Miss Universe 2025 third runner-up Ahtisa Manalo firmly believes she had a strong case to win pageantry's biggest title.

Despite marquee that seemed to promise the real thing, it was a tribute act, columnist David Allen notes. Also: a late-period ...

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After Ahtisa Manalo shared about her "worst" pageant experience, an executive from Miss Cosmo International posted his ...

Miss Universe 2025 was plagued with controversy from the start. We spoke to over a dozen contestants to learn how the pageant ...

The communication director of Miss Cosmo pageant appeared to respond to Ahtisa Manalo‘s recent interview, in which the beauty ...

Fatima Bosch was crowned the 74th Miss Universe on Nov. 21 in Bangkok, Thailand. The newly-crowned Miss Universe, Fatima Bosch, is speaking publicly for the first time since winning the pageant in an ...

From the return of Scrubs and Star Search to the end of The Boys and Queer Eye, here's what to watch in the new year.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And for the scandal-ridden Miss Universe pageant, this is proving a big part of the problem. Opaque and subjective voting criteria have made it difficult to ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

We all know cars are quite expensive right now. The average new car will now set you back over $50,000, which isn't ideal for anyone. That means there are plenty of terrible car values out there, and ...

RUSSIAN dictator Vladimir Putin has made a shock revelation today, revealing that he is “in love”. Critics believe the ...