Beyoncé‘s Cowboy Carter Tour really went out with a bang!
To celebrate the final show of the music icon’s latest global tour at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on Saturday night, Beyoncé reunited with her former band members, Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams, for the first time in several years for a surprise Destiny’s Child performance.
In fan videos posted on social media from the concert (below), the trio could be seen sporting coordinated gold-sparkly outfits. As the crowd went wild and could be heard screaming, the group strutted down the stage, singing a mashup of some of their biggest hits, including “Lose My Breath” and “Bootylicious.”
At one point, Beyoncé also did her famous mute challenge with Rowland and Williams during her song “Energy” from her 2022 album Renaissance.
The following morning, they all took to their respective social media accounts to commemorate the night, sharing photos from the performance. Rowland added three red heart emojis in her caption, while Williams wrote, The Chil’ren!” The latter also added in the comments, “We’ll tell y’all next time!! SIKE!!”
A Destiny’s Child reunion wasn’t the only surprise Beyoncé had for her Beyhive on Saturday. She also brought out her husband, Jay-Z, as well as Shaboozey at different times throughout the night.
The “Texas Hold ‘Em” singer has been performing across the globe since April for her Cowboy Carter Tour, in support of her Grammy-winning album of the same name. She started with several shows in Los Angeles before heading to Chicago, New Jersey, London, Paris, Houston, Washington, D.C., Atlanta and Las Vegas.
P7 might not sound like a huge result for a seven-time World Champion, but when you’re reminded that Lewis Hamilton started 18th and in the pit lane at Spa, after a miserable qualifying performance, your Driver of the Day decision makes total sense. No one made up more places in a wet-dry Belgian Grand Prix than the Ferrari star, who pulled off countless passes in the treacherous conditions of the opening laps. Here’s how the voting broke down…
Lewis Hamilton – 38.8% Oscar Piastri – 10.6% Charles Leclerc – 9.6% Lando Norris – 6.7% Alex Albon – 6.3%
The lowest M4 MacBook Air price is in effect now, as Amazon slashes M4 models to $799.
Back-to-school deals on MacBooks are in full gear, and Amazon is pulling out all the stops with its $799 M4 13-inch promo.
Save $200 at Amazon
Bargain hunters can pick up the 13-inch laptop with Apple’s M4 8-core GPU chip, 16GB of unified memory, and 256GB of storage at $200 off in all four colorways.
And if you need extra screen real estate, Amazon has an equally aggressive discount on the 15-inch MacBook Air. Also $200 off, the 2025 models start at just $999. Here’s a rundown of the best offers from the sale:
Megan McKenna gets honest about Simon Cowell’s devastating phone call
Megan McKenna has recently opened up about Simon Cowell’s call that was devastating for her.
The former reality star, who won the X Factor in 2019, was awarded a record deal by music mogul Simon.
However, it was announced later that Syco Music would no longer be operational and artists would have to “find a new home”.
Megan recounted Simon called her personally to break the news about the record label in a new interview with The Mirror.
“The label shut down after I won, so it was pretty hard. It was tough because I’d worked so, so hard. But Simon and I had a nice relationship,” said the 32-year-old.
Megan mentioned that Simon actually rang me, “which was crazy, because it’s not every day Simon rings you to say that the label was closing down”.
Celebrity Big Brother star added that Simon “was really nice about it and said, ‘I’m sorry, but you need to find a new home’”.
“But it’s not an easy thing to do,” she admitted.
Meanwhile, Megan, who shares a nine-month-old son with husband Oliver Burke, didn’t sign any other music label, rather she released her new music independently back in 2022.
Beyoncé capped off her Cowboy Carter Tour with a bang in Las Vegas, using the farewell show Saturday night as a chance to feature a starry lineup of surprise guests.
The “Texas Hold ‘Em” singer reunited Destiny’s Child during the concert at Allegiant Stadium, with Michelle Wiliams and Kelly Rowland joining Beyoncé on stage to perform a medley of the group’s biggest hits, according to video footage posted to social media.
The trio wore all gold ensembles when they stomped out on stage to sing their opening number of “Lose my Breath” to an excited audience, one video showed.
“Destiny’s Child, b**ch!” Beyoncé said on stage before they began to sing.
Rowland and Williams then helped Beyoncé sing her “Renaissance” track “Energy,” where they did the “mute challenge.” The trio performed their 2001 mega hit “Bootylicious” to close out the reunion, another video showed.
