2019

Ofcom: BBC must do ‘much more’ for young audiences

The BBC needs to do “much more” to attract younger audiences to its services, according to Ofcom’s annual report on the corporation. But, the regulator added, the BBC still plays a central role in the audiences’ media and news consumption. Ofcom’s head Sharon White said some viewers felt certain services were “not relevant to their

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Florida considers allowing college athletes to earn money

Following California’s lead, Florida lawmakers are tackling NCAA rules that prohibit college athletes from reaping financial benefits from their prowess in the arena of big-money sports. With a bounty of marquee college sports programs, Florida could help student athletes flex their muscles as they take on the NCAA, which governs college athletics and has long

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Making Capitol History, Cummings Is Remembered as a ‘Master of the House’

WASHINGTON — The late Representative Elijah E. Cummings, the powerful Democrat whose booming baritone and impassioned cries for decency reverberated through the halls of Congress for more than two decades, made history one final time on Thursday, as the first African-American elected official to lie in state in the United States Capitol. A son of

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Pete Buttigieg’s Skin Care Routine Has Somehow Become A Hot-Button Issue

However you feel about Pete Buttigieg’s politics, there is one thing not up for debate: His skin care routine sounds like utter trash. This revelation came to us via Cosmopolitan’s editor-in-chief Jessica Pels, who chatted with the South Bend, Indiana, mayor and presidential hopeful mostly about policy and very briefly about pores in an interview

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Lamar Odom Regrets The Way He Left Taraji P. Henson For Khloe Kardashian

Lamar Odom is still playing defense. The troubled former NBA star told TVOne’s “Uncensored” that he dated Taraji P. Henson before future wife Khloe Kardashian, praising the “Empire” star and bashing himself for the way he handled the relationship. (See the clip below.) “I just wish I could have done things different with her,” he said in

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Fossil trove shows life’s fast recovery after big extinction

A remarkable trove of fossils from Colorado has revealed details of how mammals grew larger and plants evolved after the cataclysm that killed off the dinosaurs. The thousands of specimens let scientists trace that history over a span of 1 million years, a mere eyeblink in Earth’s lifespan. Sixty-six million years ago, a large meteorite

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