“Lilo & Stich” is teaming with Tom Cruise for what may be a record-breaking Memorial Day box office weekend.

Investigators say six people aboard a private plane died when it crashed in a San Diego neighborhood in heavy fog.

French authorities believe arson may have played a role in a major power outage that threatened to jeopardize the Cannes Film Festival’s closing celebrations.

The alternative music community is in mourning after a private jet hit a power line in foggy weather early Thursday and crashed into a San Diego neighborhood.

Iranian dissident filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s revenge thriller “It Was Just an Accident” has won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered further restrictions on how the press operates at the Pentagon.

Prime Video’s first race on Sunday is the Coca-Cola 600.

Even as his fame and wealth have soared over the decades, Bruce Springsteen has retained the voice of the working class’ balladeer.

The second week of Sean Combs' sex trafficking and racketeering trial featured a dozen witnesses who described the music mogul's physical attacks on others or who provided testimony addressing the government's charges.

Strauss' “Blue Danube” waltz is heading into space this month to mark the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth.

Billy Joel has canceled all his upcoming concerts across North America and England after being diagnosed with fluid buildup in his brain that has affected his “hearing, vision and balance.”.

Filmmaker Matt Wolf learned that Paul Reubens had died along with the rest of the world.

Almost four dozen Venezuelan workers who had temporary protected status have been put on leave by Disney after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to strip them of legal protections.

The Cannes Film Festival has played host to the directorial debuts of three stars.

Brazilian photographer and environmentalist Sebastião Salgado, known for his award-winning images of nature and humanity, has died at age 81.

The Florida Panthers have signed Canadian singer Michael Buble — for a good cause.

It’s called the Palm Dog contest, but the winner of the annual Cannes Film Festival tradition was a Panda.

King Charles III is coming to Canada to deliver a message: Canada is a sovereign nation distinct from the United States.

“Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning” runs 2 hours and 50 minutes, and star Tom Cruise and returning writer/director Christopher McQuarrie have crammed a LOT into that time frame.

The Chinese government said Friday that the Trump administration’s move to ban international students from Harvard would harm America’s international standing, as anxious students and parents overseas fretted over what would come next.

A Paris court has found the ringleader and seven other people guilty in the 2016 robbery of Kim Kardashian.

Groundbreaking music executive Dave Shapiro has died in a San Diego plane crash.

Artwork by Adrien Brody and James Franco and a chance to sit courtside at a Knicks game with director Spike Lee were among the starry offerings at the annual amfAR Gala to raise money for AIDS research.

In an interview, Scarlett Johansson says there's “a lack of empathy in the zeitgeist.”.

A man charged with stalking Jennifer Aniston and crashing his car through the front gate of her home has been found mentally incompetent to stand trial, but he has demanded a second opinion at a court hearing.

Before this week, the dissident Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi hasn’t attended the premiere of one of his films in more than 15 years.

They’ve spent more than half a century together as bandmates and put out dozens of records.

Kid Cudi has wrapped up his testimony in the New York sex trafficking trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs.

Amber Salazar is the kind of idealist you just knew would end up running a store like Banned Wagon Books.

It took nearly until the end of the festival, but the Cannes Film Festival has its first outright sensation.

The moment that changed queer history occurred on a sweltering day in early 1952 in Algiers.

Kermit the Frog has some advice for the University of Maryland’s class of 2025: “Life is better when we leap together.”.

Rapper Kid Cudi is the latest celebrity to testify in Sean “Diddy” Combs′ sex trafficking trial.

Rapper Kid Cudi has testified that he was sure Sean “Diddy” Combs broke into his home in 2011 after learning he was dating Combs' ex-girlfriend, the R&B singer Cassie.

Kim Kardashian is a step closer to following in her father’s footsteps and becoming a lawyer.

There's another artificial intelligence blunder impacting news organizations.

The rapper known as Rod Wave faces more than a dozen charges — some involving a gun — after he turned himself in to sheriff’s officials in Georgia on Tuesday.

Indiana native Eric Shanks can’t remember exactly when the rite of passage began of traveling to Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

A person attended a Shakira concert at the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey while infectious with measles.

