The World and Everything in It: April 17, 2025

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Good morning!

The summer travel rush is on, and so is the scramble for REAL ID. The deadline to get it is near. How will TSA keep things moving?

VELEZ: We're not going to be turning people away in droves. We're just going to be enforcing the REAL ID enforcement date of May 7.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Also how some states are responding to recent stories of homeschool abuse and neglect.

And a car theft case in a quiet town leads one officer straight into the crosshairs of organized crime.

GARDNER: We were able to uncover, just in our investigation, around four and a half million dollars in stolen cars.

MAST: And WORLD commentator Cal Thomas on what ails the U.S. Postal Service.

BROWN: It’s Thursday, April 17th. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Myrna Brown.

MAST: And I’m Lindsay Mast. Good morning!

BROWN: Up next, Kent Covington with today’s news.

KENT COVINGTON, NEWS ANCHOR: Department of Justice Maine lawsuit over women's sports » The Justice Department is suing the state of Maine’s Department of Education for refusing to keep biological men out of women’s school sports.

Attorney General Pam Bondi:

BONDI:  We are seeking an injunction to get them to stop this, stop what they're doing. That's pretty simple and we are seeking to have the titles returned to the young women who rightfully won these sports.

She’s also seeking to halt federal funding, perhaps even retroactively.

The lawsuit says Maine's policies deprive girl athletes of fair competition, deny them equal athletic opportunities and put them at greater risk both physically and psychologically.

U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon told reporters:

MCMAHON:  We wanna make sure that if you open women's sports or intimate facilities to males, you expose yourself to federal rights. Federal civil rights investigations. 

State officials in Maine argue that state law permits student athletes to compete in accordance with their gender identity and assert that the federal government is overstepping its authority.

UK women definition ruling  » Meantime, across the Atlantic the United Kingdom’s highest court says it’s not hard to define what a woman is. The court unanimously ruled that for all legal purposes, a woman is a biological female.

The judges found that men who identify as transgender do have some protections against discrimination. But they do not have the same protections as women under Britain’s 2010 Equality Act.

Susan Smith is with a group called For Women Scotland.

SMITH: Today, the judges have said what we always believed to be the case that women are protected by their biological sex. That sex is real. And that women can now feel safe, that services and spaces designated for women are for women.

The organization in 2022 challenged a law passed by the Scottish Parliament in 2018 that included transgender men in its definition of a woman.

That law required at least 50% of all public board seats to be held by women. Activists said the law could potentially allow biological men to occupy seats for women and jeopardized other single-sex spaces.

Garcia deportation » The Trump administration is pushing back over criticism of its deportation of a man from El Salvador.

The case involving 29-year-old Kilmar Abrego Garcia has sparked a legal, and now a political fight.

Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen traveled to El Salvador where Garcia is now locked up.

VAN HOLLEN:  As I've said before, the goal of my visit is to talk to people here about the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

The Salvadoran government denied him a meeting with Garcia.

An immigration judge in 20-19 shielded Garcia from deportation. And the administration said a clerical error landed him on a plane loaded with gang members to El Salvador.

And the Department of Justice asserts that Garcia is himself a gang member. White House Press Secretary Karline Leavitt said among other things, that when he was first arrested in 2019

LEAVITT:  Garcia was also arrested with two other well-known members of the vicious MS 13 gang.

The DOJ’s assertions about his gang affiliation are contested. The department is also releasing documents that it says will show MS-13 ties.

However, Garcia has never been charged with a crime.

Leavitt added that Maryland court documents revealed today that Garcia’s wife in 2021 petitioned for an order of protection against him for alleged domestic violence.

Meantime, District Court Judge James Boasberg says he has found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in contempt for not following his earlier order in the Garcia case.

Autism, RFK Jr » Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he’s determined to get to the bottom of a rise in autism cases in the U.S.

KENNEDY:  In 1987 out of 1 million, every 1 million kids, 330 were diagnosed with autism.

Today, he says the number has jumped from a few hundred cases per 1 million kids to nearly 30,000 per 1 million.

Some have pointed to more accurate diagnoses of autism as the reason for the jump. But Kennedy says with numbers like these, he’s not buying that explanation. He also argues that genetics alone cannot explain it.

