The Oscars leave ABC for YouTube in 2029, signaling a major shift in how audiences watch live events.
The Oscars are planning a move to YouTube, ending a decades-long run on broadcast television in 2029. Audiences are continuing to change how they watch even the biggest cultural events. But reports of ‘the death of live TV’ have been premature before – so how will it survive?
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This episode was produced by Sarí el-Khalili and Fatima Shafiq, with Farhan Rafid, Tamara Khandaker, Tracie Hunte, and our guest host, Kevin Hirten. It was edited by Noor Wazwaz.
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Lauren Sexton will head north to compete for Washington State University beginning in the fall of 2026. She confirmed the commitment on SwimCloud, writing:
I’m so excited to announce my verbal commitment to continue my academic and athletic career at Washington State University!! I would like to thank my family, friends, and coaches for their never ending support and especially God for always guiding me. Also thank you to the WSU coaching staff for blessing me with this opportunity! GO COUGS!!
An Oregon native, Sexton is currently a senior at West Linn High School, where she has been a member of her school’s varsity swimming and diving team since her freshman year. In addition to competing for the Lions, she swims year-round with Lake Oswego Swim Club, primarily specializing in breaststroke and IM.
Sexton is on a promising improvement trajectory, having made significant drops across her primary events in 2025. Most notably, she’s slashed nearly five seconds off her 400 IM, improving from 4:23.39 to 4:18.66, and taken over two seconds off her 200 breast, dropping from 2:18.02 to 2:14.53. She’s also slashed 2.56 seconds off her 200 IM PB, going from 2:03.98 to 2:01.42, and has taken time off in the 100 breast as well, improving from 1:04.63 to 1:03.78.
She most recently competed at last month’s PN VAST 49th Annual Washington Open, where she swept the IMs with her current career bests. She also added a top-three finish in the 200 breast, clocking 2:17.09 after posting her personal best of 2:16.63 in prelims.
Sexton is the two-time defending Oregon School Activities Association (OSAA) 6A state champion in the 200 IM, having also finished runner-up as a freshman. She finished runner-up in the 100 breast with her current personal best last February after taking fifth in her first two years. She’s also helped West Linn rack up six top-five relay finishes throughout her first three years: two fourth-place finishes and four fifth-place finishes. Two state titles could be in the cards at her final appearance at the meet in less than a month’s time.
She’s also a two-time Winter Junior Championships qualifier, competing at the 2023 and 2024 editions but sat out this past December. Her highest placement between the two meets was 42nd in the 200 breast in 2024; the only other time she made the top 50 was in the same event in 2023 when she hit the wall 49th.
Beyond short course, Sexton qualified and competed at Junior Nationals over the summer, placing 90th in the 200m breast (2:42.03), 93rd in the 400 IM (5:09.52), and 112th in the 50 breast (34.77). She’s been as quick as 34.50, 2:37.43, and 5:03.58 in those three races.
Top SCY Times:
100 Breaststroke: 1:03.78
200 Breaststroke: 2:14.53
200 IM: 2:01.42
400 IM: 4:18.66
A Division I program, Washington State competes in the Mountain West Conference with the likes of San Diego State and UNLV. The Cougars placed fifth out of ten teams at the 2025 Mountain West Conference Championships before sending three athletes on to compete at the NCAA Division I Championship. The team scored 14 points at NCAAs courtesy of Emily Lundgren, a current senior who placed sixth in the 200 breast and 16th in the 100 breast.
Based on the results from last season’s Mountain West Conference Championships, Sexton is already poised to land in the ‘A’ finals of the 200 IM and 400 IM, the ‘B’ final in the 200 breast, and the ‘C’ final in the 100 breast, setting her up to score big points right from the start.
On the team’s 2024-25 depth chart, she would have ranked third in the 200 breast and both IMs, as well as fourth in the 100 breast, positioning her to contribute immediately in dual meets. With the graduation of Lundgren, she could also factor into the team’s future medley relays, though she will likely focus on the 200s and up.
