Aubrey Plaza knows a thing or two about stealing. With her laserlike glare and killer deadpan timing, she can say absolutely nothing and slyly pocket a scene. Given the right setup, her characters can push memorably against the boundaries of acceptab

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California is plagued by wildfires, drought, homelessness, unaffordable housing and the nation's steepest gas prices. And there is scary inflation and devastating climate change. So, what is our greatest concern? What keeps us aw

Five months after winning big at the 2022 Grammys, Jon Batiste is stepping away from his post as bandleader for Stephen Colbert’s “The Late Show.” Colbert announced the news during Thursday night’s show. Although Batiste wasn’t in attendance, Colbert

Uma Pemmaraju, a founding anchor for Fox News, is being remembered as “an incredibly talented journalist” by colleagues and former co-workers after her death this week at the age of 64. “I was so sad to hear. @UmaPemmaraju was a beautiful person insi

"Day Shift" is a damned delight. One would be tempted to call it the best horror comedy of 2022 so far, but it mixes so many genres it's more like 2022's best horror-buddy-cop-cartel-drama-bounty-hunter-martial-arts-action comedy (so far). Jamie Foxx

In September last year, Alex Mashinsky was riding high. Appearing on a panel sponsored by Johns Hopkins University to talk about bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, Mashinsky, the chief executive of the crypto banking firm Celsius, exuded confidence

LOS ANGELES — After offering a tight-lipped reaction earlier this week, Ellen DeGeneres has spoken again about her former partner Anne Heche following reports that the actor is ‘brain dead’ after a fiery car crash in Mar Vista last week left her in a

New Orleans is a wonderful city in a dangerous place — half of it sits below sea level, in an area prone to flooding, protected from disaster by levees and luck, neither of which always holds. A new docudrama, "Five Days at Memorial," which premiered

Brace yourselves, Californians. The onslaught of political advertising that will fly at us this election season is shaping up to be more intense than ever, with most of it trained on two dueling measures to permit sports betting. Gambling interests h

Singer-songwriter Michelle Branch and Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney have split after three years of marriage. "To say that I am totally devastated doesn't even come close to describing how I feel for myself and for my family," Branch said in a st

Lizzo told her listeners "you're special," but Kathy Hilton said the Grammy-winning singer is "Precious." As in, the titular character played by Gabourey Sidibe in Lee Daniels' 2009 film. The "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star mistook the Yitty

DOHA, Qatar — The clock in the middle of Doha's scenic bayside promenade, which has been counting down to kickoff of the first fall World Cup, will hit 100 days on Saturday. To Malcolm Bidali, that was cause for neither celebration nor despair. "I do

Infected people have coughed on me, maskless. I didn't get COVID. I've attended parties that became super-spreader events — didn't get COVID. I never sheltered in place and frequently punctured my pandemic bubble during the worst waves — didn't get t

In May, an eccentric 30-year-old cryptocurrency billionaire named Sam Bankman-Fried made a startling proclamation. In a podcast interview, Bankman-Fried said he would spend as much as $1 billion of his estimated $12.8-billion fortune on American poli

LOS ANGELES -- Walking into the sunlit accessory dwelling unit just steps from his family's home in Culver City, Adrian Perez places his hands on the wall of his bedroom and smiles broadly. "Adrian likes to touch everything," explains his mother, And

Wasn't Jan. 6, 2021, proof enough for Rep. "My Kevin" McCarthy and other Republican officials that words matter? That anti-government rhetoric, echoes of Donald Trump's grievances and war metaphors are triggers — no pun intended — for a small battali

Despite the presence of two of the country's biggest stars in an airline-disaster thriller, "Emergency Declaration" doesn't look or feel like a typical Korean blockbuster. It's shot in a handheld, verite-inspired style and effectively generates tensi

LOS ANGELES — Martin Short is relaxing in an Adirondack chair at his summer cottage in Rosseau, Ontario, a couple hours north of his Canadian birthplace and three time zones ahead of his longtime friend and "Only Murders in the Building" co-star, Ste

You just had to post those parenting videos, Kevin Federline. Britney Spears’ public spat with her ex-husband escalated late Wednesday night when Federline uploaded three videos taken by the former spouses’ sons, Jayden and Sean Federline, as their m

Police radio communications have been public ever since the Detroit Police Department began broadcasting one-way transmissions to mobile officers on station KOP in the 1920s. In fact, in those early days, headquarters occasionally interspersed calls

LOS ANGELES — Nicole Lorraine Linton was a traveling nurse who picked up shifts across the country, working for short stretches where she was needed. Her job took her to North Carolina, Texas, Georgia and finally to California, where she has been lic

LOS ANGELES — Anne Heche’s “heart is still beating” despite new reports saying that the actor died Friday after a fiery car crash in Mar Vista last week left her in a coma. “She was declared brain dead last night but has been kept on life support for

As California prepares to update its low carbon fuel standard — a policy aiming to reduce emissions from transportation fuels — Indigenous groups and environmentalists across the Midwest are fighting one of its key provisions. The policy would incent

As inflation puts pressure on household budgets, consumers are taking a closer look at how much they spend on subscription streaming services. One way to bring that cost down is adopting the original TV technology — over-the-air antennas that capture

Just as singer-songwriter Michelle Branch announced the end of her marriage to Black Keys drummer Partrick Carney, she was arrested on Thursday after slapping her husband during an argument. The “Everywhere” singer was taken into custody after Nashvi

For more than two years, Cathy Baron and Sara Alicia Costa managed to duck the coronavirus. But despite their being fully vaccinated and boosted, the omicron variant finally caught them. Baron is an actress and dance instructor who lives in Santa Mon

WASHINGTON — FBI agents removed 11 sets of classified documents — including some marked top secret and meant to only be available in special government facilities — from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on Monday. The item

LOS ANGELES — Anne Heche, the Emmy- and Tony-nominated actor whose work in “Six Days Seven Nights,” “Another World” and dozens of other projects dovetailed with a groundbreaking romance with Ellen DeGeneres that challenged homophobia in Hollywood, ha

WASHINGTON — American labor leaders see this as a moment for radical change: Workers in Starbucks coffee shops and Amazon warehouses are rising up and demanding representation. Polls show millions more support unions or wish they had the chance to jo