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Donald J. Trump plans to hold a “general news conference” on Thursday afternoon at his private club and home, Mar-a-Lago, the first such event he has held in months.

Mr. Trump announced the event on his website, Truth Social, on Thursday morning.

Singer Justin Timberlake has been arrested for driving while intoxicated in the Hamptons, a law enforcement official told ABC News.

The arrest occurred Monday night in Sag Harbor, New York. The pop star will be in court on Tuesday.

The actor, who was best known for playing Chandler Bing on Friends, was found dead at a Los Angeles-area home on Saturday.

TMZ reported that Perry was found in a jacuzzi at the home, and no drugs were found at the scene.

The documentary might have also snatched biggest October opening from 2019's "Joker," according to early box office estimates.

The unparalleled enthusiasm helped propel “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” to a massive, first place debut between $95 million and $97 million in North America, AMC Theatres said Sunday

It’s easily the biggest opening for a concert film of all time, and, not accounting for inflation, has made more than the $73 million “Justin Bieber: Never Say Never” earned in 2011. In today’s dollars, that would be around $102 million. And if it comes in on the higher end of projections when totals are released Monday, it could be the biggest October opening ever. The one to beat is “Joker,” which launched to $96.2 million in 2019.

A unique experiment in distribution, premium pricing, star power and loose movie theater etiquette—more dancing and shouting than Star Wars premiere—have made it an undeniable hit.

Compiled from Swift’s summer shows at Southern California’s SoFi Stadium, the film opened in 3,855 North American locations starting with “surprise” Thursday evening previews. Those showtimes helped boost its opening day sum to $39 million – the second biggest ever for October, behind “Joker’s” $39.3 million.

The actor and comedian, 54, is developing a syndicated talk show with Lionsgate’s Debmar-Mercury which is slated to premiere in 2024, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Jeong also will executive produce the show together with Jim Biederman, who has worked on a variety of talk and sketch comedy shows including Kids in the Hall and The Andy Dick Show.

Debmar-Mercury co-presidents Mort Marcus and Ira Bernstein said Jeong — who has appeared as a judge on The Masked Singer since the singing competition series launched in 2019 — has "what it takes to succeed" in the crowded and competitive talk show space.

“Audiences connect with Ken on many levels — not only because is he so talented, entertaining and unapologetically hilarious but their sense that he is sincere, compassionate, fearless, friendly, just genuinely nice — all essential ingredients that make for long-term success as a talk show host," they said in a statement.

"He is also a talent capable of conquering any time period with his mix of comedy, Hollywood celebrity friends and ability to bring viewers," they added.

The actress passed away "peacefully at home" surrounded by loved ones, PEOPLE confirms

“Suzanne Somers passed away peacefully at home in the early morning hours of October 15th. She survived an aggressive form of breast cancer for over 23 years,” Somers’ longtime publicist R. Couri Hay wrote in a statement shared on behalf of the actress’ family.

“Suzanne was surrounded by her loving husband Alan, her son Bruce, and her immediate family,” the statement continued. “Her family was gathered to celebrate her 77th birthday on October 16th. Instead, they will celebrate her extraordinary life, and want to thank her millions of fans and followers who loved her dearly.”

"When I was 7 years old, my dad was killed in a terrorist attack. So I know something about what that's like."

"This week we saw the horrible images and stories from Israel and Gaza. And I know what you're thinking: 'Who better to comment on it than Pete Davidson,'" the former SNL cast member began. "Well, in a lot of ways, I am a good person to talk about it because when I was 7 years old, my dad was killed in a terrorist attack. So I know something about what that's like."

He continued, "I saw so many terrible pictures this week. Children suffering. Israeli children and Palestinian children. And it took me back to a really horrible, horrible place. No one in this world deserves to suffer like that, especially not kids."

The star played Carrie's controlling, dangerously religious mother in the classic 1976 horror film based on the Stephen King novel.

Piper Laurie, the actress best known for her roles in Carrie, Twin Peaks, and The Hustler, has died. She was 91.

The three-time Oscar nominee's manager, Marion Rosenberg, confirmed the news to EW on Saturday, describing Laurie as "one of the most remarkable and versatile actresses of her day, a brilliant and creative mind, and a glorious human being."

Born in Detroit in 1932, Rosetta Jacobs changed her name after landing a contract with Universal Pictures as a teen in 1949. The following year, she made her big-screen debut in the Ronald Reagan–fronted comedy Louisa. Laurie continued to find onscreen success over the next five years, starring alongside fellow Hollywood greats like Rock Hudson in 1952's Has Anybody Seen My Gal, Tyrone Power in 1953's The Mississippi Gambler, and Tony Curtis in 1954's Johnny Dark.

