By Missy Schwartz

Karla Sofía Gascón will not be voting for the next Best Picture winner. The Spanish actress, who was nominated this year for Best Actress for “Emilia Pérez,” was not on the list of 534 people whom the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences invited to join. Gascón’s co-star Adriana Paz, who was not nominated, was among the 2025 invitees. Their “Emilia Pérez” co-star Zoe Saldaña, who won this year for Best Supporting Actress, was already a member.

While an Oscar nomination automatically qualifies someone for Academy membership, an invitation is not a guarantee. In this case, the Actors Branch would make a recommendation and then the Academy Board of Governors has final say. But Gascón, who found herself at the center of a prolonged controversy this past winter due to the discovery of racist tweets she had previously sent, is only the second first-time Best Actress nominee from the past 10 years not to be offered AMPAS membership immediately following their nomination. (Yalitza Aparicio from “Roma” was nominated in 2019 and not invited to join the Academy until 2020.)

By Sean Burch

The New York Times on Thursday told President Donald Trump that “no retraction is needed” and it will not be apologizing for its coverage of an official report this week that cast doubt on how effective missile strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities had been.

Trump on Wednesday threatened to sue the paper, as well as CNN, for their coverage Tuesday on a Defense Intelligence Agency report that said the strikes set back Iran’s push to develop nuclear weapons by “only a few months”; the president had previously touted key Iranian facilities were “obliterated” in the weekend attack, dubbed Operation Midnight Hammer.

By Daren DeFrank and Raquel ‘Rocky’ Harris

After 37 years, Anna Wintour is stepping down from her role as editor-in-chief at American Vogue.

Wintour, 75, will stay on board in her roles as chief content office for Condé Nast and as the global editorial director at Vogue. The magazine announced it would be looking for a new head of editorial content at American Vogue.