Crotch enhancements. Banned helmets. Qualifying manipulation claims. And Russian hacking. Even before Friday’s opening ceremony at San Siro in Milan, the build-up to the Winter Olympics in Italy has provided its fill of controversies. Athletes are always trying to find a competitive edge. This alleged attempt – dubbed “crotchgate” by some – is bizarre. Why
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Trending on Billboard Billboard’sFriday Music Guideserves as a handy guide to this Friday’s most essential releases — the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond. This week, … Check out all of this week’s picks below: Explore See latest videos, charts and news
Iranian and American officials will kick off face-to-face talks in Oman today, following weeks of threatened military action by Donald Trump. The US is sending its Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, to the Muscat summit, where he will meet with Tehran’s foreign minister Abbas Araqchi. It comes amid a continued American naval build-up near Iran,
Trending on Billboard Monsta X is feeling it with “Growing Pains,” the K-pop outfit’s first release of the year. Arriving at the stroke of midnight, after a teaser dropped earlier in the week, “Growing Pains” is lifted from the group’s forthcoming English-language album. “Growing Pains” explores themes of self-discovery, perseverance, and identity, and, as the
Trending on Billboard Nearly eight years after J. Cole introduced The Fall-Off‘s intro with KOD‘s “1985” closer in 2018, the Dreamville rapper’s final album has arrived. The Fall-Off hit streaming services on Friday (Feb. 6), tying a bow on the North Carolina icon’s decorated career. The project is a double album (Disc 29 and Disc
There’s nothing pedestrian about a red carpet premiere. We regularly see celebrities strut out on carpets in the naked dress trend or method dressing (like Margot Robbie is doing right now for Wuthering Heights). While I enjoy ohh-ing and aw-ing over celebrity fashion just as much as the next gal, I think the winner of
The crown of French Empress Eugenie recovered after last year’s Louvre heist was left damaged – but remains largely intact and will be restored, the museum has said. Jewels worth an estimated £76m were stolen in an audacious raid at the museum in Paris on 19 October last year. The thieves, who pulled off the
A new day is dawning at the House of Mouse. Josh D’Amaro has officially been anointed as the incoming CEO of The Walt Disney Company. His tenure officially begins in March, and while there’s no way to know what Disney will be like under the new boss, there’s at least one Disney insider who is
To Be Published in Paris The newest book from the man Britain’s Channel4 TV calls the Einstein, Newton, Darwin, and Freud of the 21st century is about to be published, not in the USA where Bloom lives, but in France. An Interview With (The) Lucifer (Principle) will be published in Paris early in 2026 by Jardin de
Any time someone announces a remake of a foundational horror film, my immediate reaction falls toward suspicion. But when that remake involves Michael Shannon stepping into the role of one of cinema’s earliest villains? That feeling turns into a complicated mix of excitement, hope, and very real apprehension. Let’s talk out the upcoming horror movie
Catherine O’Hara, the Emmy-winning actress who starred as Kevin’s mother in Home Alone and the eccentric Moira Rose in Schitt’s Creek, has died. The Canadian-American star won an Emmy award for lead actress for her role in Schitt’s Creek in 2020. She died aged 71 on Friday at her home in Los Angeles “following a
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First up in January, I read my book club book for the month: The Lilac People by Milo Todd. This historical novel was a chilling look how queer and trans people continued to be persecuted by Allies after the end of the war. I followed it with a nonfiction book on the same subject: The
Two explosions have been reported in Iran as the regime denied a military leader was targeted, amid heightened tension in the region. One blast happened at Iran’s southern port of Bandar Abbas on Saturday, local media reported. One person, a four-year-old girl, was killed and a further 14 were injured. A second blast, more than
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