The World and Everything in It: August 10, 2026

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MARY REICHARD, HOST: Good morning!

A new report warns religious liberty is eroding in some states.

MUELLER: And you can really feel it, because it gives…a lot more leeway to persecute people of faith…

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: That’s ahead on Legal Docket.

Also on the Monday Moneybeat, what young people often get wrong about the American economy.

And later, the World History Book.

GALLAGHER: That was just devastating when that news came.

The baseball strike that changed everything for an all-star-caliber team.

REICHARD: It’s Monday, August 10th. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Mary Reichard.

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

REICHARD: Time for the news. Here’s Kent Covington.

KENT COVINGTON, NEWS ANCHOR: Iran » Iran issued new public demands over the weekend to Washington. Tehran says it wants the U.S. to lift its blockade of Iranian ports, withdraw its forces, drop sanctions and pay damages for the war, before the Strait of Hormuz fully reopens.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee Tehran is acting against its own best interests.

HUCKABEE: Iran is not seeming to learn what they need to be learning after two different iterations of conflict with the United States and Israel.

Vice President JD Vance said U.S. forces have already devastated Iran's conventional military, and:

VANCE: We've radically reduced their, what you might call their asymmetric military abilities, and right now we're trying to see if they're willing to make the kind of long-term changes that would be necessary to have a better relationship with the United States. And if not, uh, that's fine too

Iran's foreign minister said Sunday that his government is close to striking a temporary deal with Oman to allow a limited route through the Strait of Hormuz.

But Iranian leaders still seek to largely control the strait. And Ambassador Huckabee says if they’re allowed to do that, that would change the global energy market, and he says that’s one reason to keep the pressure on Tehran.

HUCKABEE: That means prices go up, it means alignments change. That's dangerous. But the big reason is because Iran has been threatening us for 47 and a half years, telling us they're gonna kill us

The United Arab Emirates says an Iranian missile hit one of its ships Saturday.

Ernst on filibuster » President Trump has continued to keep pressure on Republicans to pass the SAVE America Act which would tighten verification standards for voting. And he says if they have to change the rules in the Senate to end the filibuster to get it done, they should.

But many GOP senators oppose ending it. Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst explained Sunday why she’s one of them.

ERNST:  If we did that, one, we'd become a glorified House, truly. Um, and we would give our country whiplash. Mm. Our economy could truly suffer if you move from administration to administration

In the House, a bill can pass with a simple majority. In the Senate, the filibuster means 60 votes are needed, out of 100 seats, for most legislation.

But there are some Republicans who agree with the president that the filibuster needs to go to get more accomplished.

And some Democratic lawmakers want their party to do exactly that at their next opportunity.

Hunter Biden provides update on father's health » Former President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, provided an update over the weekend on his health. The former president was diagnosed with prostate cancer last year.

HUNTER B:  The only thing that I say about my dad about his health right now is I wish he would complain more because it's not good. Uh, the, the cancer has spread, metastasized into his bones and further. It's very painful. Um, and, uh, it's very debilitating in many respects.

He called his father’s condition very sad to watch.

Now 83-year-old, Biden was the oldest man to serve as U.S. president, and his age was a concern for much of his four years in office.

Wildfires »More than 20-thousand people in western Canada still can't go home.

A wildfire tore across 40 square miles of British Columbia, emptying Summerland and part of neighboring Peachland. Police are investigating a possible death.

Premier David Eby announced a provincewide emergency Saturday, with more than 100 fires burning.

South of the border, three fires still burning near Spokane, Washington, and a new fire north of Reno is burning with no containment.

Box office » At the weekend box office Spider-Man is still doing historic numbers.

CLIP (Spider-Man trailer): We’re faced with a threat that can beat anyone. Dr. Banner? No Banner, only Hulk.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day hauled in another $145 million dollars domestically. Worldwide, it has grossed roughly $1.7 billion after just two weekends.

The Odyssey remains in second place with another $32 million stateside for the weekend. It has now earned $1.1 billion globally.

I'm Kent Covington.

Coming up: we’ll talk with financial analyst David Bahnsen about what’s really squeezing Gen Z. Plus, how an unfinished season led to major changes for one major league baseball team.

