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On today’s episode of “Daily Variety” podcast, Variety’s Elsa Keslassy explains the battle that is brewing in France between Netflix and other streamers over the country’s programming quotas and its theatrical movie windowing rules. Keslassy, who is Variety‘s international editor …

University of Chicago Press Workers Guild members voted overwhelmingly to unionize, making it the latest in a wave of Chicago cultural institutions to organize. UCP Workers Guild announced on Wednesday that 89% of participating voters were in favor of union …

Dr. Garth Walker, an executive at Rush Health and an emergency department physician who grew up on the South Side, has been appointed Chicago’s next public health commissioner. “I see this opportunity as a culmination of my life’s work,” Walker, …

Sen. Dick Durbin met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday at the 2026 NATO Summit in Turkey on a trip centered on rebuilding America’s longstanding relationship with allies amid President Trump’s back-and-forth comments about European nations. Durbin traveled to …

The Oregon attorney general’s office has asked a judge to grant a 60-day delay on the closing of the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger, as it continues to investigate whether the deal violates antitrust law. Judge Eric Dahlin, of Multnomah County Superior …

Darren Walker has only been on the job as president and CEO of Anonymous Content for five months so the noise that he heard at the company’s New York City office Wednesday morning was something new. “I walked into yelps …

Mayor Brandon Johnson promised during his first month in office to “rebuild the social contract” with Black Chicago, beginning with the actual construction of a permanent memorial to former Chicago Police Cmdr. Jon Burge torture victims that was promised in …

A central Illinois state representative schemed to direct state grant money to her daughter, took kickbacks on bogus campaign expenses and lied to the FBI about it all, according to federal prosecutors. State Rep. Carol Ammons, D-Urbana, was indicted by …

Reading Time: 2 minutes Charles Barkley has never been one to mince words. So when the basketball legend opened up about his decision to skip Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding, he made it clear that he thought the event …

The Blackhawks’ planned step toward playoff contention in 2026-27 has already hit a massive snag. Connor Bedard, the team’s best player, will be sidelined approximately four months after undergoing left shoulder surgery Wednesday. That slates Bedard to theoretically return in …

Crime on the Chicago Transit Authority has dropped over the last six consecutive months amid a security surge to address a historically high number of violent attacks. CTA’s interim boss Nora Leerhsen boasted about the numbers during the agency’s Wednesday …

The nominations for the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards arrived Wednesday morning, spreading the wealth across 117 categories and 610 nominations. But beneath the impressive numbers was a clear story: HBO Max reaffirmed its status as television’s dominant awards force, Apple …

Salman Rushdie has declared that artificial intelligence has no role to play in literature, cinema or storytelling of any kind, dismissing the technology as fundamentally incapable of originality. “Nothing. Zero,” Rushdie tells Variety when asked what part AI should play …

After the fifth and final season of “Hacks” broke the record for most-nominated comedy series at the Emmys, it’d be natural to hope for more of the beloved show in the future. But speaking with Variety this morning after nominations …

DoorDash, an Official Tournament Supporter of the FIFA World Cup 2026, kicked off its eight-week-long Summer DashPass campaign in June and has continued to be a staple through the tournament and summer season. The most exciting perk is the chance …

As the 2026 Emmy nods rolled in this morning — bright and early at 8:30 a.m. for those on the West Coast — some of the nominated stars were overcome with emotion. Some were busy on set, only learning they’d …

Alex Stanley, 31, never went fishing before Tuesday. Now he has, thanks to Adventure Club, a Chicago Park District program that brings dozens of children and adults to Northerly Island every summer to try new outdoor activities. “I like being …

A man appeared in court Tuesday on charges alleging he encouraged his girlfriend’s suicide before handing her the loaded gun with which she fatally shot herself. Mario Laboy, 49, is charged with three felony counts of inducement to commit suicide …

Bob and Joan Biebel met on the job, as Chicago police officers, and things progressed slowly, as love stories go. “I chased him for eight years before I finally made him surrender at City Hall,” Joan Biebel said with a …

BALTIMORE — The series-opening game between the Cubs and Orioles started in a rain delay Tuesday night. Originally scheduled for a 5:35 p.m. Central first pitch, fans were informed via a scoreboard message that a conversation between Major League Baseball …