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https://news.yahoo.com/praying-for-armageddon-fundamentalist-evangelicals-153858689.html
'Praying for Armageddon' exposes the power, influence of U. S. fundamentalist evangelicals

Following the release of the powerful film on artificial intelligence, iHuman, filmmaker Tonje Hessen Schei's new political thriller, Praying for Armageddon, exposes the influence of U. S. fundamentalist evangelicals on politics and democracy, with the aim to fulfill the biblical Armageddon prophecy.

“For me, the issue of the power of the U. S. fundamentalist evangelicals is maybe one of the most important issues of today,” Schei told Yahoo Canada.

“Seeing the immense power they have from the grassroots, through megachurch empires, all the way up to the political system in Washington, D. C., is just very concerning to me, especially as they're threatening democracy and also influencing U. S. foreign policy.”

In Praying for Armageddon, Schei and co-director Michael Rowley are largely guided by journalist Lee Fang, reporter with The Intercept, working to investigate evangelical power and how the direct influence on U. S. foreign policy, specifically the country's relationship to Israel.

“In the tradition of Christianity, there is no single view of the end times," former evangelical preacher, Frank Schaeffer, explains in the documentary. "But the American evangelical community has latched on to one."

"Generally, they believe that believers on earth will be rapture to heaven before things get really bad. And that’s the promise to the evangelical, that they will not taste death if Jesus comes back and the rapture occurs in their lifetime.”

From American preachers, like Gary Burd with the Mission M25 biker ministry, to chronicling the function of the Organizations like Christians Unite For Israel (CUFI), led by John Hagee, Praying for Armageddon is clearly sounding the alarm on the dangers of this influential group.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/leaked-documents-investigation_n_644c8b46e4b011a819c7b3d9
Guardsman In Leak Case Wanted To Kill A 'Ton Of People': US

The Massachusetts Air National guardsman accused of leaking highly classified military documents kept an arsenal of guns and said on social media that he would like to kill a “ton of people,” prosecutors said in arguing Thursday that 21-year-old Jack Teixeira should remain in jail for his trial.
But the judge at Teixeira’s detention hearing put off an immediate decision on whether he should be kept in custody until his trial or released to home confinement or under other conditions. Teixeira was led away from the court in handcuffs, black rosary beads around his neck, pending that ruling.

The court filings raise new questions about why Teixeira had such a high security clearance and access to some of the nation’s most classified secrets. They said he may still have material that hasn’t been released, which could be of “tremendous value to hostile nation states that could offer him safe harbor and attempt to facilitate his escape from the United States.”
In Teixeira’s detention hearing, Magistrate Judge David Hennessy expressed skepticism of defense arguments that the government hasn’t alleged Teixeira intended leaked information to be widely disseminated.

“Somebody under the age of 30 has no idea that when they put something on the internet that it could end up anywhere in this world?” the judge asked. “Seriously?”
Teixeira entered his hearing in Worcester in orange prison garb, smiling at his father in the front row. His handcuffs were removed before he sat down and put back on when he was taken out.