(Worthy Insights) – U.S. envoy Keith Kellogg met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy this week as discussions continue about efforts to end the ongoing war in Ukraine. Tensions remain high between the U.S. and Ukraine following comments from President Trump, who recently blamed Ukraine for Russia’s invasion and referred to President Zelenskyy as a “dictator.”

But both Trump and Zelenskyy now say there’s progress on a deal for Ukraine to repay U.S. aid with revenue from its natural resources.

Despite the turmoil, Ukraine’s Church continues to stand strong, offering a beacon of hope amid Russia’s attempts to silence it. In a recent visit to the U.S., the leader of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, His Beatitude Sviatoslav, spoke with CBN News about the resilience of the Ukrainian people and their faith during times of persecution. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – A pro-life advocate said that President Donald Trump’s pardons of nearly two dozen pro-life protesters was a “powerful” rebuke to the weaponization of government.

Thomas More Society Executive Vice President and Head of Litigation Peter Breen testified Tuesday before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight about the Biden administration’s prosecution of peaceful pro-life protesters. Breen urged the lawmakers to take action to repeal the FACE Act, a Clinton-era law that makes it a federal crime to block an entrance to an abortion facility.

“The Biden DOJ engaged in a systematic campaign to abuse the power of the federal government against pro-life advocates, while that same DOJ ignored hundreds of acts of vandalism and violence against pro-life churches, pregnancy help centers, and other advocates,” Breen said. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that his administration is unveiling a new visa “Gold Card” to attract wealthy immigrants to the U.S.

“We’re going to be selling a Gold Card,” Trump said in the Oval Office while speaking to reporters. “You have a Green Card. This is a Gold Card. We’re going to be putting a price on that card of about $5 million and that’s going to give you Green Card privileges, plus it’s going to be a route to citizenship, and wealthy people will be coming into our country by buying this card.”

“They’ll be wealthy, and they’ll be successful, and they’ll be spending a lot of money and paying a lot of taxes and employing a lot of people, and we think it’s going to be extremely successful,” he continued. “Never been done before anything like this, but it’s something that we’re going to be putting out over the next two weeks.” [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – Justice Minister Yariv Levin on Sunday published a draft bill making the prohibition on the consumption of prostitution in Israel, instituted in July 2020 as a temporary measure, a permanent offense.

At this stage, acting on the recommendations of professional authorities, the law will primarily be enforced through fines on consumers of prostitution.

Levin’s decision was made following a series of meetings held with all relevant parties, with input from government ministries, civil society organizations, academics, and women from the prostitution cycle. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – Just a third of Democrats have a favorable view of Israel, a steep decline from just a few years ago, according to a Gallup poll.

That’s in contrast to 83 percent of Republicans who view Israel favorably — a partisan gap of 50 points.

Responding to the results, Jewish Democratic leaders said they remained confident in their party’s pro-Israel bona fides — though one sounded notes of caution. Jewish Republicans celebrated the poll. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard said Tuesday evening that over 100 intelligence officers who participated in sexually explicit messages in National Security Agency chat rooms were fired.

“There are over 100 people from across the intelligence community that contributed to and participated in what is really just an egregious violation of trust,” Gabbard said on the Fox News Channel. “I put out a directive today that they will all be terminated and their security clearances will be revoked.”

Conservative think tank Manhattan Institute on Monday obtained the chat logs for the Intelink chatrooms, which revealed intelligence community employees discussing their experiences with gender-reassignment surgery, artificial genitalia, hormone therapy, and lewd sexual experiences, among others, Fox News reported. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – A spiritual awakening is taking hold on college campuses nationwide as thousands of students gather for worship, prayer, and baptisms.

The movement, fueled by various campus ministries, has seen unprecedented attendance and commitments to faith. Cale Matlock, a student at the University of Arkansas, described the experience as powerful.

“It was awesome, just having 10,000 people that all love Jesus and are worshipping God,” Matlock said. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – Abortion pills are being sent through the mail these days to bypass state restrictions, and it’s reshaping the landscape of the abortion battle.

In Louisiana, a New York doctor faces indictment for allegedly prescribing abortion-inducing drugs to a pregnant teenager’s mother. Authorities have charged Dr. Margaret Carpenter and her New York-based company with felony criminal abortion by means of abortion-inducing drugs. The teenager’s mother is also facing charges.

“She had a gender reveal party for her child planned, and she, unfortunately, was coerced by her mother,” said Sarah Zagorski Jones with Louisiana Right to Life. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – A Long Island woman believed to be the world’s oldest survivor of the Holocaust has died at age 113.

Rose Girone, who once credited her longevity to dark chocolate, survived the Nazi horror of Kristallnacht and her husband’s time at a concentration camp to eventually move with her family to the States and thrive, kin said.

“She made the best of terrible situations. She was very level-headed, very commonsensical,” said Girone’s daughter, Reha Bennicasa, according to Jewish media. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – Apple is working to address a problem raised by users on social media, in which saying the word “racist” while using the iPhone’s voice-to-text tool briefly shows “Trump.”

Users online shared footage of themselves using the voice-to-text feature to write out words. Several staff members at the Washington Examiner were also able to replicate the problem using the tool on their own iPhones. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – A 74-year-old woman has been arrested near a Glasgow hospital, marking the first case under Scotland’s new “buffer zone law.” She was subsequently charged under the Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) Act.

