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The Cinderella Castle at Walt Disney World in Florida was illuminated to celebrate the Supreme Court’s recent ruling declaring same-sex marriage a constitutional right, prompting celebrations–and complaints.

The first trailer for Oliver Stone’s Snowden biopic premiered online Tuesday, and while the short teaser offers literally nothing in the way of footage from the movie, its tone hints at the direction that Stone is going to take with his film.

If Lady Gaga was at all embarrassed about mistaking a mariachi festival for a gay pride parade, she didn’t show it.

Full marijuana legalization in California inched one small step closer to reality on Monday when advocates were cleared to collect signatures to qualify a measure for the 2016 ballot.

SANTA CLARA, CA – The Grateful Dead were in top form for their final performance in California, but to many fans in attendance at Levi’s Stadium on Sunday night, the quality of the music was almost beside the point.

SANTA CLARA, CA – Grateful Dead fans were left wondering whether someone had slipped “the brown acid” into their drinks as a massive, end-to-end rainbow appeared over the first of the band’s farewell concerts Saturday night.

Tom Cruise is set to return to the role that made him a household name as new details were revealed Thursday about the status of Top Gun 2, the sequel to the 1986 blockbuster that starred Cruise as dogfighting U.S. Navy pilot Maverick.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia took a swipe at California in his dissent of Friday’s landmark 5-4 ruling that made gay marriage a constitutionally protected right under the Fourteenth Amendment and legal in all 50 states.

The Internet’s biggest companies celebrated Saturday after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a landmark ruling Friday making same-sex marriage legal in all 50 states.

Ben Affleck is set to bring the biggest corruption scandal in professional sports history to the big screen.

John Mellencamp blasted the state of the music business at a UJA Federation of New York luncheon on Thursday—but reserved some kind words for Taylor Swift, who he said is the only one doing anything to save the music industry.

LOS ANGELES – Some California water districts holding senior rights to river water may defy the state’s order to stop all water diversions as mass confusion reigns over the nature of curtailment notices sent out by the state’s top water regulators. Earlier

The Supreme Court handed down a landmark ruling Friday making gay marriage legal in all 50 states.

PBS ombudsman Michael Getler said that his public TV station did a “good job” with its internal review of the circumstances surrounding censorship of actor Ben Affleck’s episode of genealogy series Finding Your Roots, but said the show’s producers made a “deadly” error when choosing to omit sensitive information from the episode.

Monica Lewinsky received a standing ovation at the Cannes Lions festival on Thursday after delivering a fiery anti-bullying speech in which she called herself the “patient zero” of online abuse.

According to the Associated Press, several air tankers dropping fire retardant on the blaze Wednesday evening were forced to land after one of the pilots spotted a drone flying in the area.

A model at the Rick Owens Spring/Summer 2016 fashion show in Paris on Wednesday used his platform on the catwalk to protest against German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Rapper Nas has joined a growing chorus of artists speaking out on racial equality in America in the wake of the horrific killings of nine people at a black church in Charleston, South Carolina earlier this month.

The producers of genealogy series Finding Your Roots violated PBS editorial standards when they omitted information about Ben Affleck’s slave-owning ancestors from the actor’s recent segment on the program, the public TV station said Wednesday.

Hundreds of firefighters on Wednesday were struggling to contain a massive blaze that had broken out last week near the Alpine County town of Markleeville, California, just southeast of Lake Tahoe.

Jaden Smith doesn’t shy away from making risky fashion choices.

Rick Ross is in trouble with the law again.

Kevin Spacey is teaming up with Megyn Kelly on a new political drama television series.

The Sacramento resident used his cellphone to record footage of sprinklers watering the grounds at the state Capitol last week–on days when, due to record drought, lawn watering is legally prohibited.

Jake Lloyd, who played young Anakin Skywalker in the Star Wars prequel films, was arrested last week after leading South Carolina police on a high-speed highway chase.

Rapper Lupe Fiasco penned a lengthy three-part open letter addressed to “White Supremacy” over the weekend in response to the horrific killings of nine people at a black church in Charleston, South Carolina last week.

Late-night comic and South Carolina native Stephen Colbert joined thousands of marchers in Charleston on Sunday to form a “unity chain” in response to the murders of nine people at a black church last week.

A new medical marijuana manufacturing facility has opened in Salinas, California—despite the fact that medical marijuana dispensaries are prohibited from operating there.

Hundreds gathered at a mosque in Chino, California on Saturday to beseech God to help alleviate the state’s four-year drought during an interfaith Prayer for Rain.

Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons bashed New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio in a radio interview on Thursday, calling him a “b**ch” for not doing enough to enact meaningful police reform in the city.

President Obama and Hillary Clinton weren’t the only two top-level Democrats on the West Coast this weekend – on Saturday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) fired up the progressive base at a pair of L.A.-area fundraising events to benefit his 2016

The Irish actor appeared on the show with fellow actor Vince Vaughn and host Jimmy Fallon to promote the second season of gritty cop show “True Detective,” premiering Sunday night on HBO.

In the wake of the horrific shooting deaths of nine people at a Charleston, South Carolina church on Wednesday, comedian Marc Maron was not sure his interview with President Obama was going to go on as scheduled.

Television producer Byron Allen attended a pricey fundraiser for President Obama at the Beverly Hills home of actor/filmmaker Tyler Perry Thursday night—and used some questionable language while discussing corporate mergers with the president.

Reality TV queen Kim Kardashian is set to give a talk about female objectification in the media later this month.

One of the perks of being a wildlife researcher is that you get to name new species as they are discovered. For Dr. Stephanie Bush, a researcher at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), that means naming a previously unclassified, cute-as-a-button deep-sea octopus Opistoteuthis adorabilis.