This is The World and Everything in It.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: It’s The World and Everything in It for this 10th day of August, 2026. We’re so glad you’ve joined us today. Good morning! I’m Mary Reichard.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: And I’m Lindsay Mast. Time now for Legal Docket, and today, something a little different: religious liberty at the state level.

Of course with 50 states it’d be impossible to cover each one in our time here. But you can learn a great deal of how to assess religious liberty in your particular state.

REICHARD: Right. Think of the First Amendment as the floor of your religious liberty rights. That’s at the level of the federal government, a Constitutional right.

The states can make a higher ceiling, they can make it easy to exercise religious freedom, or they can make citizens fight it out in court.

That’s because states can add protections beyond what federal law requires. They can protect for medical conscience objections, parental rights, even for matters involving finances.

Aaron and Melissa Klein learned the hard way what happens when states don’t strengthen those types of protections. They ran a bakery in the state of Oregon. Two women came in and asked for a custom designed wedding cake for a same-sex ceremony. The Kleins declined to do so for religious reasons.

HALL: Now, in a world of consenting adults, that should have been the end of it. I mean, this is Oregon! Pretty much any baker in the state would be happy to custom design that cake.

MAST: That’s Mark David Hall, co-researcher of a new report that looks at each state to examine how protected people are. He says the two women had ample access to the goods they wanted. But the Kleins still wound up in court.

HALL: But because this is Oregon…the state came down on them like a ton of bricks, civil suits were filed, and eventually they were driven out of business and they chose to leave the state…If they had lived in Arkansas or Mississippi, the law clearly would have protected their ability not to participate in a wedding ceremony to which they had religious or moral objections.

Hall worked with Paul Mueller, a senior research fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research. Both men are part of a project at the Center for Religion, Culture, and Democracy called “Religious Liberty in the States 2026.”

MUELLER: And so this project was created about five years ago to begin cataloging, indexing, weighting, and measuring how states are doing in protecting religious liberty and what kinds of protections of religious liberty protections are out there.

REICHARD: The report evaluates fifty different legal protections.Each law earns one point with no subjective weighting as to which law is more important.

Here’s Hall again:

HALL: So we look at 50 distinct ways that states can choose to protect religious liberty, but they don't have to. When the report started five years ago, we looked at 29 distinct ways. So every year we add new protections.

Going at it this way produced a rather surprising result: the states you might assume are strongest on religious liberty, sometimes are not.

MUELLER: And so for several years, Illinois was actually at the top of our index in terms of having the most protections of religious liberty….and we had a law student who did some research into this and some digging. And basically, Illinois passed a number of…conscience protections back in the late 80s, early 90s, when there was more of a religious climate in Illinois. It was less maybe dark blue and hostile to religious liberty. So they put a bunch of protections on the books. And those are still there, even though the climate has changed a lot in Illinois.

MAST: Not so where Mueller himself lives.

MUELLER: And in contrast, my home state of Colorado was very red and religious in the nineties, but they never really passed any specific protections of religious liberty. Why bother? You know, we've got Focus on the Family, we've got Colorado Springs…And that has changed, you know, the politics and the religious climate has changed a lot in Colorado and we don't have a lot of protections on the books. And you can really feel it, because it gives…a lot more leeway to persecute people of faith…

REICHARD: As Hall told me, you don’t realize you need something —until it’s gone.

HALL: So if you go back to the late 20th century, it really is remarkable. Everyone supported religious liberty, Democrats and Republicans alike. You look at the Religious Freedom Restoration Act in 1993, passed in Congress by 97 to 3 in the U.S. Senate, unanimously by voice vote in the House, and signed into law by President Bill Clinton. And I think that reflects the culture. And so that in the states, you had a lot more rationality, a lot more reasonableness. You didn't have prosecutors going after priests or bakers or this sort of thing. Things have really shifted in the 21st century. And again, this is not a partisan project, but just descriptively, it is the case that in the blue states there are active movements afoot to repeal religious liberty protections.

Twenty-nine states have a Religious Freedom Restoration Act on the books. But others do not. Called RFRA, those laws require state governments to jump a much higher legal bar before burdening a person’s religious exercise.

HALL: And almost all the new additions we've seen have been in the red states. So states like Arkansas, Tennessee, Florida are passing real important protections and their score is rising dramatically. Arkansas just became number one of the nation.

