U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D) is raising eyebrows for past research associating the "interethnic mating" of Arab women with "adverse birth outcomes." The 2011 paper, published in the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, suggested that Arab women who have children with non-Arab men are more likely to give birth prematurely than those who have children with ethnically Arab men. Critics like Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) decried the research as "'science' with a pre-ordained racist & eugenics outcome."

Is America in decline? How long has this been going on? And what is causing it? George Barna&rsquo;s name is synonymous with the gold standard for research. He&rsquo;s also an author, professor and cofounder of the cultural research center at Arizona Christian University.&nbsp; On this week&rsquo;s podcast, Host Casey Harper discusses the spiritual trends in America. They discuss Americans&rsquo; changing beliefs, the surprisingly low number of Christians who have a Biblical worldview, and what it means for the future of the nation.&nbsp;

Is America in decline? How long has this been going on? And what is causing it? George Barna's name is synonymous with the gold standard for research. He's also an author, professor and cofounder of the cultural research center at Arizona Christian University.  On this week's podcast, Host Casey Harper discusses the spiritual trends in America. They discuss Americans' changing beliefs, the surprisingly low number of Christians who have a Biblical worldview, and what it means for the future of the nation. 

Artificial Intelligence is becoming more powerful -- and more dangerous -- than ever. Jared Bridges, Editor-in-Chief of The Washington Stand, hosts a panel on Artificial Intelligence at the Pray, Vote, Stand Summit. He was joined by Clare Morell, a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and author of the Award-winning book, <a href="https://sites.prh.com/thetechexitbook">The Tech Exit: A Practical Guide to Freeing Kids and Teens from Smartphones</a> along with Erik Reed, a pastor and cofounder of Dominion A.I.
They discuss the risks, benefits and dangers of the new technology and how it is affecting America, and the church.

Artificial Intelligence is becoming more powerful -- and more dangerous -- than ever. Jared Bridges, Editor-in-Chief of The Washington Stand, hosts a panel on Artificial Intelligence at the Pray, Vote, Stand Summit. He was joined by Clare Morell, a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and author of the Award-winning book, The Tech Exit: A Practical Guide to Freeing Kids and Teens from Smartphones along with Erik Reed, a pastor and cofounder of Dominion A.I. They discuss the risks, benefits and dangers of the new technology and how it is affecting America, and the church.

Former Congressman and current senior fellow at Family Research Council Jody Hice sits down with Host Casey Harper at the Pray Vote Stand Summit. They discuss how God leads leaders, how to know if you are motivated by selfish ambition or God&rsquo;s calling, and how to stand up for the right thing even when it is difficult.

Former Congressman and current senior fellow at Family Research Council Jody Hice sits down with Host Casey Harper at the Pray Vote Stand Summit. They discuss how God leads leaders, how to know if you are motivated by selfish ambition or God's calling, and how to stand up for the right thing even when it is difficult.

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, religious leaders, tech experts and even the AI companies themselves are raising the alarm, and yet they keep building&nbsp; Artificial Intelligence. What&rsquo;s going on here? Is the AI apocalypse inevitable, or is all hype or somewhere in between?

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, religious leaders, tech experts and even the AI companies themselves are raising the alarm, and yet they keep building  Artificial Intelligence. What's going on here? Is the AI apocalypse inevitable, or is all hype or somewhere in between?

On today's News Brief: President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order alongside first lady Melania Trump to create a task force and a National Institutes of Health division focused on women's health. Across the world, Israel will hold a national election that could have major impacts for the war in Iran and the fate of Gaza. And Parisians are picking up the pieces after widespread rioting in the city left homes and businesses burned, looted, and destroyed.

On today's News Brief: President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order alongside first lady Melania Trump to create a task force and a National Institutes of Health division focused on women's health. Across the world, Israel will hold a national election that could have major impacts for the war in Iran and the fate of Gaza. And Parisians are picking up the pieces after widespread rioting in the city left homes and businesses burned, looted, and destroyed.

An investigation by the independent newspaper Diario de Cuba has revealed that the Mexican government of leftist Claudia Sheinbaum played a key role in printing books for the Castroist education system - the primary engine of socialist indoctrination through which the State transforms and controls the minds of generations of Cubans.

America's national debt hit a record $40.3 trillion earlier this year, costing taxpayers $1.05 trillion in interest charged by creditors, making it the third largest expenditure in the entire federal budget for fiscal year 2026, which ended September 31.

Beijing's latest move should sharpen Washington's understanding of the AI contest. Commercial leadership matters, but the larger prize is national power: the political leverage that comes from supplying the systems other nations depend on.

France's central government asked some local authorities to impose curfews as it faced pressure over security failings on Monday after a weekend of riots and looting stemming from nationwide anti-government protests.

It's been one of the Democrats' greatest self-delusions of this election cycle that voters are somehow indifferent to the party's wild leftward lurch. "Let me tell you what I'm hearing," House Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) said on CNN's "The Situation Room." "The American people don't care about these [socialism] labels. They don't care about a created inter-Democratic party fight. ...They want people who are going to work for them." Unfortunately for Clark, people aren't just perplexed by the growing influence of the Democratic Socialists in U.S. politics - they're sincerely disturbed. And that fear is driving them straight into the arms of an increasingly rational-sounding GOP.

Editorial Director and Senior Writer, The Washington Stand

A 16-year-old shooter opened fire on Thursday at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon, killing four people including three children, before being killed by an armed member of the community who had pursued the assailant into the school, police said.

From 2020 to 2025, the nine largest U.S. banks deliberately discriminated against clients with political or religious views that might be deemed controversial, according to a 47-page report released Wednesday by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). The report confirms that conservative and pro-marriage organizations lost banking access due to the recommendations of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).

Senior Writer, The Washington Stand

Republicans dominate the executive and legislative branches of all five of the financially healthiest state governments, while, at the opposite end, Democrats exercise total control of the five states with the biggest debts, as measured by the Truth-in-Accounting (TIA) nonprofit watchdog.

U.S. authorities conducted a predawn raid on Monday on the Washington, D.C., home of Democratic US Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, an outspoken critic of Donald Trump who has been the target of political insults by the Republican president, as part of an ongoing investigation, the Justice Department said.

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