Following a terrible season that left one of the biggest clubs in the world without any next term of European football, Massimiliano Allegri made a recovery at AC Milan on Friday.
Following Sergio Conceicao’s sacking from the San Siro club after five miserable months in charge, Milan turned to serial winner Allegri in their desperate hour.
Massimiliano Allegri has been appointed as the men’s first team’s head coach, according to a statement from AC Milan.
Allegri has signed a two-year contract worth five million euros per year, with the option to extend for two more years, according to Italian media, who did not provide specifics of the agreement.
Allegri, who finished this past Serie A season eighth, has become Milan’s fourth coach in a year.
In his first season in charge, Milan had two years to prepare for one of the most notorious Serie A episodes, and he was Milan’s coach for one of the most infamous occurrences.
When a Sulley Muntari goal was not given despite the ball clearly crossing the line, Milan defeated Juventus, the 2012 league champion, 1-0 in February that year.
Juve then won that game 1-1, ending the campaign unbeaten, and two years later hired Allegri, who won Serie A five more times in his two years with the Turin giants.
Allegri had been on a break since being fired by Juve in May of last year, culminating in a post-game riot after winning the Italian Cup and yelling at officials and sporting director Cristiano Giuntoli.
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Conceicao out
On January 26, 2025, former AC Milan players Sergio Conceicao (3rd L) and AC Milan’s players celebrate their victory in the San Siro Stadium in Milan, Italy’s San Siro Stadium. (Photo by Piero CRUCIATTI/AFP)
Paulo Fonseca’s contract expires in the fall of this year, and Conceicao, a former Inter Milan and Lazio player, will take his place.
He won the Italian Super Cup in January and defeated local rivals Inter in Riyadh’s final, which he had already won in Milan.
But he was unsuccessful in his bid to secure a spot in the Champions League for a talented but inconsistent team that was frequently accused of being unfazed.
The 50-year-old’s fate was sealed when Milan lost to Bologna in the Italian Cup final earlier this month.
Conceciao, 50, was in charge of Milan for 16 of his 31 games, including 11 victories, seven losses, and three draws, as well as having to deal with angry protests from supporters against RedBird, the club’s American owners.
Before their team’s final game of the season, a dead-rubber against relegated Monza last weekend, fans gathered in large numbers outside Milan’s headquarters.
That protest was the start of a string of ostensible protests from Milan supporters, who had watched them fall into second place in the division following Stefano Pioli’s second-place showing in 2023/24.
As fans watched Inter compete for the Serie A title and advance to this weekend’s Champions League final, owner Gerry Cardinale, the founder of investment fund RedBird, have been making loud demands for the club to be sold throughout matches.
A former Goldman Sachs banker who was a target of the multibillion-dollar 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) corruption scandal received a two-year prison sentence, according to Malaysia’s commodities minister Johari Abdul Ghani, as too lenient.
Tim Leissner, a former Goldman Sachs chairman in Southeast Asia, was sentenced by New York judge Margo Brodie on Thursday to two years in prison for his role in the scandal.
Leissner, who previously admitted guilt to charges of bribery and money laundering in the United States, could receive a maximum sentence of 25 years.
Brodie called Leissner’s behavior “brazen and audacious” at the sentencing hearing. Leissner apologized to the Malaysian people in a “sincere apology” and expressed regret for his actions in court, which he read out.
Leissner should have received the maximum jail sentence, according to Ghani, the 1MDB asset recovery taskforce chairman, who claimed on Friday that he was “one of the masterminds” of the scheme, which saw the theft of billions of dollars from Malaysia’s investment fund.
Although the 1MDB fund was intended to entice foreign investment in Malaysian infrastructure and energy projects, it was stolen by officials and bankers.
According to Malaysian and US authorities, a grand theft total of $4.5 billion was carried out in an elaborate scheme that involved high-level officials from the government, including former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, who was imprisoned in 2022, among others.
Leissner admitted guilt in relation to his role in the scandal in 2018, including paying foreign officials roughly $2 billion in bribes and splitting another $1 billion in kickbacks with others in the scheme.
He will begin receiving a 24-month sentence in September, according to a representative from the US Department of Justice.
