CHICAGO — Temperamentally different as they are, the playwright, screenwriter and Northwestern University professor Brett Neveu, a peppy, zigzaggy thinker and talker, has a lot in common with the formidable actor, musician and first-time film director Michael Shannon. The commonalities begin with a propensity to juggle more projects, more or less simultaneously, than would seem humanly ...

LOS ANGELES — Libraries across California are bracing for cuts to early literacy, information access and continuing education programs after the Trump administration’s latest effort to slash federal spending took aim at the nation’s libraries and museums. The California State Library, which supports local libraries and maintains its own collection, said it was notified this week that a key ...

Billy McFarland keeps promoting Fyre Fest 2, and Mexican municipalities keep denying it exists.

WASHINGTON — A second day of market devastation shook Washington on Friday, vanishing more than $5 trillion in value in one of the largest 48-hour losses on record — an extraordinary rout caused not by pandemic, war, terrorism or bank failure, but by policy set by the American president. The policy, announced by President Donald Trump on Wednesday, would levy steep tariffs on nearly every ...