French police used the steps of the Cannes Film Festival’s famed Palais on Thursday as the focal point of a security exercise that included a simulated terrorist attack. The planned event went down less than a month before the French Riviera town hosts the 69th edition of the festival. France has been on high alert…

A day juggling reports from the site of the ISIS Brussels bombings and the 2016 presidential cycle’s Western Tuesday created bigger than usual crowds for cable news networks. FNC swept primetime,  but CNN pulled ahead and dominated later in the night, as primary results continued to trickle in. And MSNBC dayside (9 AM…

The Lester Holt-anchored NBC Nightly News logged 8.8 million viewers last night, topping the David Muir-anchored World News Tonight (8M) on ABC, and the Scott Pelley-helmed CBS Evening News (7.2M). In the news demo, 25-54 years, NBC's newscast (2.2M) also topped ABC's (1.8M) and CBS' (1.7M). All three newscasts were ex…

After closing for the day in the wake of yesterday’s bombing attacks that left at least 31 people dead, cinemas in Brussels are beginning to get back to business. The UGC exhibition circuit, which includes the UGC Toison d'Or and UGC De Brouckère, is opening with heightened security measures in place which were first…

UPDATE with more details at event: In the wake of the deadly attacks this morning in Brussels, Warner Bros made a slight adjustment for tonight’s London premiere of Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice. The event went on as planned, though the studio canceled the typical red carpet interviews. Aside from heavy traffic…

Josh Elliott made his CBSN debut this morning, a day earlier than planned, jumping in at noon ET to help anchor coverage of the ISIS attacks in Belgium. Elliott had been scheduled to begin tomorrow at 9 AM. On March 1, CBS News announced Elliott had been named lead anchor of its digital streaming service. He exited NBC…

U.S. TV news operations expecting to start early today with blanket coverage of three western states’ primaries and the fracas of the 2016 presidential cycle, had to pull off major pivots when pre-dawn terrorist attacks in Brussels left 30 dead and nearly 230 injured according to officials, with those numbers expected…

Politicians on both sides of the Atlantic have been quick to condemn this morning’s terrorist attacks in Brussels, which at the time of writing have left 34 people dead. The bomb blasts, the worst atrocities on Belgian soil since World War II, have also become a political football in the context of the U.S…

UPDATE, WRITETHRU: Belgian capital Brussels was targeted Tuesday with a series of terror attacks on its Zavantem airport and metro system. There are reports of at least two dozen fatalities, with transport services suspended until further notice. The attacks come only days after Salah Abdesalam, the suspected…