Due to his “extraordinary” assistance in conducting the investigation, US prosecutors had requested leniency. Roger Ng, a former colleague and Goldman Sachs Managing Director, was the star witness in the 2022 trial of Lessner.
In March 2023, Judge Brodie sentenced Malaysian national Ng to 10 years in prison for, among other crimes, “spewing billions of dollars embezzled” from 1MDB and paying more than $1.6 billion in bribes.
A landmark report on children’s health that was found to contain no-existent studies will be amended by the US government.
Any citation errors, according to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, were the result of “formatting issues” and would be fixed. Concerns about President Donald Trump’s appointment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health and human services secretary will be little tempered by the shortcomings of the report.
Digital news outlet NOTUS made the findings of the report, which was produced and released last week and featured the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission. According to it, seven of the studies cited did not exist, and there were also “misstated conclusions” and broken links.
According to Leavitt, the issues do not “overstate the report’s substance,” which is one of the most transformative health reports the federal government has ever produced.
More than 500 studies were cited in the report, which found that processed foods, chemicals, stress, and the overprescribing of vaccines and medications were possible causes of childhood chronic illness.
However, some of the authors who were credited with developing those studies claimed they were not involved in the study or that they were unrelated to it.
Noah Kreski, a researcher at Columbia University who is listed as one of the authors of a paper on adolescent anxiety and depression during COVID-19, claimed the paper was “not one of our studies” and “doesn’t seem to be a study that exists at all.”
A broken article was included in the report’s citation, along with a link to one in the peer-reviewed JAMA Paediatrics Medical Review. The article referred to “was not published in JAMA Paediatrics or any JAMA Network journal,” according to a spokesperson for the JAMA Network.
The Democratic National Committee criticized the report on Thursday, calling it “rife with misinformation” and accusing Kennedy’s organization of “justifying its policy priorities with studies and sources that don’t exist.”
Significant controversy erupted as a result of Kennedy’s approval as health secretary in February. He had previously sparked controversy in the scientific and medical sectors by denying whether vaccines were safe for use for decades.
He has cut billions of dollars from biomedical research spending and fired thousands of federal health agency employees since taking the position.
The Department of Health and Human Services stated that the MAHA report’s main themes remain the same: it is a historic and groundbreaking study of the chronic disease epidemic affecting children across the country.
While most rugby fans spent last weekend training at Principality Stadium for the Champions Cup final, Dublin’s audience was largely among the lowest.
You can tell that James Lowe, one of his team-mates, was one of the young family members who traveled to the zoo with Leinster, Ireland, and James Lowe, who would soon become the Lions’ wing, found something else to occupy the hours that eventually saw Bordeaux-Begles become European champions.
Leinster’s quest for a fifth star has continued since their semi-final defeat by beaten finalists Northampton Saints, which is their first since 2021.
Seven years have passed since they won their fourth title in Bilbao against Racing 92.
Leo Cullen’s team is currently in a strange limbo as they prepare for the United Rugby Championship (URC) play-offs and Saturday’s quarter-final against Scarlets.
It is obvious that a team must do a lot to get their Leinster form back in recent seasons.
After all, there are only a select few teams in the world where a drought would be defined by seven years without a Champions Cup.
Since then, they have lost to Saracens in quarter-final and final, La Rochelle in quarter-final and two finals, to Toulouse in final, and to this year’s semi-final against the Saints.
There was a logic in what lock James Ryan said last year about the “risk of failing greatly” when trying to become greatness despite having won numerous significant games throughout the era.
However, this particular squad is in danger of being forgotten for missing out on such games rather than for the good they have done in those games, like the Buffalo Bills and their subsequent defeats in four consecutive Super Bowls between 1991 and 1994.
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All other options will feel diminished when one competition becomes your season’s lodestar.
In a 2023 interview that appears frequently on social media following Leinster’s European defeats, Prop Andrew Porter made this point very clearly.
“You don’t see many Pro14s or URCs on a jersey,” said one player. Before the second of those finals against La Rochelle, he said, “You see those stars that are on the jersey”.
However, it seems like the domestic staple has grown in significance this year.
Following a four-game winning streak between 2018 and 2021, Leinster has not won any of the previous three, which includes the participation of South African sides Bulls, Sharks, Stormers, and Lions.