The full list of recruits currently set to join Sexton next fall includes fellow breaststroker Grace Carrington (1:03.74/2:18.49), Audrey Hill (sprint free/fly), Marlee Winser (sprint free), Ivy Ladrow (sprint free/fly), London Hughes (fly/distance free), and Ffion Humphreys (sprint free/back), all of whom should make for strong training partners over the next four years.
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While heartburn medication can be a lifesaver for those suffering from gastric reflux, several studies over the years have indicated that the drugs could increase stomach cancer risks more than threefold. A new meta analysis says that’s likely not the case.
Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are a class of drugs that work by blocking an enzyme that produces stomach acid. They include such popular medications as Nexium, Prevacid, and Prilosec, and they can turn down the burn often felt by people suffering from peptic ulcers as well as gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).
Researchers from Scandinavia, Iceland, Finland and the UK decided to take one more look at the research linking PPI use and cancer and found enough evidence to make them think it was all standing on some pretty shaky ground. So they decided to conduct their own analysis.
To do so, the team looked at healthcare registry data from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Sweden, and Norway over the 26-year period from 1994 to 2020, and found 17,232 people who had developed stomach cancer. The researchers put each of those individuals into a group with 10 other healthy people from their respective countries, matching up age, sex, and calendar year. That gave them a total pool of 172,297 people to examine.
Crucially, in their analysis, the researchers excluded the use of PPIs in one year before stomach cancer diagnoses. That’s because stomach cancer symptoms can often show up as pain, reflux and indigestion, so doctors will prescribe the medicine as a way to treat those symptoms before even realizing that a patient has stomach cancer. So in other words, it is often the case that stomach cancer patients are put on PPIs because of their symptoms rather than developing cancer as a result of taking PPIs.
When all of that was taken into account, any association between use of the drugs and development of stomach cancer disappeared. The authors argue that the earlier studies showing the link were inconsistent, and limited by confounding and methodological differences, making it hard to draw firm conclusions about cancer risk.
Still, the researchers caution that even their current analysis is an observational study from which definitive cause-and-effect conclusions cannot be drawn. However they feel the sheer amount of data fathered and the lengthy timeframe they analyzed lends their work credence.
“The results of this study do not support the hypothesis that long term proton pump inhibitor use is associated with an increased risk of gastric adenocarcinoma,” they say. “This finding should offer relief for patients needing long term proton pump inhibitor therapy and is valuable for healthcare in clinical decision making.”
That’s important because long-term untreated gastric reflux can lead to serious complications including cancer of the esophagus. So patients who avoid PPIs based on previous studies that may have been faulty are likely not making the best decision for their long-term health.
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France says it has seized an oil tanker in the Mediterranean suspected of being part of Russia’s sanction-busting “shadow fleet”.
French President Emmanuel Macron said the tanker, named the Grinch, was “subject to international sanctions and suspected of flying a false flag”.
The French navy, with the assistance of allies including the UK, boarded the vessel on Thursday morning between Spain and Morocco. French maritime authorities said that a search of the vessel had “confirmed the doubts as to the regularity of the flag”.
Russia’s embassy in Paris said it had not been informed of the seizure.
Moscow’s so-called shadow fleet is a clandestine network of tankers used to evade Western sanctions on Russian oil exports by shipping the oil on aged tankers with obscure ownership or insurance.
The Grinch was travelling from the Arctic port of Murmansk in northern Russia when it was intercepted, French authorities said. The vessel had been flying a Comoros flag, according to ship tracking websites marinetraffic and vesselfinder.
Announcing the seizure on X, Macron said: “We are determined to uphold international law and to ensure the effective enforcement of sanctions.
“The activities of the “shadow fleet” contribute to financing the war of aggression against Ukraine,” he said, adding that the vessel had been “diverted”.
