Sam Shepard in fall 2016. Chad Batka for The New York Times Sam Shepard , the celebrated avant-garde playwright and Oscar-nominated actor, died at his home in Kentucky on Thursday of complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, a spokesman for the Shepard family…

More than 50 Houston-based businesses, including many big oil and gas companies, on Monday joined several other business groups in urging Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to drop the state’s so-called bathroom bill. The bill, passed by the Texas Senate earlier this month and now awaiting Abbott’s signature,…

Reality TV star Duane “Dog the Bounty Hunter” Chapman on Monday joined a federal lawsuit against New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R), alleging that the state’s bail reform initiative, enacted earlier this year, led to the violation of the constitutional rights of a man who was shot to death in April.…

Twitter has let loose on “The Mooch.” On Monday, Anthony Scaramucci was forced out of his position as White House communications director, just 10 days after he was hired. Scaramucci’s removal happened one freakin’ business day after The New Yorker published a damaging interview in which he vulgarly…

President Donald Trump was just joking when he suggested police officers should let suspects’ heads bang against the doors of their police cars ― or so White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said she believed on Monday. Trump made the remark last week while speaking to law enforcement…

On Monday morning, it was announced that Anthony Scaramucci was out as the White House communications director after only 10 days on the job. Naturally, people on Twitter had a field day with the news . One social media post, shared by Kate Hudson, took the cake. Hudson, who starred in “How to Lose…

Tropical Storm Emily weakened to a tropical depression Monday afternoon as it slogged eastward across the Florida peninsula, spreading drenching rains, causing power outages and leaving two fishermen to be rescued from Tampa Bay. The National Hurricane Center said Emily made landfall late Monday on…

After just 10 days on the job, White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci on Monday was forced out of his position as retired Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly took over as chief of staff. Here are some highlights from Scaramucci’s brief but memorable tenure. He pledged his loyalty and…

A dozen inmates escaped from an Alabama jail by using peanut butter to change the numbers above a door and trick a new employee into opening another door that led outside, a sheriff said Monday. The inmates changed the number above a cell to the number that identified the door leading outside the…

Misty Copeland is a modern muse, and we don’t just mean in the dancing sense. After teasing out on-point(e) imagery over the past few days, Estée Lauder announced Monday that the groundbreaking dancer, who became American Ballet Theatre’s first black principal ballerina in 2015, is their newest…

Simone Manuel hasn’t slowed down since her history-making victory at the 2016 Summer Olympics. On Friday, Manuel scored gold over world record holder Sarah Sjöström in the world 100m freestyle in Budapest for the 2017 World Aquatics Championships. Manuel beat out Sjöström by mere milliseconds ―…

Sam Shepard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and actor, died Monday from complications related to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, a progressive nervous system disorder, a family spokesman told the New York Times . Shepard was 73. What is ALS? ALS is often referred to as Lou Gehrig’s…

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Award-winning actor, director, author and playwright Sam Shepard has died. He was 73 years old. BroadwayWorld first reported the news Monday morning. A spokesman for the family also confirmed Shepard’s death with The New York Times, saying he died at his home in Kentucky on Thursday due to…

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie got into a spat with a baseball fan at a game in Milwaukee on Sunday, his latest public relations snafu to cap a month of snafus. In a video posted to Twitter, Christie is seen leaning over a fan who heckled him, angrily calling the man a “big shot” before storming…

The Team Lawrence vs. Team Issa drama continued on season two of “Insecure” on Sunday, as we watched Lawrence trying to navigate his situationship with Tasha while Issa grappled with the reality that her relationship is really over. But while that drama was juicy, equally as intriguing was Molly’s…

An airport worker in Nice, France, has been suspended after a picture showing him punching a passenger holding a baby went viral. The violence erupted Saturday at Nice Côte d’Azur International Airport, where passengers had been waiting 11 hours for a flight for British budget carrier EasyJet to…

Los Angeles has agreed to host the 2028 Summer Olympics, the International Olympic Committee announced Monday afternoon. Los Angeles, which last hosted the Olympics in 1984, had originally sought to hold the 2024 Games. When several cities backed out of potential Olympic bids, however, the IOC…

Winter is here, as are hacking scandals. According to HBO, the network experienced a major cyber attack recently, which allegedly resulted in leaked content from their top series, “ Game of Thrones .” Reportedly, hackers have obtained 1.5 terabytes of data from the company and may have posted the…

“Late Night” host Seth Meyers wondered Monday how the White House will replace communications director Anthony Scaramucci after the former hedge fund manager resigned abruptly . “Scaramucci’s last name is longer than his tenure,” Meyers joked of the Trump aide’s 10 days on the job. “How do you top…