It will not have gone unnoticed that this particular piece of silverware has also recently proven to be elusive, according to forwards coach Robin McBryde, who said it would represent “a step in the right direction.”
After three seasons, there would be value in simply winning silverware again, despite the success of many of their squads in Ireland.
“For Ireland, we have been able to do that in recent years, but we haven’t been able to transfer that to Leinster,” said Lowe.
“You won’t win with Leinster because you won with Ireland,” the statement goes.
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Lowe notes that former Leinster teammates Cian Healy and Ross Byrne are in their final years sporting Leinster blue, which will also have an emotional component.
He said, “Some of the best days of your life are when you win silverware together.”
Cian Healy must have a second medal around his neck in order to leave Leinster. Ross Byrne is not doing him or Ross Byrne justice.
After sharing a picture of Justin Bieber lounging on a sofa with his son, Jack, Justin has been enjoying a rural getaway.
Justin Bieber slammed by concerned fans over photo with son during rural getaway(Image: justinbieber/Instagram)
Justin Bieber’s fans shared their concerns when the Peaches singer shared a selection of photos from his recent getaway, with some featuring the son he shares with Hailey Bieber. In one photo, the 31-year-old was seen relaxing on a sofa with his infant son, Jack, who was lying next to him.
Another image showed Justin smoking a roll-up together while sitting on the same couch with a friend. Fans rushed to the comment section to slam the Confident singer even though there was no evidence that his son slept on the couch or even was in the same room as they were smoking.
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Justin has been enjoying a sunny getaway(Image: justinbieber/Instagram)
One user threatened to defend his position, saying, “Don’t smoke in front of your child, it’s different moments clearly.” Another irate user remarked, “Bestie, you didn’t just smoke in front of baby Jack.”
Before listing all the risks of smoking, one follower commented, “Dude, there is no way you have that baby around that smoke. Be better like we know you can be,” another follower wrote.
Many people responded to the user’s questions, claiming that the smoking occurred at a completely different time than when his son was sleeping on the sofa with him.
He concerned fans with a picture of him smoking(Image: justinbieber/Instagram)
“Jack wasn’t around or near Justin when he was smoking,” he said in the photo. Justin’s absence from smoking around the child is obvious. And one fan claimed that the photo of Justin and Jack was taken at a different time.
In recent weeks, Justin has concerned fans with his posts on social media. He admitted he “hurt others” as he broke his silence on the alarming posts.
Taking to Instagram, he said: “I’m just an averaged flawed guy, I’ve done things that have hurt others, I continue to do and say things that hurt others unintentionally.
“But I had another chance to grow and stop being so selfish this morning.” We are drawn to love. Love is not a condemner. The best is what Love believes. Love endures and hopes for everything. It doesn’t keep track of the wrongdoing. Love allows you to forgive and love your adversaries as well.
I occasionally think I’ll be exposed if I admit my selfishness to others, a second post read. Perhaps people wouldn’t like or trust me if I made that admission. I believed that if I were open to my selfish feelings, I would be denied the privilege of being included in society.
“But the more open-minded I am about who I really am,” The more freedom do I actually enjoy. I wake up every morning, in actuality. Instead of speaking with him and urging him to change my perspective, I sometimes wake up optimistic and other times I wake up pessimistic. I have no control over how I’m going to feel.
Even after being used in the manner I have, I’ve been really asking God to help me see the best in people. Once more, it’s simpler to point the finger than to take ownership. Instead of putting a stop to our own greed, it’s simple to say, “damn their greedy.” Only God can lift our hearts from our egos and desires. It won’t work to try harder. I tried, lol.
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Poland’s Warsaw, Poland, saw the parade through the capital for one last time last Sunday, June 1, as two presidential hopefuls and their supporters walked into the country’s capital for the second round of voting for the nation’s next president.
Rafał Trzaskowski from the centre-right Civic Platform of the governing Civic Coalition and Karol Nawrocki, an independent candidate supported by the right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party, which ran Poland between 2015 and 2023, are the two remaining contenders in the election. Trzaskowski won 31 in the first polls round on May 18. Nawrocki received 29 percent of the votes, while Nawrocki received 1%. 5 percent.
