I'm Mike Slater from the podcast Politics by Faith. This is a crazy time in our country. It's stressful. A lot of anxiety and it's going to get worse.

And I realize that one of the things that helps me take away the stress is realizing that there's

nothing new under the sun. So on this podcast we take the news of the day and we

run it through the Bible and other periods in history to realize that we've been

through this before and we can rise above again.

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Welcome to the PDB afternoon bulletin.

I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage.

Let's get briefed.

First, after a lengthy detention in a British prison, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will plead guilty to violating US espionage law in a deal that will set him free.

Also, the International Criminal Court, the ICC,

is ramping up the diplomatic pressure on Russia,

is it really diplomatic pressure on Russia

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