The story of the abortion pill is one of steadily weakening protections for the mother from a drug expressly designed to be lethal to her unborn child. Initial limitations on who may prescribe the drug and what their health care credentials must be have eroded under Democratic administrations to a risky, laissez-faire regimen of no in-person medical supervision, no injury tracking, expanded gestational limits, and attacks on any research, such as that conducted by the Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI), designed to identify the drug's physical and psychological effects on women who take it or have it foisted upon them.

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 announces the firing squad execution of the Fort Hood shooter will not be livestreamed, Israel Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon speaks out, and a group of girls on a Washington state cross country team protest a biological male joining their division.

On today's News Brief: President Donald Trump announces the firing squad execution of the Fort Hood shooter will not be livestreamed, Israel Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon speaks out, and a group of girls on a Washington state cross country team protest a biological male joining their division.

As the U.S. midterms inch ever closer, American fuel prices remain stratospheric because events in the Middle East remain far from settled. The Iranian regime's strongest remaining proxy group has now taken the lead in sowing chaos and destruction across the region, with a particular focus on Saudi oil production. Conditions are so concerning that even France is sending troops to defend its interests. President Donald Trump has also said he is considering re-entering the conflict he left more than a year earlier.

Ukraine's drone strikes on Russian computing facilities expose the vulnerability of the infrastructure behind AI. They also raise a harder question about the weapons and military decisions that now depend on it. Can we control the military capabilities we are building on top of that infrastructure?

Voter enthusiasm surveys are showing signs of a gathering "Silver Wave" of older voters surging to the polls on November 3 for the 2026 midterm elections and voting in greater numbers for Republican candidates than they have in recent years, according to GOP pollster and campaign strategist Matt Towery.

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.

When Pastor Rick Bick entered the Ottumwa City Council meeting on Tuesday, he didn't expect to be rebuking a satanic prayer. And yet, at the start of the meeting, former council member Matt Dalbey stood before the room and invoked a prayer to Satan, declaring, "Let us embrace the Luciferian impulse to eat of the tree of knowledge. That which will not bend must break, and that which can be destroyed by truth should never be spared its demise. Hail Satan."

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For days, the country has been riveted by the case of death row inmate Christa Pike, who was sentenced to die by lethal injection on September 30 - the first woman in 200 years to be executed in the state of Tennessee. Only Christa didn't die. For two hours, the team at the prison tried and failed to find a vein, ultimately sending a double dose of the poison into her body, not her bloodstream. The result was catastrophic, but not fatal, and she was rushed to the hospital for "life-saving care," a shocking twist that's ignited a global debate about the death penalty. But there's a much bigger outrage taking place in America than this one botched punishment - and it's taking countless lives a year.

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If voters are trying to imagine what the nation would look like under the socialist policies of a Democratic majority in Congress, look no farther than California.

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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.

I recently asked Claude, Anthropic's artificial intelligence assistant, to investigate whether Claude is a person. Its response began: "I'm Claude, so I'm the subject here. I've tried to report this straight." Claude answered as a participant with a personal stake in the question would answer, and that made the wording striking.

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