Polling organizations claim that the final round’s vote is evenly split between the two candidates so far. 47 is based on a poll conducted by IBRiS for Polish news outlet Onet. 7 percent of respondents intend to vote for Trzaskowski, with 46 percent indicating they will vote for Nawrocki. The rest are unsure.
Andrzej Duda, the incoming nationalist conservative president who was supported by PiS and who is accused of stifling justice reforms by using his veto against the government, will be replaced by one of the two.
This is a hotly contested race. Concerning the European Union, national security, and social values, Trzaskowski and Nawrocki clashed. Both candidates have used anti-Ukrainian rhetoric in a similar hardline way to immigration, while also reviving growing animosity among Poles, who view themselves as a front-runner for strained social services with 1. 55 million Ukrainian migrants and war refugees.
Nawrocki went further, saying he would oppose Ukraine joining NATO or even the EU, while Trzaskowski has suggested that only working Ukrainians should be able to access the nation’s child benefit.
In Warsaw, Poland, on May 25, 2025, the husband and wife of President Rafal Trzaskowski, Malgorzata, wave to thousands of supporters during the Great Patriotic March.
‘Every vote is needed’
Trzaskowski addressed his opponent at his “Patriots’ March,” which attracted about 140,000 supporters over the weekend and called for unity.
It’s high time for truth to prevail. It’s high time for integrity to win. Justice must now prevail. Truth must now prevail. That’s what these elections are about,” he declared to a cheering crowd.
It takes a lot of determination. Every vote is required. So that the future wins. so that Poland overall wins. ”
Trzaskowski has served as Warsaw’s mayor since 2018. His remarks about “honesty” are interpreted as a reference to a recent article about Nawrocki allegedly buying an elderly man’s apartment in Gdansk in exchange for a pledge to care for him. The man’s family claims that the promise was broken, and he was taken to a state nursing facility.
In response, Nawrocki has said he will donate the flat to charity and pointed out that under Trzaskowski’s mayorship, families had been evicted from state accommodation in Warsaw.
Contrary to Nawrocki, Trzaskowski has supported calls for LGBTQ rights as well as the liberalization of the nation’s strict abortion law in the past. He is viewed as a more liberal candidate than his opponent. However, he has largely avoided these topics during this campaign. If elected, he would be more likely to help the governing coalition pass various bills, primarily reforms to the rule of law and the justice system, which have so far been blocked by Duda.
Bartosz Rydlinski, a political scientist at the Warsaw-based Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University, predicted that Rafa Trzaskowski would be a pro-European politician. He would first travel to Berlin, Paris, and Brussels. He would try to maintain close relations with the US, but focus on strengthening the European component, both in the European Union and in NATO. ”
The weekend before the second round of the presidential elections, which will take place in Warsaw, Poland, is Karl Nawrocki, the candidate supported by PiS.
US endorsement for Nawrocki
Nearly 50,000 people participated in Nawrocki’s weekend “March for Poland” through central Warsaw, which highlighted his nationalist, pro-Catholic, and free-market views. He contends that Poland should prioritize its relationship with the US over the EU.
But his real triumph came this week when he received an official endorsement from Kristi Noem, President Donald Trump’s secretary of homeland security.
At the annual gathering of US conservative activists and officials called the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPA), Nawrocki presented his vision for Poland’s future on Tuesday. Although the event typically takes place in the US, it took place in Hungary in 2022. This year, it was held in the Polish town of Jasionka, southeastern Poland, close to the air and shipment hub which supplies weapons and aid to Ukraine.
Relations with the United States are based on a solid foundation of values for Poles and us. The audience, which included US Secretary of Homeland Security Noem, Vice President JD Vance, billionaire Tesla owner Elon Musk, and former White House political strategist Steve Bannon, who served as president in 2017 for the first time, included him.
“My opponent, Rafał Trzaskowski, is playing dishonestly,” said Nawrocki, who claims Trzaskowski would follow EU orders blindly, including on relaxing immigration rules. He also doesn’t want to reveal what his true vision for Poland after June 1st, 2025 is, despite lying in public debates and being caught in these lies. This notion is also glaring. Speed up the migration pact, speed up the climate pact and pursue a policy that is important for Brussels, not for our security. ”
At the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC, held on May 27, 2025 in Rzeszow, Poland, US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem delivers a speech. She endorsed Nawrocki for president of Poland [Alex Brandon-Pool/Getty Images]
After a long week of negative news, Nawrocki received a much-needed boost from the event.