Defence Secretary John Healy said the UK navy had provided “tracking and monitoring” support, with HMS Dagger monitoring the tanker through the Straits of Gibraltar.
He added: “Alongside our allies, we are stepping up our response to shadow vessels to choke off the funds that fuel Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine.”
The UK has imposed sanctions on 544 Russian shadow fleet vessels.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed the action, saying it was “exactly the kind of resolve needed to ensure that Russian oil no longer finances Russia’s war”.
“Vessels must be apprehended. And wouldn’t it be fair to confiscate and sell the oil carried by these tankers?” he said on X.
Speaking at Davos earlier, Zelensky exhorted Europe to do more to ensure its own security, saying: “Europe loves to discuss the future but avoids taking action”.
Many Western countries imposed sanctions on Russian energy following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Severe flooding across southern Africa has submerged roads, homes, schools and businesses, forcing evacuations and disrupting daily life. In Mozambique, the death toll has risen to at least 112 people after weeks of heavy rain.
Identifying future trends and technologies continues to be a “million-dollar question,” said Raffaella Cornaggia, most recently CEO of Kering Beauté at Fortune CEO Forum. Every year, the Fortune CEO Forum convenes some of Europe’s most influential business leaders, providing a trusted platform where senior executives can exchange insights and discuss their shared priorities and challenges with peers. In 2025 guests included leaders from Shell, Philips, Sodexo and more.
Cornaggia noted that social media platforms such as TikTok provide real-time data that businesses can use to identify shifting consumer tastes. TikTok’s algorithm surfaces content based on actual user behavior, making it a powerful discovery engine, where people often “accidentally” find new brands or products without searching for them. For businesses, the key is tracking how trends are resonating across multiple regions and communities. By identifying these patterns early, companies can determine which trends are most likely to scale globally.
From left: Most recently CEO of Kering Beauté, Raffaella Cornaggia, and CEO of Colnago, Nicola Rosin, at Fortune CEO Forum 2025.
Joe Maher
Looking ahead, leaders were optimistic about the impact of AI on work. Dave McCann is the managing partner of IBM Consulting for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). He claimed the real gains in productivity will come from how effectively organizations bring humans and technology together. “I see a similar evolution from not having computers to then having computers,” agreed Trane Technologies’ group president of EMEA, Jose La Loggia. The focus is shifting, however, from marginal productivity gains to demonstrable ROI. In a recent report, Gartner predicted AI infrastructure software spending will reach nearly $230 billion this year, up from approximately $60 billion in 2024. After years of heavy experimentation and investment, boards are increasingly demanding tangible results—and leaders are under greater pressure to deliver them.
“I see a similar evolution from not having computers to then having computers.”
Jose La Loggia, group president of EMEA, Trane Technologies
Effective leadership in the age of AI demands a longer-term view—one that looks toward the legacy we create for future generations. Shell U.K.’s chair and group EVP for sustainability and carbon, Parminder Kohli, observed that the real challenge lies in ensuring members of the next generation have the same opportunities to fulfill their potential as today’s leaders have had. This is not a technology challenge but one of leadership: Leaders must align teams, remove organizational obstacles, and “rewire” their companies so employees are set up to succeed. That means investing in training; encouraging managers to champion new tools; and implementing the governance that turns AI into a “supertool” for enhancing human agency. As IBM’s McCann pointed out, culture will evolve only if leaders start taking action today, rather than waiting for change to happen on its own.
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US President Donald Trump has announced there is a “framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland”.
The statement came as a surprise after days of mounting tensions, culminating with a threat to impose economic sanctions on eight close US allies which have opposed his plans to seize the semi-autonomous territory of Denmark.
So what could this deal entail and will it be acceptable to Denmark and Greenland – both of which have made it clear they will not relinquish sovereignty of the world’s largest island in the Arctic?
What has been said about the framework deal?
