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The Scottish Government has highlighted how families and friends have a crucial role to play in ensuring social security payments reach those who need them most, by openly talking about support they are receiving in the hopes of encouraging others to check their own benefit entitlement.

shifting his primetime gig to co-anchor a morning show.“I am excited and honored to join the incredible Capitol Hill team and Washington, DC Bureau at @NBCNews,” Nobles tweeted Monday morning. “As a kid from WNY who grew up watching Meet the Press with Tim Russert this a dream come true.

Hundreds of thousands of people are bidding farewell to Queen Elizabeth II on Monday during the funeral for Britain’s longest-regaining monarch.

Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor If the past few years and months have proven one thing, it’s the importance of voting in the United States. While Census Bureau’s estimates confirmed that 2020 voter turnout was the highest in nearly 30 years — 66.8%, 5 points higher than 2016 — the forthcoming midterm elections, which traditionally have much lower turnout than presidential ones, are vitally important as well. In that spirit, Lizzo, who released her stellar second major label album “Special” over the summer, has joined forces with the nonprofit, non-partisan voter-engagement organization HeadCount to encourage her fans to get out to the polls and make their voices heard this election season.

Emiliano De Pablos Launched early May, the Spain Audiovisual Bureau acts as a facilitator for the production sector, attending enquiries about international markets, handling information about processing filming permits and providing tax incentives information. A ground-breaking development in Spain, the Bureau marks a first-ever effort to coordinate public and private entities related to the international presence of the Spanish film and TV production industry. The Spain Audiovisual Bureau represents an innovation of the Spain AVS Hub, an initiative launched in March 2021 by the Spanish government with a €1.6 billion ($1.6 billion) budget to power up local film and TV production and encourage big foreign players to shoot and set up production centers in the country.

Angelina Jolie is the plaintiff in an anonymous complaint filed against the US Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2016 after the organisation closed an investigation into alleged domestic assault by Brad Pitt, a new report has claimed. Pitt’s team has denied all allegations of wrongdoing related to the alleged incident.The anonymous lawsuit against the FBI came after Jolie filed a report in 2016 with an FBI agent that alleged she was “physically and verbally assaulted” by her then-husband, Pitt.The alleged incident onboard an aeroplane travelling from Europe to the US on September 14, 2016, reportedly also involved one of the pair’s children.

EXCLUSIVE: Jessica Harper (The Old Man), John Getz (Doom Patrol), Toks Olagundoye (Veep), David Sullivan (The Wilds) and newcomer Isabella Briggs have been tapped for key recurring roles on Fatal Attraction, Paramount+’s series reimagining of the classic 1980s psychosexual thriller film.

The New Mexico Environment Department’s Occupational Health and Safety Bureau filed an administrative complaint today against Rust Movie Productions after the company contested the Bureau’s findings that unsafe working conditions on the set of the ill-fated Rust movie production had led to the accidental shooting that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounded director Joel Souza on October 21.

NBC News feted Pete Williams with a send off at Cosmos Club in Washington as the longtime Supreme Court and Justice Department correspondent prepares to retire at the end of the month.

EXCLUSIVE: Talk show reunions, heartland justice, stateside backlash to the 1970s Iranian hostage crisis, and faith vs a child’s transgender identity are among the stories that make up the second annual Muslim List.

Today Show can always rely on seeing the likes of Al Roker, Jenna Bush Hager, Savannah Guthrie, and Hoda Kotb every weekday on their televisions, but on the weekends, they get a different face, that of Joe Fryer's, and they like him just as much.MORE: Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie deliver bad news about climate on TodayJoe joined the big news family that is NBC initially as a part-time correspondent, and became a full-time reporter in October of 2013, eventually becoming a west coast correspondent based at the NBC News West Coast Bureau in Universal City, California.Today Show viewers who like to tune in on the weekends as much as they do on the weekdays also get to see Joe on Today's PopStart, which airs on Saturdays.WATCH: Today's Jenna Bush Hager's rise to fameMORE: Savannah Guthrie has unpredicted 'baby talk' chat with co-star Hoda Kotb in fun Today segmentNot much is known about the journalist's personal life, but he does love to share occasional snippets of his marriage to his husband, Peter.While the two have been happily together for over ten years, in 2019, the host opened up about how his road to love wasn't always easy. He penned a touching essay for Today about coming out to his friends and family over two decades ago, and the feelings of depression and anxiety he had suffered from prior to having those conversations."When you're stuck inside a closet, it's hard to picture how your family will react when you finally decide to come out," he admitted.A post shared by Joe Fryer (@joefryernbc)Joe and Peter's anniversary fittingly falls on Valentine's DayRecalling his early adulthood years, he said: "Those question marks haunted me for years.

EXCLUSIVE: Creator+, a next-generation content studio and distribution platform for digital-first storytellers and creators, has unveiled their inaugural class of emerging filmmakers for its ‘Flip the Script’ Short Film Fund.

Andrew Roy, who has overseen international coverage for the BBC, is joining CBS News as vice president and London bureau chief.

Sasha Urban editorThrough her organization Jew in the City (JITC), Allison Josephs has been advocating for accurate representations of the Jewish community in the media since 2007. She’s now opening an official Hollywood bureau to elevate JITC’s efforts, something Josephs said she would have done earlier, but she had no idea such a thing even existed until last year.“We had been using social media, op-eds and relationships with reporters,” Josephs said, until she learned about other minority Hollywood bureaus created by the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), NAACP and the Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment (CAPE).

