More details are emerging about the circumstances surrounding the death of Liam Payne, who plunged from a third-floor hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Wednesday.

The body of the 31-year-old singer, who was best known as a member of the boy band One Direction, was found in the courtyard of CasaSur Palermo Hotel. Officials said he ...Read more

Liam Payne’s former bandmates have posted a joint message about the late One Direction singer’s unexpected death, in addition to tributes from individual members.

Payne, 31, died Wednesday after falling from a third-floor hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He succumbed to injuries suffered on impact, authorities said.

“We’re ...Read more

Only Elisabeth "can speak to her personal story."

That's what a spokesperson for "Grey's Anatomy" production company Shondaland told The Times in 2022, after ABC suspended writer Elisabeth Finch.

Finch, a veteran TV writer, allegedly fabricated parts of her personal and medical history — including a battle with a rare form of bone cancer. ...Read more

Ben Affleck reportedly has no regrets about ending his fast-burning fairy-tale marriage to Jennifer Lopez.

According to People, a source has revealed the Oscar winner “never looked back” after he moved out of their Beverly Hills home earlier this year. The estranged couple lived in the residence since June 2023.

Amid monthslong rumors of a...Read more

Harry Styles’ mom, fellow boy banders the Backstreet Boys and Charlie Puth are among those leading the tributes to Liam Payne, after the 31-year-old One Direction alum’s shocking death Wednesday, following a fall from a Buenos Aires balcony.

While Styles himself has not yet remarked on his former band mate’s passing, the “Watermelon ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Mitzi Gaynor, the midcentury Hollywood star who appeared in the movie musicals “South Pacific,” “Les Girls” and “There’s No Business Like Show Business,” died Thursday. She was 93.

In a statement posted to her official X account, Gaynor’s management team, Rene Reyes and Shane Rosamonda, said she “passed away ...Read more

MEXICO CITY — A Mexican journalist exiled in Southern California receives a threatening message from an organized-crime boss. A reporter investigating clandestine timber-harvesting in a Mexican forest encounters a masked logger brandishing a chain saw. A newsman in the cartel-dominated city of Culiacán laments that Mexican journalists have ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Nigel Woods and daughter Brooke will not be at Taylor Swift’s concerts at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens this weekend, the singer’s first performances on the final leg of her record-shattering Eras Tour. While he’s happy not to be dropping another bag of money on tickets and merchandise, Woods is wistful as he...Read more

Fomer MTV VJ Ananda Lewis has been living with breast cancer for nearly six years and has taken holistic and traditional approaches to treating the disease, Some of her tumors, she says, are undetectable now.

"If you extended your life, you won," Lewis said this week in a roundtable conversation with CNN's Stephanie Elam, who is one of her best...Read more

Amid a tragically divided populace, one thing holds us together as a nation right now: the near-unanimous spite regarding a couple of flops, “Megalopolis” from Francis Ford Coppola and “Joker: Folie à Deux,” the “Joker” sequel starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga.

Decades in the making, writer-director Coppola’s passion project...Read more

Liam Payne had consumed “too many drugs and alcohol” and was “trashing the entire room” of the Buenos Aires hotel where he was staying, according to a call made to emergency services moments before the former One Direction singer’s tragic death.

Two 911 recordings released late on Wednesday offer more details of the chaotic scene that...Read more

You have questions. I have some answers.

Q: Why didn't Mark Harmon's son play young Gibbs in “NCIS: Origins”? He played it on “NCIS” when they showed the younger Gibbs.

A: Sean Harmon, the elder son of Mark Harmon and Pam Dawber, did indeed appear as a younger version of his father’s character in seven episodes of “NCIS.” But ...Read more

In the 1980s, when author Jilly Cooper and her family moved a couple hours outside of London to the upscale rural enclave known as the Cotswolds, she soon learned the local pastime was sex. And lots of it: “Everywhere I looked people seemed to be committing both adultery and fornication.” Those neighbors would become the inspiration for her ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Julian Casablancas sneered his way into instant rock stardom nearly a quarter of a century ago as the glamorously disheveled frontman of the Strokes. Since then many have repeatedly anticipated the Strokes' demise only to see them continue to thrive, as with 2020's "The New Abnormal," which won the band its first Grammy Award, ...Read more

Horror movies are among the most inventive in cinema, doubling back on tropes to reinvent themselves while taking risks with storytelling and extreme imagery. They’re a mainstream concern, too, speaking to our anxieties, social chaos and marginalization of women and people of color. And there’s more of them than ever.

Fortunately, that ...Read more

SEATTLE — We tend to associate “festival season” with open air and sunscreen — summer vibes. Those are in short supply as the leaves change and the air crispens, but music festivals, it seems, are not.

The big outdoor concert venues have shut down in preparation for what headline-writers chasing scare-clicks have termed “The Big Dark....Read more

LOS ANGELES — Carly Pearce is fast becoming country music's queen of the clapback.

In June, after social media users speculated that she was into Satan because she'd posted a photo in which her tour bus appeared to be parked in a space marked 666, the Grammy-winning singer and songwriter took to X to proclaim, "I am a devout Christian who ...Read more

Former One Direction singer Liam Payne was found dead at 31 on Wednesday after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina, according to state police.

Authorities said they’re investigating whether his death was accidental or suicide.

Alberto Crescenti, the director of Buenos Aires Emergency Medical Services (SAME), confirmed ...Read more

Former One Direction singer Liam Payne has died at age 31 after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, according to state police.

Authorities are reportedly investigating whether his death was accidental or suicide.

TMZ confirmed Payne’s death, reporting he died after a four-story fall Wednesday evening at the CasaSur Hotel in the ...Read more

Liam Payne, the British singer and former One Direction member who helped propel the boy band to global superstardom, has died, authorities told local media. He was 31.

Payne died Wednesday evening after falling from a balcony on the third floor of the CasaSur Palermo hotel in Buenos Aires, according an emergency official, Alberto Crescenti, ...Read more