Issues

A federal judge on Friday sent President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, to jail pending trial, after Special Counsel Robert Mueller charged him last week with witness tampering. It was the latest episode in the fall of Manafort, a longtime political operator and businessman who has been a focus of Mueller’s investigation into […]

A California judge on Tuesday overturned the state’s physician-assisted suicide statute, ruling that lawmakers did not have the authority to pass it during a special session convened to take up healthcare legislation. While the ruling by a Riverside County Superior Court judge was tentative, giving California’s attorney general five days to appeal, it was hailed

Unless you’ve been a victim of crime, the criminal justice system is something you likely don’t think about much. And yet it is badly in need of reform. Even President Trump has recognized this in some recent meetings he has had in the White House. My friend Bishop Harry R. Jackson Jr. has advocated for

A new billboard in North Carolina has drivers and the media taking a second look. The North Carolina Council of Churches placed the billboard that depicts a pile of guns and ammunition with the words, “You shall not make for yourself an idol.” The sign reminds drivers of these commandment words and notes that the

The scheduled teacher walk-out on April 2 in Oklahoma is not only about the very real need to increase teacher salaries. It reveals how the leaders behind a humanistic global agenda use these types of crises to further their control in the field of education. Raising the bar in education is a need and concern

A Christian college has given thanks to God after winning a legal battle with significant implications for religious liberty in the U.S. Wheaton College has won the right to not provide health insurance that covers abortion-inducing drugs. The case centered on the Affordable Care Act—”Obamacare”—which obliges employers to provide health insurance that includes “contraceptives” that

Florida Governor Rick Scott on Friday signed into law a bill from the legislature that raises the legal age for buying rifles, imposes a three-day waiting period on all gun sales and allows the arming of some school employees. “I spent the last 2 days reading about the bill, talking to families, talking to my families and praying

Major Christian leaders from Samuel Rodriguez to Russell Moore have called on the nation to pray as the White House mulls a solution to immigrant children who were illegally brought into the United States. The children, known as Dreamers, are part of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program created by former President Barack Obama

The White House on Tuesday urged U.S. lawmakers to move ahead with legislation to help prisoners prepare for life after release, but stopped short of calling for broader reforms such as changing mandatory minimum sentences for drug crimes. Arguing that a wider overhaul lacks congressional support, the Trump administration recommended more prison work programs, more

The left has decided that the great tragedy that we just witnessed down in Florida is an opportunity to try to grab our guns. We are witnessing an all-out assault on the Second Amendment like we haven’t seen in decades, and this will undoubtedly be one of the most hotly debated issues as we head

While Congress has yet to decide the future of the country’s illegal immigrants, some say they are critical to the survival of Christianity in America. “Every denomination is experiencing explosive growth within the Latino church and the immigrant church at large. It’s been this way now for several decades,” Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, president of the

The president of Planned Parenthood plans to step down from the reproductive rights group after more than a decade on the job, Buzzfeed news reported on Wednesday, citing two anonymous sources familiar with the matter. Cecile Richards, 60, who took the job in 2006, has informed at least some of the organization’s board members of her