(Worthy Insights) – Employees at the Central Intelligence Agency mocked the death of the late televangelist Pat Robertson, according to internal chat logs leaked to journalist Christopher Rufo.

“It was so smoky yesterday because the gates of hell opened up to let him in,” wrote one employee, whose name was redacted on the undated chat log from a National Security Agency messaging server, though Robertson died June 8, 2023.

The leaked CIA chat about Robertson was part of a larger exposé from Rufo, who has published internal correspondence between U.S. intelligence agencies’ employees stored on NSA servers this week. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – In a groundbreaking feat, photographer Josh Dury, 27, also known as the “Starman”, is believed to have captured the first-ever image of all seven planets, plus Earth, in a single frame.

This rare opportunity arose due to a rare celestial event known as the “great planetary parade”, which occurs when all eight planets align – a phenomenon that hasn’t happened since 1982. Mr Dury, an award-winning astronomical photographer, snapped the panoramic photo from Somerset’s Mendip Hills on February 22, potentially making history with this extraordinary image.

(Worthy Insights) – A new poll shows that the level of trust Americans have in mainstream media outlets to fairly and accurately report the news has dropped to the lowest level in more than 50 years since Gallup began tracking media trust in the United States.

In the latest Gallup survey, just under 1 in 3 Americans said they trust the mainstream news media “a great deal” or “a fair amount,” while more than one-third say they don’t trust the media “at all.”

Gallup’s initial survey of Americans’ trust in the media, conducted in the 1970s, showed that almost 70% of Americans at the time had a great deal or a fair amount of trust in the news media. Those numbers have steadily declined in the decades since despite some spots of improvement, the most recent being in 2017 and 2018. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – Clinical trials for a new COVID-19 vaccine were halted after a multi-million contract authorized by the Biden administration to develop the inoculation was paused by Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Kennedy implemented a 90-day stop-work order on Feb. 21 regarding the HHS contract with Vaxart Inc., according to the announcement, which was first reported by Fox News Digital on Feb. 25.

Vaxart, an American biotech company, is creating a new COVID-19 inoculation for oral use. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – The Trump administration is arresting illegal migrants at a break-neck pace, far outpacing the rate at which the Biden White House nabbed those living unlawfully in the country.

Federal immigration authorities have arrested more than 20,000 illegal migrants in President Donald Trump’s first month back into office, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed Wednesday The number marks a 627% increase in monthly arrests in comparison to the roughly 33,000 at-large arrests made during President Joe Biden’s last year in the White House.

“President Trump and this Administration are saving lives every day because of the actions we are taking to secure the border and deport illegal alien criminals,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a press release. “Hundreds of thousands of criminals were let into this country illegally.” [ Source: (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – An overwhelming majority of Americans support Israel’s right to defend itself, according to a poll released Thursday.

The poll, conducted by the Israel on Campus Coalition in partnership with Schoen Cooperman Research, reveals a resounding endorsement of Israel’s position among Americans. Of the 1,000 U.S. adults surveyed, 81 percent affirmed Israel’s right to defend itself—an 11 percent increase compared to a poll the two groups conducted last month.

Thursday’s survey also identified an even sharper increase: 82 percent of Americans believe a final ceasefire agreement in the Gaza conflict should remove Hamas from power, up from 57 percent last month. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – Library goers hit now-famously conservative Southern California enclave Huntington Beach with a lawsuit on Thursday over new rules that restrict minors’ access to public library books deemed “sexually explicit.”

A transgender advocacy nonprofit, Alianza Translatinx, along with two unnamed Huntington Beach teenagers and one named adult, Erin Spivey, a longtime librarian filed the suit in Orange County Superior Court.

“Libraries should reflect, not erase, and be spaces where young people can discover who they are,” said Alianza Translatinx CEO Khloe Rios-Wyatt in a written statement. “Huntington Beach officials, driven by fear of challenging ideas, are trying to erase stories and identities — but we refuse to be erased.” [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner opened President Donald Trump’s first Cabinet meeting of his second term on Wednesday at the White House with an inspiring Christian prayer.

In the room were his appointed Cabinet secretaries, 18 of whom have been confirmed by the Senate so far.

Trump asked Turner to open the meeting in prayer as the official stood next to him in the West Wing’s Cabinet room. [ Source (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy Insights) – The United States imposed a fresh round of sanctions on Monday targeting Iran’s oil industry. The Treasury Department announced that more than 30 brokers, tanker operators, and shipping companies have been hit for their roles in selling and transporting Iranian petroleum. The move is part of President Donald Trump’s renewed “maximum pressure” campaign aimed at reducing Iranian crude exports to zero, a policy intended to cut off funding for Iran’s nuclear and missile programs.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated, “Iran continues to rely on a shadowy network of vessels, shippers, and brokers to facilitate its oil sales and fund its destabilizing activities.” He warned that anyone involved in Iranian oil would face significant sanctions risk as the United States uses all available tools to disrupt Iran’s oil supply chain. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(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…) ]