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Monday, July 6

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George Clooney is returning to the Venice Film Festival this year, where he’ll be honored with a lifetime achievement award. The festival’s organizers said Monday that Clooney has been selected to receive the Golden Lion at the 83rd edition of the festival in September.

“I’ve had so many extraordinary moments in Venice. This festival is without question my favorite and to be given the Golden Lion is a tremendous honor,” Clooney said in a statement. “It also probably means I’m old, but I’ll take it.”

The star has indeed had many memorable appearances in Venice, and at the festival, including with Steven Soderbergh’s Elmore Leonard adaptation “Out of Sight,” in 1998, and his sophomore feature as a director, “Good Night, and Good Luck,” in 2005. Last year, he came with Noah Baumbach’s “Jay Kelly,” in which he plays a movie star experiencing an existential crisis in the lead-up to accepting a lifetime achievement award at an Italian film festival.

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Bill Hillmann has been gored three times while running with the bulls in Spain, but he wouldn’t miss this year’s San Fermin festival for anything.

It marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of Ernest Hemingway’s book “The Sun Also Rises” that launched the future Nobel Laureate to literary fame and put Pamplona on the map for millions of people around the world.

On Monday, the festival kicked off with a firework blast over a jam-packed plaza. The first of eight bull runs is on Tuesday.

The wedding between your English teacher and your gym teacher may actually be studied in an Ivy League college class.

Stephanie Burt, an English professor at Harvard University in Massachusetts, has previously gone viral for her popular 200-person lecture class in which students analyzed Taylor Swift’s songwriting and art. With Swift’s recent wedding marking a major milestone in the musician’s life, Burt shares with TODAY.com some thoughts on the elements from the big day that will likely make it into some future lessons.

“How and how often it comes up is going to depend on whether she writes a bunch of songs about it,” Burt says of incorporating the topic of Swift’s July 3 wedding at Madison Square Garden into her teachings. “Of course, there are weddings all over her music, and we’ll talk about her wedding in the context of the weddings envisioned in her music.”

For days, details surrounding the wedding between Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce remained hidden behind a veil of mystery. But now that the lovers’ matrimony has been officially confirmed by their camp, guests are opening up about the event.

Guests, including musicians, directors and more, have started to share their impressions of the nuptials on social media. Two people who were at the star-studded bash exclusively shared with NBC News details on how the extraordinary July 3 night at New York’s Madison Square Garden unfolded — and it certainly sounds as fantastical as many had predicted.

The entire wedding, the guests said, was a “pinch me moment.”

What started with a friendship bracelet has resulted in wedding rings. Taylor Swift, the pop superstar, and Travis Kelce, the football champion, have officially tied the knot.

The couple, both 36, were married Friday at Madison Square Garden, according to Swift’s publicist. The news was announced to the public with the marquee outside the Midtown Manhattan arena reading “JUST&T MARRIED.”

It is the latest chapter in the couple’s love story, one that has spanned three years, two Super Bowls, an album announcement and the highest-grossing tour of all time.