Ava DuVernay Niecy Nash Is the Star of Her Own Show. Now She’s Calling the Shots TooTIME - Judy BermanThe star of Claws on the sudsy thriller’s third season, her role in Ava DuVernay’s new miniseries about the Central Park Five and her first directing gig. TIME: Claws, which is set in a nail salon, has
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio Living It Up at Cannes Should Be Studied in Film ClassTIME - Raisa BrunerThe boys are back in town. The boys are actually grown men by the name of Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt, and the town is Cannes, France, but no matter: now that two of the world’s most beloved actors
Democrats 'We Can't Do It.' Trump Says He Refuses to Talk Policy With Democrats Unless They Stop InvestigationTIME - LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK / AP(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump abruptly quit a meeting with congressional Democrats Wednesday with a flat declaration he would no longer work with them unless they drop their investigations in aftermath
Taliban John Walker Lindh, Man Dubbed 'American Taliban,' Set to Be Released After 17 YearsTIME - MATTHEW BARAKAT / AP(ALEXANDRIA, Va.) — John Walker Lindh, the young Californian who became known as the American Taliban after he was captured by U.S. forces in the invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, is set to go free
Surviving R. Kelly The 10 Best TV Shows of the Year So FarTIME - Judy BermanSometime in the past five months, I ran out of patience with shows that couldn’t get character development right. Maybe that’s a subconscious reaction to the final season of Game of Thrones; TV’s last
Ned Stark People Are Convinced This 2011 Game of Thrones Poster Revealed Who Was Destined to Win the ThroneTIME - Megan McCluskeyWarning: This post contains spoilers for Game of Thrones season 8. In the end, it wasn’t Jon Snow or Daenerys Targaryen who won the throne in Game of Thrones‘ series finale, but come-from-behind underdog
Washington State University Earthly Bodies: Washington Becomes First State to Legalize Human CompostingTIME - Katie ReillyWashington became the first state to legalize “human composting” on Tuesday, when Gov. Jay Inslee signed a law that will allow human bodies to be converted into soil in licensed facilities. The state which
Nancy Pelosi Nancy Pelosi Says President Trump Is 'Engaged in a Cover Up' But Urges PatienceTIME - Lisa Mascaro / AP(WASHINGTON) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, meeting with Democrats behind closed doors Wednesday, tamped down the push among some Democrats to launch an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump.
Rihanna People Can Barely Handle the Fact That Rihanna's Been Living in London Without Alerting UsTIME - Melissa LockerRihanna moved to London and didn’t tell her fans and now they are taking to social media to express their shock. Not necessarily that they expected the star didn’t tell them the news of her move, but fact
Ralph Northam Investigation on Virginia Governor's Racist Yearbook Photo Was InconclusiveTIME - BEN FINLEY / AP(NORFOLK, Va.) — An investigation ordered up by a Virginia medical school failed to determine whether Gov. Ralph Northam is in a 1984 yearbook photo of a man in blackface next to someone in a Ku Klux hood.
Denmark A Danish Law Aimed at Child Brides Could Force the Prime Minister's Son's Girlfriend to Leave the CountryTIME - Frances Schwartzkopff / BloombergThe son of Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen has been tripped up by the country’s strict immigration laws, which will force his Harvard-educated American girlfriend to leave Denmark by the end
The 10 Best Movies of the Year So FarTIME - Stephanie ZacharekAh, midyear, the point at which we’re well past the typical January-to-February slump of unexciting releases—though there are always exceptions—and right at the cusp of the summer blockbuster season. it’s
U.S. Figure Skating Figure Skater Bridget Namiotka Claims Ex-Pairs Partner Abused Her Prior to His Death by SuicideTIME - DAVE SKRETTA / AP(KANSAS CITY, Mo.) — One of the former skating partners of two-time U.S. pairs champion John Coughlin has accused him in a series of Facebook posts of sexually assaulting her over a two-year period. Coughlin,
China U.S. Considers Blacklisting Up to Five More Chinese Companies Including HikvisionTIME - Jenny Leonard and Nick Wadhams / Bloomberg(Bloomberg) — The U.S. is considering cutting off the flow of vital American technology to as many as five Chinese companies including Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., widening the dragnet beyond
Keanu Reeves Why Keanu Reeves Bought an Ice Cream Cone He Didn't Need to Save the Whole DayTIME - Melissa LockerKeanu Reeves doesn’t just play a hero in the movies, he is one in real life, too. At least according to one fan who posted a story on Twitter about getting the John Wick star’s autograph back as a 16-year-old
Quentin Tarantino Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Is One of Quentin Tarantino's Most Affectionate Films. It's Also One of His BestTIME - Stephanie ZacharekHow you respond to Quentin Tarantino’s dazzling elegiac fairytale Once Upon a Time in Hollywood—playing in competition here at the Cannes Film Festival—may depend on how much you like old guys, people
Brexit Party U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May Under Fire Over Her Latest Brexit ProposalTIME - JILL LAWLESS / AP(LONDON) — British Prime Minister Theresa May faced a chorus of calls Wednesday to rip up her tattered Brexit blueprint and call an end to her embattled premiership after her attempt at compromise got
In the War for Europe’s Soul, Holland’s Green Crusader Jesse Klaver Is Fighting for the FutureTIME - Charlotte McDonald-GibsonSpend a few hours with Jesse Klaver, and you realize he is a little different from other politicians in the Netherlands, a country where most people pride themselves on being modest and unpretentious.