CARSON, Calif. -- The Olympic Games have always been a mega sporting event flush with hyperbole. Each of those 17 days are filled with physical tests to see who is the fastest, strongest and mentally toughest. So when Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti stepped the podium at the StubHub Center here…

Eric Trump joined Sean Hannity on the Fox News host’s Monday night program and lamented Republicans who “do not fight” for his father, especially considering President Donald Trump ’s immense popularity. “I want somebody to start fighting for him,” Trump said of the president. “How much weight does…

CARACAS, Venezuela — Masked security forces staged raids in the middle of the night Tuesday to haul away two leading Venezuelan opposition leaders, suggesting an expanded crackdown on dissent after widely denounced elections aimed at boosting the authoritarian government. The moves against Leopoldo…

A private investigator who was put at the center of a controversial report on the death of a murdered Democratic National Committee operative is alleging he was placed there against his will by employees of Fox News Channel . Rod Wheeler isn’t the most famous private investigator, but his name…

Last week one Dennis Graham , better known as the man responsible for half of Drake’s DNA, released a music video for the song “Kinda Crazy,” an ’80s style smooth jam. Ladies and gentlemen, Champagne Grandpapi has arrived. The video features Graham sitting in an ornate silver throne surrounded by…

A South Pasadena man accused of killing his 5-year-old son after a trip to Disneyland in April pleaded guilty Tuesday to first-degree murder. Aramazd Andressian Sr., 35, will be sentenced to 25 years to life in prison when he returns to court on Aug. 23. The boy’s family audibly wept as the…

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian leader Vladimir Putin is unlikely to risk an escalating round of tit-for-tat sanctions with Washington because the only measures that would hurt the United States would also endanger Russia's fragile economic recovery. Russia last week ordered Washington to cut 755 of its…

Then-White House press secretary Sean Spicer speaks during a briefing the White House in Washington, DC on Monday, June 26, 2017. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) NPR’s David Folkenflik reported Tuesday morning on a lawsuit filed by a man named Rod Wheeler that makes a remarkable claim: The…

People seem to think Rihanna’s body is any of their business, but BadGalRiri isn’t paying it much mind. For weeks, social media trolls and major media publications alike have been critiquing photos of the superstar and commenting on her figure, even though she looks fabulous as ever. Samir Hussein…

The Coca-Cola Company recently announced that it’s going to discontinue Coke Zero and replace it with Coke Zero Sugar to give it an “even better unique blend of flavors” than what gave “Coke Zero its real Coca-Cola taste.” Even though the whole release seems more like a marketing move than an actual…

More than six months have passed since the loss of Hollywood icons Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds , but through daughter and granddaughter Billie Lourd , their legacy lives on. Losing two family members in the span of days is nothing short of tragic, but Lourd has proudly taken up the family…

U.S. President Donald Trump calls on Republican Senators to move forward and vote on a healthcare bill to replace the Affordable Care Act in the Blue Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., July 24, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts (Reuters) By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President…

Twelve inmates escaped from a jail in Alabama، authorities said on Sunday، and six still remain at large، including two who were incarcerated on charges including attempted murder، Reuters reported. The inmates escaped from the Walker County Jail، the county sheriff’s office said on its official…

Last week, managers at the Nissan manufacturing plant in Canton, Mississippi, pulled workers off the floor and into large group meetings. Using slides to make their case, they tried to show employees all the bad things that can happen after unionizing. “They’re telling you you’re gonna lose this,…

Daniel Cormier and Jon Jones last squared off in 2015. (Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images) For the first time this year, there’s something happening at a UFC pay-per-view worth getting legitimately excited about. Jon Jones has returned and finally — finally! — it appears his long-awaited comeback fight…

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping stands on a military jeep as he inspects troops of the People’s Liberation Army during a military parade to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the founding of the PLA at Zhurihe training base in north China’s Inner Mongolia…

Angelina Jolie is upset over a recent Vanity Fair profile that depicted an audition scene for her upcoming Cambodian film “First They Killed My Father,” which many people found exploitative . The Vanity Fair cover story , published online this week, described a “game” Jolie’s casting directors…

Trump was creating his own weather on Saturday. Photo: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images The president of the United States has had another busy day saying stuff on Twitter. Clearly still upset over the latest — and seemingly final — failure of the GOP Senate to repeal and (maybe) replace Obamacare,…

Australian police collect evidence Sunday outside a house in the inner Sydney suburb of Surry Hills during a counterterrorism operation. (William West/AFP via Getty Images) Australian authorities said they thwarted an elaborate “Islamic-inspired” terrorist plot to bring down an airplane and arrested…