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Weird BUT true

- Natalie O’Neill, Wires

A big mouth certainly runs in the family.

The daughter of a Michigan state House candidate urged residents not to vote for her dad in a viral tweet — to which he replied with a long-winded statement.

“If you’re in Michigan and 18+ pls for the love of god do not vote for my dad for state rep. tell everyone,” wrote Stephanie Regan, the daughter of Republican Robert Regan. “I don’t feel safe sharing further informatio­n regarding his beliefs.”

The politician later said that they strongly disagree about elements of the Black Lives Matter movement.

A humanoid robot named Erica has snagged a starring role in a big-budget Hollywood sci-fi flick.

In the $70 million movie, titled “b,” the eerily humanlike android will play the role of a geneticall­y modified superhuman who goes on the run with the geeks who created her.

The bot — who blinks, speaks and makes gestures — is the brainchild of roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro of Japan’s Osaka University.

Rep. Devin Nunes can’t sue Twitter over a parody account run by a “cow” that pokes fun of him, a judge has ruled.

Virginia Judge John Marshall said Twitter was “immune from the defamation claims” made by the California Republican, who hoped to end the “Devin Nunes’ Cow” account.

An Iowa man was arrested after lighting his own house on fire to protest animal cruelty at hog farms.

Dwaine Bauman, 49, allegedly also set two vehicles, a barn and 100 bales of hay ablaze during a seven-hour armed standoff with cops at his home near Grinnell.

A Texas man was busted smuggling an endangered spider monkey into the US in the console of his truck.

Customs officers made the totally bananas discovery while searching the 23-yearold’s pickup on his way back from Mexico at a checkpoint in Hidalgo, Texas.

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