Israel is set to take part in the Eurovision Song Contest after the European Broadcasting Union general assembly called off a vote over its participation. Golan Yochpaz, CEO of Israeli broadcaster and EBU member KAN, told the gathered assembly: “The attempt to remove KAN from
On today’s episode of “Daily Variety” podcast, we hear from Brooke Zaugg, executive director of Faith & Media Initiative, on the coalition’s work to influence the portrayals of spirituality and people of faith in media and pop culture. And Variety’s Marc Malkin talks with
Fan reactions to two SpongeBob SquarePants-themed Kits launched this week have been very divided — we dove in to see if they have any merit.
The streaming wars have a new entrant. Versant, the cable-heavy company slated to be spun off early next year from NBCUniversal, plans to introduce a new streaming outlet tied to MS NOW in the middle of 2026 and will also work to expand its Fandango streaming hub into an
Dr. Addison Montgomery is scrubbing back in on “Grey’s Anatomy.” Variety has learned exclusively that Kate Walsh is set to reprise her role as the fan favorite character in an upcoming episode of the ABC medical drama’s ongoing 22nd season. Walsh will appear in the “Grey’s
If you want to get in touch with Fran Lebowitz, you’ll have to jump through a few hoops. Even inquiring if the sharp-tongued writer and flaneur would entertain an interview required three intermediaries and instructions delivered over the phone: “Dial her number at 4 p.m. Talk
Alexander Farah’s short drama is making a push for Academy Awards consideration after debuting in Toronto and winning awards on the festival circuit.
Rebecca Henderson, Ben Sinclair and Alex Moffat co-star in writer-director Jeremy Redleaf's comedy feature about a pair of misguided wellness experts.
Bad Bunny has done countless memorable things in his career, and high on the list is making the holiday season an event for his fans. He dropped his “X100pre” album on Christmas Day; the “El Ultimo Tour” LP around Thanksgiving; and his sixth studio album, “Debí Tirar Más
When Cyclone Ditwah made landfall on November 28 2025, Sri Lanka experienced one of its deadliest environmental disasters in modern history.
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) have rapidly emerged as one of the most promising frontiers in modern biology. These nano-sized messengers mediate communication between cells, tissues, and organs, influencing processes from immune signaling to cancer progression. Their growing
The latest casting news for The Batman Part II could confirm a major theory about Matt Reeves new movie.
The country star is set to release her third album on Feb. 20
Spanish pop star will hit arenas across Europe, the U.S., and Latin America
Trump administration officials will brief reporters Thursday afternoon after the FBI made an arrest in its nearly five-year-old probe of who placed pipe bombs near the offices of the Democratic and Republican national committees in 2021. The news marks the latest movement in
There had been calls for Israel to be excluded over the conduct of the war in Gaza.
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The Pentagon has argued that the policy imposes “common sense” rules that protect the military from release of information that could put them in danger.
As he rolls out his Dynamic Duos album series, the EPMD legend opens up about aging gracefully in rap, turning down generative AI, and the industry’s pay-to-play culture.
Americans’ confidence in the economy slipped in November to negative 30, according to the latest Gallup poll, the lowest level recorded since July 2024. Gallup’s Economic Confidence Index (ECI) — which combines Americans’ assessments of the current economic conditions and the
12:30 Report is The Hill’s midday newsletter. Subscribe here. In today's issue: It’s Thursday. Everyone’s annual Spotify Wrapped should be out. Who were your top artists for the year? I doubt any of you will be surprised to hear Taylor Swift dominated mine. 😏 🚓 NEWS THIS
The team behind what has been described as "one of the most significant mosaics discovered in the UK" have revealed that it depicts an alternative "long-lost" telling of the Trojan War. The paper is published in the journal Britannia.
Cover crops improve soil health and water quality, prevent nutrient loss, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but they're only grown on about 5% of U.S. agricultural lands. That's despite billions in annual federal investments, primarily in the form of cost-share and incentive
Picture a baby Brachiosaurus the size of a golden retriever, hunting for food with its siblings while dodging predators that would happily eat it. Meanwhile, its parents—towering over 40 feet tall—are dozens of miles away, going about their lives completely unbothered by their
When people use hand gestures that visually represent what they're saying, listeners see them as more clear, competent and persuasive. That's the key finding from my new research published in the Journal of Marketing Research, where I analyzed thousands of TED Talks and ran
Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan (D) said Wednesday that the Minnesotan Somali community is part of “the fabric of our state,” comments that follow attacks on Somalians from President Trump. “I just watched the video of Donald Trump attacking the beautiful Somali community
Left 4 Dead creator Mike Booth is helming a new 4-player co-op game from Bad Robot Games and Sony Interactive Entertainment.