RFRA is one measure; medical conscience protections another we mentioned earlier, and that’s a big one:

HALL: Basically it says any medical professional can refuse to participate in any medical procedure that he or she has religious or moral or moral objections to. And so that obviously covers abortion, but also covers contraception, it covers sterilization, it covers euthanasia, it covers genetic counseling. And so this one statute really can protect a lot of stuff.

MAST: This report considers other protections as well: Can clergy legally serve communion wine to minors? Can houses of worship remain open during emergencies? Can foster parents be rejected just because of their religious beliefs?

And more:

MUELLER: So whether you can be debanked, excluded from banking or from insurance based on….religious practice or conviction. We saw some of that arise in the last five years…..That's an area where not that many states have protections on the books, but they began adding them …

REICHARD: These researchers argue it’s about living out your religious convictions in everyday life.

HALL: But we are committed to the proposition that individuals must be free to take their faith…into the public school, to share the gospel in a public park, to run their business according to their religious convictions. And so we include a number of protections, maybe well over a majority of our protections actually don't involve belief and worship, but they involve everyday life, economic life, interactions with the government, interactions with public schools, and that sort of thing.

This all may raise a hard question: What’s the line between religious liberty and discrimination? Hall gives an example:

HALL: If someone comes to a baker and says, “Bake me a cake celebrating the glories of the Klu Kuklu Ku Klux Klan, the KKK,” I want that baker to say, “No, that's morally wrong. I can't do that.”

By the same token, if someone comes to a baker and says, “bake me a custom cake celebrating the same-sex wedding ceremony,” and if that person has a religious objection to doing so it seems to me that religious objection, that refusal should be honored.

He gives another example:

HALL: And I'm not even sure it is discrimination… I was at one of the trials of the Kleins. I went out to lunch with them afterwards and I …came up with a hypothetical example. I said, “look, what if Paul and I came up to you and said ‘will you custom design a cake to celebrate our marriage and we're both heterosexual males…and we want to get married just for the tax advantages. That's why we want to get married, but we still want a cake celebrating this wedding ceremony. Would you bake that? And they said, “no, of course not.”

You see what I'm saying? It's not about sexual orientation. It's about a form of a ceremony …to which they have religious or moral objections, and we think that sort of thing should be protected.

MAST: Mueller says the worst discrimination comes from government, not from private citizens.

MUELLER: The problems that we've had in the United States when it comes to discrimination historically have overwhelmingly been legal discrimination as opposed to private discrimination. …when you don't have legal discrimination, but you do have, say, racism, you do have prejudice which is usually what people are upset about if you think about, say, conflict in the South especially, you find that over time that discrimination, private discrimination, tends to go away when there's high economic costs, to say, paying white workers four times as much as you would pay a black worker. And so you see wages in the late 1800s actually moving towards more equilibrium. Where people might have certain kinds of personal prejudices that we may disagree with and find morally repugnant .and yet .when they bear the cost of their discrimination, they tend to not act upon it as much.

Imprecise definitions confuse the matter:

MUELLER: And so…there's a lot of misunderstanding…about the nature of discrimination, about Jim Crow, which was primarily legal discrimination. That perpetuated injustices for very long periods of time, versus private compulsion and private choice about how to run a business, how to interact with others, how others interact with you.

But the researchers point out the report doesn’t set out to settle philosophical debates. It’s practical: to identify which laws are already working in a state and then give legislators in other states the roadmap.

HALL: Every single protection we consider has been adopted by at least one state somewhere.

REICHARD: So which states are in the top ten for protecting religious freedom?

HALL: Arkansas, Tennessee, Florida, Montana, Illinois, Mississippi, Ohio, Idaho, South Carolina, and Washington State.

And which are the worst?

MUELLER: Colorado, North Carolina, Alaska, Nebraska, Wyoming, California, West Virginia, Michigan, Vermont, and New York.

So that means most states — red or blue— have a lot of room for improvement.

It’s a short report, just 16 pages. And each recommendation links directly to the state laws behind the rankings.

You’ll find a link to the report in today’s show notes.

And that’s this week’s Legal Docket!

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Coming up next on The World and Everything in It: The Monday Moneybeat.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Time now to talk business, markets, and the economy.

