The Country Music Association announced Wednesday that Brittany Schaffer will be its next CEO. Schaffer, presently a dean at Belmont University and formerly a top exec in Spotify’s country operations, will succeed current CMA head Sarah Trahern as of Jan. 1, 2027.

After director Wes Anderson, star Luke Wilson and producer James L. Brooks took the stage for a Q&A at the Academy Museum for a screening of “Bottle Rocket” Monday evening, the reunion got even more intimate when the trio were stuck in an elevator at the museum for about a half an hour.

Count Binface had been looking forward to a relaxing journey back to his home planet of Sigma IX when Nigel Farage dropped a political bombshell on Tuesday.

Instead, Britain’s hottest new political property said he was left with no choice but to perform a swift intergalactic handbrake turn when news broke that Farage had resigned as MP for Clacton, triggering the possibility of a byelection in the English coastal constituency he has represented since 2024.

A Palestinian aid worker who had organised screenings of World Cup matches in Gaza was killed by an Israeli missile strike just before the game between Egypt and Argentina on Tuesday evening.

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Game Changer and Very Important People were shut out this year

Dropout snubbed by the Emmys despite actually having the best game show around

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Now in its second season, X-Men ‘97 is every bit the epic, comic-book-accurate, action-fest everybody wanted it to be. Much of its success goes back to the decision Marvel made to make the series a direct continuation of the original X-Men: The Animated Series from the 1990s, rather than “just another X-Men cartoon.” Fortunately, the powers-that-be at Marvel saw what fans have been saying since the 1990s: X-Men: The Animated Series is spectacular. With complex, thoughtful stories ripped straight from the comic books, the show was a cut above most Saturday morning cartoons from the era.

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Beth Skwarecki is Lifehacker’s Senior Health Editor, and holds certifications as a personal trainer and weightlifting coach. She has been writing about health for over 10 years.

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President Donald Trump’s name will not be returning to the Kennedy Center anytime soon.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Wednesday ruled against the arts institution’s motion to stay a lower court’s decision that Trump’s name be removed from the Kennedy Center pending its appeal.