A$ AP Rocky's defense team rested their case on Tuesday morning as the rapper faces two felony counts of assault with a semi-automatic firearm for allegedly firing a gun at a former friend during an incident in Hollywood on Nov.... Both the defense and the prosecution are expected to deliver their closing arguments to the jury starting on Thursday. Mayers was charged on Aug.... 15, 2022 with two counts of assault with a semi-automatic firearm for allegedly firing a handgun in the direction of

LOS ANGELES — Peter Scolari, a versatile character actor whose television roles included a yuppie producer on “ Newhart ” and a closeted dad on “ Girls ” and who was on Broadway with longtime friend Tom Hanks in “ Lucky Guy, ” has died.... His recent roles included Bishop Thomas Marx on the supernatural series “ Evil.” Series co-creator Robert King remembered him Tuesday as “ just wonderful.” Scolari was “ one of the funniest — sneakily funny — actors we’ve worked with.... Scolari, a versatile

Joan Didion the revered author and essayist whose precise social and personal commentary in such classics as “ The White Album ” and “ The Year of Magical Thinking ” made her a uniquely clear-eyed critic of turbulent times, has died.... She died from complications from Parkinson's disease, the company said.“ Didion was one of the country’s most trenchant writers and astute observers.... It won a National Book Award and she adapted it as a one-woman Broadway play that starred Vanessa Redgrave..