Prabowo Subianto 6 Die During Riots in Indonesia Over Election ResultsTIME - STEPHEN WRIGHT & FADLAN SYAM / AP(JAKARTA, Indonesia) — Indonesian President Joko Widodo said authorities have the volatile situation in the country’s capital under control after six people died Wednesday in riots by supporters of his
Hungary Hungary's Far-Right Government Has Been Getting a Boost from President Trump Ahead of E.U. ElectionsTIME - Vivienne WaltFor months, the European Union’s leaders have waged a fierce battle against Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. They have accused him of targeting minorities and opposition media, and threatened to
Opinion A State of Disorientation: Dispatch from Sri Lanka after the Easter BombingsTIME - Anuk ArudpragasamAnuk Arudpragasam is a novelist from Colombo and is the author of The Story of a Brief Marriage. In Colombo, as though there is war once more, the ominous presence of heavily armed soldiers is everywhere.
Manus Island An Activist Says Refugees on Manus Island Attempted Suicide After Australia's ElectionTIME - Amy GuniaAt least nine refugees attempted suicide after Australia’s ruling conservative party won a surprise victory in the country’s election over the weekend, reports CNN. Human rights activist Behrouz Boochani,
Kenya Kenyan Author and LGBT Activist Binyavanga Wainaina Has Died at 48TIME - TOM ODULA / AP(NAIROBI, Kenya) — One of Africa’s best-known authors, Binyavanga Wainaina, has died at age 48, a colleague and friend said Wednesday. Tom Maliti, the chairman of the Kwani Trust which Wainaina founded,
Sunscreen Here Are the Safest and Most Effective SunscreensTIME - Alice ParkSummer means more time in the sun, which can be good for the bones—all that vitamin D—but bad for the skin. In its annual report on the sunscreens with the least toxic ingredients that are also effective,
U.S. Politics 'Cocaine Mitch' McConnell Made a Cool $70,000 on T-ShirtsTIME - Carrie Levine / Center for Public IntegrityAt $35 a pop, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s re-election campaign has sold more than 2,000 T-shirts referencing the derogatory, drug-themed nickname a former opponent once gave him. The $70,000-plus
China Thousands of North Korean Women Are Being Forced Into China's Sex Trade, a Report SaysTIME - Amy GuniaA new report says thousands of North Korean women and girls are being forced to into marriages and sex slavery in China. An investigation by London-based non-profit Korea Future Initiative (KFI) conducted
Protest Protests Over Indonesia's Election Results Have Turned DeadlyTIME - Amy GuniaAt least six people are dead and more than 200 are injured after protests turned violent following the announcement of Indonesia’s official presidential election results, according to the governor of Supporters
Malaysia Malaysia Is Sending Plastic Waste Back to Where It Came FromTIME - Amy GuniaMalaysia plans to send non-recyclable plastic back to the countries that sent it there, the country’s environment minister said Tuesday. The Southeast Asian country became the top destination for plastic
Joe Biden North Korea Calls Joe Biden a 'Fool of Low I.Q.' for Criticizing Kim Jong UnTIME - Associated Press(SEOUL, South Korea) — North Korea has labeled Joe Biden a “fool of low IQ” and an “imbecile bereft of elementary quality as a human being” after the U.S. presidential hopeful called North Korean leader
U.S. Customs and Border Protection The U.S. Has Closed a Texas Migrant Facility After a Minor Died ThereTIME - Associated Press(HOUSTON) — U.S. border agents have temporarily closed their primary facility for processing migrants in South Texas one day after authorities say a 16-year-old died after being diagnosed with the flu
