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ALEXANDRIA, Va. (CN) – The case against a business associate of former national security adviser Michael Flynn went to the jury Monday, which will determine whether he illegally lobbied at the direction of Turkey without telling the federal government. During closing arguments Monday, prosecutors said 66-year-old Bijan Rafiekian tried to carefully mask who was behind a project he and Flynn worked on that aimed to discredit Fethullah Gulen, a cleric Turkish President Recep Erdogan has blamed for a 2016 failed coup against him. “They tried to subvert the American process so Erdogan could get his hands on Gulen,” U.S. Attorney...

The Truth Project Do you have a biblical worldview like Del Tackett? In 1991, President George H. W. Bush appointed Del Tackett — now Focus on the Family Institute President — as the director of technical plans at the White House for the National Security Council. During this time of serving as the White House’s liaison to federal agencies, Del often noticed three murals — memorials to America’s foundations — in the Capitol’s rotunda. The first was the landing of Columbus, the second the Christian baptism of Pocahontas, and the third the Pilgrims as they paused for prayer on their...

Note: This commentary was delivered by Prison Fellowship President Mark Earley. What if you were able to have a closed-door meeting with the world’s leading authority on the single-most important question humanity has ever faced? Would you walk away from him? That’s exactly what Pilate did. Jesus told Pilate, “For this reason, I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth” (John 18:37). Mockingly, Pilate retorts, “What is truth?” and then turns his back on Jesus to hand him over to the mob. Clearly, for Jesus, Truth—with a capital T—matters. And unlike Pilate,...