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NEW YORK — (AP) — Water.org announced a $1 billion plan Tuesday to help 100 million people in Africa, Asia and Latin America get lasting access to water and sanitation. It was the day’s largest proposal at the conference, which convened world leaders from politics, business and philanthropy for the first time since 2016. And it showed how the conference encourages nonprofits to take on increasingly ambitious projects to tackle the world’s toughest problems. The additional funding would be used to bring its community-building work to between three and five more countries. Dr. David Fajgenbaum's new nonprofit Every Cure hopes to match generic drugs with rare diseases that currently have no treatment.

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NEW YORK — (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton is calling on governments, businesses, philanthropies and other prominent institutions to draw together and help a world that is “on fire" as he reconvenes the Clinton Global Initiative, the meeting of international leaders, for the first time since 2016. Clinton, president of the United States from 1993 to 2001, said he has been amazed by the massive response. “The world’s on fire in a lot of different ways,” he told The Associated Press in an interview. “I think there is a longing for people to get together and meet with an end in mind,” Clinton said. Bill Clinton said the initiative is counting on the special energy of its participants to tackle a growing number of issues.

President Bill Clinton says he is amazed by the massive response to the return of the Clinton Global Initiative.

Former President Bill Clinton is calling on governments, businesses, philanthropies and other prominent institutions to draw together and help a world that is “on fire" as he reconvenes the Clinton Global Initiative, the meeting of international leaders, for the first time since 2016. Interest in the two-day meeting has been so intense that the Clinton Foundation had to turn away more than 1,000 potential attendees. It is convening a spectrum of luminaries, including Jordan’s Queen Rania Al Abdullah, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai and actor and water access activist Matt Damon.

The suit comes at a difficult time for the platform.

The majority of Americans remain immune to the industry’s sales pitches, Pew survey finds.

Massive amounts of rainfall in the Southwest caused major flooding over the weekend, affecting residents in Fort Worth, Texas, and Moab, Utah.

RICEBORO, Ga. — A month after tying the knot in Las Vegas, Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck celebrated their wedding with a ceremony in Georgia attended by family and friends. Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck Celebrate Wedding in Georgia Ceremony with Friends and Family https://t.co/egt3WHb0eQ — People (@people) August 21, 2022Affleck, Smith and Mewes starred in “Clerks” together, according to Fox News. Expand Autoplay Image 1 of 32 Photos: Jennifer Lopez through the years Here are some memorable photos of singer and actress Jennifer Lopez through the years. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)Expand Autoplay Image 1 of 10 Photos: Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck through the years 2002: Actor Ben Affleck rides a horse carriage with co-star Jennifer Lopez during the filming of "Jersey Girl" November 7, 2002, in New York City. (Arnaldo Magnani/Getty Images)Expand Autoplay Image 1 of 27 Photos: Ben Affleck through the years Here are some memorable photos of actor Ben Affleck through the years.

World Central Kitchen founder Jose Andres, Jordan’s Queen Rania, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink and “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda will help relaunch the Clinton Global Initiative in September.

Even Larry David jumped on the crypto bandwagon with an ad for crypto-exchange platform FTX that aired during the Super Bowl.

The Oscar-winning actor, producer and screenwriter co-founded nonprofit Water.org in 2009.

The judge President Joe Biden has chosen to fulfill his historic pledge to name the first Black woman to the Supreme Court would also bring rare experience of defending poor people charged with crimes.

When Ketanji Brown Jackson’s younger daughter was 11, she drafted a letter to President Barack Obama suggesting her federal-judge mom for a vacancy on the Supreme Court.

Matt Damon has some big-name endorsers for a book he'll have out March 1 about access to safe water.

The Grammys will stick to its word with the public release of the full inclusion rider to ensure equity and inclusion in hiring on all levels of production for next year’s ceremony.

“Halloween Kills” may be available to watch at home, but the latest installment in the Michael Myers saga is making a killing at the North American box office in its first weekend in theaters.

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Ridley Scott’s masterly new film tells a familiar story—and then unravels it.

After weeks of smooching on yachts and holding hands on intimate walks, Jennifer Lopez and old flame turned new again Ben Affleck made it official Friday night.

