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Val Edward Kilmer (December 31, 1959 β April 1, 2025) was an American actor. Initially a stage actor, he later found fame as a leading man in films in a wide variety of genres including comedies, dramas, action adventures, westerns, historical films, crime dramas, science fiction films, and fantasy films. Films in which Kilmer appeared grossed more than $3. 8 billion worldwide.
Laura Elizabeth Loomer (born May 21, 1993) is an American far-right political activist, conspiracy theorist, and internet personality. She was the Republican nominee to represent Florida's 21st congressional district in the 2020 United States House of Representatives elections, losing to Democrat Lois Frankel.
A Minecraft Movie is a 2025 American fantasy adventure comedy film based on the 2011 video game Minecraft by Mojang Studios. It was directed by Jared Hess and written by Chris Bowman, Hubbel Palmer, Neil Widener, Gavin James, and Chris Galletta, from a story by Allison Schroeder, Bowman, and Palmer. The film stars Jason Momoa, Jack Black, Danielle Brooks, Emma Myers, and Sebastian Hansen.
Manoj Kumar (born Harikrishan Giri Goswami; 24 July 1937 β 4 April 2025) was an Indian actor, film director, screenwriter, lyricist and editor who worked in Hindi cinema. He was one of the most successful and finest actors in the history of Indian cinema. He was known for acting and making films with Patriotism and he was given the nickname Bharat Kumar.
Fabio Lanzoni (Italian pronunciation: [ΛfaΛbjo lanΛtsoΛni]; born March 15, 1959), known mononymously as Fabio, is an Italian actor, fashion model, and spokesman. Lanzoni is known for his wide-ranging career including work as a romance novel cover model throughout the 1990s, roles in film and television including multiple cameo appearances as himself, and music and books.
Sikandar is a 2025 Indian Hindi-language action drama film directed by A. R. Murugadoss and produced by Sajid Nadiadwala. The film stars Salman Khan, Rashmika Mandanna, Sathyaraj, Kajal Aggarwal, Sharman Joshi, Prateik Babbar, Kishore, Jatin Sarna and Sanjay Kapoor. In the film, raja Sanjay "Sikandar" Rajkot (Khan) is hunted by a politician seeking revenge for a family tragedy.
Russell Edward Brand (born 4 June 1975) is an English comedian, actor, podcaster and media personality. He established himself as a standup comedian and radio host before becoming a film actor. After beginning his career as a comedian and later becoming an MTV presenter in the UK, in 2004 Brand gained a role as the host of the television show Big Brother's Big Mouth, a Big Brother spin-off.
Adolescence is a British crime drama television miniseries created by Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham and directed by Philip Barantini. It centres on a 13-year-old schoolboy named Jamie Miller (Owen Cooper) who is arrested for the murder of a girl in his school. Each of its four episodes was shot in one continuous take.
ChatGPT is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI and launched in 2022. It is currently based on the GPT-4o large language model (LLM). ChatGPT can generate human-like conversational responses and enables users to refine and steer a conversation towards a desired length, format, style, level of detail, and language.
The following notable deaths occurred in 2025. Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order. A typical entry reports information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent nationality (if applicable), what subject was noted for, cause of death (if known), and a reference.
Natalia Grace (Barnett) Mans (born 2003) is a Ukrainian-born American with dwarfism, who was adopted by an American family at the age of seven in 2010, but was abandoned by them one year later. Barnett's adoptive parents claimed that she was an adult, and, in 2011, they successfully sought a court order legally changing her birth year from 2003 to 1989.
1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
The Tiananmen Square protests, known within China as the June Fourth Incident, were student-led demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, lasting from 15 April to 4 June 1989.
Steven Pladl triple murder and suicide
On April 12, 2018, 43-year-old Steven Walter Pladl murdered his biological daughter, 20-year-old Katie Rose Fusco Pladl, with whom he had been engaged in an incestuous relationship, and her adoptive father, 56-year-old Anthony Charles Fusco, in New Milford, Connecticut.
Disney's Snow White, or simply Snow White, is a 2025 American musical fantasy film directed by Marc Webb and produced by Marc Platt Productions for Walt Disney Pictures. It is a live-action reimagining of Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which was based on the 1812 fairy tale "Snow White" by the Brothers Grimm.