With Nick Eicher on a well-deserved vacation, we’re turning today’s segment over to our Economics Reporter, Lauren Smyth.

Lauren is part of Gen Z, the age group that ranges from 14 to 29. And those young adults’ have economics on their minds as they further their education and begin their careers. In fact it’s their top voting issue with the midterms looming. So, lots to talk about. Here’s Lauren.

LAUREN SMYTH: Thanks Lindsay and Mary. Our regular listeners know our financial analyst, advisor David Bahnsen. David heads up the wealth management firm, the Bahnsen Group. David, good morning.

DAVID BAHNSEN: Well, good morning, and good to be with you.

SMYTH: About a month ago I was at the movie theatre, and I saw a trailer for How to Rob a Bank, which comes out in November. It looked like a modern Robin Hood spin-off, except the bad guys were insurance agents and big companies. Basically, it was a vigilante crusade against capitalism. And that’s not the first time I’ve seen capitalism and consumerism portrayed as public enemies in the media. So what are the long-term consequences of messaging like this if young consumers and investors and voters continue to believe it?

BAHNSEN: Well, the good news is that young investors and voters and citizens become older investors, owners, and citizens at some point. That messaging of a sort of demonization of corporate America, of insurance companies, of finance—it's not new.

I think that the specific scapegoat changes over time, but the fundamental point is always that there's some bad guy out there trying to make money, and somehow all of us are victims of it. Well, look, there are criminals, and I am all for making movies about criminals. Although I prefer they be about real bank robbers, not about people selling goods and services in the marketplace for a profit. Because selling goods and services in the marketplace for a profit is a public good, even with a commercial motive, and that message needs to be one that young people better understand.

There are a certain amount of young people that don't end up appreciating it until they get older, but class warfare is decidedly un-American, and I believe it will continue to be un-American.

SMYTH: Well, switching gears: David, we’re seeing some candidates with very unorthodox economic views winning in the primaries thanks to this younger voting block.

I’m here in Michigan, where Abdul El-Sayed just won the Democratic primary for U.S. senate. He says he’s not a socialist, but he’s backed by avowed socialists like Bernie Sanders.

Socialism is of course a political system, but at its heart is a fundamentally different understanding of economics—how people interact with each other, how markets work, and how incentives work. What is the biggest misunderstanding young voters have about economics that’s leading them to vote for these radical candidates?

BAHNSEN: Yeah, I think that there's a combination of things. What's really clear to me in the electoral data in some of these cases, in districts even outside the one you refer to with the Senate race in Michigan, is that a lot of times they tend to be more educated and often Caucasian voters that I think are buying into a sort of cultural narrative even more than a specifically economic one. That was certainly the case with Mayor Mamdani's success in New York.

But I think that the big misunderstanding, just at large, that when people refer to young people embracing socialism, is that what they're rejecting is often not capitalism, or or what I prefer to refer to as free enterprise. They're rejecting a caricature of that that is somewhat distorted and worth rejecting. Cronyism is not capitalism, and I think young people need to understand the difference, but I think that they will understand the difference when policymakers do a better job themselves of rejecting cronyism. And I think that what passes for capitalism these days would be unrecognizable to the 20th century intellectuals that defended it. So there's a lot of work in front of us.

I make the argument, including here on WORLD every week, that much of this is theological. That we have to be able to defend free enterprise by rooting it to what we believe about the human person and what we believe about how God made the world, what God made humans for. As a political system, as a particular framework of economic policy, it gets more truncated. But what we're after is the cause of human flourishing. And when once you set the table that way, there is no question that we have the better arguments on our side.

SMYTH: David, if there’s one complaint I’ve heard from friends who are recently out of college, it’s that everything is way too expensive. The cost of living is up by nearly 25% over the past 5 years. And just last month, the economy lost about 23,000 jobs, while experts were predicting a significant gain.

So maybe Gen Z is just spending frivolously on seven-dollar lattes—but it ^is necessary purchases like housing primarily driving cost-of-living increases. And it seems like jobs also may be getting harder to find. So what’s going on here? Can younger generations really not afford to live on their own, or are they just choosing to spend their money elsewhere and getting pickier about what jobs they’ll take? And either way, what do we do about it?