The last time Destiny’s Child reunited on stage was during Beyoncé’s 2018 Coachella performance.
Beyoncé also enlisted her husband, rapper Jay-Z, to be part of her final show of the tour, performing their joint track “Crazy in Love.” Jay-Z has made several surprise appearances to perform the song with his wife throughout the Cowboy Carter tour.
And as if that wasn’t enough star power, country star Shaboozey made a surprise appearance to perform his verse in “Sweet Honey Buckiin,’” a track they collaborated on for Beyoncé’s Grammy Award-winning “Cowboy Carter” album.
The Cowboy Carter tour kicked off in April, bringing Beyoncé all over the country and abroad.
At the very end of the show, Beyoncé’s 13-year-old daughter Blue Ivy, who has been a featured backup dancer throughout the tour, joined her on stage to say goodbye to the audience one last time.
Google is moving towards inputting even more AI technology into its search engine backend. The company has already pushed out AI Overviews, which are meant to provide a summarized answer to any queries you enter, while also offering easy access to the sources it pulled the information from. These appear at the top of almost every search entry made today.
Then, there’s AI Mode, which allows you to talk to Google Search like it’s a full-on AI chatbot more akin to ChatGPT or Claude. While both of these systems have seen their fair share of successes and issues, the big tech company continues to look for new ways to integrate AI directly into search. This time, it appears that Google is coming directly for search results themselves.
In its latest experiment, instead of just ranking the results based on a myriad of other completely unknown factors, which are usually chalked up to “SEO” and “the algorithm,” Google is now testing a new type of search engine sorting called “Web Guide.”
Google’s guide to the internet
Because Web Guide is an experimental feature, Google requires users to opt-in before they can use it. You can opt-in from the Google Labs website, where you’ll then be able to take part in the experiment and see how Google ranks your search results for you.
Google itself suggests trying more open-ended search queries in Search with Web Guide. Google used “how to solo travel in Japan” as an example of how to try it out. A video that the company shared in its blog post shows various options you can click on, as well as some standard AI-generated summaries and headlines. Ars Technica describes it as a mix between standard search and AI Mode, and I have to agree. It really does look like Google has mashed the two features together to try to make something new.
Google says that Web Guide utilizes a custom version of Gemini to “group web links in helpful ways” by bringing pages together that relate to specific aspects of your search query. When enabled, Web Guide replaces the typical “Web” tab that appears in Google. For a while this has been the only way to search Google without using AI, but it appears that option could vanish soon, too. Even if enabled, Web Guide can be toggled on and off in your Google Search settings. So, if you’re interested in letting Google guide how you see the web even more, you can give it a try today.
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains major spoilers for “The Fantastic Four: First Steps,” now playing in theaters.
You’ll have to forgive Vanessa Kirby if she’s a little tired. After all, she just finished saving humanity from a world-devouring cosmic villain as Sue Storm in “The Fantastic Four: First Steps,” has been hard at work filming “Avengers: Doomsday” and embarked on a global press tour alongside fellow heroes Pedro Pascal, Joseph Quinn and Ebon Ebon Moss-Bachrach. Oh, and she’s done it all while pregnant with her first child.
“I’m lying flat today! I can’t believe I’ve actually managed to like lie flat during the daytime. I haven’t known that for a long time,” she excitedly says over the phone. “I’m lying in bed talking to you!”
Kirby, who rose to fame for her BAFTA-winning performance as Princess Margaret in “The Crown” before her Oscar-nominated turn in “Pieces of a Woman,” isn’t letting the craziness of the Marvel machine dull her gratitude for the opportunity to shed new light on the Invisible Woman.
“It certainly taught me about motherhood, and my own motherhood journey. That can’t be a coincidence,” she tells Variety on the day of the film’s release, finally able to unpack the scope of Sue’s journey through the film.
“Fantastic Four” opens with the revelation that Sue is pregnant, and follows the heroic astronaut and her husband Reed Richards as they question if their son will be born with any abnormalities due to their own intergalactic abilities. When Galactus and his herald, Shalla-Bal, express their intent to to devour the earth, Sue and her team travel to space and attempt to change his mind. She eventually gives birth to her son Franklin, and refuses to offer him up as a bargaining chip. When Galactus descends upon earth, she exerts her full powers in an effort to save Franklin, ultimately sacrificing herself — until the infant manages to revive her.
