Daily News Roundup: Anti-Planned Parenthood Activist David Daleiden Charged in Calif.

Anti-Abortion Guerilla-Video Activist Faces New Charges: California Attorney General Xavier Becerra brought felony charges against David Daleiden and a colleague from his nonprofit Center for Medical Progress over their use of fake identities to covertly film their efforts to obtain fetal tissue from Planned Parenthood, reports The Sacramento Bee. Similar charges against Mr. Daleiden and Sandra Merritt in Texas were dropped last year.

Ex-Congressman Indicted Over Use of Nonprofit Funds: A federal grand jury charged Steve Stockman and a former Capitol Hill aide with diverting hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations they solicited for charitable causes to personal and campaign uses, The Houston Chronicle reports. Mr. Stockman, a Texas Republican who served two House terms, was arrested earlier this month.

Strategic Tweaks Can Boost Companies’ Benefit From Giving, Studies Show: A Harvard Business School professor writes in The Wall Street Journal (subscription) about his and colleagues’ research on how businesses can boost satisfaction among customers and employees by giving them more say in decisions on corporate philanthropy.

Gordon and Betty Moore Give $50 Million for Children’s Cardiac Care: The Intel co-founder and his wife said the donation to Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford to support a center on childhood heart disease was inspired by the facility’s successful treatment of one of their grandchildren, The Mercury News of San Jose reports.

Panda Express Founders Donate $30 Million to Caltech: The California Institute of Technology will rename its medical-engineering department for husband-and-wife restaurant moguls Andrew and Peggy Cherng in honor of the gift to endow the academic unit, writes the Pasadena Star-News. Pasadena is the home of both the university and the first of the Cherng family’s Chinese restaurants.

Pro-Trump Nonprofit Launches TV Blitz to Counter Political Setbacks: The $1 million media campaign by Making America Great, a group led by wealthy donor and Trump adviser Rebekah Mercer, aims to build support for the president amid political difficulties such as the failed Republican effort to repeal Obamacare, Bloomberg writes.

In other news, Bloomberg BNA reports that a federal judge has cleared the way for a legal challenge to proceed against the Federal Election Commission’s “independent expenditures” rule, under which nonprofits have declined to reveal to the agency their sources of funding for political activity.