An earthquake has struck Northern California's Plumas County with a preliminary magnitude of 5.7.

Police say actress Amanda Bynes has been arrested in midtown Manhattan after she heaved a marijuana bong out of a window.

An Interstate 5 bridge over a river north of Seattle collapsed Thursday evening, dumping several vehicles into the water as authorities investigated the cause of the collapse that cut off the state's main north-south thruway and sent three people to the hospital.

Scott Walker tried to introduce himself to Iowa Republicans Thursday as so many would-be presidential candidates often do — one of their own.

A once-prominent swimming coach who trained thousands of children was sentenced to seven years in prison Thursday for sexually abusing one of the girls he instructed.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — WikiLeaks characterizes the new documentary, "We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks," as biased and accuses its director, Alex Gibney of "errors and sleight of hand."

A businessman was snatched from a New York City street in broad daylight, then held captive for more than a month in a warehouse where he was bound and burned with acid as he was held for a $3 million ransom his family back in Ecuador did not have, authorities said.

By Alonso Duralde LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - As a rule, we like our love stories to end with a big kiss between the boy and the girl (or other combinations thereof) who have overcome obstacles and issues before setting off together on a life of perfect, eternal romance, unsullied by imperfection or boredom or change or unhappiness. ...

By Belinda Goldsmith CANNES (Reuters) - A trip to space with Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio raised 1.2 million euros ($1.5 million) for charity at a glitzy fundraiser at the Cannes film festival on Thursday. At the 20th annual event organized by amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research, DiCaprio emerged as the mystery guest to accompany the winner on a Virgin Galactic flight into space. DiCaprio stars in the film "The Great Gatsby," which opened the 66th Cannes film festival. ...

By Steve Pond LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "The Hangover Part III" may be the biggest three-quel to hit movie screens this Memorial Day weekend, but in indie circles that tale of Vegas debauchery will have to take a decided back seat to a man and a woman who'll spend an hour and a half having conversations. "Before Midnight" is the third installment in an unlikely trilogy that began with "Before Sunrise" in 1995 and continued with "Before Sunset" in 2004. ...

An 87-year-old grandmother took on billionaire Donald Trump. And on Thursday, she lost.

By Jeff Sneider LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Paddy Considine and Fares Fares ("Zero Dark Thirty") are in negotiations to join the international ensemble of Summit Entertainment's Soviet-era thriller "Child 44," TheWrap has learned. The duo will be joining Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace and Gary Oldman in the movie, which Daniel Espinosa ("Safe House") is directing from a script by Richard Price, who adapted the bestselling novel by Tom Rob Smith. "The Killing" star Joel Kinnaman was previously reported to be in negotiations as well. ...

By Greg Gilman LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - FX's border-cop drama "The Bridge" will premiere on July 10, the cable network said on Thursday. After its debut, the new 13-episode series will continue to air on Wednesdays during the 10 p.m. timeslot. Oscar-nominee Demián Bichir ("A Better Life") and Diane Kruger ("National Treasure") star as two detectives, one from each side of the U.S.-Mexican border, trying to solve serial murders. ...

By Jeff Sneider LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Jon Stewart has tapped Gael Garcia Bernal to star in his feature directorial debut "Rosewater," TheWrap has learned. Scott Rudin is producing with Stewart and Gigi Pritzker of OddLot Entertainment, which is financing the film. Stewart is taking a 12-week hiatus from hosting Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" in order to make the movie. "Daily Show" correspondent John Oliver will take over hosting duties for eight weeks during Stewart's absence. ...

A study notes "a lot of excitement and interest from various companies" for such ventures.

By Lucas Shaw NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Mickey Fisher, an unknown and unsigned writer until recently, has film studios drooling over his script "Extant" for weeks. There's just one twist: it's not a film script. Fisher wrote "Extant" as a TV pilot. It's a one-hour sci-fi drama about John and Molly Watts and their son, a human-like robot named Ethan. Molly, the space-traveling wife, is also pregnant with a baby that is part human and part alien. The family intrigue deepens in subsequent episodes. Multiple agencies sought to sign the writer after reading the script, and WME won out. ...

By Lucas Shaw NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Mickey Fisher, an unknown and unsigned writer until recently, has film studios drooling over his script "Extant" for weeks. There's just one twist: it's not a film script. Fisher wrote "Extant" as a TV pilot. It's a one-hour sci-fi drama about John and Molly Watts and their son, a human-like robot named Ethan. Molly, the space-traveling wife, is also pregnant with a baby that is part human and part alien. The family intrigue deepens in subsequent episodes. Multiple agencies sought to sign the writer after reading the script, and WME won out. ...

By Jethro Nededog LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - ABC Family is getting into the game show business. The cable network has greenlit "Spell-Mageddon" for a summer premiere. The show basically takes the traditional spelling bee and introduces "hilarious distractions" as the contenders try to spell difficult words (while simultaneously bringing back horrible childhood memories of the spelling competition). ...

