Date: December 19, 2025
Host: Jim Schneider
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Here’s a selection of stories Jim presented during the first half-hour of this edition of the News Round-Up & Comment program:
–Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, released a video on Tuesday evening announcing immediate changes to directives given to military chaplains. He described the original intent of chaplains, that they are to be the spiritual and the moral backbone of our nation’s forces. Jim provided audio from the secretary.
–This past Wednesday, Pete Hegseth hosted the first ever Pentagon Christmas worship service. Jim provided audio from U.S. Navy Admiral and Chaplain, Carey Cash.
–Authorities have identified the suspect in Saturday’s mass shooting at Brown University that left two students dead and nine injured during a finals week review session as the same man believed to have carried out the murder of a renowned nuclear scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
–Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan was found guilty of a felony charge of obstruction by a jury yesterday in a case involving the judge’s actions related to the defendant in her court that ICE officials were attempting to arrest outside the courtroom.
–House Republicans successfully passed a premium-slashing health care package on Wednesday, overcoming a late breaking revolt from House GOP moderates.
–Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer declined Tuesday to rule out triggering another government shutdown as Democrats press Republicans to extend the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies.
–President Trump signed the National Defense Authorization Act yesterday authoring some 901 billion dollars in military and national security programs for fiscal year 2026.
–The fifth person arrested in a foiled plot for a New Year’s Eve bombing is a transgender Marine veteran and former cop who wanted to recreate WACO against ICE agents.
–Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Thursday that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is taking steps to push back against what he described as “sex rejecting” transgender procedures for minors.
–The House of Representatives passed legislation late Wednesday evening that would criminalize gender transition procedures for minors, making a significant victory for conservatives who argue that the federal government must step in to protect children from irreversible medical procedures.
–San Diego Unified School District is justifying lessons about dozens of novel sexual orientations as age appropriate.
–The Supreme Court has declined to hear the case of a California Christian baker who was prosecuted for refusing on religious grounds to create a custom wedding cake celebrating a same-sex marriage.
–Teachers unions are using schools as breeding grounds for social justice activism.
–Thanks to a lawsuit from a pro-life organization, the liberal state of Massachusetts has been forced to allow Christian couples to do foster care.
–6th grade students at Westland Middle School in Bethesda, Maryland, were exposed to a slide show commemorating Transgender Awareness Week.
