The CBN News Daily Rundown - Audio Podcast

American and Taliban officials have agreed on some of the principles of a peace deal that would result in a US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. In return, the Taliban has promised not to allow the country to again become a base for international terrorism. George Thomas is on today's CBN News Daily Rundown.

A bipartisan committee of lawmakers meets for the first time today in an effort to negotiate a compromise that will keep the government open. President Trump says the deal must include border funding or he won't sign it. Capitol Hill correspondent Abigail Robertson says the committee is full of lawmakers known for getting spending bills passed. She's on today's CBN News Daily Rundown.

Communities in California are still completely devastated from fires that seem to continually be raging in the state. CBN's John Jessup recently traveled there to see how residents are picking up the pieces and how churches in the area are trying to help. He's on today's CBN News Daily Rundown.

CBN News Mid-East Bureau Chief Christ Mitchel just returned from a trip to Syria. He came home with some powerful stories that will air over the next few weeks. He's on today's CBN News Daily Rundown with an inside look into his trip.

For the last year, the #MeToo movement has rocked the government, business and entertainment world with widespread reports of abuse. To many, the most shocking reports have come from within the Church. Reporter Heather Sells spent months putting together a series on this disturbing trend and she found one ministry family that really exemplifies what congregations are being confronted with. She's on today's CBN News Daily Rundown.

In August, four cases of the Ebola virus were confirmed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Since then, nearly 700 more cases have been confirmed, making this the second-largest Ebola outbreak in history. CBN News International Correspondent George Thomas has experience in an Ebola hot-zone and he recently interviewed an American doctor who contracted Ebola, survived and then went back to work on the front lines. George is on today's CBN News Daily Rundown.

The latest round of "The White House vs The White House Press Corps" today on the CBN News Daily Rundown. Chief Political Analyst David Brody reports on the numbers behind the latest flare-up in ongoing tensions.

In what's already a crowded field, Democrats are using their most creative means yet to announce they're running for president in 2020. Are the unconventional announcements appealing to their base? CBN News Washington Correspondent Amber Strong says the verdict is still out. Take a trip behind her reporting on the 2020 Democratic lineup today on the CBN News Daily Rundown.

At CBN News covering the news and packaging it for our viewers is a team sport. Today on the CBN News Daily Rundown, we meet the woman in charge of keeping all of the balls in the air at CBN's Washington Bureau, assignment editor Aronica Glover. When Glover started studying broadcasting she actually had her eye on radio. “Radio was my first love, but television happened to me,” she jokes. Don't miss her story today on the podcast.  “At the end of the day we work for the Lord,” she says.

"I've given my talents to God and I just ask him to just put me at the right place at the right time so my gifting can be a blessing to those around me," says Mario Gonzalez, editor and photographer at CBN's Washington Bureau. 

In TV news, reporters become the faces of the stories they tell, but that’s only half the story because TV wouldn’t be TV without video. At CBN News, videographers like Mario capture amazing images every day, often under high pressure and even dangerous circumstances.

Today on the CBN News Daily Rundown, Mario shares how God used his gift of photography to help him through a difficult time in his life, how he gets through tough assignments and offers some tricks of the trade.

"It's become easier and easier for me to just see people through the eyes of God, through the lens of God," he says.