BAHNSEN: Yeah, that's a series of great questions because there's a lot of factors in there that I think are all relevant. I mean, part of the problem with the data is when you look at the overall price level having moved up 25%, the overall median wage level has moved up more than 25% So, in theory, on a real wage-adjusted basis, that people are not worse off. But then that itself is somewhat unhelpful because that doesn't mean that it's evenly distributed. That some particular jobs may not be better off, and then of course it begs the question about access to jobs.

Now the unemployment rate is still very low, but it is harder for younger people than it used to be, and I think a lot of that is because many people—when you refer to Gen Z, let's say we're talking about folks in their mid 20s—a lot of them did not have part-time jobs when they were teenagers or or in their young 20s, and I think that makes it it makes it harder to gain employment when there is that lack of experience and so forth.

Fundamentally, I've always made the case that it isn't lattes, and now the new trend today about burritos—it's housing. Rent is so much higher, even with $20 burritos and $7 lattes. And of course, there aren't really $20 burritos. We're talking about DoorDash and tips and big cities and all kinds of other factors, but I fully accept that things cost more. It's just that as a percentage of wallet, food costs less as a percentage of what people spend money on than it has in most decades in the past. It's just that they're up against competing for the astronomical amount it costs for shelter.

We have not, as a society, continued to celebrate dynamism the way that we used to, which what I mean by that is mobility. People sometimes do need to move away to find the right job, go to certain things that might take them away from the area that they live in, and there are jobs out there. So it is not a one-size-fits-all solution, but on a micro basis, a bottom up, like not talking across the whole cultural milieu of data, but talking to individuals.

What I would say is individuals have the ability, with tenacity, to rise above it. Sometimes with a budget, sometimes with strict fiscal austerity, and other times just you know by earning their way out of it with hard work and grit. I don't believe that a person can in one fell swoop kind of cover all of it, but I think that there's room here for policymakers to get things right.

SMYTH: Well, my final question for you is: You talked a little bit about the tenacity and grit that can bring young people through what seem like very turbulent economic times, but amid all these headlines—we're seeing losses of jobs, we're seeing questions about inflation, all these headlines that seem like bad news—what is the good news for young consumers in today's economy?

BAHNSEN: Well, look. The good news is actually much more than the bad news. When you look at the standard of living, what real GDP is, the size of the economy, the various wage levels that are available. Now, like I said, those are not always evenly distributed, and so it is not as simple as just taking the lump sum of opportunities and dividing it by the population size, but young people are coming into an economy that is incredibly dynamic. There is technological progress going on. There is a whole suite of opportunities that did not exist 10, 20, 40 years ago.

So some scenarios and people's circumstances in life are going to be harder than others, and I do not lack empathy for that. And I frequently talk about the fact that I did not enter my young adult life under very attractive circumstances, but I do believe that approaching it as a, “Look, what can I make of this situation?” attitude versus a victimhood complex is going to change things completely. It's very hard to have that tenacity if you feel like everything is stacked against you. So that attitude of positivity is very important.

In the data, there is high housing, and we talked about burrito cost and all that. But in the data, there's a far lower unemployment rate now than there was when prior generations were entering the workforce, and so I think that you have data points that are going to be somewhat negative and data points are going to be positive. But one of the things I'd suggest is don't think about data points. Data points apply to 50 million people. All that matters is you. It matters, one person, what you'd go do with your situation, not what 49,000,000 others do with theirs. So that's the encouragement I would offer.

SMYTH: David Bahnsen is founder, managing partner, and chief investment officer of the Bahnsen Group. He writes at dividendcafe.com and WORLD Opinions as well. David, I hope you have a great week.

BAHNSEN: Thank you so much.

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

MARY REICHARD, HOST: And I’m Mary Reichard.

Coming next: A halt to baseball and the team that paid the price.

In August 1994, a major league players’ strike ended the season and ultimately canceled the World Series. One star team—highly favored by analysts—never truly recovered.

WORLD’s Kristen Flavin has the story.

AUDIO: [Crowd cheering]

KRISTEN FLAVIN: The 1994 Montreal Expos should have been the underdogs. The team was operating with one of the slimmest budgets in the game: a modest $19 million, about half the budget of their division rival, the Atlanta Braves. But on the field, they were a powerhouse.

