Brooke Nevils, a former NBC News employee, is alleging that former Today co-anchor Matt Lauer raped her in his hotel room at the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
In Variety‘s copy of Ronan Farrow‘s new book, Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators, Nevils describes the incident in detail and reveals that she reported the encounter to NBC afterward. In 2017, the network fired Lauer from his position on Today.
Sony has been conspicuously quiet for much of 2019. It’s teased a handful of major first-party video game releases – The Last of Us Part 2, Hideo Kojima’s hallucinatory action game Death Stranding, the Bellevue, Wash.-developed Ghost of Tsushima – but skipped E3 entirely (giving Microsoft a nearly free field to debut its competing Project Scarlett console), revealed no real surprises at PAX West, and canceled its annual PlayStation Experience show due to, reportedly, a “lack of announcements.” Sony has made a couple of big moves,
More than 250,000 Pacific Gas & Electric customers in the Bay Area will lose power starting Wednesday as the utility company plans to preemptively shut down power to mitigate wildfire risks.
On Tuesday afternoon, the utility announced will shut off power to 800,000 customers in Northern and Central California starting early Wednesday. PG&E said it would notify affected customers directly.
An interactive map on PG&E’s website shows wide swaths of the Bay Area that will be affected by a PSPS,
Thousands of Islamic State prisoners of war from around the world are being detained by the Syrian Kurd forces whom Turkey plans to target.
WASHINGTON — President Trump’s sudden blessing of a Turkish military operation in northern Syria and his announcement of an American troop withdrawal from that region raised questions about the fate of thousands of Islamic State detainees that the Turks’ targets, American-backed Syrian Kurds, have been holding in makeshift wartime prisons.
Belle Delphine, the gamer girl infamous for selling her bathwater and pranking thirsty followers with a trolly Pornhub account, says she was arrested.
Delphine has been quiet this summer — after her Instagram account was taken down for “nudity or pornography” she told her Patreon followers that she planned on making a new account. But Dexerto reports that Delphine’s Patreon followers are displeased with her lack of content and accused the influencer of scamming them.
Rip Taylor, a flamboyant mainstay of the comedy circuit who was known for his gags involving confetti, his brand of self-deprecating humor in which he would remove his toupee and his extensive voice work, died on Sunday in Los Angeles. He was 84.
His publicist, B. Harlan Böll, confirmed the death and said Mr. Taylor had a seizure and died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, although an exact cause of death had not yet been determined.
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On the latest Eagle Eye podcast, Reuben Frank and Dave Zangaro break down the Eagles’ 31-6 win over the Jets on Sunday afternoon.
The defense had 10 sacks and two touchdowns, but the offense struggled at times. Orlando Scandrick went from his couch to a big game. And Nate Gerry makes another play.
Also, Jordan Howard needs more carries.
• The Eagles took care of business
• Poor Luke Falk must be hurting
• Orlando Scandrick has himself a day
• The offense struggled to get going
• Nate Gerry gets another interception
• We need more of Jordan Howard
The Bulldogs are rolling at 4-0 and dreaming of the College Football Playoff, but they can’t get tripped up in Neyland Stadium on Saturday when third-ranked Georgia takes on SEC East foe Tennessee. Georgia is a well-oiled machine on offense, with Jake Fromm sharp this season and a running game that is piling up yards. Both teams were off last week after the Bulldogs put a lot of effort into knocking off Notre Dame 23-17 and the Vols needing to rest up following a 34-3 loss at Florida.
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The UFC heads to Melbourne, Australia for UFC 243, which takes place on Saturday, October 5. The promotion hopes the headlining bout of the ESPN+ streaming pay-per-view card can break the UFC attendance record.
Legendary actress, singer and style icon Diahann Carroll died on Friday at her home in Los Angeles after a long bout with cancer. She was 84 years old.
Carroll’s longtime manager, Ronni Lynn Hart, confirmed her death to NPR.
In her illustrious career, Carroll won a Tony Award and was nominated for an Oscar. But she is perhaps best known for making television history when she starred as the titular character on the NBC sitcom Julia,
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