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Deadpool & Wolverine is a 2024 American superhero film based on Marvel Comics featuring the characters Deadpool and Wolverine, produced by Marvel Studios, Maximum Effort, and 21 Laps Entertainment, and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the 34th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and the sequel to Deadpool (2016) and Deadpool 2 (2018).
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Sha'Carri Richardson ( shə-KERREE; born March 25, 2000) is an American track and field sprinter who competes in the 100 meters and 200 meters races. Richardson rose to fame in 2019 as a freshman at Louisiana State University, running 10. 75 seconds to break the 100 m collegiate record at the NCAA Division I Championships.
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Kathleen Genevieve Ledecky ( lə-DEK-ee; born March 17, 1997) is an American competitive swimmer. She has won nine Olympic gold medals and 21 world championship gold medals, the most in history for a female swimmer. With 14 medals, she is also the most decorated American woman, most decorated female swimmer, and fifth most decorated athlete in Olympic history.
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The decathlon is a combined event in athletics consisting of 10 track and field events. The word "decathlon" was formed, in analogy to the word "pentathlon", from Greek δέκα (déka, meaning "ten") and ἄθλος (áthlos, or ἄθλον, áthlon, meaning "contest" or "prize"). Events are held over two consecutive days and the winners are determined by the combined performance in all.
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Kamala Devi Harris ( KAH-mə-lə DAY-vee; born October 20, 1964) is an American politician and attorney who is the 49th and current vice president of the United States since 2021 under President Joe Biden. She is the first female vice president, making her the highest-ranking female official in U.S. history, as well as the first African American and first Asian American vice president.
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Yusuf Dikeç (born 1 January 1973) is a Turkish sport shooter competing in the pistol events. He is a retired non-commissioned officer of the Turkish gendarmerie and a member of Jandarma Gücü Sports Club. He won a silver medal in the 10 meter air pistol mixed team event at the 2024 Summer Olympics alongside teammate Şevval İlayda Tarhan.
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The 2024 SummerSlam, also promoted as SummerSlam: Cleveland, is an ongoing professional wrestling event produced by WWE. It is the 37th annual SummerSlam and is taking place on Saturday, August 3, 2024, at Cleveland Browns Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio. The event is airing via pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming, and features wrestlers from the promotion's Raw and SmackDown brand divisions.
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Trap is a 2024 American black comedy psychological thriller film written, directed, and produced by M. Night Shyamalan and starring Josh Hartnett, Ariel Donoghue, Saleka Shyamalan, Hayley Mills, and Alison Pill. Produced by Blinding Edge Pictures, its plot follows a serial killer evading a police blockade while attending a concert with his daughter.
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Michael Fred Phelps II (born June 30, 1985) is an American former competitive swimmer. He is the most successful and most decorated Olympian of all time with a total of 28 medals. Phelps also holds the all-time records for Olympic gold medals (23), Olympic gold medals in individual events (13), and Olympic medals in individual events (16).
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Julien Alfred (born 10 June 2001) is a Saint Lucian sprinter. She won the gold medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the 100 metres event which is the first-ever Olympic medal for Saint Lucia, also setting a new national record of 10. 72s in the final. Alfred also won the gold medal in the 60 metres at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships.
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Joshua David Shapiro (born June 20, 1973) is an American lawyer and politician serving since 2023 as the 48th governor of Pennsylvania. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the 50th attorney general of Pennsylvania from 2017 to 2023 and served on the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners from 2012 to 2017.
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India at the 2024 Summer Olympics
India is competing at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France, being held between 26 July and 11 August 2024. The country made its debut at the 1900 Summer Olympics. Indian athletes have appeared at every edition of the Summer Olympic Games since 1920 and this edition of the Games marked the nation's 26th appearance at the Summer Olympics.
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Steven van de Velde (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈsteːvən vɑn də ˈvɛldə] ; born 8 August 1994) is a Dutch beach volleyball player. He was convicted of child rape in 2016; in 2014, while van de Velde was 19, he raped a 12 year-old girl after he gave her alcohol. He has qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics, with the Dutch Olympic Committee standing by their nomination.