President Trump made the announcement on his Truth Social media platform on Wednesday, after talks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
“Based upon a very productive meeting that I have had with the Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte, we have formed the framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland,” he said.
He did not give details, but said talks would continue to reach the deal.
Rutte, for his part, said he had not discussed the key issue of Danish sovereignty over Greenland in his meeting with Trump.
The view in Denmark is that the issue is far from over and that any agreement must still be hammered out together between Greenland, Denmark and the US.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Danes could negotiate “on everything political; security, investments, economy”.
“But we cannot negotiate on our sovereignty. I have been informed that this has not been the case either,” she said in a statement on Thursday.
One of two Greenlandic lawmakers in the Danish parliament, Aaja Chenmitz, said: “Nato in no case has the right to negotiate on anything without us, Greenland. Nothing about us without us”.
The UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said she hoped this meant that there would be “the direct discussions that Denmark had asked for, for Denmark, Greenland and the United States on the way forward around Greenland, protecting Greenland’s sovereignty”.
Is there any detail about the possible deal?
The Danish and Greenlandic reiteration that sovereignty is non-negotiable appears to be aimed at rejecting reports in the New York Times, where anonymous officials said one idea under discussion was for Denmark to cede sovereignty over small areas of Greenland where the US would build military bases.
This arrangement would be similar to the status of two military bases in Cyprus, which are controlled by the UK.
Yvette Cooper did not confirm whether she knew what the framework agreement contained, but mentioned “some very practical discussions about Greenland’s security, whilst being very, very clear that Greenland sovereignty is not up for negotiation”.
In arguing in favour of seizing Greenland, Trump has mentioned the threat of Chinese and Russian vessels around the island, even though Denmark says there is no threat “today”.
On this point, Nato allies have tried to reassure the US that they will boost security in the Arctic and Mark Rutte told the Reuters news agency on Thursday that the framework deal would also require this contribution.
“I have no doubt we can do this quite fast. Certainly I would hope for 2026, I hope even early in 2026.”
One of the ideas the UK has been calling for is to set up an Arctic Sentry, said Yvette Cooper on Thursday, which was a “very similar to the approach that Nato has taken to the Baltic sentry” – a mission to increase the surveillance of ships in the Baltic Sea after critical undersea cables were severed.
Will any deal short of ‘ownership’ please Trump?
The US has had a military presence in Greenland since after World War Two.
Under a 1951 agreement with Denmark, the US can bring as many troops as it wants to Greenland. It already has more than 100 military personnel permanently stationed at its Pituffik base in the north-western tip of the territory. So discussions to reach a deal may centre on a renegotiation of that agreement, according to US officials.
The US does have military bases in many countries – including Germany – but they do not constitute sovereign territory.
Trump has insisted a lease agreement over Greenland is not good enough.
“Countries have to have ownership and you defend ownership, you don’t defend leases. And we’ll have to defend Greenland,” he said two weeks ago.
In order to acquire the island, he has threatened to use force – until a U-turn in Davos where he dropped that threat to the relief of his Nato allies.
Nato was founded in 1949 on the principle that an attack on one ally is an attack on all. These attacks were meant to come from outside, and Denmark had made it clear a military attack would spell the end of the trans-Atlantic alliance, where the US is the major partner.
The Nato secretary-general has been criticised for the praise he has constantly showered on President Trump – at one point calling him “daddy”.
“You can always take Donald Trump at his word. That is why I really think we are very glad to have him,” Rutte said on Thursday.
The Danish prime minister said she had been in constant contact with Rutte before and after Trump’s announcement. But it is not clear what – if any – Danish input led to the latest climbdown by Trump.
Why does Trump want Greenland?
Trump has sought to buy Greenland off Denmark since his first time in office – and he is not the only US president to try to do so.
Trump says the US needs Greenland to protect against possible attacks from Russia and China.