KENNEDY:  We know it's an environmental exposure. It has to be. Genes do not cause epidemics. They can provide a vulnerability. Uh, you need an environmental toxin.

Kennedy says he’s commissioning a series of studies into whether mold of pesticides, food chemicals, medicines, or other factors could be to blame.

He's vowed to identify the root cause of autism by September.

Israel latest » Israel says it plans to build a buffer zone around Gaza to help prevent future terror attacks. WORLD's Christina Grube has the story:

CHRISTINA GRUBE: Israel says its military will not be leaving areas it has seized around Gaza.

That land amounts to just under 30 square miles along the borders, about one-fifth of Gaza's territory.

Instead Israel says it’s forces will remain in those areas permanently to effectively create a buffer zone around the Gaza strip.

Israel also says humanitarian aid into Gaza must be halted until there’s a way to prevent Hamas from stealing it.

For WORLD, I'm Christina Grube.

U.S. pastor rescued in S. Africa » Police in South Africa on Tuesday rescued an American pastor from a band of kidnappers after a shootout with law enforcement.

Masked men had abducted 45-year-old Josh Sullivan at gunpoint as he was preaching in the Eastern Cape province last week.

Police located the suspects in a car near a house where the pastor had been held. The suspects tried to escape and opened fire on officers as they approached. Three unnamed suspects were killed in a shootout.

Officials say Sullivan, who was also in the car, was miraculously unharmed

I'm Kent Covington.

Straight ahead: a September 11th initiative is about to begin after decades of delay. Plus, how a small town cop took down a crime ring.

This is The World and Everything in It.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: It’s Thursday the 17th of April.

Glad to have you along for today’s edition of The World and Everything in It. Good morning, I’m Lindsay Mast.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: And I’m Myrna Brown.

Up first, a deadline, nearly two decades in the making.

Starting May 7th, airport security will begin enforcing the Real ID Act of 2005. After years of delay TSA announced on Friday it’s ready to raise the bar at airport security. But is America REALly ready?

WORLD’s Mary Muncy has the story.

MARY MUNCY: About 45 people stand in line outside of the Department of Motor Vehicles in Asheville, North Carolina.

MUNCY: How long have you guys been standing here?

JAY BURSKI: About an hour

Jay Burski and his wife Lauren are trying to get their Real IDs so they can visit their children out West.

JAY BURSKI: Our son is moving out to New Mexico.

LAUREN BURSKI: So we need to be ready.

State governments and federal agencies have been working for decades to get ready for REAL ID enforcement.

It goes back to the years after the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, when hijackers exploited weaknesses in American security to turn four commercial airplanes into weapons of mass destruction.

After that, lawmakers considered ways to prevent similar attacks.

JIM HARPER: Dozens, maybe hundreds of different security efforts got underway, and one of them was the idea of strengthening our identification systems in the United States.

Jim Harper is a nonresident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. In the early 2000s, he worked with the Department of Homeland Security’s Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee.

HARPER: It's plausible that if you knew who everyone was, you'd have a better chance to stop attacks like the September 11 terrorist attacks. That doesn't necessarily bear out.

When Congress considered a bill in 2004 to create federal standards for identification, many lawmakers saw the benefits of being able to identify terrorists before they could act. But Texas Congressman Ron Paul objected.

RON PAUL: So you're registering all the American people because you're looking for a terrorist and all the terrorists are going to do is avoid the law. But we, the American people, have to obey the law. If we don’t we go to prison.

That bill passed anyway and the REAL ID Act soon followed. It set rules for states to create a form of identification that would raise the bar for verifying a person’s identity with documents proving date of birth and legal residency.

REAL IDs are not required to drive or vote…but they will be required in order to get through airport security and access federal buildings.

After nearly two decades of deadline extensions for states to start issuing REAL IDs, and delays for a global pandemic, TSA announced in January that the May 7th deadline is for real. That sparked a rush for the DMV in many states.

MARTY HOMAN: In March, we issued 82,000 which is about 16,000 more than we had been over the last several months

Marty Homan is the communications manager for the North Carolina DMV. He says the state just passed the 50% mark for residents carrying REAL ID. Many are still in the process, or have not been able to get appointments before the deadline. That’s prompted officials in many states to ask residents to wait to apply until they need a REAL ID.