At about the same time that President Joe Biden was on the phone discussing Russia with China’s Xi Jinping, and as Russian troops pounded Ukrainian cities, Vladimir Putin gathered close to 200,000 Muscovites in a soccer stadium to put his spin on things.

A new report from the Hollywood Bureau of the NAACP has found that the scarcity of Black executives in Hollywood has led to a plethora of films and TV shows that “are harming the African American community,” and that the “absence of Black control of media has rendered the community vulnerable to a host of debilitating impressions, ranging from negligent disregard to deliberate degradation.”

The Citizens Advice Bureau is making a comeback in North Ayrshire — four years on from the closure of the region's last remaining branch.

CAPITAL IRISH FILM FESTIVALSolas Nua, the D.C.-based organization dedicated to presenting contemporary Irish arts, readies its annual showcase of films from Ireland the first weekend of March. Co-presented by the AFI Silver Theatre, this year’s festival inaugurates the Norman Houston Short Film Award, named in memory of a former director of the Northern Ireland Bureau in the U.S.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentNetflix has signed a three-year agreement with French film guilds to invest a minimum of €40 million ($45 million) in the financing of French and European movies which will be released in French theaters.Netflix previously signed a pact with France’s broadcasting authorities to start investing 20% of their annual revenues on French content, both series and movies, as part of a French decree which stemmed from the implementation of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (Avms). Tuesday’s milestone agreement will see Netflix investing 4% of its annual revenue made in France on the financing of French and European movies, with at least €30 million invested in French-language movies.

Young Dolph.Devin Burns and Joshua Taylor have been named as persons of interest in the Memphis PD’s ongoing investigation. They’re both described as Black males aged 26 (Burns measuring 5’6” and weighing 135 pounds, while Taylor clocks in at 6’6” and 180 pounds), and it’s noted that Burns has outstanding arrest warrants active for unrelated crimes.Those with any information on Burns’ or Taylor’s whereabouts are encouraged to contact the Homicide Bureau or Crime Stoppers; anonymous tips can be made online through the latter service.Help locating Person of Interest in the Homicide Investigation of Adolph “Young Dolph” Thornton2370 AirwaysReport…Posted by Memphis Police Department est.1827 on Sunday, February 20, 2022Help locating Person of Interest in the Homicide Investigation of Adolph “Young Dolph” Thornton2370 AirwaysReport…Posted by Memphis Police Department est.1827 on Sunday, February 20, 2022Thus far, three suspects have been alleged to be involved in Dolph’s murder.

An Ohio developer says he is moving forward with construction on a controversial housing project in Dave Chappelle’s hometown of Yellow Springs following a heated village council meeting that saw the comic icon threaten to withdraw millions in planned investments in the community. "Construction should commence in early spring," George Oberer, the CEO of Oberer Homes, told Dayton Daily News, the major local newspaper. Chappelle received criticism earlier this week after the paper reported his opposition to the developer’s plan – which sought to add dozens of multiple-family homes to the village, which in 2019 had less than 4,000 residents, according to the U.S.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentWhat’s in a Name? Or its design?Quite a lot if you’ve just become one of the prime drivers in a €1.6 billion ($1.8 billion) drive to turn your country into one of the foremost film-TV hubs in Europe.For years, at markets, ICEX Spain Trade & Investment, the country’s export and inward investment board, emblazoned its Cannes and Mipcom stands with branded logos Cinema From Spain and Audiovisual from Spain, decked out in bold colours of the Spanish national flag.From 2022, as Spanish series and movies – “Money Heist” (Part 4, 65 million households), “The Platform,” (56 million), “Below Zero” (47 million), “Elite” (Season 4, 37 million)  – scored huge audiences on Netflix, the most global of global platforms, ICEX has become a central player in Spain’s PSOE government Spain AVS Hub Plan. Tabbed at a total $1.8 billion in finance, it aims to ramp up film-TV production, exports and Spain’s big shoot scene.

Mark Lima has been named vice president and Washington bureau chief for CBS News, among several appointments that the news division announced on Monday.

EXCLUSIVE: The controversy-plagued Golden Globes looks set to return this weekend, but no one will see it online or otherwise.

EXCLUSIVE: The Muslim Public Affairs Council on Thursday opened submissions for the newly launched Hollywood Bureau Filmmaker Grant, supporting Black Muslim filmmakers.

EXCLUSIVE: The Muslim Public Affairs Council today opened submissions for the newly-launched Hollywood Bureau Filmmaker Grant, supporting Black Muslim filmmakers.

EXCLUSIVE: The Black List, in partnership with the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) Hollywood Bureau and Pillars Fund, announced the opening of submissions for the second annual Muslim List. 

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is continuing its reform efforts, announcing today a five-year partnership with the NAACP for what they’re calling the “Reimagine Coalition.” The embattled group behind the Golden Globe Awards says the move is a stepping stone to creating a more inclusive space in Hollywood.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorViacomCBS-owned Pluto TV will pay $3.5 million to settle an FCC investigation that found the free, ad-supported video streaming service violated the commission’s accessibility rules.According to the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau, in addition to paying the civil penalty, Pluto TV agreed to enter into a compliance plan to ensure that non-exempt video programming that Pluto streams over the internet includes closed captioning in compliance with the agency’s rules.Reps for