The spirit of Indiana Jones is baked into the essence of the new movie “Fountain of Youth.”.

Cardi B is no stranger to ASCAP accolades with another prestigious honor soon to join her trophy case.

Grammy-winning singer Chris Brown has been released on $6.7 million bail while facing allegations he beat and seriously injured a music producer in a London nightclub in 2023.

Two giants of the women’s rights movement, Gloria Steinem and Nobel laureate Leymah Gbowee, have teamed up for a picture book with the mission of inspiring young people to change the world.

Some of Spike Lee’s most deeply felt passions — filmmaking and the New York Knicks — have collided at the Cannes Film Festival.

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ one-time personal assistant has testified that he was in charge of cleaning up hotel rooms after the hip-hop mogul’s sex marathons.

Police have found a bust of Jim Morrison that was stolen nearly four decades ago from the Paris grave that has long been a place of pilgrimage for fans of the legendary Doors singer and poet.

Indian author Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi have won the International Booker Prize for fiction for “Heart Lamp,” a collection of 12 short stories written over a period of more than 30 years, chronicling the everyday lives and struggles of women in southern India.

George Wendt, an actor with an Everyman charm who played the affable, beer-loving barfly Norm on the hit 1980s TV comedy “Cheers,” has died.

José Andrés says his work with his nonprofit World Central Kitchen flows with his 40 restaurants, his NBC cooking competition show with Martha Stewart “Yes, Chef,” and his new book “Change the Recipe: Because You Can’t Build a Better World Without Breaking Some Eggs” that hit stores last month.

The European Union plans to provide emergency funds to help keep Radio Free Europe afloat after the Trump administration stopped grants to the pro-democracy media outlet.

Harris Dickinson is sitting on a rooftop terrace in Cannes, trying to find all the movie tattoos on his body.

Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen was forced into a draw Monday by more than 143,000 people worldwide playing against him in a single, record-setting game.

Bruce Springsteen and Donald Trump aren't new foes.

Former FBI director James Comey says that he’s still a bit bewildered over how a seemingly innocent Instagram shot of shells arranged in the sand led to allegations from Donald Trump among others that he was calling for the president’s assassination and to an interview with the Secret Service."

Salt-N-Pepa want to reclaim the rights to their recordings including “Push It” and “Shoop,” and they're suing their record label to get them.

Hollywood’s actors’ union filed an unfair labor practice charge against Llama Productions on Monday, alleging the company replaced actors’ work by using artificial intelligence to generate Darth Vader’s voice in Fortnite without notice.

President Donald Trump hosted the Kennedy Center’s leadership, reinforcing how much time he’s devoting to remaking one of the nation’s premier cultural centers in a larger effort to ideologically and socially overhaul the nation’s arts scene.

Pierpaolo Piccioli is the new creative director of the iconic fashion house Balenciaga.

Jurors at Harvey Weinstein’s sex crimes retrial are hearing from a woman who has said her consensual relationship with the ex-movie mogul descended into rape in 2013.

Akinola Davies Jr.' s “My Father’s Shadow” is making history in Cannes as the first Nigerian film in Cannes’ official selection.

CBS News CEO Wendy McMahon says she's quitting.

Netflix has thrown “Sesame Street” a safety net with a new streaming deal.

A man who tried to help a burglar cash in from the theft of a gold toilet was spared prison on Monday after a British judge said he had been taken advantage of by the thieves.

Denzel Washington sandwiched a whirlwind trip to the Cannes Film Festival in between Broadway performances for the premiere of Spike Lee’s “Highest 2 Lowest” and was rewarded with a surprise honorary Palme d'Or.

Singer Dawn Richard has told the jury in the sex trafficking and racketeering trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs that he threatened her with death if she told anyone that she saw the influential hip-hop promoter beat his longtime girlfriend, the singer Cassie.

As much as the Cannes Film Festival basks in the Côte d’Azur sunshine, storm clouds have been all over its movie screens at the festival, which on Monday passed the halfway point.

Gary Lineker, the former England soccer player and now a media celebrity, will step down from his role as a presenter for the BBC after facing criticism for reposting an Instagram story about Zionism which featured a picture of a rat.