HOMAN: So if you're someone who's not traveling until later this summer or even the holiday season, you can wait. There's no reason to rush to try and get it by May 7.

But what does the deadline mean for people without REAL ID who do need to travel?

DANIEL VELEZ: We're not going to be turning people away in droves. We're just going to be enforcing the REAL ID enforcement date of May 7.

Daniel Velez is a spokesman for TSA covering airports in New England and North Carolina. He explains what will happen when enforcement begins.

VELEZ: If you come to the travel document checker and you do not have an acceptable ID, what's going to happen is you are going to have to go through a process. Your screening process is going to take longer.

People without REAL ID will be asked a series of questions to establish their identity by other means. But that will take time.

VELEZ: If you were coming to the airport two hours early, come three hours early.

And even for folks that do have acceptable ID, going through security may take more time.

VELEZ: In your smaller airports where we may not have that ability to pull people aside, the folks who are in line may experience a little bit longer wait times, but we're going to do the best we can at every single airport to ensure that one, people are safe, and then two, we’re getting people expedited through security screenings as fast as possible.

Velez says just over 8 in 10 travelers already come to the airport with acceptable forms of identification, and many of the remainder likely already have the documents they need, like a passport or military ID.

VELEZ: There's probably close to 20 different identifications that you can use, and some people may already have them, they don't know it.

Back at the Asheville DMV, James Serafini is leaving for California in two weeks, he’ll make it on the plane before the deadline, but he’s worried he might not be allowed onto his return flight.

MUNCY: What happens if you don't get it?

JAMES SERAFINI: When I get to the airport, I'll beg and plead, bring all the kinds of documents…

He’s almost to the front of the line… Further back, Jay and Lauren Burski are determined to get their REAL IDs too…even if it means standing in line all day.

JAY BURSKI: I don't want to come back here and have to wait again. So I guess we're stuck here. Hopefully we’ll get in before 5 o’clock.

LAUREN BURSKI: I thought you had an appointment at 3?

JAY BURSKI: I’m gonna just have to skip it.

LAUREN BURSKI: Yeah, we hope today.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Mary Muncy, in Asheville, North Carolina.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Coming up next on The World and Everything in It: the growing homeschool crackdown.

Since the pandemic, the homeschooling movement has surged in popularity across the US and the UK. But some lawmakers believe that when more children are taught at home, there’s a greater risk of abuse.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: They’re proposing tighter rules ostensibly to “protect children.” But what does that mean for the freedom to homeschool?

MAST: Here's Paul Butler with the story, reported and written by Bekah McCallum.

PAUL BUTLER: Pushback on homeschooling is nothing new. Decades ago, some argued that parents couldn’t provide a quality education without a teaching degree. Then opponents focused on claims that homeschooled students lack socialization. Today, regulators have another concern: neglect and abuse.

High-profile abuse cases have fueled legislation in places like West Virginia, Illinois, and in the U.K. In January, some members of parliament pointed to the death of 10-year-old Sara Sharif. Liberal MP Will Forster:

WILL FORSTER: Her father and stepmother used this loophole in homeschooling to withdraw the child from school, because the signs were being noticed and this new legislation could have protected her and should protect others.

Concerns about child abuse are not unfounded. Last year, the U.S.-based Coalition for Responsible Home Education reported 423 cases of “abuse and neglect in homeschool environments” over the last 25 years. By comparison, a study in 2000 estimated that in the 1990s alone, roughly 290,000 students nationwide experienced some sort of physical or sexual abuse while at public school.

Even so, the concerns over abuse in homeschooling shouldn’t merely be brushed aside. According to HSLDA international director Kevin Boden, the possibility of abuse could go up as homeschooling becomes more common..

KEVIN BODEN: If you have 6 million kids that are educated at home versus 2 million, the chance of something happening if there's 6 million to it versus 2, that’s just a numbers game.

But recent research suggests the problem isn’t really homeschooling. Brian Ray is president of the National Home Education Research Institute—based in Salem, Oregon. In a 2022 study, Ray found that, after controlling things like parent education level, household income, years in foster care, and ethnicity, the data is clear:

BRIAN RAY: There’s no difference in the abuse and neglect rates between the institutionally schooled and the homeschooled.

