President Donald Trump announced in a social media post Wednesday that he and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte brokered a possible agreement on Greenland, though Trump provided few details and no timeline. Trump’s comments came just hours after he took his case for acquiring
Scientists have collaborated to develop a new class of highly precise filtration membranes. The research, published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, could significantly reduce energy consumption and enable large-scale water reuse in industry. The team includes
Luminate, the data research company owned by Variety parent PMC, published its year-end 2025 film and TV report on Wednesday, and among the surprises: Peacock’ “Love Island USA” was the most-watched streaming original TV season — growing its year-to-year viewership by 150%.
Oregon State University researchers have painted a clearer picture of the coastal marten, a secretive, ferret-sized forest carnivore renowned for its cuteness but nearly driven to extinction by human activity in the 20th century.
“When South Morningside Primary School girls football team won the prestigious Edinburgh Schools cup last year, they were presented with a small plastic trophy. It paled into comparison with the large, grand trophy given to the winning boys team… ”
Tenacious D’s Kyle Gass sparked controversy back in July 2024 after commenting on the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump during a concert in Australia. A year-and-a-half later, Gass is speaking out about the moment that caused his duo with Jack Black to cancel
Researchers at the University of Oulu, Finland, have developed a pine-bark–based water-treatment medium that efficiently removes antibiotics as well as residues of blood-pressure and antidepressant medicines from wastewater treatment plant effluent. A new doctoral thesis
Unifrance, the French promotional film organization, celebrated rising stars at this year’s Rendez-Vous in Paris. The 10 up-and-coming actors and filmmakers named 2026’s Talents to Watch kicked things off with a ceremony at France’s Ministry of Culture before hitting a yearlong
Researchers at Tohoku University have developed a new technique to identify the initiation sites of a destructive process called pitting corrosion, which occurs when aluminum (Al) alloys are exposed to sodium chloride solutions. This advancement is expected to accelerate the
Research in the lab of UC Santa Barbara materials professor Stephen Wilson is focused on understanding the fundamental physics behind unusual states of matter and developing materials that can host the kinds of properties needed for quantum functionalities.
The journalists were killed Wednesday in a strike on their car in central Gaza. Israel’s military said it struck “several suspects” who were operating a drone.
As part of its ongoing efforts to combat brucellosis, a serious and often neglected disease endemic to many low- and middle-income countries around the world, a team of researchers from the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (VMBS) has identified
Variety will moderate six panels, presented by Adobe, at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. The panels will take place from Jan. 23-25 at the Adobe House. “Anatomy of a Doc: The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist” will be held on Jan. 23 at 10:30 a.m. The conversation
Rahm Emanuel, seen as a potential 2028 contender, is pushing for a 75-year maximum age limit for individuals holding office. “You can't serve in the armed forces. You can't serve in a private sector job,” Emanuel told reporters during a Christian Science Monitor event on
"It’s inaccurate for anyone in the industry to claim that one tool is to blame," said Patrick Tubach, VFX supervisor at Epic Games.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned of a potential “nightmare” future scenario where Silicon Valley generates so much wealth from the artificial intelligence boom that it becomes “decoupled” from the rest of society.
Existing algorithms can partially reconstruct the shape of a single tree from a clean point-cloud dataset acquired by laser-scanning technologies. Doing the same with forest data has proven far more difficult. But now a team from Purdue University's Department of Computer
WBD's wily CEO has tried to turn up the heat on Paramount CEO Ellison.
For many years, cesium atomic clocks have been reliably keeping time around the world. But the future belongs to even more accurate clocks: optical atomic clocks. In a few years' time, they could change the definition of the base unit second in the International System of Units
The Gates Foundation on Wednesday announced Horizon 1000, a $50 million health project created in partnership with OpenAI to increase the utilization of artificial intelligence inside health care centers across Africa. “Over the next few years, we will collaborate with leaders
If I have to hear Claptrap talk about being lonely or ignored again I'm going to scream so loud it might break glass The post This Is The Worst Part Of Borderlands 4 appeared first on Kotaku .
If you were to ask hardcore Beach Boys cultists what they want more at this point — a boxed set devoted to the cult-classic “The Beach Boys Love You” album, or a very belated release of the shelved “Adult/Child” album recorded after that — it might very well be a draw.
The Supreme Court explored several pathways as it weighed the monumental battle over President Trump’s firing power at the Federal Reserve on Wednesday. Though the justices appeared open to arguments from Fed Governor Lisa Cook that she was unlawfully removed, it remains
WELLINGTON, Jan 22 - Further heavy rains across the north of New Zealand’s North Island overnight have caused widespread damage, with homes being evacuated, thousands without power, roads closed and two people missing after a landslide hit a house.