First, on May 22, Slawomir Mentzen, the far-right leader of Konfederacja, who finished third in the first round of the presidential election, claimed that Nawrocki had participated in a fight between football hooligans in 2014, which Nawrocki has never denied.
Then, in a TV debate the following day, he was seen placing a small sachet on his gum, thought to be filled with tobacco, but which prompted speculation that he might have been taking drugs. On Tuesday, Nawrocki responded with a negative result from her drug test.
Onet later published a news story claiming that Nawrocki had participated in the supply of prostitutes to guests of the Grand Hotel in Sopot, where he worked as a security guard, when he was a young man. Nawrocki denied the claims and, in a post on X, stated that he would sue the outlet.
However, it appears that his support has not changed as a result of the negative news.
He was 28 when the hooligan fight occurred, and I don’t think that’s a problem because I believe men should be able to fight. When it comes to other issues – everyone can make a mistake, and it does not have to mean bad intentions,” said Marcin Mamon, a right-wing freelance journalist who claimed the alleged scandals involving Nawrocki have been exaggerated.
Voting for a conservative or right-wing candidate is a declaration of values, such as the Catholic faith. Voting for the opposing candidate would mean I would vote against abortion and against the Church. ”
Parliamentary impasse
For the former PiS government to reverse contentious judicial reforms, especially those that pertain to the judiciary’s independence, having a like-minded president would be crucial.
As a result of the changes, which were deemed to contradict European law, in 2021, the European Union imposed penalties on Poland. Civic Platform was elected in 2023 with the promise to reverse the contentious laws, but because President Duda has the power to veto and would veto any attempts to change the law.
A total war with the government would be won by Nawrocki, according to Rydlinski. “He would be a much more conservative president than Andrzej Duda, and he would probably refer many bills to the Constitutional Tribunal, which is still under the control of judges elected by the Law and Justice government. ”
A victory for Nawrocki, in the opinion of experts, would also put Poland and Europe on a collision course.
“Karol Nawrocki would very strongly opt for bilateral relations between Warsaw and Washington, breaking up the EU’s unity,” Rydlinski said. He would have a major conflict with Germany, deteriorate relations with France, and undoubtedly a conflict with Brussels. He would also be a mini-Trump in Central Europe. ”
Nawrocki’s conservatism and fascination with Trump have sparked concern among some Polish voters. People who voted for left-wing or centrist candidates in the first round are likely to ally themselves now, not against what they perceive as Nawrocki’s Trump-like outlook for Poland.
The candidates who lost in the first round have indicated their support for Trzaskowski, and they are expected to do the same for their supporters.
“Putting a cross next to Trzaskowski will not come easy for me,” said Zofia Szeremet, a 20-year-old student based in Warsaw who voted for the left-wing leader of the Razem party, Adrian Zandberg, in the first round. However, I have no way of thinking of not participating in such a significant election. Trzaskowski is a guarantee for Poland’s pro-European course, despite my disagreements on many fronts.
“Nawrocki is anti-EU, anti-Ukrainian, inexperienced and incompetent, and I don’t imagine a president having ties with hooligan movements. ”
A close call
Polls are inconclusive when it comes to the election favourite. However, the first round of the voting revealed that the two largest parties have grown weary of maintaining their supremacy.
The Nawrocki and Trzaskowski results are slightly above 60%, which is the worst result since 2005 when added up. It is clear that Poles are looking for an alternative, and not only on the right, but also to the left,” said Marcin Palade, political sociologist and expert on electoral geography in Poland. Andrzej Duda and Rafal Trzaskowski, the top two candidates in the 2020 presidential election, won almost 74% of the vote.
The polls had predicted that Rafa Trzaskowski’s performance would be below what the odds were that he could win in the worst possible way, according to Palade. “Nawrocki had the worst result a PiS candidate has had since 2005, below the ratings of the party that has stood behind him. ”