Without Ben Affleck, Hollywood may have never had Matt DamonBen Affleck and Matt Damon are childhood friends, having lived just two blocks away from each other. Affleck was already a child star in the business at the time, ultimately leading to Affleck introducing his New York agent to Matt Damon. Charlie Sheen personally drove Ben Affleck to rehabBack in 2001, Ben Affleck spent time in rehab. Ben Affleck and Matt Damon were extras in Field of Dreams9. Ben Affleck is named after a Holocaust survivorRead more here.

Moviegoing, once expected to be closer to semi-normal levels by now, continues to be battered by the pandemic, the delta variant of the coronavirus and in-home streaming.

Two Indigenous filmmakers are smashing the caricatures and stereotypes of Native Americans, who are often portrayed in TV and films as bloodthirsty killers standing in the way of white, westward expansion.

Playing Mars This photo provided by ICON and NASA in August 2021 shows a proposal for the Mars Dune Alpha habitat on Mars. To prepare for eventually sending astronauts to Mars, NASA began taking applications Friday for four people to live for a year in Mars Dune Alpha. That's a 1,700-square-foot Martian habitat, created by a 3D-printer, and inside a building at Johnson Space Center in Houston. Food will all be ready-to-eat space food and at the moment there are no windows planned. Past Russian efforts at a pretend Mars mission called Mars 500 didn't end well partly because the people were too much like everyday people, he said.

Help wanted: NASA is looking for people to spend a year pretending they are isolated on Mars.

The Grammy Awards are taking an important step toward making the annual show more diverse.

Damon says he used the slur until some "months ago."

Despite growing concerns over the delta variant, “Jungle Cruise” still drew moviegoers out to theaters during the film’s opening weekend to sail atop the North American box office.

The director Tom McCarthy is known for subtle, well-acted character dramas that take surprising narrative turns. His latest film is no exception.

Amanda Knox is speaking out about her name being associated with the new film “Stillwater,” saying any connection rips off “my story without my consent at the expense of my reputation.”.

Damon said he didn't know Cottin before co-starring with her in the new film, but he had high praises for the actress after working with her.

The Venice International Film Festival unveiled a starry lineup of world premieres for September — including Pablo Larrain’s “Spencer,” starring Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana, and Ridley Scott’s medieval drama “The Last Duel,” featuring Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Adam Driver. The oldest film festival in the world is kicking off its 78th edition Sept. 1 on the Lido with the premiere of Pedro Almodóvar's "Madres paralelas," starring Penelope Cruz. Campion's film, about brothers in 1920s Montana, is another competition title, and one of two Netflix films debuting at the festival. Last year, Chloe Zhao's "Nomadland" premiered at the scaled-down but still in-person festival and was awarded the Golden Lion. Following on the heels of the Cannes Film Festival, the Venice Film Festival is expected to mostly return to its full glamour in September.

The Venice Film Festival has unveiled a starry lineup of world premieres for September including Pablo Larrain’s “Spencer,” starring Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana and Ridley Scott’s medieval drama “The Last Duel,” featuring Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Adam Driver.

The Academy Award-winner is back, starring in the new drama about an Oklahoma oil rig worker whose daughter is imprisoned in France.

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Preview: The star of "Stillwater" tells "CBS Sunday Morning" the COVID-19 lockdown taught him that the social connections we make are "so vital to our lives and what being human is."

France Cannes 2021 Stillwater Portraits Director Tom McCarthy, left, and Matt Damon pose for portrait photographs for the film 'Stillwater', at the 74th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Sunday, July 11, 2021. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP) (Vianney Le Caer)CANNES, France — (AP) — The set-up of Tom McCarthy's "Stillwater" sounds very Liam Neeson. McCarthy, the director of “Spotlight,” “Win Win” and “The Station Agent,” had long pursued Damon for one of his movies. In “Stillwater,” he knew audiences would come in expecting Damon as a quintessentially American hero. Before shooting the movie, Damon and McCarthy took a pre-production trip to Oklahoma for, as McCarthy says, “three days in a truck and a lot of barbeque” to get a sense of the region’s character.

The set-up of Tom McCarthy's “Stillwater” sounds very Liam Neeson.

The pandemic is far from invisible at Cannes.

On Tuesday, the Cannes Film Festival will reopen.