The Naked Gun is an upcoming American action comedy film directed by Akiva Schaffer and written by Dan Gregor, Schaffer, and Doug Mand. The film is produced by Seth MacFarlane alongside Erica Huggins and serves as the fourth film in The Naked Gun franchise and a sequel to Naked Gun 33β : The Final Insult (1994).
List of largest daily changes in the Dow Jones Industrial Average
This is a list of the largest daily changes in the Dow Jones Industrial Average from 1896. Compare to the list of largest daily changes in the S&P 500 Index.
Kevin De Bruyne (Dutch pronunciation: [ΛkΙvΙͺn dΙ ΛbrΕynΙ]; born 28 June 1991) is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for and captains both Premier League club Manchester City and the Belgium national team. Regarded as one of the best players of his generation, he is known for his passing, technique, shooting and playmaking.
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 45th president from 2017 to 2021. Born in New York City, Trump graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968 with a bachelor's degree in economics.
Yoon Suk Yeol (Korean: μ€μμ΄; born 18 December 1960) is a South Korean politician and former prosecutor who served as the 13th president of South Korea from 2022 to 2025, when he was removed from office by the Constitutional Court of South Korea following his impeachment by the National Assembly in 2024. Yoon was the shortest-serving president of South Korea in its democratic history.
The third season of The White Lotus, an American satirical comedy-drama anthology television series created, written, and directed by Mike White, premiered on HBO on February 16, 2025. The season was greenlit on November 18, 2022, and was filmed in Bangkok, Phuket, and Ko Samui from February to August 2024.
Joanne Whalley (born 25 August 1961) is an English film and television actress. She was credited as Joanne Whalley-Kilmer from 1988 to 1996 during her marriage to Val Kilmer. Whalley came to fame through television with appearances drama serials Edge of Darkness (BBC, 1985), for which she was nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress, and The Singing Detective (BBC, 1986).
The White Lotus is an American dark comedy drama anthology television series created by Mike White for HBO that premiered on July 11, 2021. The series follows the exploits of the guests and staff during a week spent at a luxury global resort hotel chain. The first season was filmed and set in Hawaii, the second in Sicily, and the third in Thailand.
Tariffs in the second Trump administration
Tariffs during the second presidency of Donald Trump have reflected an escalation in protectionist trade policies in the United States, with President Trump announcing a series of high tariffs that affect imports from all other nations.
Good American Family is an American drama limited series based on the adoption of Natalia Grace (Imogen Faith Reid) by Kristine (Ellen Pompeo) and Michael Barnett (Mark Duplass), a child with dwarfism who the Barnetts decide to abandon after she starts to display peculiar behavior, falsely claiming she had been an adult pretending to be a child to justify doing so.
North Sentinel Island is one of the Andaman Islands, an Indian archipelago in the Bay of Bengal which also includes South Sentinel Island. The island is a protected area of India. It is home to the Sentinelese, an indigenous tribe in voluntary isolation who have defended, often by force, their protected isolation from the outside world.
Heard Island and McDonald Islands
The Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands (HIMI; ISO 3166 region code: HMD, HM, 334;) is an Australian external territory comprising a volcanic group of mostly barren Antarctic islands, about two-thirds of the way from Madagascar to Antarctica. The group's overall land area is 372 km2 (144 sq mi) and it has 101. 9 km (63 mi) of coastline.
The Sentinelese, also known as the Sentineli and the North Sentinel Islanders, are an indigenous people who inhabit North Sentinel Island in the Bay of Bengal in the northeastern Indian Ocean. Designated a particularly vulnerable tribal group and a Scheduled Tribe, they belong to the broader class of Andamanese peoples.
Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator (KoinΔ Greek: ΞλΡοΟΞ¬ΟΟΞ± ΞΡά ΦιλοΟΞ¬ΟΟΟ, lit. 'Cleopatra father-loving goddess'; 70/69 BC β 10 August 30 BC) was Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC, and the last active Hellenistic pharaoh. A member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, she was a descendant of its founder Ptolemy I Soter, a Macedonian Greek general and companion of Alexander the Great.
