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Just one day after the global premiere of Clinton Cash, Hans Westberg, the embattled CEO and president of telecoms company Ericsson, stepped down as the head of the Swedish wireless equipment maker.

On the latest installment of HBO’s Last Night with John Oliver, the show’s host returned from his hiatus for a special episode and was joined by some of America’s top recording artists, who slammed Donald Trump and the Republican National Convention and warned politicians not to use their songs without permission on the campaign trail.

Clinton Cash catapulted to the #1 trending topic on Facebook Sunday, in the wake of the global premiere of the motion picture adaptation of the New York Times best-selling book Clinton Cash authored by Government Accountability Institute President and Breitbart Senior Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer.

During his blistering 13-month campaign to win the Republican nomination for president, Donald Trump was scolded by several musicians who claimed the White House hopeful did not have permission to play their songs at his various campaign rallies.

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s pick of Virginia Senator Tim Kaine as her White House running mate was met with mixed reaction on social media from some of Hollywood’s most politically inclined names.

Pop phenomenon Rihanna has been selected to play Marion Crane, the iconic role made famous by Janet Leigh in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, in the final season of A&E’s Bates Motel.

Former Daily Show host Jon Stewart guest-hosted The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Thursday night, launching into a 13-minute rant about Donald Trump, Fox News, and Christian conservative Republican voters that was reminiscent of the sharp attacks he delivered during his tenure on Comedy Central.

Pastor Mark Burns brought the house down Thursday while delivering his speech at the Republican National Convention, addressing the “divisive rhetoric of the Black Lives Matter movement” and declaring to the packed Quicken Loans arena in Cleveland that in “a Donald Trump Administration, all lives matter.”

Rapper A$AP Rocky addressed backlash he received on social media last week after a viral meme renewed controversy over a Time Out New York interview the rapper gave in September 2015, where he appeared to be dismissive of racial issues in America.

Three months after releasing his death threat-laced protest song “F*ck Donald Trump,” California rapper YG enlisted fellow West coast rapper G-Eazy and 9/11 truther Macklemore for the song’s official remix.

First Lady Michelle Obama joined The Late Late Show’s James Corden on his popular viral skit show “Carpool Karaoke” Wednesday night, where the pair ran through hits from Beyoncé and Stevie Wonder, among others.

During a special edition of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher Wednesday night, liberal documentary filmmaker Michael Moore told the host that he honestly believes Donald Trump will win the White House in November.

California rapper The Game continued his “mission” to “spread positivity” by recording a short video with LAPD Police Chief Charlie Beck pleading for an end to all shootings in Los Angeles.

Actor Dan Aykroyd says the people criticizing Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones and her movie on Twitter are overweight racists who will be voting for Donald Trump in November.

Third Eye Blind frontman Stephen Jenkins used a charity event hosted during the Republican National Convention in Cleveland to attack conservative Republican voters and their views on same-sex marriage.

Rapper and social justice activist Chuck D believes Donald Trump is uninformed on the subject of race relations in America and sounds “stupid” when he talks about the Black Lives Matter movement.

Clothing retailer Urban Outfitters has entered the political fray and capitalized on the 2016 presidential election season with a wide range of anti-Donald Trump and pro-Hillary Clinton merchandise.

In the wake of recent police shootings in Dallas and Baton Rouge, rapper and actor Ice Cube says he will continue to perform his song “F*ck the Police” at concerts.

Disgraced comedian Bill Cosby has gone “completely blind” and is now confined to his Pennsylvania home, according to reports.

Actor and rapper Nick Cannon led a Black Lives Matter protest outside of the Republican National Convention Monday, promising not to vote and declaring that black people don’t feel safe because cops are “policing our communities.”

An ex-marine turned militant radical, identified by investigators as Gavin Eugene Long, murdered three Baton Rogue, Louisiana, police officers Sunday, leaving three more in critical condition in the latest ambush assault on law enforcement officers in recent weeks.

A social media meme showing a man holding a sign thanking Donald Trump for “stopping” the Clinton’s from “re-entering the White House” is making the rounds on social media as thousands flock to Cleveland, Ohio for the Republican National Convention.

In the wake of the recent ambushes on law enforcement, including the murder of three Baton Rouge police officers on Sunday, hip-hop star Will.i.am says killing police officers is not going to solve the real problems facing black Americans.

Pakistani social media celebrity Qandeel Baloch, known as “Pakistan’s Kim Kardashian,” was strangled to death, allegedly by her brother, in what authorities are investigating as an “honor killing,” according to BBC. Baloch’s death reportedly came after an argument ensued between the two, which stemmed

Organizers of the London-based Afropunk Festival dropped singer M.I.A. as its headlining act due to the backlash the England-born rapper received after she criticized the Black Lives Matter movement in April.

Actor and musician Henry Rollins, in his most recent LA Weekly column, asserted that white people would “lose their minds” if they had to deal with the vestiges of institutional racism that black people face on a daily basis.

Police responded to a call during the weekend about a tent pitched outside Gordon State College in Barnesville, Georgia. When they arrived on the scene, the officers found 19-year-old Fred Barley, who had a heartwarming story to tell.

Baton Rouge-based rapper Kevin Gates has posted a video calling out what he terms the “bullsh*t” of the Black Lives Matter movement in the wake of recent high-profile police shootings of black men.

Advancing his efforts to build bonds between community and law enforcement, California rapper The Game convened a secret meeting this week attended by more than 100 black celebrities, activists and the mayor of Compton, Aja Brown.

Actors Chris Pine and Simon Pegg, stars of the upcoming film Star Trek Beyond, said the film is about different races and species of people welcoming their differences and coming together to solve problems — a quality they said is not shared by presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.

Actor and LGBT activist George Takei said the same “attitudes” that resulted in thousands of Japanese Americans to be forced into internment camps during World War II, are the same attitudes that make law enforcement officers shoot black men.

Residents living near the secluded Italian lakeside paradise of Lake Como are reportedly furious at the massive migrant camp that has been set up just outside of immigration activists George and Amal Clooney’s multi-million dollar mansion.

Rising film star Shailene Woodley joined lawmakers and digital retailers on Capitol Hill at a congressional briefing Tuesday in an effort to persuade the Obama administration to enact changes that would allow people to use food stamps online.

More than 40 people were arrested after a protest in support of the Black Lives Matter movement shut down southbound Interstate 35W near downtown Minneapolis Wednesday morning.

Singers Beyoncé and Pink, comedians Chris Rock and Kevin Hart and actresses Queen Latifah and Rosario Dawson, in collaboration with Alicia Keys and her social justice nonprofit We Are Here, all came together to produce a three-minute PSA entitled, “23 Ways You Could Be Killed If You Are Black In America.”

A massive makeshift refugee camp has been established in Lake Como, the popular and secluded celebrity hideaway in Italy where Hollywood A-lister George Clooney keeps a home.