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Is Demi Lovato hanging up those touring shoes? The singer announced Tuesday in a since-deleted social media post that she was sick and that “this next tour” would be her last.

Jean-Luc Godard, the influential French New Wave writer-director who broke new ground in cinematic expression in the 1960s with films such as “Breathless,” “Contempt” and “Weekend” and became a guiding light to fellow filmmakers throughout his more than six-decade career, has died. He was 91.

LOS ANGELES — Weeks after sex crimes detectives at the Los Angeles Police Department began investigating Armie Hammer, a pair of filmmakers pitched a three-part documentary about the actor to a major streaming service.

LOS ANGELES — Just two months before California would face its most severe heat wave of the year, Marta Segura was named Los Angeles’ inaugural chief heat officer and given the monumental task of improving the city’s preparation and response to the growing threat of extreme temperatures.

Gandalf would say a wizard arrives precisely when he means to but the same can't be said for Episode 1 of "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power."

A student who was “bullied, tormented and verbally assaulted” at school for almost a year was also the subject of a petition calling for her death

The Baltimore Police Department has walked back its initial report of a violent threat on the set of the AppleTV+ series "Lady in the Lake" and arrested a street vendor at the center of its ongoing investigation.

LOS ANGELES — A week after PacifiCorp was sued by Northern California residents who lost homes and property in the McKinney fire, the utility company faces another lawsuit on behalf of dozens of people, including the sister of a longtime Siskiyou County fire lookout killed in the blaze, alleging wrongful…

‘If they want to make a profit off of it, then they need to invest money back into helping the communities that this is impacting’