Billy Joel’s wife shared her gratitude for the “outpouring of love and support” their family has received in the wake of the musician announcing he had been diagnosed with a rare brain disorder. “We are so grateful for the wonderful care and swift diagnosis we received,” Alexis Roderick Joel wrote …

When Redding, California resident Keith Papini called first responders on Nov. 2, 2016, he feared the absolute worst. He had returned home from his job to find his two children alone in the house, and his wife Sherri Papini nowhere to be seen. After using the Find My app to …

“It’s a weird metaphor, I know, but every album I make is the child of the one that preceded it,” the 23-year-old rap star Trueno says on a recent Zoom call from his home in Argentina. He looks a bit subdued today: He was playing soccer with friends when suddenly …

Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s deeply reported book, Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, takes a sledgehammer to Joe Biden’s legacy, already in grave disrepair. Claiming to have interviewed more than 200 sources around the 46th president, the CNN anchor and the …

The first chapter of the new book Tearing Down the Orange Curtain: How Punk Rock Brought Orange County to the World, like its unfurling title, leaves you a bit breathless. It starts with the history of the Cuckoo’s Nest, a ramshackle Costa Mesa club that became a haven for O.C. …

This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of The Last of Us, now streaming on Max. In a way, referring to this as the Season Two finale of The Last of Us feels like a misnomer. Yes, it is the final installment that we will be getting this year …

The Better Sister tells two stories about two different sets of siblings, one fictional, one real. Officially, the Prime Video series (premiering May 29) is an adaptation of the 2019 novel by Alafair Burke, about a pair of estranged siblings,played by Jessica Biel and Elizabeth Banks, reuniting when one’s husband …

Jump to an episode Episode One, “Future Days” Episode Two, “Through the Valley” Episode Three, “The Path” Episode Four, “Day One” Episode Five, “Feel Her Love” Episode Six, “The Price” Episode Seven (season finale), “Convergence” When it premiered in 2023, HBO’s The Last of Us was hailed by many as …

As AI invades every corner of 21st-century life, it has taken on human roles that we probably shouldn’t be outsourcing. For some, it serves as a therapist. For others, it’s an endlessly understanding romantic companion. Strangest of all, people have turned to chatbots for guidance in matters of faith — …

Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem bows at Number One on the Billboard 200 chart. The country star’s latest LP is also the year’s biggest album debut to date, with 493,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. for the week ending May 22, Billboard reports. I’m the Problem is Wallen’s …