UPDATE: President Joe Biden arrived in Los Angeles this afternoon as part of a campaign swing. As the results overwhelming came in for the incumbent in the South Carolina Democratic primary this evening, the first stop for Biden out on the West Coast is a campaign meeting in Bel Air, according to a…

Literary organization PEN America has issued a statement on a book launch earlier this week in Los Angeles that was disrupted by protesters. The organization hosted an author's event for the launch of writer and comedian Moshe Kasher's new memoir, Subculture Vulture. Kasher's book is an account of…

A man in his early 20s drowned Friday night in the lake outside SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, authorities said. The incident is the second in two years where someone drowned in the body of water. In July of 2022, an unidentified man died after wading into the lake on a Wednesday. The six-acre…

UPDATED: The White House has declined CBS News’ request for a sit down interview with President Joe Biden tied to the Super Bowl, the network confirmed. This will mark the second year in a row that the White House has bypassed an interview with the Super Bowl host network, which had become annual…

UPDATED, 2:21 PM: As the American military Friday pounds Iranian proxy groups in the Middle East over the killing of three U.S. soldiers last week, President Joe Biden has warned more bombs could be coming. “This past Sunday, three American soldiers were killed in Jordan by a drone launched by…

UPDATED with closing price. Shares in Charter Communications dropped 16.5% Friday after the company reported disappointing fourth-quarter earnings and a surprising loss of broadband subscribers. Charter said it lost 61,000 internet customers in the quarter ending December 31, compared with Wall…

Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta Platforms set a stock market record Friday, adding $200 billion in market value in a single trading day on the heels of a knockout earnings report. The 20% rise in the tech giant’s stock price, to an all-time high of $474.99, followed the company’s stellar…

Hello, and welcome to the Scene 2 Seen Podcast. I am Valerie Complex, an associate editor and film writer at Deadline. In today's conversation I chat with Latasha Gillespie, the Head of Global Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility at Amazon MGM Studios, Prime Video and Freevee. In her…

Donald Trump’s trial on election conspiracy charges will not start on March 4, as a federal judge pulled it from the court’s schedule. The vacating of the date is not a surprise, as other proceedings in the case have been put on hold as Trump’s lawyers pursue appeals after the judge, Tanya Chutkan…

EXCLUSIVE: Echo Lake Entertainment has promoted longtime lit managers Amy Schiffman and Adam Riback to partners in the company’s management division. The pair joins current partners Zadoc Angell, Dave Brown, Iris Grossman, Peter McGrath and Amotz Zakai. Schiffman joined Echo Lake in 2018, after…

Everyone watches the Super Bowl, but for media industry veterans it has come to be seen as an almost holy experience in a world of continuing atomization and linear decline. With ratings ebbing and business models crumbling, last year’s edition registered the largest audience of any TV event in…

Singer-songwriter Lainey Wilson called for passage of proposed legislation that would curb the use of unauthorized AI deepfakes and voice clones, and she also told lawmakers that “we need to keep humanity in art. We cannot lose that.” Wilson was among the witnesses testifying at a Los Angeles field…