Emily Wood joined The Christian Post as a staff reporter in February 2021. She primarily covers the global persecuted Church, the pro-life cause, Christian culture and American politics.
Emily graduated with a degree in journalism from Liberty University in May 2020 and served as the editor-in-chief of the Liberty Champion newspaper. Emily most recently worked at the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy and as a congressional intern in the U.S. Senate. A native of upstate South Carolina, Emily now lives on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
California added Florida, Arkansas, Montana, North Dakota and West Virginia to its list of states banned from state-funded, state-sponsored travel due to a wave recently passed legislation that California Democrats deems “discriminatory” toward LGBT individuals.
Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri has urged the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom to consider placing Canada on its Watch List due to its continued lockdown restrictions, arrests of Christian pastors and seizure of church property.
A Pakistani Christian’s life sentence for allegedly sending blasphemous text messages was reportedly upheld by a court in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, last week despite his attorney’s claim the prosecution’s evidence was manipulated and his client was framed for the crime.
Parents in Wisconsin will have the option of choosing “gender-neutral” terms for themselves instead of mother and father on their baby's birth certificate, Gov. Tony Evers and the state's Department of Health Services announced this week.
A racism task force for the National Archives asserts that the United States' Founding Fathers are inappropriately “laud[ed]” and seeks to “Reimagine the Rotunda” to address the “overarching system of racial bias” and curb the “structural racism” in the federally-funded institution responsible for preserving the U.S.’ primary documents.
Over 100 protesters and counter-protesters gathered outside of Houston Methodist Hospital in Texas on Saturday in opposition to the hospital system's COVID-19 vaccine mandate that led to over 150 lost jobs.
Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday visited a Border Patrol station in El Paso, Texas, for the first time since she was tapped months ago by President Joe Biden to be the administration's “border czar” to solve the immigration crisis.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation Tuesday to allow college students to submit recordings of their professors in class as evidence to universities for political bias complaints in a wave of education bills seeking to expand "intellectual freedom" and "viewpoint diversity" on college campuses.
Dr. Robert Malone, who helped create some of the mRNA technology used in the COVID-19 vaccine, cautioned adolescents about being vaccinated as many public and private universities are mandating vaccines for the next school year and reports have emerged linking the vaccine to mild heart inflammation.
The mayor of a Colorado mountain town recently banned the board of trustees and residents from reciting the Pledge of Allegiance at public board meetings, purportedly due to its “divisiveness,” which drew the ire of evangelical leader Franklin Graham.