Below, Kirby unpacks Sue’s most pivotal moments in the film, from her “primal” birth scene in space to the moment she lays everything on the line to protect her son.
Invisible characters are often portrayed as meek and shy. I was so glad to see that wasn’t the case with Sue – she’s powerful, capable and is immediately established as a leader both within the group and with the public. Was that a key factor that drew you to her?
Yes, definitely. And it’s a testament to Matt Shakman’s vision for her, and wanting to be faithful to the comics. It was such a pleasure to go back and read Sue from 1961. It always felt like, “How can we be as true to what these incredible artists have imagined over the years?” She always felt like a total mixture of so many things: obviously, deeply maternal and deeply loving and incredibly steady, but also fierce.
In a way, it taught me so much about motherhood, because that’s what motherhood is. It’s not a passive thing. To give birth, you have to be completely, totally fierce. I’m so happy that you feel that. That’s so moving to me, and all I could have hoped for her.
You brought up giving birth, and of course, this film features a memorable scene in which Sue goes into labor in space. What did you think when you first read that in the script, and how did you approach that scene?
I remember reading that going, “This is so cool that, at the midpoint of the movie, it centers this woman giving birth, and these three kind and loving men supporting her as she’s doing it.” It was so cool to see that a superhero was doing something so primal and so utterly human. I was most excited for that bit. I also did a birth in this this little movie called “Pieces of a Woman.” I was so excited to be asked to do it again, and I also wanted to make it different. And then, of course, we were doing it in zero gravity, so that’s its own challenge.
The courage to put this very primal feminine act — and what it represents that it’s happening intergalactically while they’re in space — there’s something very metaphorical about it. We had an amazing couple of weeks shooting that sequence in that spaceship. I loved every minute. I lost my voice by the end. You only see a few shots in there, but we did hundreds, just roaring the whole time. I think the crew had to get earplugs by the end. It was a very beautiful thing to shoot. I felt so supported by those actors.
And it gave us an iconic moment of The Thing cutting the umbilical cord, and holding the baby so gently in his giant hands.
It was so moving. It was important to us to have this baby at the center of this family, and for these men being uncles and a father. This baby really is at the heart of the story, and there’s something about this new life that they’re protecting. They’re not just protecting the world. It’s about what this new consciousness represents.
When shooting with Franklin, how often was it a real baby versus movie magic?
100% of the film was shot with a real baby. Our lead baby, Ada, a little girl, was just heaven. We had lots of other babies who were acting with us and helping us. We got really attached to them, and they were so part of our journey. It almost became weird if they weren’t there.
Also, it’s challenging. The speech that Sue has was a night shoot. It was really late and we were shooting in winter in London, and all the babies cried at exactly the same line. I thought, “Am I delivering something so bad that they’re crying at the same moment?” Babies are the most natural actors in the world.
The beautiful bond Sue shares with Franklin is ultimately what propels her to save the world – she’s willing to give up her life to defeat Galactus and protect her son. What was it like filming that scene and evoking such a physically exhausting task for her?
It was so helpful to know that it was a mother’s rage, and a mother’s love, because it felt animal. I wanted it to feel more primal, rather than just, “I’m trying to defeat this enemy for everybody.” It’s more like, “I’m fighting to save my child.” I wanted to tap into how fierce the feminine is, while knowing that Sue also embodies a very soft femininity as well.
Sometimes action females can feel invincible. We don’t see the softer sides of them. For Sue, undeniably, since the ’60s, she felt like this maternal force. I think for all of us and Matt Shakman, it was asking the question of what the maternal feminine is really like. I really hope women like the film, because that’s what I responded to Sue about in the comics so deeply.
In many ways, the film feels like a love letter to motherhood. Sue delivers a powerful monologue about moving heaven and earth for her son, and it’s what reminds the world of their humanity.
That’s such a beautiful way to put it. I’m so touched. I really noticed my own apprehensions about playing a pregnant mother, superhero, wife and sister. We were so conscious of trying not to fall into any tropes. It’s not like Sue had to be so tough that she couldn’t also be very gentle. Mothers are honestly warriors, everyday superheroes. We all know that, because we all come from one.