The Gilgo Beach serial killings were a series of murders of women on Long Island, New York, spanning from 1993 up until 2011. Many of the victims' remains were found over a period of months in late 2010 and 2011 during a police search of the area along Ocean Parkway, a road near the remote beach town of Gilgo in southern Suffolk County, New York.
George Anthony Devolder Santos (born July 22, 1988) is an American former politician and convicted felon. He served as the U.S. representative for New York's 3rd congressional district from January to December 2023 when he was expelled from Congress. He had run for the seat in 2020 but was defeated by incumbent Democratic Rep.
Severance is an American science fiction psychological thriller television series created by Dan Erickson, and executive produced and primarily directed by Ben Stiller. It stars Adam Scott, Zach Cherry, Britt Lower, Tramell Tillman, Jen Tullock, Dichen Lachman, Michael Chernus, John Turturro, Christopher Walken, Sarah Bock and Patricia Arquette.
Timothy Dean Haugh (born 11 January 1969) is a United States Air Force general who served as the commander of the United States Cyber Command, director of the National Security Agency, and chief of the Central Security Service from 2024 to 2025. He previously served as the deputy commander of the United States Cyber Command.
Test is a 2025 Indian Tamil-language sports drama film directed by S. Sashikanth, who co-wrote the script with Suman Kumar and produced with Chakravarthy Ramachandra under YNOT Studios. The film stars R. Madhavan, Nayanthara, Siddharth and Meera Jasmine, with Kaali Venkat, Nassar and Vinay Varma in supporting roles.
1982 British Army Gazelle friendly fire incident
On 6 June 1982, during the Falklands War, the British Royal Navy Type 42 destroyer HMS Cardiff engaged and destroyed a British Army Westland Gazelle helicopter, serial number XX377, in a friendly fire incident, killing all four occupants.
Elon Reeve Musk ( EE-lon; born June 28, 1971) is a businessman known for his key roles in Tesla, SpaceX, PayPal, OpenAI, Twitter (which he rebranded as X) and America PAC. Since 2025, he has been a senior advisor to United States president Donald Trump and the de facto head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
The Naked Gun, also known as Police Squad! , is a media franchise consisting of several American crime spoof-comedies, based on an original story written by the comedy filmmaking trio Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker. The installments include one television series, four theatrical films, and a video game.
When Life Gives You Tangerines
When Life Gives You Tangerines (Korean: νμΉ μμμλ€; Jeju for 'Thank You for Your Hard Work') is a 2025 South Korean romance slice-of-life television series written by Lim Sang-choon, directed by Kim Won-seok, and starring IU, Park Bo-gum, Moon So-ri, and Park Hae-joon. It was released on Netflix between March 7β28, 2025.
The Pitt is an American medical drama television series created by R. Scott Gemmill, and executive produced by John Wells and Noah Wyle. This marks Gemmill's, Wells' and Wyle's second collaboration, having worked alongside during ER. It stars Wyle, Tracy Ifeachor, Patrick Ball, Katherine LaNasa, Supriya Ganesh, Fiona Dourif, Taylor Dearden, Isa Briones, Gerran Howell and Shabana Azeez.
The Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024
The Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024 was introduced in the Indian Lok Sabha on 8 August 2024. It seeks to repeal Mussalman Wakf Act, 1923 and amend the Waqf Act, 1995. The Act regulates waqf property in India, and defines Waqf as an endowment of movable or immovable property for purposes considered pious, religious, or charitable under Muslim law.
Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan; born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. Considered one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture over his nearly 70-year career. With an estimated more than 125 million records sold worldwide, he is one of the best-selling musicians of all-time.
Rachel Anne Zegler ( ZEG-lΙr; born May 3, 2001) is an American actress and singer. She gained wide recognition for playing MarΓa in Steven Spielberg's musical adaptation West Side Story (2021), winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress β Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. She has since expanded her career portraying Anthea in the superhero action film Shazam!
Antonios Sajih Mokbel (Arabic: Ψ·ΩΩΩ Ω ΩΨ¨Ω; born 11 August 1965) is an Australian criminal who has been convicted of a number of offences, most prominently commercial drug trafficking. He has spent most of his life in Melbourne, Australia. Operation Purana alleged that he is the mastermind behind the Melbourne amphetamine trade.
