Breaking News Reporter, HuffPostEvidence “strongly” suggests that the new omicron coronavirus variant has an advantage in transmissibility over other variants and that it may also evade immune protection, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday, while urging people to get vaccinated before there are documented cases of the variant in the U.S.

Writing what she knows! Taylor Swift is notorious for penning personal tunes about her high-profile relationships, but how do her exes feel about being her muses?The Grammy winner has been using her love life as inspiration since her self-titled debut dropped in 2006, featuring hits “Tim McGraw” and “Teardrops on My Guitar.” More than 10 years later, when she rereleased 2012’s Red, Swift had a ...

Trends Reporter, HuffPostSixty-one passengers on two Friday flights from South Africa to the Netherlands tested positive for COVID-19, Dutch officials said Saturday.On Sunday, public health officials confirmed that at least 13 were cases of the omicron variant.

Black Friday has come and gone, but many Cyber Monday sales are available early. If you haven’t yet started your holiday shopping, now’s the time. With shipping delays and other COVID restrictions expected to make holiday shopping even more complicated this year, there’s no shortage of savings events to take advantage of in the process.

The U.K.'s Oscar entry occasionally strains to merge personal narrative and systemic analysis, but it's powerful all the same.

In the wake of the on-set accident that left Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins dead and director Joel Souza injured, actor Alec Baldwin is preparing for legal battles. TMZ reports that Baldwin hired lawyer Aaron S. Dyer for the civil lawsuits resulting from the fatal Rust movie shooting. Dyer spent nearly seven years as a federal prosecutor in the L.A. U.S. Attorney's Office, will allegedly ...

Weeks after student complaints led D.C.’s Duke Ellington School of the Arts to postpone naming a theater after alum, Dave Chappelle, the comic has faced off with pupils who took issue with his most recent special, “The Closer.”

Private Investigator Gavin Burrows has apologized to Prince Harry for exploiting his teenage years to the UK’s tabloid press in the 2000’s.“I was basically part of a group of people who robbed him of his normal teenage years,” the investigator said in a BBC documentary called “The Princes and the Press,” as reported by People.

LONDON (AP) — WHAT IS THIS NEW COVID-19 VARIANT?South African scientists identified a new version of the coronavirus this week that they say is behind a recent spike in COVID-19 infections in Gauteng, the country’s most populous province. It’s unclear where the new variant first emerged, but scientists in South Africa first alerted the World Health Organization and it has now been seen in ...

Netflix is losing one of its only Matthew McConaughey movies next week. After Nov. 30, The Lincoln Lawyer, which stars the 52-year-old in a leading role, will no longer be streaming on Netflix. The 2011 movie, based on Michael Connelly 2005's novel of the same name, is one of only two McConaughey flicks currently on Netflix. It's an underrated movie that is often forgotten when discussing the ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — With each passing hour, new restrictions were being slapped on travel from countries in southern Africa as the world scurried Saturday to contain a new variant of the coronavirus that has the potential to be more resistant to the protection offered by vaccines.

BRUSSELS (AP) — Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the world raced Friday to contain a new coronavirus variant potentially more dangerous than the one that has fueled relentless waves of infection on nearly every continent.

Tinashe’s fans were ready to “Throw a Fit.”Hot 97 host Ebro Darden apologized for saying the “2 On” singer has a “ghetto-ass name” in a 2013 interview that resurfaced on social media this week.The New York City radio personality, 46, retweeted footage of the offensive moment on Friday, accompanied by the following message: “Yea this was a terrible joke, we were using the name skit for people to ...

Reporter, HuffPostThe White House announced Friday that it will begin restricting travel from South Africa and seven other countries on the African continent starting Monday in light of the newly identified omicron variant of the coronavirus.

Bad news -- possibly REALLY bad news -- there's a new COVID variant that has some countries in a panic ... a variant that may make the vaccine WAY less effective.

The Twitter posse is at it again ... this time trying to cancel Seth Rogen for daring to call out a YouTuber who called Seth's hometown a "crime riddled 3rd world s***hole of a city."

Bryan Adams announced that he has tested positive for COVID-19 for the second time a month and has been hospitalized as a result. The Canadian singer is in Italy to promote Pirelli's 2022 calendar that he photographed. In Instagram photos he shared Thursday, he sat in a room after being tested and then sat in an ambulance at the Milan Malpensa airport.

MILAN (AP) — Bryan Adams tested positive for COVID-19 upon arrival at Milan’s Malpensa Airport on Thursday, ahead of the unveiling of the 2022 Pirelli calendar that he photographed.The Canadian rock ’n roller disclosed the positive test in an Instagram post that included a photograph of him in a room after being tested and then sitting in an ambulance, being taken for a more reliable PCR test. He ...

Senior Reporter, HuffPostA new variant of the coronavirus has been found in South Africa, troubling scientists who say the strain has a high number of mutations and is likely already sparking a jump in new cases around Johannesburg.

Face masks will once again be mandatory in French cultural venues as Europe faces a fifth wave of COVID-19 cases.