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Saint Lucia is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean. The island was previously called Iouanalao and later Hewanorra, names given by the native Arawaks and Caribs (respectively), two Amerindian peoples. Part of the Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, it is located north/northeast of the island of Saint Vincent, northwest of Barbados and south of Martinique.
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Léon Marchand (pronounced [leɔ̃ maʁʃɑ̃] ; born 17 May 2002) is a French swimmer. He is the World and Olympic record holder in the long course 400 metre individual medley, the Olympic record holder in the 200 metre butterfly and the 200 metre breaststroke and the French record holder in the long course 200 metre individual medley, 200 metre butterfly and 200 metre breaststroke.
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Jonathan James Owens (born July 22, 1995) is an American football safety for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Missouri Western, and signed with the Arizona Cardinals as an undrafted free agent in 2018. He has also played for the Houston Texans and Green Bay Packers.
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2024 Summer Olympics medal table
The 2024 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad, are an ongoing international multi-sport event being held in Paris, France from 26 July to 11 August 2024, with preliminary events in some sports beginning on 24 July. Athletes representing 206 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) are participating in the games.
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Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator (Koinē Greek: Κλεοπάτρα Θεά Φιλοπάτωρ lit. 'Cleopatra father-loving goddess'; 70/69 BC – 10 August 30 BC) was Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC, and its last active ruler. 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.
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All-time Olympic Games medal table
The all-time medal table for all Olympic Games from 1896 to 2022, including Summer Olympic Games, Winter Olympic Games, and a combined total of both, is tabulated below. These Olympic medal counts do not include the 1906 Intercalated Games which are no longer recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as official Games.
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Rhys Joshua McClenaghan (born 21 July 1999) is an Irish artistic gymnast competing internationally for both Ireland and Northern Ireland. A specialist on pommel horse, he is recognised as one of the best pommel workers of his generation. He won the gold medal on the pommel horse at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
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UFC on ABC: Sandhagen vs. Nurmagomedov
UFC on ABC: Sandhagen vs. Nurmagomedov (also known as UFC on ABC 7) was a mixed martial arts event by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that took place on August 3, 2024, at the Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
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Ryan Crouser (born December 18, 1992) is an American track and field athlete who competes in the shot put and discus. He specializes in the shot put, in which he is the only three-time Olympic gold medalist, having won in Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo and Paris, and also a two-time World Champion. He holds the world record in the shot put, both indoors and outdoors.
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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is a 2024 American science fiction action film directed by Wes Ball and written by Josh Friedman. A standalone sequel to War for the Planet of the Apes (2017), it is the fourth installment in the Planet of the Apes reboot film series and the tenth film overall. It stars Owen Teague, Freya Allan, Kevin Durand, Peter Macon, and William H. Macy.
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The following notable deaths occurred in 2024. 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 reference.
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List of Olympic Games host cities
This is a list of host cities of the Olympic Games, both summer and winter, since the modern Olympics began in 1896. Since then, summer and winter games have usually celebrated a four-year period known as an Olympiad; summer and winter games are normally held in staggered even years. There have been 30 Summer Olympic Games held in 21 cities, and 24 Winter Olympic Games held in 21 cities.
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Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris are scheduled to run on 1 to 11 August 2024, featuring a total of 48 medal events across three distinct sets: track and field, road running, and racewalking. Four venues are to be used: Pont d'Iéna for race walking, Hôtel de Ville and Les Invalides for the start and end points of the marathon races, and Stade de France for the track and field events.
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Teddy Pierre-Marie Riner (, French: [tedi pjɛʁ maʁi ʁinœʁ]; born 7 April 1989) is a French judoka. He has won eleven World Championships gold medals, the first and only judoka (male or female) to do so, and five Olympic gold medals (three individual, two team). He has also won five gold medals at the European Championships.
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Sunisa "Suni" Lee (née Phabsomphou; born March 9, 2003) is an American artistic gymnast. She was the 2020 Olympic all-around gold medalist and uneven bars bronze medalist and the 2024 Summer Olympics all-around bronze medalist. Additionally, she was the 2019 world championship silver medalist on the floor and bronze medalist on uneven bars.
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Trinity Rain Moyer-Rodman (born May 20, 2002) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a forward for the Washington Spirit of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) and the United States national team. Rodman was selected second by the Spirit in the 2021 NWSL Draft at age 18, making her the youngest draftee in NWSL history at the time.