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado on Wednesday defended giving her Nobel Peace Prize to President Trump during her visit to the White House last week. "I already said what I meant and what it means to the Venezuelan people to present President Trump with our
Nancy Lacore, a three-star admiral and former chief of the Navy Reserve before she was fired by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, announced a run for Congress in South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District. Lacore, who began as a Navy pilot and rose to vice admiral during more
The House will now have to decide on whether to refer contempt charges against the former president, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, to the Justice Department.
Researchers from CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, have unlocked the most detailed genetic blueprint yet of a major soil-borne crop pathogen—an advance that paves the way for better crop disease management in Australian agriculture.
Clermont-Ferrand, the world-leading short-form film festival nested in the French region of Auvergne, returns for its 47th edition with a keen awareness of the “vital” role of short filmmaking in our current times. Taking place between Jan. 30 and Feb. 7, the festival will
DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 21 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that Russian President Vladimir Putin had accepted his invitation to join Trump's Board of Peace initiative aimed at resolving global conflicts, a statement that Putin quickly countered, saying
Conventional wisdom says there isn’t much you can do, but Paddy Johnson knows that’s not the whole story.
Tammie Rosen, the Sundance Institute’s chief communications officer, died in December at the age 49. While the indie film world has mourned her in recent weeks, Rosen will surely be top of mind on Thursday when the 42nd annual Sundance Film Festival kicks off. This Sundance is
The New York rock band with a self-deprecating sense of humor announce their forthcoming album C at Out of Hell
Here's a novel pathway to a more sustainable planet: carbo-loading for the public good. In a new study published in Nature Synthesis, chemists at Yale and the University of California-Berkeley have developed a two-step process that removes carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air and
A federal judge denied a request from Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) to appoint an independent monitor to ensure the Department of Justice (DOJ) complies with the law mandating the release of all files related to Jeffrey Epstein. In a court order
DUBAI, Jan 21 - Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, Indonesia, Pakistan and Qatar have accepted invitations to join U.S. President Donald Trump's \"Board of Peace\", the Saudi foreign ministry said in a joint statement that also included the United Arab Emirates.
American CEOs have mostly avoided direct criticism of Trump's policies over the past year.
Water bankruptcy is a “chronic condition that develops when a place uses more water than nature can reliably replace, and when the damage to the natural assets that store and filter that water, such as aquifers and wetlands, becomes hard to reverse”.
President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has used the 5th session of Kazakhstan’s National Kurultai in Kyzylorda to sketch what amounts to a redesigned political system: a shift toward a unicameral parliament, a proposal to rename the future legislature “Kurultai,” a new consultative
Dissident filmmaker Nadav Lapid will shoot his next feature in France, describing the project — still in the earliest stages of development — as a thematic echo of his Paris-set Berlin Golden Bear winner “Synonyms.” “You could say it’s the guy from ‘Synonyms’ meeting his older
Addison Rae, Alex Warren, Katseye, Leon Thomas, Lola Young, Olivia Dean (pictured), sombr, and the Marías are all nominated for Best New Artist at the 2026 Grammys , and today it's been confirmed that they'll all be performing during a Best New Artist segment at the show, too.
The Department of Homeland Security is crudely referring to its newest immigration crackdown in Maine as “ Operation Catch of the Day ,” as it prepares to hunt and catch immigrants like lobsters. “These masked men with no regard for the rule of law are causing long-term damage
The Hollywood Reporter's executive editor of awards coverage projects that the field will be led by 'Sinners' (with a record-breaking 15 noms), 'One Battle After Another' (12), Frankenstein (11) and 'Hamnet' (11).
A winter storm bringing very cold temperatures is expected to slam a massive stretch of the United States this week with more than 175 million people facing the prospect of power outages and travel disruptions.
“The Abandons” and “The Vince Staples Show” have been canceled at Netflix, Variety has confirmed. The former, a Western drama from “Sons of Anarchy” creator Kurt Sutter, ends after one season. The latter, a satirical comedy starring rapper Vince Staples, will be discontinued
Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety chief awards editor Clayton Davis.
Jan 21 - Israel launched strikes on four border crossings on the Syria-Lebanon border on Wednesday, saying they were used by the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah to smuggle weapons.
Rising star Théodore Pellerin (“Nino,” “Beau Is Afraid,” “Becoming Karl Lagerfeld”) will star opposite Félix Kysyl (“Misericordia”) and Filippo Scotti (“The Hand of God”) in the queer-tinged palace intrigue drama “By the King’s Favor” (“À la Faveur du Roi”). Set for production
Josie Rourke directs the feature that hails from StudioCanal and Rabbit's Foot Films and counts Sweeney as a producer.
Sydney Sweeney will star in and produce a film adaptation of “Custom of the Country.” Josie Rourke (“Mary Queen of Scots”) is directing and writing the adaptation of the classic Edith Wharton novel. Sweeney plays Undine Spragg, an ambitious Midwest woman who attempts to ascend
