The News Round-Up is your pipeline to what's taking place around the nation and the world.  Here's a sample of what Jim presented this week:  

--President Trump is concerned that China's Xi Jinping is conspiring against the U.S. with the leaders of Russia and North Korea as they gathered for a military parade in Beijing marking the anniversary of China's defeat of the Japanese in WWII.

--The leaders of China and Russia were caught on a “hot mic” discussing increasing longevity through organ transplants.

--China and Russia have green-lit a new cross border natural gas pipeline.

--Russian President Putin claimed he never refused a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and invited him to come to Moscow.

--North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country would fully support Russia's army as a fraternal duty.  President Putin called the ties of the two nations, “special.”

--The Trump administration has approved 825 million dollars in weapons sales to Ukraine.

--Leaders from 26 nations have pledged to commit troops to Ukraine as part of the post-war security guarantees.

--A federal grand jury in Dayton, Ohio, has indicted 3 U.S. citizens, 22 Chinese citizens and 4 Chinese pharmaceutical companies in international drug trafficking and money laundering conspiracies.

--The House overwhelmingly passed a bill seeking to stop the flow of fentanyl from China.

--Federal officials have called the capture of 1,300 barrels of substances coming in from China to Mexico, the largest seizure of precursor chemicals in the history of U.S. law enforcement.

--During a Wednesday press conference with the Polish president, a Polish media reporter stated there has been no action on the front regarding ironing out a peace deal with Ukraine.  President Trump was able to disarm the reporter's attempt at a “gotcha” moment.  Jim provided audio from the press conference.  

--Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided to shelve a plan to apply Israeli sovereignty to the biblical lands of Judea and Samaria.

--President Trump makes another urgent plea for Hamas to release all the hostages.

--Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia communicates that the idea that rights come from God is extremely troubling.