10+ hour, 24+ min ago   (258+ words) WASHINGTON, D.C. (Worthy News) – Newly declassified FBI records released by the White House detail what officials describe as a years-long Chinese intelligence effort to penetrate American political circles through sexual relationships, campaign donations, and strategically placed interns. The nearly 150 pages of…...

11+ hour, 7+ min ago   (863+ words) (Worthy News) – President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace is considering a significant overhaul of its Gaza disarmament framework after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected a plan that would have linked Hamas weapons handovers to phased Israeli troop withdrawals, according…...

18+ hour, 2+ min ago   (830+ words) NEW YORK, USA (Worthy News) – New York’s Jewish community was reeling Sunday as a judge ordered a man held on bail after prosecutors said he admitted to disrupting Shabbat services at Manhattan’s Central Synagogue and assaulting two people there. The…...

18+ hour, 8+ min ago   (632+ words) Iran’s leadership used a two-month diplomatic opening to strengthen the Revolutionary Guard, rebuild missile and drone capabilities, and prepare for a prolonged regional confrontation, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation. (Worthy News) – Iran’s rulers were quietly preparing for a…...

18+ hour, 23+ min ago   (1078+ words) WASHINGTON/PYONGYANG (Worthy News) – U.S. President Donald J. Trump announced Sunday that he had ordered the Pentagon to “substantially reduce” military exercises with key regional ally South Korea, citing his “very good relationship” with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un…...

18+ hour, 30+ min ago   (671+ words) JAKARTA/MEDAN (Worthy News) – Rescue teams in eastern Indonesia recovered six more bodies Sunday following a powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake, raising the death toll to at least 53 as Christians prayed for victims and rescuers struggled to reach isolated communities. Authorities said…...

18+ hour, 32+ min ago   (985+ words) WASHINGTON (Worthy News) – The U.S. Department of Defense is introducing a course centered on Christianity and Western civilization this fall in the schools it operates for military families, while casting Islam as a threat to both. The course is part…...

19+ hour, 2+ min ago   (1422+ words) THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS (Worthy News) – Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten faced mounting pressure Sunday after two people died in a traffic accident linked to a farmers’ protest, while his government was drawn into a separate controversy over a prominent statesman’s…...

19+ hour, 25+ min ago   (715+ words) MOSCOW/PYONGYANG (Worthy News) – Amid mounting military cooperation, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reaffirmed deepening ties with Russia in a message to President Vladimir Putin as Pyongyang marked the anniversary of “independence from Japan’s colonial rule,” state media reported…...

20+ hour, 26+ min ago   (684+ words) KYIV/MOSCOW/BUCHAREST/BUDAPEST (Worthy News) – The Russia-Ukraine war rapidly escalated Sunday as more than 800 Ukrainian drones targeted Russia in Ukraine’s largest such attack this year, killing at least seven people, officials said. Earlier Russian strikes hit Ukraine, while a…...