desperate for someone, anyone to take her claims of voter fraud seriously, but apart from fellow MAGA kook Mike Lindell, few have. Hours before filing her lawsuit, Lake recorded a video in which she called election officials “clowns,” thereby demonstrating the maturity she would have brought to the governorship of Arizona. That is, had she won. Which she did not.

(Via The Daily Beast)