Still, some advocacy groups claim that stricter homeschooling laws are crucial for better protecting children.

For instance, the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill currently being debated by the UK parliament would require—among other things—for home educating parents to provide local authorities with extensive details. Each time a parent veers off course by enrolling a child in a new sport or hiring a new tutor, they would have to notify authorities within 15 days. That’s not the only reporting the bill requires.

Wendy Charles-Warner is chairwoman of Education Otherwise, a home education advocacy group.

WENDY CHARLES-WARNER: The bill requires the parent to declare how many hours each parent spends with the child and that includes out of school hours, weekends and holidays, because they're educating. So the level of intrusiveness into the family privacy is extreme.

In this country, the Coalition for Responsible Home Education released a model bill last July called the Make Homeschool Safe Act. That legislation called for local registrations, minimum teacher qualifications or educator oversight, student immunization records, and a catalog of other regulations that many argued would make homeschooling more difficult. The thinking seemed to be: by requiring more transparency about their homeschool plans, it would result in better and safer education.

But National Home Education Research Institute’s Brian Ray maintains that there’s no data that supports that claim.

RAY: The simple answer is we have no empirical evidence that that's true. So if you want to use research evidence as a way to control policy, there is none, okay?

To back that up, Ray pointed to another 2022 study, this one by Angela Dills, a professor of economics and a fellow with EdChoice, a nonprofit advocating for educational freedom.

Dills’ research, published in the Journal of School Choice, looked at child abuse-related deaths from 1979 to 2008. During that time frame, many states made legal provisions for homeschooling.

ANGELA DILLS: I can look at the effect of those laws that led to an increase in homeschooling and see if there’s a change in child fatalities during that period. And mostly, what I see is not a whole lot.

She insists that homeschooling on its own does not create an environment for abuse.

DILLS: I think empirically it’s a claim that’s just not substantiated with research.

Child abuse is rightly troubling. Everyone WORLD spoke to for this story shares a common belief that children must be protected. Brian Ray of NHERI says the difference is in how that’s accomplished.

RAY: For them, it basically comes down to philosophy … that they think that the civil government should control all of us more to somehow try to reduce bad behavior.

Restrictions do aim at the real problem of child abuse. But HSLDA’s Kevin Boden says that by targeting homeschooling, law-abiding families may get caught in the crossfire. And restricting homeschooling may do very little to protect at-risk children.

BODEN: Let's do the right thing, which is the hard work of some deal with a child neglect case as a child neglect case under the child neglect laws of the state of which every state has them, and so let's follow them. Let's deal with known risk factors and not punt to homeschooling because we think that that's the that's how we can win, or because it's somehow more available to us.

For WORLD, I’m Paul Butler.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: File this one under “long suffering taxpayer:” a letter from the late Donald Rumsfeld, former Secretary of Defense. He faced down warlords and dictators, but admitted defeat… to the U.S. tax code.

On Tax Day, he’d send in his tax return along with a letter to the IRS, admitting he had no clue whether his taxes were done correctly.

His wife posted his letter online in 2014 and taxpayers everywhere commiserated.

Rumsfeld wrote that he had absolutely no idea whether his tax returns and payments were accurate…he hired a professional accounting firm and his wife signed them too, though she also had no idea if they’re correct.

Rumsfeld wrote he hoped the tax code might get simpler during his lifetime.

It didn’t.

And somewhere deep inside the IRS bureaucracy, a form is still being processed.

It’s The World and Everything in It.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Today is Thursday, April 17th.

Thank you for listening to WORLD Radio!

Good morning. I’m Myrna Brown.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: And I’m Lindsay Mast.

Coming next on The World and Everything in It: stealing cars.

Car thefts in the US have topped one million per year. That’s one car stolen every 37 seconds. Losses total around $8 billion annually, but most cases go unsolved.

BROWN: Why? Police departments often have neither the time nor resources to crack the sophisticated theft rings behind them.

MAST: But a determined officer in a sleepy southern town takes the case up and uncovers a criminal network stretching up the East Coast. WORLD Associate Correspondent Elizabeth Shenk has the story.