You’re the only member of the Fantastic Four who appears in the mid-credits scene. It was directed by the Russo Brothers during “Avengers: Doomsday” filming and notably features our first glimpse at Doctor Doom – but we don’t see his face. Was that really Robert Downey Jr. on set with you?
Yeah! Robert’s never not been on set. He’s always there. He is our leader. We call him our Godfather. He’s looked after us. It’s such a joy working with the Russos and him, because they’ve had such deep collaboration for so long.
And it’s been amazing being pregnant and working on “Avengers.” I felt so inspired and so relieved that I’ve been so taken care of. It’s been a really beautiful journey. Robert is just doing incredible work. I’m so excited.
You’ve spoken before about being drawn to Sue’s Malice incarnation. Is that something you’re itching to show in the MCU?
Itching! I’m dying to do Malice. She’s come from a really tough background. She lost her mother in a car crash. Her dad tried to save her mother. He couldn’t. He then spiraled, became an alcoholic, got locked up in prison for murdering a loan shark, and then died. Sue had to become a mother to Johnny. They were orphans. They had to fight for themselves. What I loved about her was that she chose a path that was inherently a positive one. She chose to keep her heart open and to stay warm. The Future Foundation, for me, wasn’t a noble political act, but it seemed to me that it’s Sue’s nature.
There was a line within a scene that isn’t in it anymore with Mole Man – who I absolutely love. I’m so excited that we might get to do more with him if we get to do any more of this, because Paul [Walter Hauser] is amazing. But in it, she said something like, “I could give you an aneurysm if I wanted to in two seconds.” In the comics, Sue uses that threat quite a lot: “I could put a force field in your brain and give you an aneurysm. I could put an air bubble inside of you and kill you in an instant.” These powers are also really lethal and really dangerous. But these four have chosen to unite the global community and be a force for good. But they could also choose to be a force for bad. I love the concept of choice, not just, “Oh, we’re superheroes, that’s who we are.”
She’s made this decision, but at her fingertips, she could be lethal. It felt so real to me that somebody that’s trying to be a force for good also has the capacity, like we all do, for the light and the dark.
(Laughs) I’m sorry, I’m such a Sue nerd. There was something so allegorical about her. She was called Invisible Girl. Then Psycho-Man comes and disrupts everything, and she has a meeting with her own dark side in Malice. She comes back, and she renames herself Invisible Woman. So she transforms from a girl to a woman. There’s something about meeting the hardest parts of yourself in Malice that felt extremely poignant to me. I’m really hopeful I might be allowed to be Malice at some point for her.
The addition of immunotherapy before surgery and combinations with a pembrolizumab (Keytruda) backbone may enhance treatment for patients with kidney cancer in the adjuvant and neoadjuvant settings, according to David A. Braun, MD, PhD.
Braun, assistant professor at Yale School of Medicine and principal investigator in the Center of Molecular and Cellular Oncology within the Yale Cancer Center, discussed the current state of adjuvant and neoadjuvant therapies in treating patients with kidney cancer, as well as research initiatives and clinical trials that may facilitate advancements in these settings. CancerNetwork® spoke with Braun following a presentation he gave at the 2025 Kidney Cancer Research Summit.
He began by contextualizing the current landscape of adjuvant therapy for this patient population. Braun explained that the introduction of pembrolizumab (Keytruda) in the adjuvant setting was a “game-changer,” but expressed that more could be done for this patient group.
To that end, Braun highlighted an emerging strategy where immunotherapy is administered before and after surgery, citing success in other diseases such as melanoma. Furthermore, Braun suggested that pembrolizumab could be added to combination therapies to bolster its efficacy, citing ongoing trials such as the phase 2 INTerpath-004 trial (NCT06307431) evaluating pembrolizumab with a vaccine-based approach and the phase 3 STRIKE trial (NCT06661720) evaluating the agent with tivozanib (Fotivda) as studies that will explore this area of interest.1,2
Transcript
To give a bit of context, we had a prolonged period [spanning] tens of thousands of patients and decades of work in the adjuvant setting that were unfortunately unsuccessful, that didn’t help patients to live longer and significantly delay the recurrence of their cancer. The introduction of adjuvant pembrolizumab has been a game-changer in that domain. [It was] the first to really show benefit.
