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In a video for UNICEF, pop superstar Katy Perry poses as a weatherwoman to deliver a report calling for climate change action “to change the forecast for children.”

Macy Gray is out with an updated version of “All I Want for Christmas” just in time for the holiday season—but the singer’s Christmas wish list may be too much for Santa to handle.

A New York City man has reportedly sued the Metropolitan Museum of Art for housing four “offensive” and “racist” masterpiece paintings that depict Jesus as white and blond.

Quentin Tarantino says he is “not worried” about an upcoming “surprise” pledged by the nation’s largest police union after the director participated in an anti-police brutality rally in New York City in October.

San Francisco could soon be home to the largest medical marijuana dispensary in the county, if not the world.

NBC’s The Wiz Live! was a massive success for the network Thursday night, drawing an estimated 11.5 million viewers for the special live broadcast of the 1974 Tony-winning musical — however, some social media users, apparently unaware of the musical’s history, called the show racist for its use of an all-black cast.

Chicago native Chance the Rapper unloaded on Spike Lee Friday, calling the director’s latest film Chi-Raq “exploitive” and “offensive” and criticizing the director’s recent statement that his film would “save lives.”

Two more adult film actresses have come forward with graphic sexual abuse allegations against porn superstar James Deen, bringing the total number of accusers up to five.

Top Hollywood executives, writers, directors, and actresses convened for a secret meeting in October to propose a detailed plan to combat gender inequality in the entertainment industry.

MAD magazine has named Donald Trump its “dumbest” person of 2015.

Hollywood’s biggest female stars have been roughed up for a new domestic violence awareness campaign.

California failed to meet its monthly water conservation target in October for the first time since Gov. Jerry Brown’s mandatory regulations took effect in June, but the state remains on track to meet the 25 percent overall reduction target required to be reached by February.

Kylie Jenner lit up the Internet Tuesday, but not in the way that she is normally accustomed — the young model and reality TV star took heat from social media users and fans for posing in a wheelchair in a sexy magazine photo shoot.

Chrissy Teigen took a swipe at Donald Trump on Twitter this week, firing the opening salvo in what became a heated social media feud between the supermodel and the Republican presidential candidate.

Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s The Revenant has picked up early Oscar buzz ahead of its Christmas Day release, but some viewers and Academy voters could be put off by the film’s brutal violence — according to a report from early screenings, Leonardo DiCaprio’s character Hugh Glass gets raped and nearly mauled to death by a bear.

YouTube star Sam Pepper pulled quite the prank over the weekend, successfully convincing an unwitting victim into believing his best friend had been murdered right in front of him.

California’s record drought has caused widespread water shortages, damaged crops, and caused thousands of lawns across the state to turn brown. Now, just in time for the holiday season, the drought has claimed its latest victim: Christmas trees.

Porn star James Deen is under fire from two fellow adult film performers who claim the actor physically abused them, with one of the actresses claiming Deen raped her.

Sinead O’Connor has been found “safe and sound” in Dublin after posting an ominous suicide note-type message to Facebook.

Brad Pitt is an atheist — because his father instilled a “Christian guilt” in him during his upbringing.

A pricey retrofitting project at one of Santa Clara County’s largest dams has been delayed by a full year after engineers discovered nearby “trace faults” that could elevate the risk of the dam’s collapse in the event of a strong earthquake.

An investigation has found no record of Quentin Tarantino’s claimed incarceration in an L.A. County jail at the time he would have been held there.

On the heels of his announcement that he would open his own Traverse City, Michigan, home to Syrian refugees entering the U.S., leftwing filmmaker Michael Moore has launched a website to encourage Americans to join him in opening their own homes to refugees.

Jennifer Lawrence certainly wasn’t thankful for paparazzi on Thanksgiving. The Oscar-winning actress (and soon-to-be-director) flipped off the camera while stepping out in New York City on Thursday. Lawrence has flipped the bird at photographers a few times recently, including at

Spike Lee is a vocal proponent of the Black Lives Matter movement, but believes the black community must “speak out” against black-on-black crime if they wish to see structural changes in policing and community relations.

Potentially deadly insects known as “kissing bugs” have invaded the entire southern half of the United States–including California.

Snoop Dogg got into the Thanksgiving holiday spirit, in true Doggfather form — by tweeting a photo of a turkey made up of joints and marijuana nuggets.

teamed up with Hannibal creator Bryan Fuller and actress Gillian Anderson to produce a new advertisement that outright likens turkey-eaters to cannibals, just in time for Thanksgiving Day.

As California suffers through a fourth year of record drought, one city in the Golden State has a unique problem: too much water.

In an interview on The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, actor Will Smith says that he has been surveying the current political landscape and could someday make his own move into politics.

Paramount released the first trailer for “The Little Prince,” a new animated film based on the classic 1943 novella of the same name.

‘JeruZalem’ follows two American students who travel to the holy city for a vacation, but are caught inside the gates of the Old City when a fateful prophecy comes true and the Apocalypse begins on Yom Kippur.

The first trailer for Marvel’s “Captain America: Civil War” debuted this week on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Rosie O’Donnell took a quick shot at Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump’s campaign on Monday, in a continuation of the public feud between the pair that has lasted nearly a decade.

Actor and environmental activist Mark Ruffalo will executive produce and narrate a new documentary challenging President Obama’s record on climate change and environmental policy.

Unusually high tides known as “king tides” struck parts of California on Tuesday, causing flooding in some areas and raising the possibility of dangerous rip currents along the coast.