MobLand is a crime drama television series created for the United States by Ronan Bennett, who is set to write the entire series. The series began as The Donovans, an origin story to the Showtime series Ray Donovan, following the Donovan family. As the story was further developed it was reworked as a standalone story unrelated to Ray Donovan.
John Wallace Kilmer (born June 6, 1995) is an American actor. He is known for starring in the 2013 film Palo Alto, for playing Pelle "Dead" Ohlin in the 2018 Norwegian black metal biopic Lords of Chaos, and for playing Ozzy Osbourne in Ozzy's "Under the Graveyard" video. He is also the narrator of Val, a documentary about his father Val Kilmer.
Howard William Lutnick (born July 14, 1961) is an American businessman and tycoon who has served as the 41st United States secretary of commerce since February 2025. In 1983, Lutnick was hired at Cantor Fitzgerald under the mentorship of the firm's founder, B. Gerald Cantor. In 1990, Lutnick became president and chief executive of Cantor Fitzgerald.
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search.
XXX (stylized as xXx and pronounced Triple X) is an American spy fiction action film series created by Rich Wilkes. It consists of three full-length feature films: XXX (2002), XXX: State of the Union (2005) and XXX: Return of Xander Cage (2017), and a short film: The Final Chapter: The Death of Xander Cage. The series has grossed $694 million worldwide.
Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 β April 22, 1984) was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advocating "pure" photography which favored sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a photograph.
Cory Anthony Booker (born April 27, 1969) is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from New Jersey, a seat he has held since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Booker is the first African-American U.S. senator from New Jersey. He was the 38th mayor of Newark from 2006 to 2013, and served on the Municipal Council of Newark for the Central Ward from 1998 to 2002.
Opinion polling for the 2025 Canadian federal election
This table provides a list of scientific, nationwide public opinion polls conducted from the 2021 Canadian federal election leading up to the 2025 Canadian federal election.
. xxx (pronounced "dot triple-ecks" or "dot ecks ecks ecks") is a sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) intended as a voluntary option for pornographic sites on the Internet. The sponsoring organization is the International Foundation for Online Responsibility (IFFOR). The registry is operated by ICM Registry LLC. The ICANN Board voted to approve the sTLD on 18 March 2011.
Superman is an upcoming American superhero film based on the eponymous character from DC Comics. Produced by DC Studios, Troll Court Entertainment, and the Safran Company, and to be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, it will be the first film in the DC Universe (DCU) and a reboot of the Superman film series.
Darren Jason Watkins Jr. (born January 21, 2005), known online as IShowSpeed or simply Speed, is an American YouTuber, media personality and online streamer. He is known for the dramatic and energetic behavior showcased in his variety live streams, as well as his in-real-life (IRL) streams in worldwide locations.
Mark Joseph Carney (born March 16, 1965) is a Canadian politician and economist serving as the 24th prime minister of Canada and leader of the Liberal Party of Canada since 2025. He previously served as the eighth governor of the Bank of Canada from 2008 to 2013 and the 120th governor of the Bank of England from 2013 to 2020.
A tariff is a duty (tax) imposed by the government of a country or customs territory, or by a supranational union, on imports (or, exceptionally, exports) of goods. Besides being a source of revenue, import duties can also be a form of regulation of foreign trade and policy that burden foreign products to encourage or safeguard domestic industry.
Michelle Ingrid Williams (born September 9, 1980) is an American actress. Known primarily for starring in small-scale independent films with dark or tragic themes, she has received various accolades, including two Golden Globe Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award, in addition to nominations for five Academy Awards and a Tony Award.
Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson (born October 25, 1984), known professionally as Katy Perry, is an American singer, songwriter, and television personality. Perry is one of the best-selling music artists in history, having sold over 143 million units worldwide. She is known for her influence on pop music and her camp style, being dubbed the "Queen of Camp" by Vogue and Rolling Stone.
Scott Kenneth Homer Bessent ( BESS-Ιnt; born August 21, 1962) is an American government official, investor, and hedge fund manager serving as the 79th United States secretary of the treasury since 2025. Before his government service, he was a partner at Soros Fund Management and the founder of Key Square Group, a global macro investment firm.
