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Due to record rainfall, California Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency in eight counties, writes the BBC.
Fire officials have responded to over 130 flooding incidents and conducted several rescues since the deluge began.

The 66th annual Grammy Awards ceremony was broadcast live on Sunday night at Los Angeles' Crypto.com Arena.

Parts of the Los Angeles area are forecast to receive nearly half a year's worth of rain by Tuesday.
More than 900,000 electricity customers in California faced outages as an intense storm swept the state with heavy rain and high winds.

Pearl Jam blasted out their forthcoming album to a few hundred family, friends, industry insiders and reporters Wednesday, and the tracks showed they are doing anything but mellowing with age.

Yorgos Lanthimos' black comedy fantasy "Poor Things" received 11 Oscar nominations on Tuesday, including best picture, director and actress. The novel-based movie, about an infant whose brain has been transplanted into the body of a grown woman, played by Emma Stone, was the second most nominated film behind Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer," which led the field with 13 nods.

Lana Del Rey, Doja Cat and Tyler, The Creator will headline this year's edition of the Coachella music festival, organizers said on Jan. 16.

No Doubt, the group fronted by Gwen Stefani, which reached peak fame in the 1990s, will also reunite onstage at the festival for the first time since 2015, organizers said.

Postponed by four months because of Hollywood strikes, the Emmy Awards finally took place Monday, with the last season of "Succession" scooping six prizes including best drama, on a nostalgic night that honored television's past and present.

The city of Paris on Jan. 8 named a street after rock music icon David Bowie, a first in honor of the singer eight years after his death.

"Rue David Bowie" was officially inaugurated in the capital's 13th district on the left bank of the city.

Tiger Woods said on Jan. 8 he was ending his longstanding partnership with Nike, drawing a line under a lucrative near three-decade relationship with the iconic sporting goods brand that helped transform him into golf's first billionaire.

Mesmerizing carousels and Ferris wheels designed by Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Kenny Scharf that spin to music by Miles Davis or Philip Glass: This is "Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy."

With works designed by prominent 20th-century artists, the resurrected show bills itself as the world's first art amusement park, a one-of-a-kind psychedelic fair.