But as I speak to my patients about it, it’s still far from a home run. Clearly, patients had benefit from it, but there’s also many patients who do not. It’s hopefully an inflection point. It’s the idea that we can bend the curve, that we can decrease the chance of kidney cancer coming back, but it’s far from the end goal. We need to build on that, and I think there’s multiple ways to do that.
One is this idea of not just doing immunotherapy after surgery in the adjuvant setting, but before surgery as well, where there’s maybe more targets or antigens present, where there’s more functional immune cells. We have seen this take off in other diseases such as melanoma, where the idea of a substantial period of neoadjuvant therapy having quite substantial benefits, and I think that’s an area that needs to be investigated within kidney cancer.
The second is building on the success of pembrolizumab. What else can we add to it that might make it more efficacious? What might further augment immunity through something like a vaccine-based approach, and that’s the INTerpath-004 study that we’re helping to lead that builds on checkpoint inhibition and adds that steering wheel of a vaccine. Also, other approaches like [the STRIKE trial], the Alliance trial led by Bradley A. McGregor, MD, that asks, “Can you eliminate angiogenic clones with the addition of tivozanib in a short term but intensified period?” Those are the studies that are really going to build up. Of course, the addition of belzutifan [Welireg] is something that represents new mechanisms of action, and [I am] excited to see all of those results in the coming years.
References
A study of adjuvant intismeran autogene (V940) and pembrolizumab in renal cell carcinoma (V940-004). (INTerpath-004). ClinicalTrials.gov. Updated May 13, 2025. Accessed July 21, 2025. https://tinyurl.com/2fdpnyhz
Testing the addition of the anti-cancer drug tivozanib to immunotherapy (pembrolizumab) after surgery to remove all known sites of kidney cancer (STRIKE). ClinicalTrials.gov. Updated June 26, 2025. Accessed July 21, 2025. https://tinyurl.com/ymx8zdhu
Malnutrition is on a dangerous trajectory in the Gaza Strip, marked by a spike in deaths in July.
Of 74 malnutrition-related deaths in 2025, 63 occurred in July – including 24 children under five, a child over five, and 38 adults. Most of these people were declared dead on arrival at health facilities or died shortly after, their bodies showing clear signs of severe wasting.
The crisis remains entirely preventable. Deliberate blocking and delay of large-scale food, health, and humanitarian aid has cost many lives.
Nearly one in five children under five in Gaza City is now acutely malnourished, as reported by Nutrition Cluster partners. Global Acute Malnutrition (GAM), which measures the percentage of children aged 6–59 months suffering from acute malnutrition, has tripled since June, making it the worst-hit area in the Gaza Strip. In Khan Younis and the Middle Area, rates have doubled in less than one month. These figures are likely an underestimation due to the severe access and security constraints preventing many families from reaching health facilities.
So far in July, over 5000 children under five have already been admitted for outpatient treatment of malnutrition in just the first two weeks, 18% of them with Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM), the most life-threatening form. This continues a significant rising trend since May, with 6500 children admitted for treatment in June, which is the highest number recorded since October 2023.
An additional 73 children with SAM and medical complications were hospitalized in July, compared to 39 in June, bringing total inpatient admissions in 2025 to 263. This surge in cases is overwhelming the only four specialized malnutrition treatment centres in the Gaza Strip, pushing an already fragile health system closer to collapse. All four centres are working beyond capacity, running low on fuel, with their supplies expected to run out by mid-next month. Health workers are exhausted, and the breakdown of water and sanitation systems is accelerating the spread of disease, driving a dangerous cycle of illness and death.
The crisis is taking a severe toll on pregnant and breastfeeding women. Recent Nutrition Cluster screening data shows that over 40% are severely malnourished. The situation is most critical in the Middle Area, where rates have tripled compared to June, and in Gaza City and Khan Younis, where they have doubled.
It is not only hunger that is killing people, but also the desperate search for food. Families are being forced to risk their lives for a handful of food, often under dangerous and chaotic conditions. Since 27 May, more than 1060 people have been killed and 7200 injured while trying to access food.
WHO calls for urgent, sustained efforts to flood the Gaza Strip with diverse, nutritious food, and to expedite the delivery of therapeutic supplies for children and vulnerable groups, as well as essential medicines and supplies. This flow must remain consistent and unhindered to support recovery and prevent further deterioration. WHO reiterates its call for the protection of civilians and health. WHO also calls for the release of our detained colleague, the release of hostages, and for an immediate ceasefire.