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Viktor Axelsen (born 4 January 1994) is a Danish badminton player who is currently the world number two in men's singles. He is a two-time World Champion, defeating Lin Dan in 2017 final and Kunlavut Vitidsarn in 2022 final. He is also the reigning Olympic Champion, defeating Chen Long at the final of the 2020 event.
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Twisters is a 2024 American disaster film directed by Lee Isaac Chung from a screenplay by Mark L. Smith, based on a story by Joseph Kosinski. Serving as a standalone sequel to Twister (1996), the film stars Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell, Anthony Ramos, Brandon Perea, Maura Tierney, and Sasha Lane. Its story follows clashing groups of storm chasers who investigate a tornado outbreak in Oklahoma.
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Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (née Fraser; born December 27, 1986) is a Jamaican track and field sprinter competing in the 60 metres, 100 m and 200 m. She is widely regarded as one of the greatest sprinters of all time. One of the most enduring track athletes in history, Fraser-Pryce's career spans over a decade and a half, from the late 2000s to the 2020s.
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Basketball at the 2024 Summer Olympics
The basketball competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France, are held from 27 July to 11 August 2024. Preliminary 5-on-5 basketball matches occur at Stade Pierre-Mauroy in Lille, with the final phase staged at the Accor Arena in Paris. Retaining its position in the program, the 3x3 competitions will be played at Place de la Concorde.
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Femke Bol (pronounced [ˈfɛmkə bɔl] ; born 23 February 2000) is a Dutch track and field athlete who competes in hurdling and sprinting. She specialises in the 400 metres hurdles, where she is the 2023 World Champion, and in the 400 metres, where she is the 2024 World Indoor Champion and the short track world record holder.
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. 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.
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Steven Victor Tallarico (born March 26, 1948), known professionally as Steven Tyler, is an American singer and songwriter, best known as the lead singer of the Boston-based rock band Aerosmith, in which he also plays the keyboards, harmonica and percussion. He has been called the "Demon of Screamin'" due to his high screams and his powerful wide vocal range.
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The 100 metres, or 100-meter dash, is a sprint race in track and field competitions. The shortest common outdoor running distance, the 100-meter (109. 36 yd) dash is one of the most popular and prestigious events in the sport of athletics. It has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896 for men and since 1928 for women.
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Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics
The swimming competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris are scheduled to run from 27 July to 9 August 2024. Pool events (27 July to 4 August) will occur at the Paris La Défense Arena, with the two-day marathon swimming (8 to 9 August) staged at Pont Alexandre III through the Seine River.
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Florence Delorez Griffith Joyner (born Florence Delorez Griffith; December 21, 1959 – September 21, 1998), also known as Flo-Jo, was an American track and field athlete and the fastest woman ever recorded. She set world records in 1988 for the 100 m and 200 m. During the late 1980s, she became a popular figure due to both her record-setting athleticism and eclectic personal style.
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Zheng Qinwen (simplified Chinese: 郑钦文; traditional Chinese: 鄭欽文; pinyin: Zhèng Qīnwén; Mandarin pronunciation: [ʈʂə̂ŋ tɕʰín wə̌n]; born 8 October 2002) is a Chinese professional tennis player and Olympic champion. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 7 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), achieved on 29 January 2024.
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Basketball at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament
The men's 5x5 basketball tournament at the 2024 Summer Olympics is the 21st edition of the event for men at the Summer Olympic Games. It is held from 27 July to 10 August 2024. Preliminary games occur at Stade Pierre-Mauroy in Lille, with the final phase staged at the Accor Arena in Paris.
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YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google. Accessible worldwide, YouTube was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States, it is the second most visited website in the world, after Google Search.
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James David "JD" Vance (born James Donald Bowman; August 2, 1984), is an American politician, author, and Marine veteran who has served since 2023 as the junior United States senator from Ohio. A member of the Republican Party, he is its nominee for vice president in the 2024 United States presidential election.
