Speaker McCarthy
It took four days, 15 votes, and a lot of concessions to House conservatives, but Rep. Kevin McCarthy is the new Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.
It took four days, 15 votes, and a lot of concessions to House conservatives, but Rep. Kevin McCarthy is the new Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison for helping financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls. She was placed on suicide watch several days ago though her attorney says she isn’t suicidal—but then, neither was Epstein.Continue Reading
The French newspaper Le Figaro Saturday reported, while UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson made a surprise visit to Kyiv, that US and UK commandos are fighting in Ukraine—and that Russia knows it.Continue Reading
Democrats turned the one-year anniversary of the January 6 protest at the U.S. Capitol into a parade of speeches about the desecration of the “temple of our democracy.” It was also the second time in six years a widely viewed public event was led by a man dressed up likeContinue Reading
The Supreme Court this week took up a case that presents the most important challenge to Roe v. Wade in at least thirty years. This case could return decisions on the legality of abortion to the states.Continue Reading
Police in Australia mounted a manhunt to track down three teenage boys who escaped a COVID quarantine facility in the Northern Territories. Meanwhile, calls are growing in Europe and North America to make vaccines mandatory for all adults.Continue Reading
A new book, appropriately titled Laptop from Hell, claims that the former chairman of the defunct Chinese energy firm CEFC offered Hunter Biden $10 million a year for at least three years for “introductions alone”–presumably to his father.Continue Reading
Guards on duty the night Jeffrey Epstein was found dead may have avoided a trial (and jail time) because they planned to expose widespread falsification of documents at New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Center and the Federal Bureau of Prisons.Continue Reading
THE WAY we do church today would be completely foreign to a first-century Christian. Keith Giles, author of the new book Jesus Unveiled: Forsaking Church as We Know it for Ekklesia as God Intended, explains why we need to stop treating church like a business and start treating it like a family.
TEACHING CHILDREN about Jesus doesn’t mean simplifying the gospel to the point that it loses its power. Preston and Kelly Condra discuss their latest book, Papa, Let’s Talk.
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