Date: June 23, 2023
Host: Jim Schneider
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From coast to coast and around the world, the News Round-Up focuses on those stories important to Christians everywhere. Here’s a sample of what was covered on the broadcast:
–President Joe Biden’s son Hunter was charged Tuesday with illegally possessing a handgun and failing to pay his taxes on time in 2017 and 2018.
–Hunter Biden is scheduled to make his initial appearance before a Trump appointed judge on July 26th.
–James Comer expects to uncover 20 to 30 million dollars in illicit payments made to the Biden family.
–House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Tuesday that the plea deal announced for Hunter Biden should mean that the Department of Justice should not be able to withhold any documents from Congress in its investigations into President Joe Biden and his son, citing a pending investigation.
–Hunter Biden illegally reported payments to a prostitute and a sex club as business expenses on his taxes, according to an IRS whistle-blower testimony to Congress released yesterday.
–Congressional committees will now look at the articles of impeachment against the incumbent president after a vote on Thursday.
–U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken claimed that the U.S. does not support Taiwanese independence in a press conference following the meeting with Xi Jinping.
–China has refused to resume direct military communication with Washington despite repeated efforts from the secretary of state.
–China has called Joe Biden’s use of the term, “dictator” to describe Chinese leader Xi Jinping as “extremely absurd and irresponsible.”
–A Chinese intelligence agency quietly operates service centers in 7 American cities, all of which have had contact with Beijing’s national police authority. That’s according to state media reports and government records reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
–President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled business, defense and technology deals yesterday at the White House with the implicit intention of undermining China’s global influence in pulling India away from Russia.
–Bill Gates announced a 50 million dollar collaboration with a notorious Chinese Communist Party controlled university that conducts research for the nation’s military.
–Tik Tok confirmed to Congress that it stores some data from Americans in China.
–The U.S. Coast Guard announced Thursday that the 5 passengers inside the missing Titan submersible were lost in a catastrophic implosion.
–Former President Obama wants the government to be able to track and hunt down Americans by their fingerprints if they dare spread so-called misinformation.
