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"Well, it's Groundhog Day... again." If you haven't seen the eponymous movie, drop whatever you're doing and see it now—it's probably airing at this very moment on AMC, TBS, TNT, or USA. This 1993 classic centers on a cynical weatherman (Bill Murray) seemingly condemned to repeat the same day over and over. He engages in hedonistic pursuits before realizing the goal is redemption. In short, it's about second chances.

Panamanian president José Raúl Mulino said his country would not renew its agreement with China's Belt and Road Initiative following a visit from Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a move that will make it the first Latin American country to leave the initiative.

The Biden administration, weeks before leaving power, funneled more than $3 million in taxpayer cash to the Palestinian Authority Security Forces (PASF), according to a nonpublic notice transmitted to Congress that was reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. Those funds allowed the PASF to conduct "firearms and ammunition" training—and came after its members carried out scores of attacks against Israelis.

"Indigenous knowledge," a pseudoscience that posits Native Americans possess an innate understanding of how the world works, is thriving in California, where Gov. Gavin Newsom's (D.) administration has contended that "Western science" must embrace "the generations of knowledge held by Indigenous communities," according to a Washington Free Beacon review of state documents.

In 2023 alone, members of the Palestinian government's so-called security forces carried out more than 1,500 terror attacks against Israelis, according to a Palestinian Media Watch investigation shared with our Adam Kredo. It's only fitting, then, that the Biden State Department quietly funneled more than $3 million to the Palestinian Authority Security Forces (PASF) to conduct "firearms and ammunition" training weeks before Donald Trump's inauguration.

Kamala Harris's campaign paid nearly $100,000 to a shell company for former president Barack Obama to travel to events and roughly $60,000 to rapper Cardi B, who said she "didn't get a dollar" to appear alongside the failed presidential candidate.

President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Tuesday withdrawing the United States from the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and cutting funding to UNRWA, the U.N. relief agency for Gaza, which has been widely criticized following reports that its staffers were involved in terrorism.

The Trump administration is forming a multi-agency task force "to root out anti-Semitic harassment in schools and on college campuses," the Department of Justice announced Monday.

The Department of Education on Monday opened investigations into "widespread antisemitic harassment" at Columbia University and four other schools in the wake of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas massacre of Israeli civilians.

Brown University Medical School now gives "diversity, equity, and inclusion" more weight than "excellent clinical skills" in its promotion criteria for faculty, raising questions about the quality of teaching and patient care at the elite medical school and underscoring how deeply DEI has penetrated medical education.