(Reuters) - American swimmer Ryan Lochte has been suspended for 10 months, U.S. media reported on Wednesday, following a scandal involving the U.S. Olympic athlete and three other swimmers at the Rio Games.

WASHINGTON, Sept 7 (Reuters) - The top U.S. communications regulator plans on Thursday to unveil a revised plan to allow about 100 million pay TV subscribers to replace expensive set-top boxes with less-costly apps that provide access to television and video programs, two people briefed on the plan said.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Viacom Inc has hired Morgan Stanley and LionTree Llc to review its capital structure, a source familiar with the situation said on Wednesday, as the media company seeks ways to shore up its finances in the face of falling advertising sales.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - For most of the viewing public, the HBO debut of half-hour "High Maintenance" represents the show's first season on television. But for fans of the New York City-centric series about selling weed, this is technically its seventh. "High Maintenance" began as a web series distributed through Vimeo in 2012; a few years down the line, Vimeo began to fund the webisodes. Web series are often (and understandably) unable to transcend the low-budget, catch-as-catch-can sensibility of producing on the cheap. Not so with "High Maintenance," which stood out from the get-go as a polished, high-quality product amid a bunch of hash.

SAN JOSE DEL CABO, Mexico (Reuters) - Hurricane Newton barreled across Mexico's Baja California peninsula tourist haven on Tuesday, dumping heavy rain and killing at least two people, officials said.

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (Reuters) - Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial in Pennsylvania has been scheduled for June next year, and if prosecutors have their way, more than a dozen accusers will take the stand to detail what they claim is a decades-long pattern of attacks.

(Reuters) - Fox News will pay $20 million to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit by former anchor Gretchen Carlson, whose allegations led to the resignation of network chief Roger Ailes in July, a source familiar with the agreement said on Tuesday.

NEW YORK, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial was tentatively scheduled for June 5, 2017, a Pennsylvania judge said at a hearing on Tuesday.

HONG KONG, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Several pro-independence candidates won seats in Hong Kong's first major election since pro-democracy protests in 2014, prompting a robust warning from China that any independence would damage the city's security and prosperity.