ELIZABETH SHENK: On a crisp December morning, Lillington, North Carolina woke up to squealing tires, burnt rubber, and empty parking spots where expensive cars and trucks sat minutes before.

It was big news on the local TV station, WRAL.

WRAL REPORTER CHELSEA DONAVAN: This is the exact brick that one brazen thief used to bust through this door around 4:45 this morning before running down the hall and prying open a key box. Around 4:15 a UHAUL pulls up to the Hiester Chrysler Dodge Ram Jeep and several people in hoodies run out.

A surveillance camera at the dealership recorded more than 15 shadows weaving between Chargers, Challengers, and TRX trucks.

They were listening for keyfob beeps. As soon as they found a match, the thieves slid behind the wheel.

DONOVAN: High end, high horsepower cars worth $631,000 taken in a matter of minutes.

The ring leaders pre-selected the vehicles online and scouted out the parking lot at least a week in advance.

STEPHEN GARDNER: They know what they're looking for when they get there.

That’s Detective Sergeant Stephen Gardner.

GARDNER: They even have inventory control numbers from CarGurus. They know what the stock or lot number is for the car.

Gardner specializes in everything from arson to car theft. But Lillington is home to only about 5,000 people. The town had never seen a case this big.

Gardner said the planning happened on underground, end-to-end encrypted chat sites like Telegram—sites that won’t cooperate with law enforcement. The thieves nabbed a total of 12 vehicles.

GARDNER: That was the biggest rip that they got in all of their days of thievery.

By 10 p.m. that night, Gardner and his lieutenant, Soonaoso Letuli, had tracked two of the cars to a suburb of Charlotte, about three hours away. They didn’t realize they had pulled on a thread of a far-reaching web—one that only God could help untangle.

GARDNER: We had no idea this stuff was going on … and that’s on us because we should be on the forefront of this stuff. We should be sharing the information.

Unlike police departments, thieves do share information. Their chat sites have links for YouTube tutorials on disabling tracking devices, cloning vehicle identification numbers, and using keyfob reprogrammers. They post videos of themselves driving away from the troopers who pull them over.

GARDNER: Some agencies have a “No Chase Policy,” so they literally just stand there and watch ‘em drive away.

But even stolen cars need fuel. That’s how Gardner had two thieves in custody just days after the heist. The morning of the robbery, a tip led Gardner to a gas station’s camera footage.

GARDNER: You could see he’s putting gas in multiple cars, just like a NASCAR pit crew.

The thief’s credit card was caught on camera. That’s all the financial investigators working with Gardner needed. Hours later, Gardner arrested and interviewed the thief. That first interview snowballed into an avalanche.

 GARDNER: I remember his exact words were… “Look, I'm not built for prison. I'll tell you whatever you wanna know.” Something we found out with these auto theft crews is there’s not a lot of loyalty among them.

They ratted each other out until 13 were apprehended, including the mastermind. Gardner networked with hundreds of police departments, Homeland Security, even the FBI. They uncovered a total of 7 crime rings that spanned from New York to Florida. They were masters in every kind of fraud.

The investigation started slowly. Bigger police departments were hesitant to work with the small-town cops. But Gardner and Letuli kept at it. They drove up to people on the street at all hours of the night and interviewed them. Once they almost got into a shootout.

GARDNER: We threw caution to the wind. And if it wouldn't have been for God's protection out there, who knows what could have happened.

It took 6 months to track down the thieves and retrieve 8 of the stolen cars. In that time, Gardner also identified 100 other cars stolen from up and down the East Coast.

GARDNER: We were able to uncover, just in our investigation, around four and a half million dollars in stolen cars.

Most car thefts never get solved. What made Lillington different?

GARDNER: God put this thing together from day one. It was quick, it was fast, it was super aggressive. And if it wouldn't have been for our chief, and without his guidance and without him saying, “Go forth and do the Lord's work,” if it wasn't for him, we would've never figured this thing out.

Although Gardner had worked a lot of different cases in his 21 years with the department, he’d never had one quite like this.

GARDNER: Before this case, I knew nothing about financial crimes.

That was more than three years ago. Now, he’s an expert.

GARDNER: I’m still getting phone calls…people are like … “We just had a few cars stolen the exact same way” … So the information has gotta be blasted out there so everybody knows it.

