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Just a few hours after J.K. Rowling posted the first part of her new four-part “History of Magic in North America” series on Tuesday, the Harry Potter author has come under fire from social media users for appropriating Native American culture.

As Donald Trump inches closer to securing the Republican presidential nomination, some of the entertainment industry’s most progressive celebrities have vowed to take drastic action in the event he wins.

Shiloh Jolie-Pitt is apparently taking a style cue from her activist mother Angelina Jolie.

Operators began releasing water from Folsom Dam for the first time in four years after El Niño-fueled storms dropped billions of gallons of water into California’s largest reservoirs over the weekend.

Bruce Jenner ripped Hillary Clinton during the second season premiere of the “I Am Cait” reality TV series Sunday night, telling a friend that the Democrat presidential frontrunner “couldn’t care less about women.”

Star Wars star Mark Hamill says his iconic character Luke Skywalker could be gay — if you want him to be.

Liberal filmmaker and Flint, Michigan native Michael Moore lit into Hillary Clinton and heaped praise on Bernie Sanders while live-tweeting CNN’s Democrat presidential debate, which aired live from Flint on Sunday night.

Tributes poured in on social media for the late former First Lady Nancy Reagan, who died Sunday at her home California home at the age of 94.

Action movie star and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger officially endorsed Ohio Gov. John Kasich for president on Sunday.

A number of UK-based celebrities have joined together to sponsor unaccompanied migrant children in the infamous “Jungle” camp in the French town of Calais.

Lady Gaga kept a promise she made to the sexual assault survivors who joined her onstage at the Oscars last Sunday to get matching tattoos to commemorate the event.

The mother of one of the children featured in a controversial joke at the Oscars has spoken out, saying she did not know the punchline to the joke propagated Asian stereotypes before she allowed her daughter to participate.

As always, celebrities joined us common folk in watching the heated Fox News GOP debate on Thursday night.

A scene in the upcoming Sacha Baron Cohen film The Brothers Grimsby in which Donald Trump contracts AIDS reportedly has Sony executives worried about potential blowback from the Republican presidential frontrunner.

Pop star Miley Cyrus has vowed to leave the country if Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump wins the election.

Chrissy Teigen hasn’t yet revealed the name of the first child she’s expecting with musician husband John Legend — but her top choice got the approval of none other than President Obama.

Now that Oscar season is over, major Hollywood studios are getting behind a concerted, industry-wide effort to increase the diversity of talent both in front of and behind the camera.

Californians were just as fired up as the rest of the country to get out and vote in the presidential primaries on Super Tuesday — so fired up, in fact, that many of them told Jimmy Kimmel Live! that their polling places were “packed” on Tuesday morning.

Actor Stephan James has been cast in Fox’s upcoming racially-charged “event” television series Shots Fired.

Juanita Broaddrick, the woman who accused Bill Clinton of rape in 1978, took to Twitter Monday to thank Lady Gaga for her “overwhelming” performance at the Oscars on Sunday, which was dedicated to victims of sexual violence.

Nightly Show host Larry Wilmore lightheartedly suggested he would like to suffocate Donald Trump with a pillow during a segment on his Comedy Central program Monday night.

California had been hoping that by this time of year, rains from a record-strength Pacific El Niño would bolster state water supplies and help it recover from a devastating, four-year-long drought.

The Rolling Stones will play a free concert in Havana, Cuba on March 25, becoming the first-ever British rock band to play an open-air concert in the island country.

Oscars host Chris Rock came under fire from at least one prominent actress and some commentators and social media users for a joke involving Asian children during Sunday night’s telecast.

Actor Mark Ruffalo participated in a rally against sexual violence outside a Catholic church in Los Angeles Sunday morning just hours before he hit the red carpet at the Academy Awards.

Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly appeared at Vanity Fair’s pre-Oscar dinner party Sunday evening, where she dined with some of the celebrities who later headed to the Dolby Theater for the main event.

Vice President Joe Biden gave a brief speech in support of victims of sexual violence while introducing Lady Gaga at the Academy Awards on Sunday night.

LOS ANGELES — The Rev. Al Sharpton led a rally Sunday afternoon around the corner from Hollywood’s Dolby Theater to protest the lack of diversity among this year’s Academy Award nominees. Joined by members of his National Action Network (NAN)

Mya Taylor won the Best Supporting Female award at Saturday night’s Film Independent Spirit Awards, becoming the first-ever transgender actor to win an award at the ceremony in its 31-year history.

The Tanner gang is back on television screens for the first time in 20 years, as Netflix debuted the Full House reboot Fuller House late Thursday night — and the show wasted practically no time going after Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump with a pair of jabs.

Oscar host Chris Rock took to Twitter Thursday to post a cryptic message ahead of Sunday night’s ceremony.

Actress Emma Watson recently announced she’d be taking a year off from acting to learn more about feminism — but that’s not all she’s learning about, apparently.

Social media users were in an uproar Thursday after it was reported that white Game of Thrones actor Finn Jones had been cast as the titular superhero in Marvel’s upcoming Netflix series Iron Fist — despite the fact that the character is white in the comic books.

LOS ANGELES — California’s water conservation rate slid sharply in January, with the state failing to meet Gov. Jerry Brown’s mandatory 25 percent reduction order as the strong Pacific El Niño failed to deliver the rain necessary to provide a path out of devastating drought.

Singer and artist Anohni, the first transgender artist ever to be nominated for an Academy Award, will boycott this year’s ceremony, explaining the reason in a lengthy essay.

Chrissy Teigen came under fire on social media this week after revealing in an interview that she chose her baby’s gender while undergoing in vitro fertilization to conceive her first child.