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Big Changes Coming for 2025 College Football Playoff Format, with or Without Expansion

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Much of the discussion about potential changes to the College Football Playoff (CFP) format centers on expansion. After all, who wants to see teams like Notre Dame, Texas, and Vanderbilt get excluded to make room for two Group of Five qualifiers who will end up being three-touchdown underdogs in their first and only round games?

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Dylan Gwinn

Trump Executive Order May Reclassify Pot as Less Dangerous

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President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that could reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug and open new avenues for medical research, a major shift in federal drug policy that inches closer to what many states have done.

Poll: Dems Have -55 Net Approval, All-Time Low

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Just 18% of voters approve of how congressional Democrats are handling their job, while 73% disapprove, a record low, according to a new Quinnipiac poll. Still, voters lean slightly toward Democrats when asked who should control the House of Representatives.

US Virgin Islands' gun restrictions violate the Second Amendment, DOJ claims

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A Second Amendment standoff has ignited between the federal government and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

On Tuesday, the federal government sued the U.S. territory, its police department, and Police Commissioner Mario Brooks over what it argues are violations of the Second Amendment.

'This lawsuit seeks to uphold the rights of law-abiding citizens to bear arms in the US Virgin Islands.'

For example, applicants for a firearm license must demonstrate to the commissioner of the Virgin Islands Police Department that they have "good reason to fear death or great injury to his person or property" and must be vouched for by "two credible persons."

The law also requires that applicants have "good moral character" but does not define those requirements clearly or at all.

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The U.S. government also alleges that Virgin Islands law requires warrantless searches and "unconstitutionally conditioning the grant of a license to possess or carry a firearm on expenditures of money to purchase and install safes," which are purportedly required to be bolted to the floor of the applicant's home.

"This Civil Rights Division will protect the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens," said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. "The newly established Second Amendment Section filed this lawsuit to bring the Virgin Islands Police Department back into legal compliance by ensuring that applicants receive timely decisions without unconstitutional obstruction."

"The territory's firearms licensing laws and practices are inconsistent with the Second Amendment," said U.S. Attorney Adam Sleeper for the District of the U.S. Virgin Islands. "This lawsuit seeks to uphold the rights of law-abiding citizens to bear arms in the U.S. Virgin Islands."

The complaint comes after numerous applicants complained that Virgin Islands authorities were "unreasonably delaying their gun permit application decisions and added unreasonable conditions," according to the Justice Department's press release.

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Cooper Williamson

American Jewish Committee Praises Dolan, Welcomes Hicks

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The American Jewish Committee praised Cardinal Timothy Dolan on Thursday as the Archdiocese of New York announced a leadership transition, thanking him for what it called "exemplary leadership" and a "deep commitment to strong Catholic-Jewish relations."

Yemen Separatists Say Capture of Oil-Rich South Proves They Can Topple Houthis

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The Southern Transitional Council (STC), the Yemeni separatist movement that abruptly abandoned its alliance with the deposed national government last month and began snapping up oil-rich territory in southern Yemen, is urging the United States to support them against the Iran-backed Houthi extremists who control the northern half of the country.

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Lawsuit: Sextortion on Mark Zuckerberg's Instagram Led to Suicide of 2 Teenage Boys

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The families of two teenage boys who tragically died by suicide have filed a lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg's Meta, claiming that the company ignored the growing threat of sexual blackmail schemes, commonly referred to as "sextortion," targeting teens on Instagram.

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Bombshell report claims Republicans secretly pushed Jasmine Crockett into Texas Senate race

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Jasmine Crockett’s decision to run for U.S. Senate has confused much of Texas — but a new bombshell report alleges that Republicans manufactured the Crockett support for their own advantage.

“When you realize the entire state of Texas can actually vote for her, you start wondering ... what in the world she’s thinking, like Jasmine, what are you smoking thinking that you should run for a seat in which all of Texas can vote for?” Gonzales asks.

“It turns out the Republicans duped Jasmine Crockett into thinking she had this organic grassroots appeal,” she adds.


According to a new report from the nonprofit organization Notice, Crockett was duped by an “astroturf recruitment process” led by Republicans who wanted to push her into a Senate run.

“The NRSC started including Crockett’s name in polling and conducted ‘a sustained effort’ to get Crockett, the party’s preferred candidate to run against, into the race,” the report reads.

“Republican's Senate campaign arm has actively worked behind the scenes to encourage Rep. Jasmine Crockett to jump into the Senate Democratic primary in Texas, believing she will be the easiest opponent to beat,” the report continues.

“So the Republicans got together, and they were like, ‘Who do we want to run against in the state of Texas? I know, Jasmine Crockett. Obviously, obviously.’ So this tracks, right?” Gonzales says.

"She was tricked. She was astroturfed. That has to be exactly what happened,” she adds.

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Police Foil Second Suspected Terror Plot Near Bondi Beach

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Australian authorities arrested seven people near Bondi Beach on Thursday after intelligence suggested a second suspected terrorist attack was being planned just days after a deadly massacre at the popular Sydney location, The New Zealand Herald reported.

Putting God back in 'degraded' US Chaplain Corps: Hegseth axes pagan codes and New Age guides

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Earlier this week, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced that he would be overhauling yet another aspect of the military: the Chaplain Corps.

On Tuesday, Hegseth explained a directive that will effectively overhaul the United States Chaplain Corps, "the spiritual and moral backbone of our nation's forces" that, for hundreds of years, "ministered" to the "souls" of American servicemen and women, as he explained in the video.

'In an atmosphere of political correctness and secular humanism, chaplains have been minimized, viewed by many as therapists instead of ministers.'

Hegseth recounted the long history of the Chaplain Corps, which dates back to 1775, when George Washington himself established it. The "weakening" of this important institution has become "a real problem for our nation's military," Hegseth said.

"Sadly, as part of the ongoing war on warriors, in recent decades its role has been degraded," Hegseth said in the video. "In an atmosphere of political correctness and secular humanism, chaplains have been minimized, viewed by many as therapists instead of ministers. Faith and virtue were traded for self-help and self-care."

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As evidence of the New Age influence in the military, Hegseth referred to the United States Army's Spiritual Fitness Guide, which mentions "God" only once and "virtue" not at all, even as 82% of the military identify as "religious."

Hegseth ordered the elimination of this "unacceptable and unserious" Spiritual Fitness Guide and the simplification of the Faith and Belief Coding System, an "overly complex" classification system of over 200 different beliefs.

The Faith and Belief Code was apparently expanded in March 2017. The expansion went into more detailed distinctions among Protestant denominations, and it included alternate belief systems like "Magick and Spiritualist," "Wicca," "Pagan," "New Age Churches," "Humanist," and "Heathen."

Hegseth promised more changes in the near future, saying that there will be a "top-down cultural shift" in the military that puts "spiritual well-being on the same footing as mental and physical health."

"We are going to make the Chaplain Corps great again," he posted on X.

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Kennedy Center to Be Renamed Trump-Kennedy Center

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The board of trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts voted unanimously Thursday to rename the Washington performing arts institution to honor late President John F. Kennedy and President Donald Trump.

Watch: Kamala Harris Struggles to Explain to Kimmel Why Biden was 'Right' to Not Push DoJ to Release the Epstein Files

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Failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris struggled to explain to ABC's left-wing late-night host Jimmy Kimmel why the Joe Biden Department of Justice never attempted to release documents pertaining to convicted sex offender Jeffery Epstein. Harris insisted that it was deemed crucial to keep "absolute separation" between the Biden administration and the DoJ.

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