Gardner trains other law enforcement agencies, including the Secret Service and the FBI. And he’s been named one of the top three financial crimes investigators in the world.

Despite the accolades, Gardner doesn’t take credit for his success breaking up that first car theft ring.

GARDNER: If God wouldn’t have aligned all these pieces up, it would’ve never been solved. A hundred percent. A hundred percent. I believe God’s in every single thing we do.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Elizabeth Shenk in Lillington, North Carolina.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Today is Thursday, April 17th. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Lindsay Mast.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: And I’m Myrna Brown. Is it time to cancel the U.S. Postal Service? Here’s WORLD commentator Cal Thomas.

CAL THOMAS: Better buy your “Forever” stamps now, because the U.S. Postal Service has announced another price increase. On July 13th, the cost of a first-class stamp is scheduled to rise from 73 cents to 78 cents. The plan is to raise prices four more times by 2027. Meanwhile, it appears for many people that service is declining.

As a kid I couldn’t wait for the “mailman” to arrive. Always at the same time and the same person each day. At Christmas, there were deliveries in the morning and afternoon. For a while I collected stamps, especially those from overseas. Before the internet, mail was how people kept in touch. In 1985, the price of a first-class stamp was 22 cents. My grandparents sent “penny postcards.” Domestic post cards will now cost 62 cents, more if you mail them to another country.

I recently sent a book from one major East Coast city to another. It was by media mail, the cheapest rate. Normally it takes four to five days to arrive. This time it took 11 days. The postal service tracking webpage revealed the book sat in the originating post office for a week before moving.

A reader wrote to me about his own frustration with the once-reliable post office. He sent a letter by the more expensive, yet supposedly more reliable, Priority Mail service. Mailed on April 7th, it was supposed to arrive in High Falls, New York on April 10th…or the 11th. The postmaster verified the correct address and ZIP codes before adding to the pile of other letters ready to go out. After it left Southwest Kansas, it got to Pennsylvania, on the 10th…then apparently on to Richmond, VA. Then was forwarded, again in error, to Chesapeake, VA. Records claim a delivery attempt was made, before they discovered their error. They even marked it in red as out for final delivery. However, Chesapeake sent it back to Richmond, via Norfolk, where it sat a while longer, before Richmond sent it back to Chesapeake for delivery again! Once there the post office noted the error and marked it for redelivery…after returning it to Richmond. It’s presumably on its way to High Falls, NY, but the reader bemoans: Who “knows how long that will take, or IF they send it to the wrong post office once again!”

I am beginning to experience and hear more of these stories. My local post office is usually understaffed, even when there are long lines. Those who apply for passports take up large amounts of time and keep the rest of us waiting to mail a single item. And that brings us back to the cost.

A major contributor to the rising prices of stamps is the postal service’s obligation to its retirees. As Axios reports: “The (USPS) faces substantial pension obligations, with unfunded liabilities totaling $409 billion against just $290 billion in assets. This is largely due to a system where USPS is responsible for its own retirement funding, unlike other federal agencies which receive annual appropriations. The USPS is required to pre-fund retiree health benefits, and this mandate, along with other factors, contributes to the significant unfunded liabilities.”

As prices go up, usage declines. It’s like many states run by Democrats. As they raise taxes, people leave. When taxes are raised again to make up for lost revenue, even more leave. Most everyone enjoys getting a personal note in the mail, but bills can now be paid through online banks. Free digital holiday cards can be emailed, saving money on stamps and the cards.

President Trump has proposed shutting down the postal service and rolling it into the Department of Commerce. Since 1792, the post office has had exclusive rights to deliver letters. Lifting that restriction would open things up to competition and presumably lower prices.

What we have now is too expensive and inefficient. It’s time to stamp it out.

I’m Cal Thomas.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Tomorrow: John Stonestreet is back for Culture Friday. Plus, reviewer Max Belz on the desire for true humanity in a Disney Classic. And, an author reflects on some of the eyewitnesses to the crucifixion of Christ. That and more tomorrow.

I’m Lindsay Mast.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: And I’m Myrna Brown.

Our thanks to Washington Producer Harrison Watters for his reporting on the REAL ID story.

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