AUDIO: [Bat crack] Grissom will head to third… [crowd cheering] Safe! For the Expos win 3-2 … [crowd cheering]

The Expos won 94 games during the 1993 season—only missing the postseason because of MLB’s old division format. So things were looking good as the ‘94 season started.

GALLAGHER: They drew a lot of energy from that team in ‘93 and just kept going. And anytime they went to the ballpark in ‘94, they knew that they could win.

Danny Gallagher is a former beat writer for the Montreal Daily News. He began reporting on the Expos in 1988 and he’s written several books about them. Gallagher says despite the team’s small budget, they had an all-star roster.

GALLAGHER: They had a great offensive. Larry Walker, Moise Alou, and Marquis Grissom.

AUDIO: [Crowd cheering]

Plus, on the mound, they added a fiery young pitcher named Pedro Martinez.

AUDIO: Pedro Martinez pitched here last night and pitched a gem…

By mid-summer, Montreal was leading the National League East by 6 games … holding the best record in all of Major League Baseball: 74 and 40.

ANNOUNCER: Larry Walker’s got a gun… Here comes the throw. It’s a one-hopper and he got ‘em [Cheering crowd]

But just as the team reached its peak … a dispute between the MLB players association and team owners came to a head. Owners were looking to save money and historically high player salaries seemed like a good place to start. They proposed a salary cap. But the players resisted the proposal, which came not long after a scandal over franchises suppressing free-agent salaries.

Players Union Chief Donald Fehr called for a strike.

On August 11th, the Expos played their last game that season. Outfielder Marquis Grissom talked to reporters as the team walked off the field.

GRISSOM: Doesn’t matter how we’ve been playing, of course this is our probably our best year playing. But we’re talking about the whole game of baseball, you know? We didn't want to strike. We didn't want this to happen but we have no other choice but to go out and take care of ourselves and the game of baseball…

GALLAGHER: The players basically just followed his orders and didn't show up at the ballparks and all across north america. But I think the players expected that the work stoppage wouldn't last long.

But it did last–and a lot longer than anyone expected.

NEWSCASTER: The owners and players have already lost millions as talks aimed at ending the strike—now in its 34th day—have gone nowhere….

On September 14th, the commissioner cancelled the season.

NEWSCASTER: There will be no more baseball in 1994 and for the first time in 90 years there will be no postseason play, no World Series.

GALLAGHER: And that was just devastating when that news came. So that was it. They couldn't do much. The season was over on September the 14th.

About six months later, then-federal district judge Sonia Sotomayor issued a preliminary injunction. Union chief Donald Fehr:

FEHR: If players are listening to me now, they should treat this as a very significant event, that we will be contacting the clubs, I am sure, this afternoon to work out procedures and that we will be in touch with them today and tomorrow.

The injunction forced owners to restore the previous terms and the players voted to end the strike. In total, it lasted 232 days.

The 1995 season started in late April. But that was the beginning of the end for the Montreal Expos.

GALLAGHER: The Expos’ ownership group decided to trade Marquis Grissom, Ken Hill, and John Wetteland to save on salaries for the coming season in 1995.

They also let Larry Walker become a free agent. And in total, the Expos were down 14 players.

GALLAGHER: The fans knew that the team wasn’t as good. They lost all these key players. And they didn't do that good on the field.

Gallagher says if the team had a postseason in 1994, they likely would have generated revenue for the coming seasons. He says that could have allowed the Expos to offer long-term contracts to their best players.

GALLAGHER: That would have created continuity and created some sort of a dynasty that the opposition didn't want to face.

Poor management, a crumbling stadium, and the weakness of the Canadian dollar in the 90s also contributed to the team’s downfall. So, ten years after the strike, the Expos moved to Washington D.C. where they took the field as the Washington Nationals.

Many Expos fans still hold out hope that one day they’ll get their team back.

That’s this week’s WORLD History Book, I’m Kristen Flavin.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Tomorrow: wildfires burn homes and force evacuations in the Pacific Northwest. We’ll have a report from Spokane, Washington.

And, how the music industry is maintaining the human touch in the age of AI-generated songs.

That and more tomorrow.

I’m Lindsay Mast.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: And I’m Mary Reichard.

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