Singer, actor, and entrepreneur Selena Gomez has reached billionaire status, according to Bloomberg, which added the celebrity to its billionaire index on Sept. 6. Gomez, 32, rose to fame as a Disney Channel star, acting in popular shows such as Wizards of Waverly Place and movies including Princess Protection Program. She built...

This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. Two months before he pleaded guilty this week to nine federal tax charges, Hunter Biden was in a conference room in Los Angeles meeting a man inextricably linked to all his legal troubles.  [time-brightcove...

PARIS — Thousands of protesters took to the streets across France on Saturday, responding to a call from a far-left party leader who criticized as a “power grab” the president’s appointment of a conservative new prime minister, Michel Barnier. The protests directly challenged President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to bypass a prime...

In Sigrid Nunez’s 2020 novel What Are You Going Through, about a woman caring for her dying friend, the author references Belgian director Chantal Akerman’s 2015 documentary No Home Movie. Nunez writes, “Akerman documented conversations with her mother during the last months of her mother’s life. We should all be great filmmakers.” ...

Former Vice President and influential Republican Dick Cheney released a statement announcing his endorsement of Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris for President. Speaking out against the Republican nominee, former President Donald Trump, Cheney said that he can “never be trusted with power again.” “In our nation’s 248...

After the world premiere of her new movie The Last Showgirl, at the Toronto International Film Festival, Pamela Anderson was asked during an on-stage question and answer session how she prepared to play Shelley, a Vegas showgirl whose long-running gig is coming to a close. “I think I’ve been getting ready my whole life for this role,”...