📽🍿Disney will soon lose the copyright to the original Mickey Mouse. Mickey Mouse first appeared in 1928 in the animated short film "Steamboat Willie" — the first animation film to use synchronized sound.

In the US, the copyright for original works of authorship lasts until the author's death plus 70 years. But for works created anonymously, pseudo-anonymously, or by an employee as part of their job, it lasts 95 years. Works published before 1978, like Mickey Mouse, only have copyright of 95 years from the date of publication.

While the first version of Mickey Mouse is nearing the end of its 95-year copyright protection, the mouse has had a few transformations since 1928, and subsequent versions of Mickey Mouse will still be protected until their 95 years run out.

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⚡️❤️The Marvel sequel “Thor: Love & Thunder” dropped a hefty 68% in its second weekend of release but still held the top spot at the box office, according to studio estimates Sunday. At the same time, the bestseller adaptation “Where the Crawdads Sing” debuted with a better-than-expected $17 million.

Taika Waititi’s “Love and Thunder” led all films with an estimated $46 million, bringing its two-week global total to $498 million. The sizable decline is more than most Marvel films but in line with recent releases from the Walt Disney Co. superhero studio, including “Spider-Man: No Way Home” (68%), “Black Widow” (68%), and “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” (67%).

“Love and Thunder” also faced a trio of newcomers, though none came close to toppling Chris Hemsworth’s god of thunder.

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🔲One person is dead, and another is hurt after a shooting involving off-duty police officers at the Wharf Southwest in Washington D.C. Saturday night, according to authorities.

Metropolitan Police Department Chief Robert Contee says two off-duty MPD officers were "enjoying the evening" in the 800 block of Wharf Street Saturday night when they noticed a person pull out a gun and begin pointing it. Chief Contee says the man was standing near a restaurant at the Wharf's pier.

The suspect was pronounced dead at the scene. The gunfire also grazed another person nearby, causing them to be taken to the hospital for treatment. Chief Contee described the person as a "witness" who may have been with the person holding the gun.

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⚡️ Russian defense minister orders military group 'Vostok' to target Ukraine's long-range weapons

⚡️ 📹 Russia's Defense Minister and General of the Army Sergei Shoigu has inspected the armed forces' Vostok group, which is carrying out combat tasks amid the special military operation in Ukraine.

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🖥 The Russian hacker group RaHDIt has established a data channel for transmission of information about the Ukrainian army's activity to the Russian armed forces, a RaHDIt member told Sputnik on condition of anonymity.

▪️ Last week, RaHDIt and the Beregini female hacker team from Ukraine obtained classified documents about the Ukrainian army’s activity and the situation on the front lines, according to the RaHDIt member.

🗯 "It is a bad omen to work on the territory of Russia. After all, we are patriots of our country and do not work within its territory. But let me tell you something ... we have established a data transmission channel [to the Russian armed forces] and we really hope that this helps them," the RaHDIt member said.

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⚡️ The Russian military have used precision work during the special operation, to prevent unwanted strikes on civilian infrastructure, which cannot be said about the Ukrainian military, Kremlin spokesman Peskov said.

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♨️ The heat wave Britain is facing will become common by the end of the century, the country's chief meteorologist said.

▪️ According to him, in the future it will be +40 in the country every summer.

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📌 Kremlin spokesman Peskov has made several statements ahead of President Putin's visit to Iran:

✔️ The special operation undoubtedly will end - when all its goals are achieved

✔️There are no clear timeframes for the special military op; the main thing is efficiency

✔️The Russian military received orders from Putin to avoid harming civilians and work carefully

✔️The nationalist battalions of Ukraine no longer shun anything

✔️Sanctions against Russia began to be introduced long before the special operation, now they measure in the hundreds and thousands

✔️Restrictions are the price that Russia and Iran must pay for sovereignty

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⚡️ The head of the Austrian Foreign Ministry on the possible refusal of Europe from Russian gas: This is not discussed, you need to be realistic, even if it is emotionally unpleasant.

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⚡️ Kremlin: Russia and Iran will abandon dollar in bilateral transactions in the future

📹 😬 A Minneapolis mom could be seen on video confronting protesters gathered outside the home of a man who had been fatally shot by police after a tense six-hour standoff.

▪️ The mother, Arabella Foss-Yarbrough, called police last Wednesday night after her neighbor Andrew “Tekle” Sundberg allegedly fired shots into her apartment as she was cooking for her two young children.

▪️ The gunman was eventually shot dead Thursday morning by two Minneapolis police snipers.

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📊 A whopping 93% of American voters are “concerned” with the level of inflation, and slightly more than half fear the economy will only get worse a year from now, according to a poll released on Sunday.

▪️ The 93% is an increase of six percentage points from May, and includes 67% who are “extremely” and 25% who are “very” concerned about inflation, which hit 9.1% in June, a Fox News survey showed.

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📹 A Ukrainian army soldier complains that the “Russian world” bombed a grain elevator.

🤔 Nevertheless, in the video one can clearly see Ukrainian military equipment at the territory of the grain elevator.

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❗️ Russian MoD latest statements on the Ukraine crisis:

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces have neutralized a temporary deployment point of mercenaries from the so-called Ukrainian "Foreign Legion" in the DPR using high-precision air-based missiles.

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces have destroyed up to 60 nationalists, two multiple rocket launchers and four artillery mounts using a high-precision long-range air-based weaponry strike on the temporary deployment point of a battalion of the AFU’s 118th Territorial Defence Brigade.

▪️ Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile troops and artillery have hit 14 command posts.

▪️ Russian air defense units have shot down six Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in Kharkov Region, in Kherson Region and in the DPR.

▪️ Some 257 Ukrainian airplanes and 142 helicopters, 1,564 unmanned aerial vehicles, 356 anti-aircraft missile systems, 4,099 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 759 multiple launch rocket systems, 3,157 field artillery and mortars, as well as 4,392 special military vehicles have been destroyed during the operation.

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🙅‍♂️ Sen. Ted Cruz argued that the US Supreme Court decision to legalize gay marriage was “clearly wrong” - while discussing the possibility of its reversal.

🗯 “So look, Obergefell, like Roe v. Wade, ignored two centuries of our nation’s history,” the Texas Republican said on his show, “Verdict with Ted Cruz” Saturday. “Marriage was always an issue that was left to the states.”

▪️ Cruz was referencing Obergefell v. Hodges, the landmark decision that guaranteed the right to same-sex marriage nationwide in 2015.

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