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January 8, 2026
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| GOP, Pro-Life Orgs Forcefully Defend Hyde Amendment amid Trump's Backpedaling |
| by Dan Hart |
| GOP lawmakers and pro-life groups are strongly pushing back against a suggestion by President Donald Trump Tuesday that House Republicans should be "a little flexible" during health care legislation negotiations on the Hyde Amendment, a bipartisan provision protecting tax dollars from funding abortions that has been renewed annually for the last 50 years. |
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| ICE Raids Targeting Minneapolis Fraudsters Take Deadly Turn as Governor Suggests 'War' with White House |
| by S.A. McCarthy |
| Rampant fraud committed by Minnesota's sizable Somali immigrant population prompted the White House to order immigration raids in Minneapolis. Like many operations conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over the past year, the Minneapolis raids were met with violent resistance: protests in the streets quickly became riots as leftist activists attempted to assault ICE agents. One assault attempt proved fatal. On Wednesday, a woman used her car to block ICE agents. When confronted and told to exit her vehicle, she accelerated and hit an officer, who shot her through the windshield and killed her. |
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| Iranian Regime Totters amid 'Perfect Storm' Protests: Expert |
| by Joshua Arnold |
| Anti-government protests in Iran expand daily, amid what one Iran expert called a "perfect storm" of conditions. "Everything that could go wrong in the country is not working," said Gregg Roman, executive director of the Middle East Forum and a former advisor to the Israeli government, on "Washington Watch." "Simple shopkeepers, commercial merchants, truck drivers, even government workers ... can't even afford basic goods like milk, eggs, bread." The Iranian regime is tottering; the question is what, if anything, will tip it over the edge? |
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| U.S. Moves to Control Venezuelan Oil Supply |
| by Joshua Arnold |
| U.S. military helicopters descended early Wednesday on a rogue oil tanker trying to escape the blockade of Venezuelan oil exports. Using a false Guyana flag and spoofed location data, the Bella 1 ran the blockade last month, leading the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Munro on a two-week chase across the North Atlantic, before the ship - hastily rechristened the Marinera, under a Russian flag - was finally captured off the coast of Scotland. The incident embodies a new phase in the Trump administration's pressure campaign against the Venezuelan regime - one that seeks to control Venezuela's oil supplies as a leverage against America's adversaries. |
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| China Ushers in the New Year by Ramping Up Christian Persecution |
| by Sarah Holliday |
| Corey Jackson of the Luke Alliance - an advocacy group focused on supporting China's unregistered churches - described China as "one of the worst abusers of human rights in the world," and recent events added fresh evidence. On Tuesday, a new wave of arrests shined a glaring spotlight on the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) growing hostility toward people of faith - persecution that seems to escalate by the day. |
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| Wyoming High Court Rejects Pro-Life Laws as 'Unconstitutional' |
| by S.A. McCarthy |
| The Cowboy State's supreme court is bucking a set of pro-life laws, interpreting a conservative statute to allow abortion in the state to continue. The Wyoming Supreme Court handed down a ruling Tuesday declaring both the 2023 Life is a Human Right Act and another provision blocking the prescription of abortion pills to be unconstitutional. |
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| Ivan Daniel Calas: A Light of Truth on the Darkened Island of Cuba |
| by Yoe Suarez |
| Ivan Daniel Calas carries the traits of Generation Z in his DNA - connected to the internet, accustomed to cameras. But his life is also marked by his faith and the place where he was born. Being a Christian in totalitarian 21st-century Cuba adds challenges to the natural passage through adolescence and the first steps into adulthood. |
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