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Grant Jackson Fisher (born April 22, 1997) is an American middle- and long-distance runner. He holds the American national records for the 5,000 (12:46. 96) and 10,000 meters (26:33. 84), both set in a 2022 breakthrough season outdoors, and the 3,000 meters (7:25. 47) after a post-injury return late in the 2023 outdoor season. He won the bronze medal in the 10,000 meters at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
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Ryan Rodney Reynolds (born October 23, 1976) is a Canadian and American actor, producer, writer, and businessman. He began his career starring in the Canadian teen soap opera Hillside (1991–1993) and had minor roles before landing the lead role on the sitcom Two Guys and a Girl between 1998 and 2001.
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The 2020 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXXII Olympiad and officially branded as Tokyo 2020, were an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July 2021. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the 125th IOC Session in Buenos Aires, Argentina on 7 September 2013.
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Stephen John Nedoroscik (; born October 28, 1998) is an American artistic gymnast. A pommel horse specialist, he is the 2024 Olympic bronze medalist, the 2021 World Champion – the first and only American to win the event – a two-time FIG World Cup champion, a four-time United States National Champion, and a two-time NCAA National Champion, for the apparatus.
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Kayleigh Rose Amstutz (born February 19, 1998), known professionally as Chappell Roan ( CHAP-əl ROHN), is an American singer and songwriter. Working with collaborator Dan Nigro, the majority of her music is inspired by 1980s synth-pop and early 2000s pop hits. Her aesthetic is heavily influenced by drag queens, and her music and performing style have been described as "campy".
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Rebeca Rodrigues de Andrade (born 8 May 1999) is a Brazilian artistic gymnast. Having won a total of 14 Olympic and World medals, she is the most decorated Brazilian and Latin American gymnast of all time. In the all-around, she is the 2022 World champion, a two-time Olympic silver medalist (2020, 2024), the 2023 World silver medalist, and the 2021 Pan American champion.
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House of the Dragon is an American fantasy drama television series created by George R. R. Martin and Ryan Condal for HBO. A prequel to Game of Thrones (2011–2019), it is the second television series in Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire franchise. Condal and Miguel Sapochnik served as the showrunners for the first season.
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Gymnastics at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Gymnastics competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris will be contested in three categories: artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics and trampolining. The artistic (27 July to 5 August) and trampoline (2 August) events will occur at the Bercy Arena, with the rhythmic events staged at Porte de La Chapelle Arena from 8 to 10 August.
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Individual Neutral Athletes at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Individual Neutral Athletes is the name used to represent approved individual Russian and Belarusian athletes at the 2024 Summer Olympics, after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) banned those nations' previous designations due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 that is still ongoing as of 2024. The IOC country code is AIN, after the French name Athlètes Individuels Neutres.
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Max Antony Whitlock (born 13 January 1993) is a British artistic gymnast. With fourteen medals and six titles in Olympic and World Championships, Whitlock is the most successful gymnast in British history. He is also the most successful pommel horse worker in Olympic Games history, with two gold medals and one bronze.
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Badminton at the 2024 Summer Olympics
The badminton tournaments at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris are running from 27 July to 5 August at Porte de La Chapelle Arena. A total of 171 badminton players competed across five medal events (two per gender and a mixed) at these Games.
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India first participated at the Olympic Games in 1900, with a lone athlete Norman Pritchard winning two medals – both silver – in athletics and became the first Asian nation to win an Olympic medal. The nation first sent a team to the Summer Olympic Games in 1920 and has participated in every Summer Games since then. India has also competed at several Winter Olympic Games beginning in 1964.
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2020 Summer Olympics medal table
The 2020 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXXII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held in Tokyo, Japan, from 23 July to 8 August 2021. The Games were postponed by one year as part of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports.
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Michael Duane Johnson (born September 13, 1967) is an American retired sprinter who won four Olympic gold medals and eight World Championships gold medals in the span of his career. He held the world and Olympic records in the 200 m and 400 m, as well as the world record in the indoor 400 m. He also once held the world's best time in the 300 m.
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Deadpool is a 2016 American superhero film directed by Tim Miller, in his directorial debut, and written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. Based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name and distributed by 20th Century Fox, it is a spin-off of the X-Men film series and its overall eighth installment.
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Timothy James Walz ( WAWLZ; born April 6, 1964) is an American politician, former U.S. Army non-commissioned officer, and retired educator who has served since 2019 as the 41st governor of Minnesota. A member of the Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), he was a member of the United States House of Representatives representing Minnesota's 1st congressional district from 2007 to 2019.