If you look across space with a telescope, you'll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, billions of stars and their attendant planets. The universe teems with huge, spectacular objects, and it might seem like these massive objects should hold
The Sayonara Wild Hearts developer has made an inventive PC and Switch compilation of its great mobile games like Device 6 and Beat Sneak Bandit
Bert Kreischer’s scripted comedy series “Free Bert” will premiere on Netflix in January. The streamer released six first-look images of the show, and, in a sign of great restraint, only one features the comic shirtless. The six-episode series, created by Kreischer, Jarrad Paul
In the middle of a chilly October night in 2025, my two friends and I suited up at the Cottonwood Creek trailhead and started a trek into the Sangre de Cristo mountains of Colorado. It was a little below freezing as we got moving at 1:30 a.m., and the moon illuminated the snowy
It's the first time the national average has dropped below $3 since 2021, but not every state is seeing such low prices at the pump.
To Grow, We Must Forget… but Now AI Remembers Everything. “What if human forgetting is not a bug, but a feature? And what happens when we build machines that don’t forget, but are now helping shape the human minds that do?”
Fans will have a chance to further determine just how “okay” Megan Moroney is when the country star embarks on her first headlining tour of arenas, beginning in late May of 2026 in the U.S. and wrapping up in early October in Europe. The singer is poised to move on from her “Am
KYIV, Dec 4 - Tens of thousands of people were left without power and heating in southern Ukraine after Russian attacks on the frontline city of Kherson and Ukraine's largest seaport, Odesa, authorities and a top energy provider said on Thursday.
Coastal wetlands, like salt marshes, keep pace with sea-level rise by accumulating sediment and burying organic carbon in their soils, an important natural process that also helps sequester carbon. Accurately measuring this stored carbon is essential for understanding marsh
British-Egyptian actor Amir El-Masry, who plays iconic British-Yemeni featherweight “Prince” Naseem Hamed in the biopic “Giant” – which opens Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival – is on a roll with a trio of movies launching in rapid succession, all of which bridge his
Once again there is an impasse in the attempts to bring an end to the war in Ukraine. A five-hour meeting in the Kremlin between the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and the US team led by Donald Trump’s envoys, businessmen Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, has failed to make
Black Ops 7 Season 1 has moved the skill-based matchmaking playlist to a new tab, sparking outcry among players.
Andrew Dominik sat down for a wide-ranging interview with French producer Ronald Chammah at the Marrakech Film Festival, where the filmmaker discussed the long process of making “Blonde,” how Brad Pitt rescues him from “director jail” and what he wants to make next. Dominik
Three Fields Entertainment's most recent game, Wreckreation , has struggled to build a playerbase The post Burnout Paradise Director’s Studio Faces Shutdown After 12 Years appeared first on Kotaku .
Searching for technosignatures—signs of technology on a planet that we can see from afar—remains a difficult task. There are so many different factors to consider, and we only have the technological capabilities to detect a relatively small collection of them.
It's the first time the national average has dropped below $3 since 2021, but not every state is seeing such low prices at the pump.
Leon Thomas released his sophomore effort Mutt over a year ago, but it’s been blowing up lately. The title track is the #1 song on the radio right now, per Billboard. Now the Victorious actor-turned-R&B star is teaming up with Disclosure for a track called “Deeper.” Both acts
Celebrating its 25th anniversary, Mamoru Oshii's cult classic anime film Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade is being restored in 4K.
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) on Thursday called a federal vaccine advisory committee "totally discredited" ahead of a vote on whether to change hepatitis B vaccine guidelines, an issue very close to the Louisiana physician. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)
New research points the finger for precipitating Europe’s most deadly pandemic at scores of massive eruptions The post Did Volcanoes Spark the Black Death? appeared first on Nautilus .
In a statement, police said most of those smuggled had entered on tourist visas, including for other countries within the European Union's Schengen area.
A boiling sea of quarks and gluons, including virtual ones—this is how we can imagine the main phase of high-energy proton collisions. It would seem that particles here have significantly more opportunities to evolve than when less numerous and much "better-behaved" secondary
U.K. performers union Equity is set to ballot members over potential strike action related to AI protections. Negotiating partner Pact, the U.K. producers union, has been notified. “Nobody wants further instability in our industries ahead of what we hope will be a positive year
