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President Obama on Thursday addressed the horrific massacre of nine people in a Charleston, South Carolina church–and then boarded Air Force One to California for a series of high-dollar fundraisers to benefit the Democrat party.

Kim Kardashian appeared on the NPR game show Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me last week to discuss her second pregnancy, her new selfie book and her husband Kanye West’s recent basketball birthday party at Staples Center – and NPR listeners are not happy.

Transgender woman Breanna Sinclairé made history Wednesday night by becoming the first transgender person to sing the National Anthem at a professional sporting event.

Streaming content king Netflix has become known for making bold moves into the original content game. With critically-acclaimed series like House of Cards and Orange is the New Black, Oscar-nominated documentaries like The Square, and an upcoming four-picture deal with funnyman Adam Sandler, the company has barnstormed its way to over 62 million subscribers worldwide.

Donald Trump ruffled some feathers on Tuesday with his announcement that he’ll seek the Republican nomination for President in 2016—and apparently one person bothered by the move is Canadian rock legend Neil Young.

The community of Mountain House, California is set to completely run out of water in just a few days, after the state cut supplies to senior water rights holders last week amid record drought.

Greek yogurt brand Chobani debuted the latest television spot for its Simply 100 yogurt on Monday, with a surprise twist at the end–in the closing seconds of the ad, the couple eating yogurt in bed are revealed to be lesbians.

In an op-ed for Time magazine, former NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar threw his support behind embattled former NAACP leader Rachel Dolezal, who was outed by her parents as white last week after representing herself as African-American for years.

The state of California has settled two lawsuits filed by the families of two farm workers who died of heat-related illnesses while working in the field.

Smash Mouth lead singer Steve Harwell unleashed a profanity-laced tirade after being hit with several loaves of bread at a concert in Fort Collins, Colorado on Sunday night. Smash Mouth were performing the closing set at the Taste of Fort Collins music

Pop singer Keri Hilson made waves on social media this weekend when she suggested that people “thank” Rachel Dolezal, the embattled president of the Spokane, Washington chapter of the NAACP who was outed as white by her parents after representing herself as an African-American woman for years.

Thieves traditionally like to steal valuable items or resources. In the midst of California’s record drought, they’ve turned their attention to the state’s most precious resource of all: water.

On Friday, California’s top water regulators issued new cutbacks on farmers holding senior water rights dating back more than 100 years.

Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl badly injured his leg during a show in Gothenberg, Sweden after taking a nasty fall offstage, but quickly returned to finish the set.

Jon Stewart’s Daily Show poked fun at California’s record drought by inviting California correspondent Al Madrigal on the show to take advantage of an East Coast “drought rumspringa.”

The Santa Ana Police Department is conducting an internal investigation after surveillance cameras appeared to capture police officers eating marijuana-laced edibles during a raid at a medical marijuana dispensary.

Country singer Randy Howard was killed in a shootout with a bounty hunter at his Lynchburg, Tennessee, home, several media outlets reported Thursday. He was 65.

A “blob” of warm water in the Pacific Ocean has grown so large that it has become the largest ocean-temperature anomaly on record, ocean researchers claim.

Jerry Seinfeld made his first appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers Tuesday night, but made clear that the show’s producers had worn him down by hounding him into coming on the program.

Miley Cyrus has revealed she came out as bisexual to her mother at age 14.

California Gov. Jerry Brown struck an optimistic tone on the state’s record drought Tuesday night, saying technology and a “more elegant” way of living would ensure the state could beat its water shortage problems.

LOS ANGELES — The head of the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB), California’s main water governing body, has unilaterally suspended a plan for the Sacramento River that had won the rare approval of both farmers and environmentalists–and advocates for the drought-parched Central Valley are furious.

A man was beaten inside a Little Caesar’s pizza restaurant in Salinas, CA on Sunday after making a joke about a fellow customer’s mother’s weight.

LOS ANGELES — The city of Riverside has filed a lawsuit against the state of California over what it claims is an unfair order to cut water use in the city by 24%.

Writing for the Los Angeles Times, reporter Thomas Curwen called California’s historic, four-year-long drought “serious, but hardly a disaster.”

Sunday night’s Tony Awards marked the lowest-rated broadcast ever for Broadway’s big night.

Real Time host Bill Maher took aim at “conservatives who constantly whine” that Christianity is under attack in America during a segment on his HBO show Friday night.

Coldplay frontman Chris Martin paid his respects to the late Beau Biden by performing a song in his honor at the funeral service on Saturday.

Former The Voice contestant and beloved Philadelphia street performer Anthony Riley was found dead on Friday of a suspected suicide. He was 28.

Actress Minnie Driver couldn’t get the words just right while singing the National Anthem ahead of Friday night’s Dodger game.

The Pittsburgh Pirates and the Atlanta Braves put on an offensive fireworks display in the Pirates’ 10-8 win at Atlanta’s Turner Field Friday night – but the sparks apparently extended into the audience as actor Michael Keaton took a stand against a heckler who was after Pirates center-fielder Andrew McCutchen all night.

The Carlsbad Desalination Project will be the largest facility of its kind in the Western Hemisphere when it opens later this year.

Former Disney star Drake Bell apologized Thursday for a tweet issued earlier this week saying he’ll still call “Caitlyn” Jenner “Bruce.”

California’s largest lake, the Salton Sea, continues to disappear amidst the state’s devastating four-year-long drought.

Rapper Snoop Dogg lamented the media’s obsession with Bruce Jenner’s transition into Caitlyn on Wednesday, calling the former gold medal Olympian and reality television star a “science project” in an Instagram post.

John Cusack is not a fan of President Obama.