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California’s 33rd Congressional District is one of the most reliably true-blue liberal districts in the entire country — and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) might just win it.

Funnyman Will Ferrell is set to play former president Ronald Reagan in a new comedy film that sees the 40th president of the United States stricken with dementia in his second term in office.

“I mean, what does this guy have to do to get people to turn off to him — fart in Jesus’ face?” the famously liberal 60-year-old host of HBO’s Real Time told Variety in a wide-ranging interview. “He could end a rally by f—king a pie with his tiny c–k. I have always attributed that to the fact that America has been choking on political correctness for 20 years or more.”

Rapper Nicki Minaj was a featured performer at the star-studded TIME 100 gala on Tuesday night, and dedicated one of her best-known songs, the big booty anthem “Anaconda,” to both Vice President Joe Biden and GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump.

A New York City man was reportedly sucker-punched and knocked unconscious last weekend because he closely resembles actor and performance artist Shia LaBeouf.

Former pop queen Cher took aim on Twitter at one of her favorite targets, comparing GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump to Bram Stoker’s late-19th century literary creation Dracula.

Donald Trump said Tuesday that he would be doing a “great service” to the United States if celebrities, including Lena Dunham and Whoopi Goldberg, follow through with threats to move to Canada if he is elected president, and joked that he would campaign even harder as a result.

Actor Tim Robbins suggested Monday that the Democratic presidential nomination is being “stolen” from Bernie Sanders and given to Hillary Clinton due to “rigged” ballot machines and voter fraud, and blasted Clinton surrogate David Brock for “selling a fraudulent product.”

The first trailer for the prize-winning, politically-charged documentary Weiner, about disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner’s 2013 New York mayoral bid, was released online Monday.

With the passing of Prince on Thursday morning, the entertainment world lost not just one of its most prolific and inventive artists, but also one of its fiercest champions for individual freedom and artistic control.

Farmers and water agencies who receive water from California’s State Water Project (SWP) will see deliveries increased to 60 percent this year, a sign that despite California’s continued record drought, the state’s most critical reservoirs have slowly returned to near-normal levels.

Late pop icon Prince reportedly received drug overdose treatment just six days before his untimely death at age 57 on Thursday, reports TMZ.

Pop icon Prince died on Thursday morning at the young age of 57. While the entertainer left behind a volume of work that is as prolific as it is influential, he also wrote or co-wrote some of the biggest songs of the past few decades, including for artists like Tom Jones, Alicia Keys and Madonna.

Soul music icon Aretha Franklin weighed in on the death of fellow icon Prince in a phone-in appearance on MSNBC Thursday, just hours after the beloved pop star was found dead at the age of 57 at his Paisley Park compound in Minnesota.

Oscar-winner Tom Hanks thinks America is going to be just “fine” if Donald Trump earns the GOP presidential nomination — though he adds it will be a “hilarious” and exhausting general election season if the billionaire candidate wins the Republican nomination.

Prince performed two sold-out concerts at Atlanta, Georgia’s Fox Theatre last week in what would be his final performances before his death. The singer and multi-instrumentalist was found dead at his Minneapolis home on Thursday morning at the age of 57.

Actress-filmmaker Jodie Foster believes more can be done to increase the number of female directors on big Hollywood movies — but there isn’t a concerted industry-wide “plot” to keep female auteurs out of the director’s chair.

The artist known as Prince was reportedly found dead at his Paisley Park compound in Minnesota on Thursday morning, his publicist announced. He was 57.

California Political Review publisher and Donald Trump supporter James Lacy, and Sacramento-based anti-Trump consultant Rob Stutzman battled on CNN Tuesday over whether the polling data ahead of the Golden State’s June 7 primary favors Trump or his chief rival for the Republican presidential nomination, Sen. Ted. Cruz (R-TX).

Tens of thousands of pot smokers descended on San Francisco’s “Hippie Hill” on Wednesday to celebrate the unofficial April 20 (4/20) marijuana-themed holiday.

Celebrities took to social media on Wednesday to celebrate after U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew decided to replace Andrew Jackson’s image on the $20 bill with that of abolitionist Harriet Tubman.

“Dear Julia,” the note read, according to the Hollywood Reporter. “Hope you get everything you want as Veep — gun control, immigration and education reform.”

Actress Salma Hayek spoke at length about her support for Hillary Clinton in the the 2016 presidential election, telling the Daily Beast that the Democratic frontrunner is the most qualified candidate to lead the fight against the terrorist group ISIS.

Actress Salma Hayek took to Twitter on Tuesday to bash GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump over a recent gaffe in which he substituted “7-11” for “9/11” while speaking at a campaign stop.

The latest trailer for the film adaptation of the massively popular video game Warcraft dropped online Tuesday.

Robert De Niro and Edgar Ramirez are set to play legendary trailer-boxer duo Ray Arcel and Roberto Duran in this summer’s true story-based drama Hands of Stone.

Marvel released the first trailer for its upcoming supernatural superhero movie Doctor Strange last week, which finds Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game) stepping into the role of Stephen Vincent Strange, a former neurosurgeon who takes up the mantle of Earth’s

Celebrity New Yorkers took to the polls Tuesday to vote in the state’s primary. No matter which candidate they chose (Bernie or Hillary mostly), many of the city’s most politically active stars took to social media to urge other New Yorkers to participate in the process and show off their “I Voted” stickers.

Actress and publisher Lena Dunham has created her own fantasy all-girl Coachella band that’s interested less in music and more in stifling the “red tide of misogyny” — and it includes DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Jill Biden, Cindy McCain, California Attorney General Kamala Harris, a hologram of ballerina Maria Tallchief and the “spirit” of feminist writer Andrea Dworkin.

Actor-singer Pat Boone ripped Saturday Night Live over its recent anti-Christian fake movie trailer, “God is a Boob Man,”on Monday, pointing out that the program would never have the guts to air a similar skit lampooning Islam or Mohammad.

Rapper Rick Ross visited the White House on Friday as an ambassador for President Obama’s black and Latino youth program — and his court-ordered ankle monitor reportedly went off shortly after the president concluded a speech.

Disney’s fairy-tale drama Once Upon a Time featured its first same-sex relationship during Sunday night’s episode, when Ruby (Meghan Ory) travels to the Underworld to track down and save Dorothy (Teri Reeves) from the villainous Wicked Witch (Rebecca Mader).

Beyoncé released a provocative teaser trailer for a project that will premiere on HBO April 23, in which the pop queen appears to swing a baseball bat at a New Orleans Police Department surveillance camera.

Humorist Garrison Keillor ribbed Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump with a re-worked version of Edgar Allen Poe’s classic poem “The Raven” during his public radio show A Prairie Home Companion on Saturday.

Saturday Night Live took aim at religious Christians this weekend with a parody movie trailer that spoofed popular faith-based films like the recently-released God’s Not Dead 2.

Representative Jared Huffman (D-CA) urged voters Saturday to “calm down” about superdelegates in a visit to his constituency in the second congressional district in northwest California.