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A legal battle continues over a ban against dismemberment abortion in Oklahoma. Last week, Oklahoma County District Judge Cindy Truong ruled in favor of the state’s effort to ban dismemberment abortion. The case was brought by Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR), working on behalf of an abortion facility in Tulsa…. Carol Tobias, president of National … Continued

Pressure is building in Iran as yet another group of believers pay for claiming the name of Christ. According to Miles Windsor of Middle East Concern, seven believers are in solitary confinement with no access to lawyers. In a separate incident, five men accused of “propaganda against the regime” began serving prison sentences on July … Continued

The Trump administration has proposed dramatically scaling down the number of staff from a Department of Labor public lands agency who work in Washington, D.C., leaving less than 1 percent of staff working in the nation’s capital. An agencywide reorganization will leave just 61 employees from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in the nation’s … Continued

(Editor’s Note: There are so many clamoring voices about the four freshman Congresswomen, President Trump, his tweets, etc. We liked this piece by Dr. Michael Brown. It is thoughtful and makes some good points. What’s going on reminds us, more than anything else, that praying is necessary, valuable, and effective for our nation.) There is … Continued

The Trump administration stopped taxpayer dollars from going to abortion referrals at publicly funded family planning centers on Monday. Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, sued the administration, along with 20 states and the District of Columbia, in an attempt to stop Health and Human Services, or HHS, from diverting Title X family planning funding going to abortions. But the … Continued

The U.S.’ religious freedom ambassador Sam Brownback made an impassioned plea to people of faith on Tuesday to fight for their liberties and those of others suffering for their faith worldwide. He was speaking at the State Department’s Second Annual Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom, which has brought around 1,000 leaders from religious and civic … Continued

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Administrator Jim Bridenstine told reporters on a conference call on Monday that the agency is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission to put a man on the moon with a bold prediction about the future of space exploration. Bridenstine said President Donald Trump wants to “plant … Continued

Iran’s foreign minister has suggested for the first time that the Islamic Republic’s ballistic missile program could be up for negotiations with the U.S., a possible opening for talks as tensions remain high between Tehran and Washington over the collapsing nuclear deal. Mohammad Javad Zarif offered an initially high price for such negotiations — the … Continued

The first shipment of a Russian missile defense system has arrived in Turkey, the Turkish Defense Ministry said Friday, moving the country closer to possible U.S. sanctions and a new standoff with Washington. A Defense Ministry statement said “the first group of equipment” of the S-400 air defense systems has reached the Murted Air Base … Continued

From The Daily Signal: Our defeat was all but inevitable, yet the transgender activists still showed up in matching shirts and waved multicolored flags. Their speakers outnumbered ours 4 to 1, but they still hissed and muttered ugly names at our side while we spoke. We had gathered for the Arlington County School Board’s meeting … Continued