This year’s winners of the Gotham Book Prize celebrate New York City as experienced on foot, bus and train.

At a time of constant change for the television news industry, Deborah Norville was a beacon of stability.

904 Popup took over Jacksonville Beach on Sunday afternoon, offering a vibrant atmosphere filled with vendors, food, and activities for attendees, but the buzz surrounding Travis Hunter merchandise stole the show.

“Final Destination: Bloodlines” has topped the domestic box office charts this weekend.

Last year, the Cannes Film Festival produced three best actress nominees at the Oscars.

When Richard Linklater first started thinking about making a film about the French New Wave, he figured he’d show it all everywhere except one place: France.

Austrian fans have enthusiastically welcomed classically trained singer JJ back home at Vienna airport after he won the Eurovision Song Contest with “Wasted Love.”.

Scarlett Johansson has hosted “Saturday Night Live” and set a record in a reflective end to the NBC sketch show's 50th season.

Stars in glamorous gowns often peacock on the Cannes Film Festival red carpet, but one attendee Saturday night literally came as a bird.

With remarkable regularity, Anderson has been crafting movies uniquely his own since his 1996 debut, “Bottle Rocket.”.

Ex-NFL star Antonio Brown says he was briefly detained by police following an altercation in which gunshots were fired outside Adin Ross’ celebrity boxing event in Miami.

Kristen Stewart has been talking about directing as long as she’s been acting.

British police say a musician and friend of Chris Brown has been charged alongside the Grammy-winning singer on allegations they beat and seriously injured a music producer at a London nightclub in 2023.

Classically trained countertenor JJ of Austria wins 69th Eurovision Song Contest with his pop-opera song “Wasted Love.”.

Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen is playing a single game against 140,000 people worldwide.

Acts from more than two dozen countries will take the stage in Basel, Switzerland, to compete in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest.

Testimony in the Sean “Diddy” Combs sex trafficking trial has opened a window into what prosecutors say was the sordid world of group sex, drugs and violence beneath his glittering, jet-set persona.

Heather Donahue starred in the low-budget hit movie “The Blair Witch Project” and has been embroiled in a spat with locals in her tiny Maine town after she started marking trees to help people find their way in the dense forests.

Movies are a regular presence in author Kazuo Ishiguro's life in part because filmmakers keep wanting to turn his books into them.

Ari Aster’s COVID-era Western “Eddington” has premiered to a mixed reception at the Cannes Film Festival.

In a story published May 16, 2025, about questions raised about who shot a famed Vietnam War-era photo for The Associated Press, the AP reported that Gary Knight, producer of “The Stringer” movie, is a consultant to the World Press Photo Foundation.

You can get nostalgic about almost anything at the Cannes Film Festival, even Jerry Seinfeld on a zip line in a bumblebee costume.

Joe Jonas’ sophomore solo album Work It Out” and John Krasinski and Natalie Portman searching for immortality in Guy Ritchie’s adventure movie “Fountain of Youth” are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.

One song generating a lot of froth at the Eurovision Song Contest is “Espresso Macchiato.”.

For Colombian singer-songwriter Sebastián Yatra, life is full of small miracles that come from dance, family and freedom.

If you think you've seen a lot of President Donald Trump on the news, you're not imagining things.

R&B singer Cassie has finished testifying at her ex-boyfriend Sean “Diddy” Combs' federal sex trafficking trial.

Singer Dawn Richard took the witness stand late Friday afternoon after R&B singer Cassie testified for a fourth day in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking trial.

This was a week of reckoning for powerful men in France’s film industry.

Grammy-winning singer Chris Brown’s upcoming tour has been thrown into question as a British judge ordered him held in custody while facing allegations he beat a music producer with a bottle in a London nightclub in 2023.

The 69th Eurovision Song Contest is approaching its grand final in the Swiss city of Basel.

Charter Communications is merging with Cox Communications in an approximately $34.5 billion deal that brings together two of the biggest cable companies in the country.

The internet wouldn’t be the same without the Like button, the thumbs-up icon that Facebook and other online services turned into digital catnip.