Crosstalk: January 18, 2016

Jim Schneider once again presented the latest news stories pertinent to Christian listeners. Headlines included: --Detainees from Guantanamo Bay are involved in a troubling transfer. --House GOP to move a mass criminal release bill in 2016. --Iowa Representative Steve King left President Obama's State of the Union address to pray for the nation's unborn babies. --Hillary Clinton accepts endorsement from Planned Parenthood and tells a small group of abortion activists that she's ready to implement its marching orders. --A judge has ordered the production of a treasure-trove of State Department documents connected to Hillary Clinton. --It was discovered this past summer that Planned Parenthood executives are willing to negotiate over the prices that they're paid for the body parts of unborn babies sought by researchers. --Wisconsin U.S. Congresswoman Gwen Moore criticized fellow Congressman Sean Duffy after he called on African-American legislators to do more to protect minority women and babies from abortion. --Kansas Senator Sam Brownback says his state will defund Planned Parenthood. --Americans United for Life finds that Oklahoma is the most pro-life state and Washington kept its top position as the most pro-abortion state. --The Obama administration announced that it will temporarily halt new coal leases on federal lands until it completes a comprehensive review to determine whether fees charged to mining companies promote a fair return to taxpayers. --The Down Jones Industrial Average down more than 500 points in midday trading falling below 16,000 as oil prices sank below $30 per barrel. --A decision on trans-military service to come by this Spring. --Farm owners told they must pay $13,000 for declining to host a same-sex wedding in their back yard. --A first-of-its-kind private school in Georgia aimed at attracting LGBT youth and teachers is being established in Atlanta for students who feel bullied/not accepted in traditional schools. --Dr. Paul McHugh, the former psychiatrist-in-chief for Johns Hopkins Hospital, says that transgenderism is a mental disorder and merits treatment. --A Michigan company running health clubs ejected a woman and canceled her membership after she warned other women that she found a man using the women's lockr room with the company's permission. A Michigan judge tossed her lawsuit out. The result would be an appeal of the case to the higher courts. --A Presbyterian pastor mocks those who believe in Christ's resurrection. --Kentucky's new republican administration is moving forward with plans to shut down the state's health insurance exchange. --A lawsuit has been filed by a former maintenance worker at Maritime National Historic Park in San Francisco for being fired after performing a baptism for a park visitor during his lunch break. --An Ohio lawsuit filed on behalf of several atheist plaintiffs argues that 'In God We Trust' on U.S. money violates the separation of church and state. --ISIS persecution moves to kids who befriended Christians. --Former ISIS child soldiers have revealed that the jihadi group snatches young boys from families and subjects them to savage punishments if they refuse to become child soldiers. --The feds score big in latest Powerball drawing. --Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin is planning a vote on a refugee bill (HR 4038). --U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch is the latest Obama appointee to admit that one of the top priorities is to make sure that President Obama's policies live on long after she and her boss leave power. --Jewish immigration to Israel from Western Europe is at an all-time high. --Two Israeli Arabs were indicted last Friday for planning to assassinate Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. --The pension fund for the United Methodist Church has blocked five Israeli banks from its investment portfolio. --The government of Scotland is putting cab drivers through a new training course in which they are told they must spy on children that they take to schools, even getting out of the cab and going in to speak with teachers if they hear something deemed concerning. --While officials raced to a 9-11 call about a man threatening his ex-girlfriend, the police operator at headquarters consulted software that scored the suspects potential for violence the way a bank might run a credit report.