Star defense attorney Alan Jackson takes on Nick Reiner murder case, defending Rob Reiner's son accused of killing both parents in their Brentwood home.

The U.S. Embassy in Thailand issued a security alert to American tourists Dec. 16, warning of an "escalation of armed conflict" at the popular Asian destination.

Consuelos and Kelly Ripa offered the 16-year-old Percy Jackson and the Olympians star some tips and consolation.

Build some holiday cheer!

The widow of late casino magnate Sheldon Adelson made the pitch during a White House Hanukkah reception Tuesday night.

Kushner’s firm entered the fray and pitched in $200 million to Paramount’s offer — a minor contribution, according to Bloomberg.

Late-night hosts discussed the White House chief of staff ’s shocking and revealing interviews with Vanity Fair

Late-night hosts reacted to White House chief of staff Susie Wiles’s revealing interview with Vanity Fair.

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The holiday bash took place Saturday night, the evening before Rob and wife Michele Singer Reiner were discovered stabbed to death in their home.

There's a new beast on the streets — and it's nothing to bark at.

Tua Time may be over in South Florida.

The storm will impact over 30 states by the end of the week. 

In the early 2020s, readers flocked to books to explain political turbulence. But is the world now too grim to read about – and are podcasters taking the place of authors?

In the decade leading up to the pandemic, nonfiction seemed unstoppable. Readers flocked to books that explained a world upended by Brexit, Trump, #MeToo and climate upheaval. Titles such as Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny, Caroline Criado-Perez’s Invisible Women, and Robin D’Angelo’s White Fragility soared up the charts. It felt as though reading itself was part of the civic response, a way to understand what was happening, and perhaps influence what might happen next.

Fast forward to the present day, and the picture is starting to look different: a recent report from NielsenIQ found that trade nonfiction sales have slipped sharply. In volume terms, the category is down 8.4% between last summer and the same period this year – nearly double the decline in paperback fiction – and down 4.7% in value. Though there have been some exceptions, such Chloe Dalton’s Raising Hare and Want by Gillian Anderson, 14 out of 18 nonfiction subcategories have contracted.

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From one newlywed to another.

"I'm glad y'all are being real with me on the Live. I appreciate it though for real," Gomez told her fans in a livestream.

Arlene Silver said the stalking has been going on "for a couple of months."

From a second "Wicked" press tour to Rihanna's third pregnancy, there was no shortage of standout style moments during the past 12 months.

Mega billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his wife, former news anchor Lauren Sánchez Bezos, are awarding $5 million to the founder of a neurodivergent student support network.

Sweet dreams.

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The birth of the People’s Republic is seen as a time of drab buildings. But this dazzling show, featuring a factory in a cave and a denounced roof, tells a wildly different story

In 1954, an issue of Manhua, a state-sponsored satirical magazine in China, declared: “Some architects blindly worship the formalist styles of western bourgeois design. As a result, grotesque and reactionary buildings have appeared.”

Beneath the headline Ugly Architecture, humorous cartoons of weird buildings fill the page. There is a modernist cylinder with a neoclassical portico bolted on to the front. Another blobby building is framed by an arc of ice-cream cone-shaped columns. An experimental bus stop features a bench beneath an impractical cuboid canopy, “unable to protect you from wind, rain or sun”, as a passerby observes. “Why don’t these buildings adopt the Chinese national style?” asks another bewildered figure, as he cowers beneath a looming glass tower that bears all the hallmarks of the corrupt, capitalist west.

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There are a million reasons Fallout shouldn’t work, but it does.

This irritable airline staffer was finally tapped out of excuses.

Son of Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner being held without bail after parents were found dead in their home

Nick Reiner, who has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the killing of his parents, acclaimed actor and director Rob Reiner and photographer Michele Singer Reiner, is expected to appear in court on Wednesday.

Nick Reiner, 32, is being held without bail and remains in custody. He was arrested on Sunday night, hours after his parents were found dead in their Brentwood home.

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Pro-Palestinian advocates are claiming that Israel is suppressing independent reporting in the West Bank after a delegation of Canadians, including six MPs, was denied entry into the conflict-prone region. This is nonsense, as the Palestinian territory is easily accessible. I know because I travelled there last Friday. Read More