The CBN News Daily Rundown - Audio Podcast

A private Israeli space company, SpaceIL, was on the verge of making history when its lunar craft, Beresheet, failed to nail its moon landing. CBN News Middle East Bureau Chief Chris Mitchell was there for the drama. Although the moon mission failed, Mitchell reports it succeeded in inspiring a generation of young Jewish innovators.

Candidates for elected office who have a biblical worldview are often in over their head when they enter the political arena. The D.James Kennedy Center for Christian Statesmanship is looking to change that. They've started offering training to equip Christian candidates for service in government. Jennifer Wishon recently sat in on one of the classes in the program. She's on today's CBN News Daily Rundown.

Benjamin Netanyahu will serve a historic fifth term as Prime Minister of Israel. The race between the Likud party and the Blue and White party was tight right up until the end. CBN multi-media producer Emily Jones (pictured below) spent Tuesday watching it all go down at the Likud party headquarters in Tel Aviv and she's on today's CBN News Daily Rundown.

For the first time in history, the US is labeling another nation's military as a terrorist organization. The Trump administration is singling out the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says this designation is due to the role of the IRGC in terror campaigns around the world. Senior International Correspondent George Thomas is on today's CBN News Daily Rundown with more on the IRGC and the consequences that come along with targeting the group.

There's a program here in the US that allows businesses struggling to find workers, to apply for temporary foreign workers. It's called the H-2B program and it's in need of updating. Only a fraction of the American businesses who apply for workers from this program are given the help they need. That's because there's only a limited number of visas available. White House correspondent Ben Kennedy recently spoke with a company that relies on H-2B. He's on today's CBN News Daily Rundown.

There are only five days to go before Israeli's head to the polls. Mideast bureau chief Chris Mitchell and senior editor John Waage are on today's CBN News Daily Rundown with the latest from the polls, the factors that are influencing voters and an explanation of how the Israeli electoral process works.

In February the top three elected officials in Virginia were facing accusations that could end their political careers. Then, the news cycle moved on and those scandals faded from public attention. Senior Washington correspondent Jennifer Wishon is on today's CBN News Daily Rundown exploring the responsibility of journalists to cover the breaking news, while still shining a light back on stories that aren't over yet.

The Trump administration is treating the crisis at the US-Mexico border, "as if we have been hit by a category five hurricane." The president reissued his warning that if the crisis continues he'll shut the border down. I spoke with CBN contributor Chuck Holton on Monday about what he experienced at the border in El Paso. Well, reporter Heather Sells just got back from San Diego. She's on today's CBN News Daily Rundown with what border patrol there are dealing with.

Damage from widespread flooding in the midwest is so extensive that surging water levels have left large areas without any way to protect against future floods. Hundreds of miles of levees have been damaged, many of them were aging and never designed to withstand water levels seen over the last decade. But levees aren't the only structures used to prevent flooding. Dams hold back even larger amounts of water and, according to The American Society of Civil Engineers, by 2020, seventy percent of the dams in the US will be more than 50 years old. Reporter Heather Sells is on the road in CA where concerns have been raised that if there's epic flooding, a dam protecting Los Angeles could burst. She's on today's CBN News Daily Rundown.

“Anyone who tells you that there’s not an absolute crisis on the Southern border is either naïve or lying,” said CBN News contributor Chuck Holton on today's CBN News Daily Rundown. He spent last week at the Southern border and he's on today's episode with a first-hand account of how migrants are taking advantage of broken immigration policy and flooding into the US in unprecedented numbers.