This week’s new entertainment releases include documentaries about celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck and another on a landmark 1969 Harlem concert series known as “Black Woodstock” that featured Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder, Sly and the Family Stone.

“The Midnight Sky,” which Clooney directed and stars in, is an apocalyptic sci-fi drama with some striking solitude. Debuting Wednesday on Netflix, “The Midnight Sky,” based on Lily Brooks-Dalton's novel “Good Morning, Midnight," is Clooney's seventh film as director and his biggest scaled production yet. ___AP: You finished shooting “The Midnight Sky” in February, right before the pandemic began. AP: What drew you to “The Midnight Sky”? I know people who are older -- older than me, even -- who live with real regret.

( (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. – This is no ordinary road to the Masters. Four of the top five players in the world are at Shadow Creek, with top-ranked Dustin Johnson pulling out after his positive test for the coronavirus. Rory McIlroy thinks Shadow Creek might be even better than what Florida offers because of the bentgrass greens that are fast with big slopes. “It's not a bad place to prepare for Augusta,” McIlroy said Wednesday. McIlroy is at Shadow Creek and Sherwood the next two weeks.

click to enlarge Disappointed photo of Matt Damon via UniversalThe Bourne Stuntacular will follow the character of Jason Bourne around the globe as sinister characters pursue him. Everything fans have come to expect from the action-packed Bourne film franchise thrilling chase scenes, punishing fistfights, death-defying leaps and danger at every turn will happen right in front of guests with live performers, high-tech props and an immense LED screen, making it impossible to discern where the live action ends and the cinema begins. A few days after prematurely leaking the info to the Annual Passholder website, Universal Orlando has now confirmed that a new Jason Bourne-themed stunt show is coming in spring of 2020.Based on the popular Matt Damon-anchored Universal Pictures franchise, The Bourne Stuntacular will blur the lines between stage and cinema says the theme park in a Tuesday morning press release.From Universal:Not a lot of other details were released by Universal, but its worth remembering that this announcement has been over a year in the making.Rumors have been circulating for some time that the replacement to Terminator 2: 3D will either be Bourne or Bond.Well, now its confirmed.

Nicki Minaj tweets she's retiring to have a family, big movies get more inclusive, and Matt Damon eyes the 2021 Oscars.

The highly anticipated "Jason Bourne" movie starring Matt Damon is just one of a slew of big ticket blockbusters that have been released over the past seven months. But what about those smaller and independent films that don't get as much hype as their bigger-budgeted cousins and -- more often than not -- get lost in the shuffle? Fandango managing editor Erik Davis joins "CBS This Morning: Saturday" to share some very good films you may have missed.

Actor Matt Damon took a clever jab at Donald Trump during a commencement speech he delivered to MIT graduates. CBSN's Elaine Quijano has the details.

In this weekend's box office hit, Matt Damon plays an astronaut stranded on Mars after his crew is hit by a sandstorm. But is the drama realistic about science? Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History, joins "CBS This Morning" to discuss what the movie got right and wrong.

The summer movie season is fading away. Fall’s most anticipated blockbusters range from the film adaptation of best-selling novel “The Martian” starring Matt Damon, to the Whitey Bulger true-life crime drama “Black Mass” starring Johnny Depp. Movie critic Matt Singer joins “CBS This Morning: Saturday” with his list of must-sees.

The upcoming film "The Martian" stars Matt Damon as an astronaut living on Mars. The depiction of life on the Red Planet is drawing praise from NASA for its accuracy. CBS News correspondent Jim Axelrod reports.

A 3-year-old boy was among 12 Syrians found drowned Wednesday near Turkey's shores; The upcoming film "The Martian" stars Matt Damon as an astronaut living on Mars.

Getting to know Minnie Driver "Good Will Hunting" was a breakout film in 1997, launching the careers of Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Minnie Driver, who was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance. Anna Werner catches up with this very unique actor, to talk about her life and her quest for that next unusual role.

Hollywood stars examine climate change in new Showtime documentary “Years of Living Dangerously,” a new documentary series about the environment featuring Hollywood heavyweights like Matt Damon, Harrison Ford and Arnold Schwarzenegger is set to premiere on Showtime. Dr. M. Sanjayan, the senior scientist at Conservation International and correspondent for the series, joins “CBS This Morning: Saturday” to discuss the politically charged topic.