A 12-foot statue depicting President Trump holding hands with convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein appeared on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Tuesday morning and was removed by the National Park Service less than 24 hours later. The saga, which made the rounds on late-night TV this week, did not stop there. On Thursday, the…
Ashlee Simpson has a cold, and thank goodness for that. With three children ages 4 to 16, the singer and actor accepts the certainty that sheβll come down with something every now and again. βAs you can hear, Iβm getting through it,β she says slightly stuffily on a recent afternoon amid what she calls the…
Blake Lively is seeking more than $8 million in attorneysβ fees and litigation costs from Justin Baldoni, his production company Wayfarer Studios, and the other parties she defeated in their now-dismissed $400 million defamation lawsuit. Lively accused Baldoni of sexual harassment during the production of their filmβIt Ends With Us,β which Baldoni directed and co-starred…
Paramount has acquired the Free Press, a four-year-old digital news platform, and will make its controversial co-founder Bari Weiss editor in chief of CBS News, the company announced Monday. The official announcement came after months of speculation on the deal and Weissβ high-profile role within the news division. Weiss, 41, will report to Paramount Chief…
Google is increasing the prices of its YouTube subscription plans. The costs of YouTube Premium and YouTube Music plans in the United States will increase for the first time since July 2023. A YouTube spokesperson said in a statement to The Times that the updated prices will help the service βcontinue delivering a high-quality experience…
A senior figure in the Ukrainian defence industry has said that a test took place two years ago involving fully autonomous drones set to destroy anything in a given area, with confirmed casualties, according to a report in New Scientist. Speaking on FRANCE 24, Mariarosaria Taddeo, Professor of Digital Ethics and Defence Technologies at the…
Artificial intelligence is the leading reason companies cite for layoffs for the second straight month, accounting for more than one in four job cuts in April, according to a newΒ report from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. The report found 21,490 AI-related cuts last month, or 26% of the 88,387 total, marking the second straight…
p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> An inside look at the Maginot spacecraft in FXβs βAlien: Earth.β (Patrick Brown / FX) For those wondering if theyβll recognize this βPeter Panβ-influenced bit of the βAlienβ universe, well, one of the first choices Hawley had to make was environmental. βAre we doing retro-futurism? Are we doing the the cathode ray tube…
The crew had just poured a concrete foundation on a vacant lot in Altadena when I pulled up the other day. Two workers were loading equipment onto trucks and a third was hosing the fresh cement that will sit under a new house. I asked how things were going, and if there were any problems…
We asked the film staff to name the titles they were most stoked for in 2026. They were happy to see the returning likes of Nolan, Spielberg, Gerwig and Wile E. Coyote.