Studio Ghibli, Inc. (Japanese: ζ ͺεΌδΌη€ΎγΉγΏγΈγͺγΈγγͺ, Hepburn: Kabushiki-gaisha Sutajio Jiburi) is a Japanese animation studio based in Koganei, Tokyo. It has a strong presence in the animation industry and has expanded its portfolio to include various media such as short subjects, television commercials and two television films.
History of tariffs in the United States
Tariffs have historically played a key role in the trade policy of the United States. Their purposes include to generate revenue for the federal government and to allow for import substitution industrialization (industrialization of a nation by replacing imports with domestic production) by acting as a protective barrier around infant industries.
The Residence is an American mystery comedy drama television series created by Paul William Davies for Netflix. Inspired by The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House by Kate Andersen Brower, the series revolves around a fictional murder scandal involving the staff of the White House. Produced by Shondaland, the series premiered on March 20, 2025.
Stephen Graham (born 3 August 1973) is an English actor and producer. He began his career in 1990, with early notable roles in Snatch (2000) and Gangs of New York (2002), before his breakthrough role as Andrew "Combo" Gascoigne in the film This Is England (2006). On television Graham reprised his role as Combo in This Is England '86, This Is England '88, and This Is England '90.
Patrick Arnold Shriver Schwarzenegger (born September 18, 1993) is an American actor. He is the son of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver. He began his career playing minor roles in the early 2000s, and has since starred in the television series The Staircase (2022), American Sports Story (2024), and the third season of The White Lotus (2025).
Veera Dheera Sooran: Part β 2 (transl. Brave Heroic Warrior: Part 2) is a 2025 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film written and directed by S. U. Arun Kumar. It is produced by Riya Shibu under HR Pictures. The film stars Vikram in the titular role, alongside S. J. Suryah, Suraj Venjaramoodu (in his Tamil debut), Dushara Vijayan and Prudhvi Raj.
Walton Sanders Goggins Jr. (born November 10, 1971) is an American actor. He has starred in various television series, including The Shield (2002β2008), Justified (2010β2015), Vice Principals (2016β2017), The Righteous Gemstones (2019βpresent), Invincible (2021βpresent), Fallout (2024βpresent), and The White Lotus (2025).
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), Dow Jones, or simply the Dow (), is a stock market index of 30 prominent companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States. The DJIA is one of the oldest and most commonly followed equity indices. It is price-weighted, unlike other common indexes such as the Nasdaq Composite or S&P 500, which use market capitalization.
Tombstone is a 1993 American Western film directed by George P. Cosmatos, written by Kevin Jarre (who was also the original director, but was replaced early in production), and starring Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer, with Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton, Powers Boothe, Michael Biehn, and Dana Delany in supporting roles, and narration by Robert Mitchum.
Karoline Claire Leavitt (born August 24, 1997) is an American political aide and government official who has been serving as the 36th White House press secretary in the second Trump administration since January 2025. She is the youngest White House press secretary in history and the highest-ranking member of Generation Z to serve in the executive branch of the United States federal government.
OnlyFans is an internet content subscription service based in London, England. The service is popular with sex workers who produce pornography, but it also hosts the work of other content creators, such as physical fitness experts and musicians. Content on the platform is user-generated and monetized via monthly subscriptions, tips, and pay-per-view.
Black Bag is a 2025 American spy thriller film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by David Koepp. It stars Cate Blanchett, Michael Fassbender, Marisa Abela, Tom Burke, Naomie Harris, RegΓ©-Jean Page, and Pierce Brosnan, and follows a British intelligence officer who is tasked with investigating a list of possible traitors, one of whom could be his wife.
Kevin Norwood Bacon (born July 8, 1958) is an American actor. Known for various roles, including leading man characters, Bacon has received numerous accolades such as a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Bacon made his feature film debut in National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) and performed in Diner (1982) before his breakthrough role in the musical-drama film Footloose (1984).
Teddi Jo Mellencamp Arroyave (born July 1, 1981) is an American television personality and podcast host. She is best known for appearing as a main cast member on three seasons of Bravo's reality series The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (2017β2020). She is the daughter of singer-songwriter John Mellencamp.
John Henry Holliday (August 14, 1851:β13β β November 8, 1887), better known as Doc Holliday, was an American dentist, gambler, and gunfighter who was a close friend and associate of lawman Wyatt Earp. Holliday is best known for his role in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona.