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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences invited a record 683 new members this year in an effort to increase the diversity of its membership and avoid a repeat of the #OscarsSoWhite controversy the organization has endured for the past two years.

Californians will decide in November whether to legalize marijuana for recreational purposes, after a measure backed by Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and Facebook investor Sean Parker gathered enough signatures to qualify for placement on the state ballot this fall.

Actress Meryl Streep and First Lady Michelle Obama joined Princess Lalla Salma in Morocco on Tuesday night for a traditional dinner to break the fast of Ramadan, after the three spent the afternoon speaking with local high school girls about the importance of female education and empowerment.

Vanessa Hudgens found herself on the receiving end of a barrage of social media criticism on Monday after users accused the actress of appropriating Native American culture in a photograph she posted online.

Rosie O’Donnell resumed her long-running feud with Donald Trump this weekend on ABC’s Match Game after the rebooted game show featured a question about the presumptive GOP presidential nominee.

Disney princesses and other fictional film and television characters that boast unrealistically skinny body types can negatively impact young girls’ self-esteem and body confidence, a study claims.

A Baltimore rapper was shot and killed in what police say was a “targeted” attack shortly after hosting a charity basketball game that was organized to “pray for peace” in the violence-plagued streets.

Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe is likely disappointed with the United Kingdom’s vote to leave the European Union on Thursday — in an interview earlier this week, the actor called both the Brexit and the political ascendance of Donald Trump in the United States “scary as sh*t.”

Hillary Clinton’s campaign will get a shot of Broadway star power in July when the presumptive Democrat presidential nominee hosts a fundraiser at a performance of the smash hit musical Hamilton.

A forgetful blue tang fish vanquished the universe’s most menacing aliens at the box office as Hollywood’s disappointing summer continues.

Comedian and actor Aziz Ansari told Donald Trump to “go f*ck himself” with an essay in the New York Times Friday decrying the presumptive GOP presidential nominee’s “vitriolic” and “hate speech”-filled campaign and the fear it has instilled in his Muslim-American family.

Celebrities from both the United Kingdom and the United States took to social media on Thursday night and Friday to react to the U.K.’s historic vote Thursday to leave the European Union.

Grammy-winning Irish singer Sinead O’Connor is apparently alive and “happy” hours after Chicago police received an alert that she planned to commit suicide by jumping off of a bridge.

The summer’s most polarizing movie just got what is sure to be an even more polarizing theme song, courtesy of rock band Fall Out Boy and rapper Missy Elliott.

Late Show host Stephen Colbert will host his CBS late-night program live from the Republican and Democrat National Conventions in July in what could be an attempt to extricate the program from its long-running ratings slump.

The West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin ventured a guess as to how the TV president he created, Martin Sheen’s President Josiah Bartlet, would vote in this year’s real-life presidential election — and the screenwriter made clear that Bartlet’s vote would not be for Republican Donald Trump.

The Birth of a Nation — the slave rebellion drama that electrified Sundance earlier this year — got its first full trailer on Tuesday.

British Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling unloaded on presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump in an essay posted to her website this week, calling the candidate a “fascist” who possesses “the temperament of an unstable nightclub bouncer.”

The organization that puts on the annual Burning Man festival has purchased a vast stretch of land in the Nevada desert with the hopes of turning its week-long festival into a year-round destination and expanding its “cultural impact.”

Taking a page from Donald Trump’s campaign playbook, Democrat Party officials are reportedly reaching out to pop stars and celebrities — including Broadway’s Hamilton star Lin-Manuel Miranda — in an attempt to recruit star power to add to the Democrat National Convention in Philadelphia in July.

Hillary Clinton rubbed elbows with Hollywood A-listers Monday night at an intimate, $33,000 per-person “dinner and conversation” fundraiser at the New York City home of high-powered producer Harvey Weinstein.

Disney released the trailer for its much-anticipated animated film Moana last week.

Taylor Swift, Paul McCartney and members of U2 have joined hundreds of other music industry heavyweights in signing an open petition to Congress calling for reform of the Digital Music Copyright Act (DMCA).

Ron Howard’s authorized documentary about the early years of The Beatles secured a September release date and got a brand new trailer on Monday.

HBO showed off the first full trailer for its upcoming sci-fi series Westworld before the penultimate episode of Game of Thrones on Sunday night, and eagle-eyed viewers now know why the show’s extras were asked to sign an unusually sexually explicit casting contract back in September.

One person is dead after a small plane crashed onto a BART track in Hayward, California on Sunday, causing a portion of the public transportation system to be shut down for several hours.

Actor Anton Yelchin, perhaps best known for playing Chekov in the Star Trek films, has died, his publicist confirmed. He was 27.

Not every celebrity is a gun control activist. These celebrities are gun owners themselves, and as such, know the value of the Second Amendment and the freedom it guarantees all Americans.

An episode of Netflix animated children’s television series All Hail King Julien will satirize presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s pledge to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Veteran actor Sir Michael Caine has weighed in on the so-called gender pay gap in Hollywood, explaining that the idea that female actresses earn less than their male counterparts for the same work is, in his view, “rubbish.”

Hollywood mega-producer Harvey Weinstein is reportedly planning a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton at his New York City home on Monday with help from some of his celebrity friends.

Residents of West Hollywood, California woke Thursday morning to find their city plastered with rainbow-colored Gadsden flags affixed with the pro-gun message “#ShootBack” in the wake of the Orlando terrorist massacre earlier this week.

Actresses Meryl Streep and Frieda Pinto are set to join First Lady Michelle Obama and First Daughters Sasha and Malia Obama for a trip to Liberia and Morocco in late June to promote the White House’s “Let Girls Learn” female education initiative.

Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page denied stealing the riff from his band’s massively successful hit 1971 song “Stairway to Heaven” when he took the stand Wednesday to testify in a copyright infringement case brought by the rock band Spirit.

Donald Trump responded to his ban from Late Night with Seth Meyers on Wednesday, saying in a statement that Meyers has “begged” him to come on the show for years but that he has “emphatically” refused.

Grammy-winning musician and gay rights activist Melissa Etheridge debuted a new song this week in response to the terror attack that claimed the lives of 49 people over the weekend in Orlando, Florida.