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The Real ReasonsInside Out 2Was a Hit

Movie theater owners can take a cue from Riley, the protagonist of Inside Out 2, and quell their anxiety. The Pixar film massively outperformed expectations at the box office and scored the biggest opening of the year so far with $155 million domestically and $140 million overseas, outpacing earlier 2024 blockbusters like Dune: Part 2. Industry prognosticators, still reeling from the historically bad Memorial Day Weekend box office, expected the animated movie to make just $80 million its opening weekend.

Trump's New Expedited Removal Rule Expected To Start Sunday

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will soon begin processing some undocumented immigrants under new expedited removal rules that greatly expand who can be deported without a hearing before an immigration judge, according to a memo released to agency staff. In the memo, dated July 24, ICE Acting Director Matthew Albence said the agency’s officers can begin processing expedited removal cases under the new designation on or around Sept. 1, after “appropriate training, oversight, and systems updates.

Ukraine Can't Win the War

The long-awaited counteroffensive last year failed. Russia has recaptured Avdiivka, its biggest war gain in nine months. President Volodymyr Zelensky has been forced to quietly acknowledge the new military reality. The Biden Administration’s strategy is now to sustain Ukrainian defense until after the U.S. presidential elections, in the hope of wearing down Russian forces in a long war of attrition. This strategy seems sensible enough, but contains one crucially important implication and one potentially disastrous flaw, which are not yet being seriously addressed in public debates in the West or Ukraine.

UNC Chapel Hill Threat Cleared After Report of Armed Person on Campus

Updated: December 2, 2015 9:38 AM [ET] | Originally published: December 2, 2015 9:18 AM EST; The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill went on a brief lockdown early Wednesday after police received a report of an armed and dangerous person on campus. School officials issued an emergency alert about 9 a.m., warning students of a possibly armed individual near the ROTC Building and Venable Hall, UNC of Chapel Hill spokeswoman Jeni Cook told TIME.