He has also said Greenland is essential for his plan to build a Golden Dome defence system, designed to protect the US against missile attacks, and that European allies could co-operate in this endeavour.
Along with Greenland’s strategic location, the US has spoken about the island’s vast – and largely untapped – reserves of rare earth minerals, many of which are crucial for technologies including mobile phones and electric vehicles.
Trump has not said the US is after Greenland’s riches, but that a US control over the island “puts everybody in a really good position, especially as it pertains to security and to minerals”.
With the appointment, Benoualid becomes the youngest equity partner in the firm’s history. The firm focuses on legal representation for artists, songwriters, producers and other music industry professionals, and also advises clients across the film and television sectors.
She joins equity partners Bob Myman, Eric Greenspan, David Fox, Aaron Rosenberg, Francois Mobasser, Steve Younger, Jeffrey Light, Kim Stenton, and Derek Kroeger.
“Audrey has been an exceptional leader within our firm, and her promotion reflects both her remarkable legal skill and the deep trust our clients place in her,” said Eric Greenspan, founding partner of Myman Greenspan. “She has built an impressive practice representing both emerging talent and established artists across every facet of the music business.”
Benoualid’s practice spans recorded music, publishing, touring, brand partnerships, merchandise agreements, catalog acquisitions and licensing.
Her client roster includes artists such as Tate McRae (represented alongside partner Aaron Rosenberg), Sevdaliza, Karri, Alicia Creti, and Taylor Hill.
“her [AUDREY’S] promotion reflects both her remarkable legal skill and the deep trust our clients place in heR.”
Eric Greenspan, Myman Greenspan
She also represents songwriters and producers including Brett McLaughlin, professionally known as “Leland“, Mags Duval, Leroy Clampitt and Annie Schindel, whose credits include work with artists such as Troye Sivan, Selena Gomez, Lily Allen, Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan.
Benoualid has negotiated multiple seven-figure publishing deals and represents clients across transactions extending beyond music into fashion, branding, film and television. Her deal experience includes touring agreements, merchandise programs, brand partnerships, album clearances and catalog licensing involving artists such as Troye Sivan, Jennifer Lopez, Ariana Grande, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Young the Giant, Erykah Badu, and the Grateful Dead.
“She exemplifies our firm’s ethos – a fierce advocate guided by a strong moral compass and grounded pragmatism.”
Aaron Rosenberg
Aaron Rosenberg, her partner at Myman Greenspan, described Benoualid as a key contributor to the firm’s work, citing her client advocacy and dealmaking experience.
“Audrey’s unwavering dedication to her clients and the depth of her contributions to our firm make her an invaluable partner. We are proud to welcome her into our partnership,” said Rosenberg.
“She exemplifies our firm’s ethos – a fierce advocate guided by a strong moral compass and grounded pragmatism.”
In a statement, Benoualid added: “I am deeply honored by this recognition and grateful to my partners and colleagues at Myman Greenspan for their mentorship and support.
“This firm has provided me with the opportunity to work with incredible artists at every stage of their careers and to help them navigate the evolving landscape of the music industry. I’m excited to continue building on that foundation as a partner and to advocate for the next generation of talent shaping the future of music and entertainment.”
“This firm has provided me with the opportunity to work with incredible artists at every stage of their careers and to help them navigate the evolving landscape of the music industry. I’m excited to continue building on that foundation as a partner and to advocate for the next generation of talent shaping the future of music and entertainment.”
Audrey Benoualid
Benoualid has received industry recognition including placements on Variety’s New Leaders list, Variety Dealmakers, Billboard Top Music Lawyers, and Pollstar Impact NextGen, and has contributed commentary to publications such as Billboard, Rolling Stone,CNN, and Business Insider.
Born to Moroccan Jewish immigrants and raised in Montreal, Benoualid earned a Master’s degree in Entertainment Law from UCLA School of Law and brings bilingual fluency and an international background to her practice.Music Business Worldwide
