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Emma Heming Willis turned 50-years-old in June and opened up about the tough decision to have a gathering with loved ones amid caring for her 71-year-old acting legend husband.

Smoke and flames could be seen across an Essex town as a large grass fire took hold near the marina.

Smoke and flames could be seen across an Essex town as a large grass fire took hold near the marina.

Kirill Basin, 40, was caught on camera fighting Kama Homan, 41, on Keawakapu Beach in Maui on Saturday after yelling and swearing at a group of bystanders.

Frequently visited by celebrities and billionaires, St George's Hill Lawn Tennis Club in Weybridge sits within a gated estate dubbed the UK's Beverley Hills.

Kansas Democrats nominated State Senator Cindy Holscher for governor after she defeated party-backed rival Ethan Corson. "The race became a test of what sort of candidate Democratic voters prefer in what is expected to be a challenging general election race: a more moderate candidate like Mr. Corson with endorsements from party leaders or an outspoken populist like Ms. Holscher, who spoke out against data centers and the political establishment," reports The New York Times. From the repot: Even in a national political environment that could favor Democrats, Republicans see the Kansas governorship as among their best opportunities for flipping a seat. President Trump carried Kansas by 16 percentage points in 2024, and Republicans hold supermajorities in the State Legislature. Voters in the Republican primary for governor nominated Ty Masterson, the president of the Kansas Senate and the recipient of Mr. Trump's endorsement, according to The A.P. Ms. Holscher, who is from suburban Kansas City, sought out a lane to Mr. Corson's political left and made inroads with some of the state's progressive voters. She emphasized her role in unwinding former Gov. Sam Brownback's tax policies and called for a moratorium on data centers. She also spoke against a final deal to lure the Kansas City Chiefs across the state line from Missouri. Ms. Holscher presented an implicit critique of Ms. Kelly's stewardship of Kansas, referring to Mr. Corson as part of a political establishment that was too cozy with corporations and out of touch with the party's voters. "I'm the only Democrat in this race to call for a moratorium on data centers because we have to get these guardrails in place," said Holscher in an interview. "We are having our people and our resources exploited."

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Reform UK chairman Lee Anderson was on the second day of leading his party's mini-break tour of migrant camps and beaches - and he was not happy.

Photos show a huge compost blaze that has sent thick smoke billowing across the Maldon district countryside.

Photos show a huge compost blaze that has sent thick smoke billowing across the Maldon district countryside.

Stunning footage has captured the moment a massive 'firenado' formed. The Pacific Northwest is battling dozens of wildfires, which have burned millions of acres.

The Kentucky Republican has not recorded a Senate vote since June 11.

Google is reshuffling its AI leadership as Demis Hassabis steps away from day-to-day management of DeepMind to become chairman and Alphabet's chief scientist, while CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu takes operational control. Meanwhile, longtime chief scientist Jeff Dean and several prominent researchers are leaving to launch their own company. Axios reports: Hassabis will add the title of chief scientist for Google parent company Alphabet and also continue to lead Isomorphic Labs, the company's AI drug discovery spinoff. Koray Kavukcuoglu, the current chief technology officer of Google DeepMind will serve as senior VP of the unit, reporting to CEO Sundar Pichai. Dean, a 27-year Google veteran is starting Discovery Loop, an independent publicity benefit corporation in which Google will be an investor and cloud provider. Joining him in that effort are Google senior fellow Sanjay Ghemawat as well as Oriol Vinyals, a DeepMind VP and Quoc Le, a Google Brain co-founder. [...] In an interview with The New York Times, Dean indicated that leaving Google, a public company, gives him more leeway to focus on scientific discoveries associated with AI as well. "We might make decisions that are not necessarily in the company's purist financial interests," he told NYT. "I've been working towards AGI my whole life and now, like many of you, I feel it is close at hand," Hassabis wrote. "It's critical that we collectively get the next steps right to ensure this all goes well for humanity and we usher in an incredible new age of discovery and wonder." "With this backdrop, I've decided that now is the right time for me to hand over my day-to-day operational responsibilities at GDM, so that I have the time and space to focus on the big picture and help influence what is to come to the best of my ability"

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In space, no one can hear you scream when the LLMs hallucinate

Matt Damon revealed that both he and Ben Affleck were broke after making the Oscar-winning film Good Will Hunting.

A huge blaze has broken out in in Loamy Hill Road in Tolleshunt Major, near Maldon in Essex as people are being told to avoid the area.

A huge blaze has broken out in in Loamy Hill Road in Tolleshunt Major, near Maldon in Essex as people are being told to avoid the area.

Joshua Bonehill-Paine had been selected to fight the Crewkerne South ward in Somerset for the Conservatives next May.

The private ambulance driven by Julie Ijere, 60, veered into the opposite lane and hit a car on December 19, 2023.

The Duchess of Sussex gave fans a glimpse into her £11million Montecito mansion yesterday as she danced around her newly redecorated kitchen to celebrate turning 45 yesterday.

The unverified footage, shared on X, shows the terrified serviceman crouched in what appears to be a dugout while a commander towers over him and repeatedly hits him with a sex toy.