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Clockwise from top left: Inside Out 2, Thelma, Twisters, Hit Man, Fancy Dance and Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F. Disney/Pixar, Magnolia Pictures, Universal Pictures, Netflix, Apple TV+, Netflix hide caption
Clockwise from top left: Industry, My Lady Jane, The Bear, The Umbrella Academy, Clipped and House of the Dragon Nick Strasburg/HBO, Jonathan Prime/Prime Video, Chuck Hodes/FX, Christos Kalohoridis/Netflix, Kelsey McNeal/FX, Ollie Upton/HBO hide caption
Allyson Felix of Team United States competes in the Women's 4x400m Relay heats on day nine of the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 at Hayward Field on July 23, 2022 in Eugene, Oregon. Carmen Mandato/Getty Images/Getty Images North America hide caption
'Wait Wait' for July 20, 2024: With Not My Job guest Allyson Felix
At least two people have died and more than a dozen have been hospitalized in connection with a listeria outbreak linked to meat sold at deli counters, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. AJ Watt/iStockphoto/Getty Images hide caption
Comedian Bob Newhart pretends to speak on an antique telephone at his home in the Bel Air Estates community of Los Angeles, June 25, 2003. Jerome T. Nakagawa/AP hide caption
A group of novachky, female campers ages 6-11, stand at attention for a photograph, along with their two sestrichky, or "sisters" who serve as female counselors. Marching drills are a daily activity at camp. Andrea Wenglowskyj hide caption
Netflix announced it will no longer offer the basic plan, its cheapest ad-free subscription tier, for U.S. and French users. The plan had already been phased out in Canada and the U.K. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption
Southwest Airlines says it's taking steps to keep its onboard beverages cooler. Charles Rex Arbogast/AP hide caption
Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones play rival storm chasers in Twisters. Universal Pictures Warner Bros. Pictures & Amblin Entertainment/Universal Pictures Warner Bros. Pictures & Amblin Entertainment hide caption
'Twisters' swirls an old-fashioned rom-com into an effects-happy action movie
Victor "Marka27" Quiñonez is among the first group of artists to be commissioned as part of Boston's Un-Monument initiative. The artist is seen here working on his large-scale public artwork "Souledad," located in Boston's South End.
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Will Smith and Martin Lawrence reprise their roles in Bad Boys: Ride or Die - a return to their star-solidifying roles as Miami cops. Sony Pictures hide caption
Glen Powell in Twisters. Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal hide caption
Bob Newhart played psychologist Robert Hartley in the 1970s sitcom The Bob Newhart Show. Gerald Smith/NBCUniversal via Getty Images hide caption
Lauren Acala plays a girl who encounters the satanic serial killer known as "Longlegs." Neon hide caption
'Longlegs' is a terrifying serial killer -- who never touches his victims
The 2024 Kennedy Center honorees (clockwise from left): the Apollo Theater; the Grateful Dead (Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann); jazz trumpeter, pianist and composer Arturo Sandoval; blues rock singer-songwriter and guitarist Bonnie Raitt; and director and filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola. Apollo Theater, Jay Blakesberg, Jeremy Lock, Ken Friedman, Chad Keig/The Kennedy Center Honors hide caption
Grateful Dead, Francis Ford Coppola, Bonnie Raitt on 2024 Kennedy Center Honors list
LeVar Burton on Wild Card Etienne Laurent/Getty Images hide caption