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Here's what is happening in pop culture:

• Rapper Rick Ross was arrested this morning at his Atlanta-area mansion, on charges of kidnapping and assault. [Billboard]

• Fox News will not renew the contract for pundit and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, thus boosting the aggregate IQ of the network by a couple of points. [The Hollywood Reporter]

• Comic actor Dick Van Patten has died at the age of 86. His best-known roles were as the patriarch Tom Bradford on the '70s TV series "Eight Is Enough," and his appearances in the Mel Brooks movies "High Anxiety," "Spaceballs" and "Robin Hood: Men in Tights." [CNN]