By Greg Gilman LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Evan Peters, an actor who has portrayed a lead in both seasons of FX's "American Horror Story," has been cast as super-fast mutant Quicksilver in "X-Men: Days of Future Past." As he's done with other additions to the upcoming sequel, like the return of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, Bryan Singer made the announcement over Twitter on Thursday. Quicksilver is gifted with superhuman speed. The character, who is the son of Magneto, first appeared in "X-Men #4" in 1964, alongside his twin sister, the Scarlet Witch. ...

By Steve Pond LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Primetime television shows are eligible for the Primetime Emmy Awards, of course. So are programs that don't air during primetime, and commercials, and webisodes and apps, and Netflix's "House of Cards" and "Arrested Development" which are not by most standard definitions a television series. Just as the face of television has morphed over the past decade, so has the face of the Emmy Awards. ...

By Jethro Nededog LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - A&E is canceling its long-running docu-series "Intervention." The cable network announced on Thursday that it will begin airing the show's Season 13 with five final episodes on Thursday, June 13 at 9 p.m./8c. "As ‘Intervention' comes to an end, we're proud to have paved the way for such an original and groundbreaking series," said A&E and BIO Channel's executive vice president of programming David McKillop in a statement. ...

By Lucas Shaw NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Entertainment One has secured domestic distribution rights to "Diana," a biopic of the late princess starring Naomi Watts, the company announced on Thursday. Oscar-nominated filmmaker Oliver Hirschbiegel ("Downfall") directed the film from a script by Stephen Jeffreys. The film depicts the last two years of Diana's life, in particular her relationship with Dr. Hasnat Khan. ...

By Sharon Waxman LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange seemed like an intriguing topic for prolific documentarian Alex Gibney, but little did he know the rabbit hole of secrets, lies and hypocrisy he would find as he dug into his subject. Gibney's latest work, "We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks," about Assange and his "radical transparency," is a fascinating look at one of our era's most fascinating information rebels. WaxWord caught up with Gibney ahead of the movie's May 24 release. ...

By Steve Pond LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Viggo Mortensen will receive the fourth annual Dennis Lee Hopper Award at this year's inaugural AMFM Fest in California's Coachella Valley, Film 4 Change announced on Thursday. Mortensen, an actor, writer, poet and visual artist, will receive the award at a ceremony in the desert town of Cathedral City on June 16, on the final day of the four-day festival that draws its name from the phrase "Art, Music, Film and More. ...

By Brent Lang LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "Fast & the Furious 6" is widely expected to dominate the Memorial Day box office and potentially become the highest grossing film in the lucrative franchise's history. For a franchise keep growing as it enters its second decade and sixth installment is nearly unheard of in Hollywood, where sequels tend to burn hot and fast, dying out quickly. ...

The controversial move passed by more than 60% of their national council.

CANNES, France (AP) — One of the more buzzed-about films at the Cannes Film Festival, "Omar," is set in the West Bank, and the Palestinian conflict is a key part of the plot.

Because of the deadlock, the judge ordered a retrial in the penalty phase.

By Brent Lang LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "Fast & Furious 6" has become a road race to riches without a finish line in sight. Roaring into theaters Friday, the movie is expected to generate $80 million or more over the Memorial Day weekend - astounding numbers for a franchise that is more than a decade old, and isn't "Star Wars" or "Indiana Jones." Even more astonishing, Universal's "Fast" films are the rare series that seem to pick up steam with each new sequel. ...

By Greg Gilman LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Reaction to Zach Braff's use of Kickstarter to fund his next indie film has been mixed, to say the least. But according to the "Scrubs" star, Woody Allen is "riveted" by it. During an interview on SiriusXM talk show "Unmasked," Braff said that the Oscar-winning "Annie Hall" director had no idea what crowdfunding was before meeting with him to discuss a project. "By the way, I'm the one who explained crowdfunding to Woody Allen," Braff said. "He's one of my heroes and I met him because we were talking about doing something together. ...

By Jeff Sneider LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Fresh off a SAG nomination for her turn as Cosette in "Les Miserables," Amanda Seyfried is in final negotiations to join Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts and Adam Driver in Noah Baumbach's indie movie "While We're Young," TheWrap has learned. Seyfried emerged as a potential candidate for the role of Driver's love interest several weeks ago and she has now cleared room in her fall schedule for the movie, which is being produced by Scott Rudin and Eli Bush. ...

Shoppers in the U.S. will soon have more information about where their meat comes from after new federal labeling rules went into effect Thursday. The rules require labels on steaks, ribs and other cuts ...

Counterterrorism officials detain two on suspicion of conspiracy to murder.

Barack Obama has hit the reset button with the most far-reaching national security address of his presidency

She was director of division that oversaw agents who targeted tea party groups.

The agency is under White House orders to fly humans to an asteroid as a stepping stone to Mars.

Members say they believe the measure won't improve public safety.

New Yorkers might notice something just isn't right with the mayoral candidate's literature.

The man became famous for putting down his Big Mac to help free three women.

By Brent Lang LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Debauchery paid off in a big way for "The Hangover Part III," as the latest installment in the black-out franchise generated $3.1 million in late night screenings on Wednesday, according to studio estimates. That's a strong number for midnight shows on a hump day, though it can't compete with the $10.4 million "The Hangover Part II" generated in late night screenings when it hit theaters two years ago. That figure stands as a record number for an R-rated release. ...