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Maude - the daughter of actress Leslie Mann and filmmaker Judd Apatow - has embraced nepotism with her upcoming project, casting several stars who have had a leg up.

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr is proposing (PDF) to roll back key Biden-era broadband policies, scrapping the long-term gigabit speed goal, halting analysis of broadband affordability, and reinterpreting deployment standards in a way that favors industry metrics over consumer access. The proposal, which is scheduled for a vote on August 7, narrows the scope of Section 706 evaluations to focus on whether broadband is being deployed rather than whether it's affordable or universally accessible. Ars Technica reports: The changes will make it easier for the FCC to give the broadband industry a passing grade in an annual progress report. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr's proposal would give the industry a thumbs-up even if it falls short of 100 percent deployment, eliminate a long-term goal of gigabit broadband speeds, and abandon a new effort to track the affordability of broadband. Section 706 of the Telecommunications Act requires the FCC to determine whether broadband is being deployed "on a reasonable and timely basis" to all Americans. If the answer is no, the US law says the FCC must "take immediate action to accelerate deployment of such capability by removing barriers to infrastructure investment and by promoting competition in the telecommunications market." Generally, Democratic-led commissions have found that the industry isn't doing enough to make broadband universally available, while Republican-led commissions have found the opposite. Democratic-led commissions have also periodically increased the speeds used to determine whether advanced telecommunications capabilities are widely available, while Republican-led commissioners have kept the speed standards the same.

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From a sprawling manor house with 220 acres of land to a £60million 'palace' dubbed ' London 's Taj Mahal' - these are some of the mansions owned by Britain's 'fleeing' billionaires.

King, 46, played the role of Leslie Bennett - the mother of Rue Bennett ( Zendaya ) and Gia Bennett ( Storm Reid ) on 14 episodes of the HBO series during its first two seasons.

Party leader Nigel Farage said people out looking for trouble would think twice about committing a crime if they saw policemen they were scared of.

The bus had been travelling towards the junction of Barton Road and Trafford Road in Eccles, Salford, Greater Manchester, at around 3pm today when it smashed into the bridge.

All the signs were that this picture, painted in the gardens of Herstmonceux castle in Sussex, was the real deal - one of Winston's earliest, from 1916, with his wife, Clementine.

It's been nearly three decades since the cast of Happy Gilmore hit the links.

Sonning Court, near plush Henley-on-Thames, has had its asking price slashed by £10.5million since it first went on the market in 2015.

Eight centuries of English history ended at 4.25pm when the House of Lords accepted that hereditary peers should be given the heave-ho.

Jennifer Aniston revealed that she is 'open to love' and prefers when relationships 'happen organically' as she spoke in a new interview this week.

A mother was referred to anti-radicalisation group Prevent and investigated by the police over concerns she had been radicalised because she had visited Israel.

According to Larry - a new biography of Lawrence Durrell's life, which was mostly written by the late Michael Haag - important chunks were edited out of the family story

You might think it next to impossible to mismanage water quite so grossly in a nation surrounded by seas, running with rivers and notorious for its wet climate.

Sitting in the kitchen of our oldest friends' house - somewhere we could talk away from the children - I watched, detached, as my husband Andrew tried to defend his affair.

Roughly 1,000 NHS patients a week have a pacemaker implanted to steady their heart rate and protect them against potentially fatal abnormal rhythms.

Six-year-old Harry Warren was badly burned when the meal slid off his tray table into his lap on a flight between Exeter and Faro in Portugal.

Spotify was found publishing AI-generated songs on the official pages of deceased artists like Blaze Foley and Guy Clark -- without permission from their estates or labels. The tracks, flagged for deceptive content and now removed, were uploaded via TikTok's SoundOn distribution platform. "We've flagged the issue to SoundOn, the distributor of the content in question, and it has been removed for violating our Deceptive Content policy," a Spotify spokesperson told 404 Media. From the report: McDonald, who decided to originally upload Foley's music to Spotify in order to share it with more people, told me he never thought that an AI-generated track could appear on Foley's page without his permission. "It's harmful to Blaze's standing that this happened," he said. "It's kind of surprising that Spotify doesn't have a security fix for this type of action, and I think the responsibility is all on Spotify. They could fix this problem. One of their talented software engineers could stop this fraudulent practice in its tracks, if they had the will to do so. And I think they should take that responsibility and do something quickly." McDonald's suggested fix is not allowing any track to appear on an artist's official Spotify page without allowing the page owner to sign off on it first. "Any real Blaze fan would know, I think, pretty instantly, that this is not Blaze or a Blaze recording," he said. "Then the harm is that the people who don't know Blaze go to the site thinking, maybe this is part of Blaze, when clearly it's not. So again, I think Spotify could easily change some practices. I'm not an engineer, but I think it's pretty easy to stop this from happening in the future."

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Tony Blair was warned by Home Secretary David Blunkett to keep private an 'explosive' focus group report which showed the public felt immigration was 'out of control', despite Labour efforts.

Araghchi confirmed Tehran was severely damaged during the recent Israel-Iran war in which Washington bombed Iran's nuclear facilities.