J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, has led a life of ups and downs and on way to becoming one of the world's best-selling authors, has overcome much adversity. She's also a complex woman — as complex as the characters she's developed in her much-beloved books. Even her faith and love for Jesus has not come without controversy. Solomon Schmidt, author of "A Pen to Change the World," dove deep into her background.

If you want to know why youth in America are struggling to move from renting to home ownership, then look no further than the Covid years. As one housing expert says, Covid became the pivot point in the nation where building homes turned into a developer's nightmare, because pricing homes was so impossible. And that challenge was passed right along to consumers. The effects still linger.

Too many Christians have the wrong idea about money, and see the concept of wealth-building as automatically evil. But pursuing financial stability and prosperity isn't in itself an evil. Money only becomes problematic when its pursuit gets in the way of worship of God. John Coleman, author of "Good Money," tells how to build a life of financial purpose.

This White House has shown itself to be a champion of tax cuts, with estimates showing Americans are receiving refunds on several thousand dollars, on average. But as fiscal expert Dr. Anne Bradley warns, tax cuts without longer term reductions in government spending in essence stagnate growth and erase the returns to citizens. Tax cuts alone can't solve the national debt crisis.

The Chinese communist influence in America has taken an even deeper turn, and now the CCP is using the IRS to spread its rot. Nonprofits have become a go-to for the CCP, and it's become so problematic, even Congress is holding hearings. But that's nothing compared to the evil Jan Jekielek has uncovered about the CCP in his new book,"Killed to Order," about organ harvesting.

Today's media in all its many forms is probably the most powerful and influential it has ever been. But with great power comes great responsibility — and it's questionable whether today's media members recognize that there's a moral imperative for them to report the truth, and in instances where errors are made, to correct those mistakes. More than that, too many in today's news outlets are in it for the wrong reasons. Newsmax host Marc Lotter weighs in on the state of today's media.

Americans' views of the U.S. Supreme Court may be divisive, with Democrats seeing the justices as too conservative and Republicans seeing the court as too unpredictable. But consensus is that the now-deceased Justice Antonin Scalia is one of the most influential figures to have served on the court in years — in decades. Chief Washington correspondent for Newsmax, James Rosen, has a new book, "Scalia: Supreme Court Years," that tells us why.

Look around and see: the world is filled with mystery — and that includes the invisible world. The Bible speaks clearly of the existence of angels and demons. But what about aliens and UFOs? Where do those fit in the biblical picture? Author, media figure, writer and documentary maker Billy Hallowell discusses his new "Investigating the Supernatural: Angels & Demons" film — and it's filled with questions and answers and more mysteries.