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As part of the Republican Party’s campaign to protect Americans through a secure border with Mexico, they are pushing for a ban that would prevent the feds from removing razor wire the state of Texas has installed to protect its citizens.

Areport from Fox News explains the plan is from rep. Mike Collins, R-Ga.

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With the world-famous Groundhog Day approaching Feb. 2, there's a fresh effort to replace the animal used in the shadowy weather prognostication in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania.

And this time, PETA, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, is hoping the public flips literally for their new idea.

"Beyond a shadow of a doubt," the group says, "a groundhog's weather prediction is no more accurate than flipping a coin. And PETA has quite the coin trick up our sleeve to urge compassion for a groundhog called Punxsutawney Phil.

"He is not a meteorologist and deserves better than to be exploited every year for tourism money."

Each year on Feb. 2, during a time when groundhogs typically hibernate, a ceremony takes place to note if Phil will emerge and predict an early spring, or six more weeks of winter if his shadow is seen.

The animal-rights activists wrote to the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club's president, Tom Dunkel, "offering to toss the club a giant coin if it agrees to send Phil to a reputable sanctuary. Should kindness prevail, the huge coin could easily replace him as the Pennsylvania town's gimmick to draw in tourists."

The group claims, "Every groundhog is someone," noting the critters "are shy, solitary animals who socialize with other groundhogs only to choose a partner. They are skilled swimmers and climbers and create complex, multichambered burrows that even have separate 'bathrooms.'

"They don't want to live in confinement in a local library, where they can't do anything that's natural and important to them. They also don't want to be used to prognosticate the weather or be exposed to flashing cameras, human handling, or noisy crowds.

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A Christian pastor says he's banking on a miracle after being accused of pocketing $1.3 million in a cryptocurrency scheme, claiming "the Lord told us to."

The Colorado Division of Securities says Eli Regalado and his wife Kaitlyn marketed their cryptocurrency, INDXcoin, to Christian communities in Denver, claiming "God told him directly that investors would become wealthy if they put money into INDXcoin."

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The list of Republican presidential candidates is being pared as the New Hampshire vote approaches Tuesday.

And social media is skewering one, Nikki Haley, as a flip-flopper.

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One of the organizations that facilitated a major undue election influence operation during the 2020 presidential race has announced plans for another campaign during the 2024 race, but this time instead of using "Zuckbucks" from Mark Zuckerberg, it wants to use federal tax dollars, a new report charges.

The organization is the Center for Tech and Civic Life and it was that group that handed out hundreds of millions of dollars, provided by Zuckerberg, to election officials who often used it to recruit Joe Biden voters.

It was one of the major undue influences on the 2020 race, as such dollars, more than $400 million, never before had been injected into an American election, especially when those funds were outside the normal election spending procedures that are monitored.

It is The Federalist that has posted the report by William Doyle, the research director at The Caesar Rodney Election Research Institute in Irving, Texas, who specializes in economic history and private funding of American elections.

He cites an email "sent to a network of election officials and nonprofit organizations" by the CTCL.

It claims it will facilitate applications by elections officials for money from a massive federal government grant program administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

"This program could potentially funnel more than $700 million to election offices during the 2024 election under the auspices of CTCL officials and their partners in the nonprofit world of left-wing election activism," the report said.

The federal program targeted is FEMA's 2024 Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities grant program.

While that, the government said, is to "support states, local communities, tribes, and territories as they undertake hazard mitigation projects, reducing the risks they face from disasters and natural hazards," CTCL, in its "creative interpretation," is claiming elections, under Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, are a "critical service" deserving of competitive FEMA grant funding, the report said.

The CTCL's coming "webinar" will claim, "As a core element of government function, elections are a critical service and eligible for this government funding," the report said.

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The leftist LGBT agenda, which now includes, according to some, literally dozens of identities and orientations, has exploded during Joe Biden's tenure in the White House, essentially since he has made promoting those alternative lifestyle choices one of his top priorities.

Included in that ideology is the concept of "furries," people who identify as animals.

Fine, says one lawmaker in Oklahoma, but not in public schools.

There, students acting out their fantasies will have their parents called.

Or animal control.

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He's been given one of the biggest stages in America: in college basketball.

And this hoop star, described as having NBA potential, wants the world to know about his faith in Jesus Christ.

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Not unlike multiple previous – and failed – social ideologies about a "super race" of citizens on earth, convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein reportedly wanted to set up a baby farm at his New Mexico ranch.

The purpose would have been to allow underage girls to have the children of those elites in society, those with money and influence.

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A street preacher in the United Kingdom has won a settlement of nearly $19,000 in compensation and costs after being arrested, wrongfully, by police in Scotland.

The Christian Institute reports street preacher Angus Cameron has won £5,500 in compensation and £9,400 in costs in settlement.

On the hook for the damages are police in Scotland, who detained the pastor of Cumnock Baptist Church over a "hate crime" that didn't exist.

Cameron donated all of his compensation to The Christian Institute, which supported him throughout his ordeal, the report noted.

Simon Calvert, the deputy director for public affairs for the institute, explained Cameron was preaching in Glasgow city center when he was approached by a police officer who claimed to have been told that "homophobic language" was being used.

Angus denied that.

Then the officer "announced that he was under arrest for 'breach of the peace with homophobic aggravation.' He was handcuffed – despite being entirely peaceful and compliant," the institute reported.

The report continued, "Angus was searched in the roadway, in full view of passing traffic and pedestrians, before being put in the back of a police van for over an hour. He was finally released to be told the matter would be dealt with 'in due course.' His preaching was not targeting individuals; he did not use offensive language; he was not aggressive; he did not try to offend; he simply quoted the Bible. There was no criminality at all."

Then when prosecutors declined to pursue the case, he was told he would still have a record of a "non-crime hate incident."

"Despite the police knowing full well that the complaint against him did not amount to a criminal offense, this respected community leader was informed his good name was to be associated with ‘hatred’ and potential criminality in police records," Calvert said. "We were pleased to be able to help Angus bring a legal action and we believe it was because of the strength of his legal claim that the police were forced to reach an out-of-court legal settlement and pay damages and legal costs."

As part of the settlement, police also agreed to erase references to the "non-crime" hate incident.

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ISRAEL -- After three months of fighting Hamas in Gaza, the IDF is on the verge of eliminating the terrorist entity. This raises the question of governance in Gaza after the smoke settles.

Despite being classified as a terrorist organization by seven nations including Israel and the United States, Hamas is the elected government in Gaza. Eliminating Hamas, deemed as necessary by Israel, will leave Gaza without a government. Founded in 1988 during the First Intifada as an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas set three long-term goals, articulated in its charter: first, the end to the Jewish state, and second, the creation of an Islamic state from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. The third goal, stated explicitly multiple times in the charter, is the genocidal annihilation of the Jews.

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