Police Scotland said they received a report last week about people gathered close to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, where abortions are provided, according to Sky News. Officers found a sign bearing the words “coercion is a crime, here to talk, only if you want,” which the arrested woman had allegedly been holding.

The police arrested her and removed the sign from the area. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – A federal judge on Monday denied the Associated Press’ request to immediately restore its access to select areas of the White House, after the administration pulled the outlet’s access to the Oval Office and Air Force One earlier this month.

The ruling is the latest development in a weeks-long feud between the parties over the AP’s refusal to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as “Gulf of America.” AP has maintained it will not change its policy because it is an international organization and did not want to confuse its readers.

U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, noted that although the White House has revoked the outlet’s access to certain events and areas, the AP still retains its credentials to the White House complex. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – Pastor Greg Laurie of Harvest Christian Fellowship is encouraging fellow pastors to make it a habit to share the Gospel message and invite people to accept Christ as their Savior after every message they preach.

Laurie made that appeal after more than 300 people responded to a “brief” gospel invitation last week at his Riverside, California church campus.

In a video posted to social media, the pastor and evangelist wrote “God is moving!” [ Source (Read More…) ]

The Power of the Gospel—People Are Hungry for Truth

I have to tell you—God is moving!

At the end of my message last Sunday, “The Man Who Needed a Second Chance,” I shared a brief Gospel invitation. Almost 300 people responded!

In this video from Harvest OC—just a quick clip I… pic.twitter.com/I3LTNeItLy

— Greg Laurie (@greglaurie) February 19, 2025

(Worthy Insights) – The notorious migrant shelter and arrival center at Manhattan’s Roosevelt Hotel will close in a couple of months, Mayor Eric Adams said Monday — as data showed the number of asylum seekers entering the city’s care has dropped nearly 200% since the crisis’ peak.

The impending closure of the centralized intake center and emergency shelter at the beleaguered Midtown hotel is a “milestone” for the Big Apple in the years-long migrant crisis, Adams said.

But the mayor, as he touted the decline in migrants arriving in the city, stopped short of declaring the $7 billion crisis over. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – (Worthy Insights) – Former prime minister Ehud Omert has for the first time revealed the map for a two-state solution that he showed to Mahmoud Abbas in 2008, and spoke of how he urged the Palestinian Authority president to sign the document right there and then.

As legend would have it, after his meeting with Olmert, Abbas returned to his Ramallah headquarters in the West Bank and hastily drew up a copy of the map on a napkin for Palestinian officials to review. In fact, that sketch was made on a piece of paper that was previously revealed in 2013 along with details of the far-reaching concessions that Olmert offered.

However, the actual map he showed Abbas was, until now, hidden. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – Apple announced Monday that it will be investing over $500 billion in the U.S. over the next four years — its largest capital investment ever.

President Donald Trump responded to the announcement with a Truth Social post writing in all caps, “APPLE HAS JUST ANNOUNCED A RECORD 500 BILLION DOLLAR INVESTMENT IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. THE REASON, FAITH IN WHAT WE ARE DOING, WITHOUT WHICH, THEY [WOULDN’T] BE INVESTING TEN CENTS. THANK YOU TIM COOK AND APPLE!!!” Cook is the CEO of Apple. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – A new Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll shows that most Americans support President Trump’s agenda to “Make America Great Again,” which includes beefing up the southern and northern borders and deporting criminal illegal aliens, unleashing DOGE on the corrupt federal bureaucracy, ending all toxic forms of DEI initiatives in the federal government, military, and corporate America, and ensuring the nation is energy independent. Meanwhile, approval for the Democratic Party has collapsed to record lows as radical leftist lawmakers double and triple down on woke policies.

The new poll captures the nation’s vibe during Trump’s first month in office, with 52% of respondents approving the president’s MAGA agenda, such as coming in like a wrecking ball into the DC Swamp, leveraging DOGE to slash government spending, ending globalist open-border policies, and prioritizing the restoration of American values. Most Americans overwhelmingly supported this approach after four years of globalist disaster under the Biden-Harris regime.

“The majority of voters support Trump’s policies on the border, focus on government expenditures, gender, DEI, and offshore drilling but have concerns on his foreign policies involving tariffs, the Israel-Hamas war, and the war in Ukraine,” the report featuring the poll data stated. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – The ringleader of an international illegal-alien smuggling conspiracy, a sophisticated network operating along the United States southern border since at least 2018, was extradited from Mexico to the U.S. as the result of a multi-agency investigation.

“Extensive coordination and cooperation” efforts between U.S. and Mexican law enforcement authorities culminated in the extradition of Raul Saucedo-Huipio, 49, according to a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) press release.

Saucedo-Huipio allegedly collected fees, coordinated lodging, and worked with smugglers in Central America to transport thousands of illegal aliens across America’s southern border. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – A binational enforcement operation between Mexico and the United States took down a cartel-linked human smuggling operation that reportedly kidnapped migrants attempting to enter the U.S. illegally and then extorted their families for money.

As part of the operation, Mexican authorities executed arrest warrants against Brian Alan Torres Gonzalez and Soledad Morales Nava, a pair of alleged human smugglers.

The Mexican citizens will be prosecuted in Mexico with evidence provided by U.S. authorities, according to a Thursday statement from the U.S. Department of Justice. [ Source (Read More…) ]