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May 14, 2025
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| U.S. Government Lost $1 Trillion in COVID Relief Funds to Fraud |
| by S.A. McCarthy |
| The U.S. government loses nearly $1 trillion in emergency relief funds annually, according to experts. In a "60 Minutes" interview Monday night, Audient Group founder and former Government Accountability Office executive Linda Miller alleged that international crime rings defraud American taxpayers of billions of dollars every year. |
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| Johnson on Uniting GOP: 'I've Prayed as Much as Anyone Who's Held This Gavel' |
| by Suzanne Bowdey |
| Which takes longer: electing a new pope or finalizing the House's reconciliation bill? We're about to find out, as Republicans hunker down for a string of marathon mark-up sessions that could decide the fate of the president's "one, big, beautiful bill." "Are we going to see a puff of white smoke above the Capitol by the end of [this] week?" Family Research Council President Tony Perkins joked. While there's nothing House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) would like better, a lot of obstacles still stand in the GOP's way. |
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| Report: Taxpayer Funding of Planned Parenthood Surged over Last Decade |
| by Ben Johnson |
| Taxpayers have awarded billions of dollars to the nation's largest abortion business since 2016, according to a new report from the pro-life Charlotte Lozier Institute, which focuses on Planned Parenthood's finances from 2016-2024. |
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| Graham: If Iran Rebuffs Trump, Israel Should 'Use Force' to Stop Nuclear Program |
| by Dan Hart |
| As strains appear to be forming between President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu due to the White House's stalled talks over the Islamist regime's nuclear program, a prominent senator is insisting that the U.S. must support Israel carrying out strikes against Tehran's nuclear facilities unless they are completely dismantled voluntarily. |
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| Outstanding - Created to Create: Art and Creativity for Christ (Ep.192) |
| Podcast with Jared Bridges, Hannah Tu and Jeff Dionise |
| Just like words, art is used to communicate beauty, feelings, and truth. Family Research Council's Hannah Tu and veteran designer Jeff Dionise discuss the power and purpose of art as a form of human creativity and expression. They share how they integrate faith and design and how creativity flows from a rightly ordered faith. They also explore its role in communication and the church, and how AI is impacting the world of art. |
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| When Talking Works, and When It Doesn't |
| by Joshua Arnold |
| President Donald Trump's Middle Eastern tour is unfolding just as he hoped, with a Tuesday opportunity in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to sign "roughly a dozen memorandums of understanding and letters of intent" amounting to $600 billion. The deals cover everything from defense and technology to cultural institutions like the Smithsonian. The signing ceremony offered a characteristically Trumpian portrait, as America's "dealmaker-in-chief" inked his John Hancock to the bottom line on page after page. Of course, dealmaking is not always the right course of action. Or, more precisely, negotiating toward a deal is not always the right course of action. |
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| From South African Farms to American Soil: White Afrikaners' Asylum Stirs Heated Debate |
| by Sarah Holliday |
| The first group of white South African refugees, fleeing persecution in their homeland, has arrived in the U.S. However, for many on the Left, their asylum has sparked outrage. |
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| Despite City Laws, Judge Rules Florida Drag Show Can Take Place Near Children |
| by Sarah Holliday |
| Naples Pride planned to host a drag show near a children's playground in Naples, Florida. But in April, CBN reported, "the Naples City Council voted 5-2 to move the proposed drag show indoors away from Cambier Park, which is frequented by children, and to restrict the event to adults only." As a result, Naples Pride, alongside the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), sued the city, claiming their right to free speech was violated. "The ACLU sought a preliminary injunction to overturn the city's location and age restrictions," CBN added. |
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| 'Island of Strangers': UK Changes Course on Immigration |
| by S.A. McCarthy |
| Britian has been crippled by an exponentially worsening immigration crisis since the 1990s, but the nation's typically-progressive prime minister has a plan to tackle the problem. On Monday, Prime Minister Keir Starmer, head of the dominant Labour Party, announced that his administration has drafted a policy plan to significantly limit immigration to the U.K. |
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| Tennessee Stops Public Schools from Requiring Use of Preferred Pronouns, Names |
| by Ryan Foley |
| A newly enacted Tennessee law prohibits schools from punishing employees and teachers for referring to trans-identified students by their given name and pronouns, as public school staff in other states have faced professional repercussions for declining to use trans-identified students' preferred names and pronouns. |
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