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2024 United States presidential election
The 2024 United States presidential election will be the 60th quadrennial presidential election, set to be held on Tuesday, November 5, 2024. Voters in each state and the District of Columbia will choose a slate of electors to the U.S. Electoral College, who will then elect a president and vice president for a term of four years.
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Volleyball at the 2024 Summer Olympics
The volleyball tournaments at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris are held from 27 July to 11 August 2024. 24 volleyball teams and 48 beach volleyball teams participate in the tournament. Indoor volleyball competitions occur at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles with the beach volleyball tournament staged at the Eiffel Tower Stadium in Champ de Mars.
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Inside Out 2 is a 2024 American animated coming-of-age film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. The sequel to Inside Out (2015), it was directed by Kelsey Mann (in his feature directorial debut) and produced by Mark Nielsen, from a screenplay written by Meg LeFauve and Dave Holstein, and a story conceived by Mann and LeFauve.
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Blake Ellender Lively (born August 25, 1987) is an American actress. Born in Los Angeles, Lively is the daughter of actor Ernie Lively, and made her professional debut in his directorial project Sandman (1998). She had her breakthrough playing Bridget Vreeland in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005) and its 2008 sequel, to commercial success.
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Joseph Mathias Kovacs (born June 28, 1989) is an American track and field athlete who competes in the shot put and has a personal record of 23. 23 meters outdoors and 22. 05 meters indoors. He won gold medals at the 2015 and 2019 World Championships. He won silver medals at the 2017 World Championships, 2016, 2020 and 2024 Summer Olympics.
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Mokgadi Caster Semenya OIB (born 7 January 1991) is a South African middle-distance runner and winner of two Olympic gold medals and three World Championships in the women's 800 metres. She first won gold at the World Championships in 2009 and went on to win at the 2016 Olympics and the 2017 World Championships, where she also won a bronze medal in the 1500 metres.
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Archery at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's individual
The women's individual archery event is one of five archery events at the 2024 Summer Olympics. It is being held at Les Invalides. There are 64 competitors from 40 nations, with nations having either 1 or 3 archers.
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Aerosmith is an American rock band formed in Boston in 1970. The group consists of Steven Tyler (vocals), Joe Perry (guitar), Tom Hamilton (bass), Joey Kramer (drums), and Brad Whitford (guitar). Their style, which is rooted in blues-based hard rock, has also incorporated elements of pop rock, heavy metal, glam metal, and rhythm and blues, and has inspired many subsequent rock artists.
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United States at the 2024 Summer Olympics
The United States of America (USA), represented by the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC), is competing at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from July 26 to August 11, 2024.
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Longlegs is a 2024 American horror thriller film written and directed by Osgood Perkins. It stars Maika Monroe and Nicolas Cage, who also produced the film through his Saturn Films production company. The cast also features Blair Underwood, Alicia Witt, Michelle Choi-Lee, Dakota Daulby, and Kiernan Shipka in supporting roles.
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Kalki 2898 AD (pronounced [kə. l. kɪ]) is a 2024 Indian Telugu-language epic science fiction film directed by Nag Ashwin and produced by Vyjayanthi Movies. The film stars Amitabh Bachchan, Kamal Haasan, Prabhas, Deepika Padukone and Disha Patani. Inspired by Hindu scriptures, it is the first installment in a planned Kalki Cinematic Universe.
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XY complete gonadal dysgenesis, also known as Swyer syndrome, is a type of defect hypogonadism in a person whose karyotype is 46,XY. Though they typically have normal vulvas, the person has underdeveloped gonads, fibrous tissue termed "streak gonads", and if left untreated, will not experience puberty.
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Shyamala Gopalan (December 7, 1938 – February 11, 2009) was a biomedical scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, whose work in isolating and characterizing the progesterone receptor gene has stimulated advances in breast biology and oncology. She was the mother of Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris and Maya Harris, a lawyer and political commentator.
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Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon (born 27 November 1982), better known as Tommy Robinson, is a British anti-Islam campaigner and activist. He was a political advisor to former UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader Gerard Batten, and is one of the UK's most prominent far-right activists. Robinson has been active in far-right politics for many years.