Feeling stifled by her roles in Hollywood, Laurie traded in the Golden State for the Big Apple, settling down in New York City to explore work in television and theater. However, she was drawn back to the City of Angels by an offer to star as pool shark Eddie Felson's (Paul Newman) girlfriend Sarah Packard in the Academy Award–winning 1961 drama The Hustler, which earned Laurie her first Oscar nomination.

Laurie would not appear in another film until 1976, when she transformed into Margaret White, the domineering religious fanatic mother of young Carrie (Sissy Spacek) in the horror film Carrie, based on the novel by Stephen King. Her terrifying performance in the Brian De Palma classic not only secured Laurie a place in the annals of horror history, but also her second Oscar nomination.

EW critic Owen Gleiberman praised Laurie's Carrie performance in 2013, describing her as "a woman who asserts the force of 'goodness' with so much tyrannical passion that she turns it into evil," and noting the incredible chemistry between her and Spacek.

"The weirdest thing about Carrie is that it has a built-in dimension of camp and kitsch, with Piper Laurie as a kind of fire-and-brimstone Mommie Dearest, yet the way that Laurie's towering psycho-diva acting plays off Sissy Spacek's trembly, forlorn, so-vulnerable-it's-almost-naked performance is the opposite of kitsch," he wrote. "No horror film I can think of has such a molten emotional core."

Laurie would appear on the silver screen and on television over the next decade, receiving her third and final Oscar nomination for her role in the 1986 drama Children of a Lesser God. She won an Emmy award that same year for her performance in the television film Promise.

In addition to starring in Carrie, Laurie is also beloved for her performance as Catherine Martell in Mark Frost and David Lynch's cult-classic television series Twin Peaks, for which she won a Golden Globe in 1991.

She continued to star in spotlight roles on popular television series throughout the years like Frasier, Will & Grace, ER, Touched by an Angel, and MacGyver. She made her final onscreen performance as a grandmother in the Matthew McConaughey–led film White Boy Rick in 2018.

"There's a part of me that envisions him having a martini in heaven right now," former costar Bill Mumy wrote in a remembrance.

Mark Goddard, the actor best known for playing the irascible pilot Don West on the 1960s CBS sci-fi series Lost in Space, died Tuesday in Hingham, Mass., at 87.

His wife, Evelyn Pezzulich, confirmed the news to The Hollywood Reporter.

Born Charles Harvey Goddard, the actor began his career in the late 1950s with series roles on the Western Johnny Ringo and the crime drama The Detectives.

His signature role came in 1965 with Lost in Space, which followed the Robinson family — father John Robinson (Guy Williams), mother Maureen (June Lockhart), and children Judy (Marta Kristen), Penny (Angela Cartwright), and Will (Billy Mumy) — along with Don and a trusty robot, as they searched for a way to return to Earth after being left adrift in space by an act of sabotage. The show ran for three seasons, from 1965 to 1968.

Mumy paid homage to his late costar Friday on Facebook, remembering Goddard as a "truly beloved friend and brother to me for 59 years."

"The last words we exchanged were 'I love you,'" Mumy wrote, adding, "Mark was a truly fine actor. Naturally gifted as well as trained. I know he sometimes felt constricted by the campy frame that LIS constrained him within, but he also embraced and loved it… There's a part of me that envisions him having a martini in heaven right now with Jonathan Harris, Kevin Burns, Guy Williams, and other comrades who left this world of woe before him. There's a part of me that believes he's in a better place now. A much better place."

Goddard, Lockhart, Cartwright, and Kristen also made a memorable cameo in the 1998 film adaptation of Lost in Space, which starred Matt LeBlanc as Don West.

Goddard's other television credits included Perry Mason, Gunsmoke, The Bill Dana Show, The Beverly Hillbillies, Barnaby Jones, The Fall Guy, General Hospital, and One Life to Live. His film credits included The Monkey's Uncle, A Rage to Live, The Love-Ins, Blue Sunshine, and Overnight Sensation.

New court documents include Heard’s claims to a therapist that her ‘Aquaman’ costar arrived “drunk” and “late on set,” which DC Studios denies

New allegations from the Amber Heard and Johnny Depp defamation case are coming to light about Jason Momoa’s alleged behavior on the set of Aquaman.

According to court documents released last month and obtained by Variety, Heard, 37, described her costar as “drunk” and “late on set” in notes taken by clinical and forensic psychologist Dr. Dawn Hughes, who was brought on by Heard's legal team to testify.

Hughes’ notes further state that Heard claimed Momoa, 44, arriving on the set of the DC Studios superhero film “dressing like” her ex Depp, wearing “all the rings.”

In a statement to PEOPLE, DC Studios said, "Jason Momoa conducted himself in a professional manner at all times on the set of Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. We're excited for audiences to see the film this December."

Last year’s defamation trial in Virginia began when Depp, 60, sued his ex-wife for defamation over a 2018 op-ed she wrote that included abuse allegations. After the Pirates of the Caribbean actor won three claims and Heard won one of her three counterclaims, she paid him a $1 million settlement.

During their lengthy legal back-and-forth, Heard testified that her role as Mera in the upcoming Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom had become "very pared down" amid the public attention on her personal life. The franchise’s director James Wan said last month that her character was never intended to be a major part of the sequel.

"I fought really hard to stay in the movie," Heard testified. “They didn't want to include me in the film.”

"I was given a script and then given new versions of the script that had taken away scenes,” she added. “They basically took a bunch out of my role. They just removed a bunch out.”

Walter Hamada, then-president of DC Films at Warner Bros., testified in court that there were discussions among producers about a "lack of chemistry" between Heard and Momoa, and that her defamation trial had no impact on the size of her role in the franchise’s second installment. "The character's involvement in the story was what it was from the beginning," he said of Mera.

Heard's talent agent Jessica Kovacevic then testified that she believed the attention the actress received during her televised trial opposite Depp had negatively impacted her career.

Singer-songwriter Firerose and Cyrus first sparked engagement chatter when she posted a photo wearing a diamond on her ring finger last September

Billy Ray Cyrus has cured his achy breaky heart!

After a yearlong engagement, the country crooner tied the knot with his fiancée, Australian musician Firerose, on Tuesday, Oct. 10. The newlyweds announced their happy news in a joint statement posted to Instagram on Wednesday.

"10/10/23 will always be the beautiful, joyous day that our two souls united as one in holy matrimony," they wrote. "It was the most perfect, ethereal celebration of love we could have ever imagined."

The couple continued, "For both of us to hear the preacher say, 'Billy Ray and Firerose Cyrus . . . I now pronounce you husband and wife' that was the sacred moment our new forever began. Long Live Love!"

Billy Ray and Firerose's message was accompanied by a trio of photos from their wedding day. In the first snap, the country singer, wearing a Versace tuxedo, pressed a kiss to the side of his bride's forehead as she faced the camera wearing a white Laura Rudovic wedding gown with lace detailing. Additionally, Firerose also held a bouquet of autumnal orange flowers.

Subsequent photos showed the two sitting on the ground outdoors surrounded by nature, and standing close together with their wedding rings on display.

Firerose and Billy Ray first sparked engagement rumors when she posted a photo wearing a diamond on her ring finger on Sept. 13, 2022. It was later revealed that Billy had proposed the month before.

Billy Ray connected with Firerose in 2021 after teaming up for a musical collaboration together. In August of last year, Firerose seemingly confirmed her relationship with "The Ready, Set, Don't Go" singer via a birthday post.

"The world is a better place with you in it. Happy Birthday Billy❤️," Firerose captioned a photo of the two of them together.

According to Billy Ray, he met Firerose 12 years ago, when he was on the set of the Disney Channel series Hannah Montana in Los Angeles. "I loved doing that show," he remembered. "There's a couple old pine trees on the lot that look like Tennessee. [My late German Shepherd] Tex and I would go out there in the middle of the day and he'd take care of his business and we'd stretch and I'd think how much I missed Tennessee. On that given day, Firerose came out of the front door. There was almost a moment of, I don't know, recognition. I was like, 'This girl's a star.' "

That fateful day, Firerose came over to say hi to Tex. "She told me she'd had an audition and I said, ‘Well, I'm sure you got the job.’ ”

The two kept in touch over the years, even becoming musical collaborators.

In the summer of 2022, Firerose moved to Billy Ray's Franklin, Tennessee, farm, where his then-ailing mother Ruth Ann Casto was also living. That August, Billy Ray proposed.

"It was really just this moment where Billy looked at me and said 'Do you wanna marry me?' He didn't get down on one knee or anything," Firerose revealed of the country singer's proposal. "He said, 'I love you. I wanna make this official. I wanna be with you forever.'"

Later, Firerose picked out a diamond and designed her own ring, an 18k white gold engagement ring, featuring a round brilliant cut diamond with a center stone, held by a 4-prong V Head Center diamond accented with additional round diamonds.

Prior to his relationship with Firerose, Billy was previously married to Tish Cyrus from 1993 to 2022 and the former couple shares five children: daughters Miley, Noah, and Brandi, and sons Trace and Braison.