The World and Everything in It: August 27, 2024

PREROLL: The World and Everything in It is made possible by listeners like us. My name is Brian Edmonds, and I live and work as a full time youth pastor in Clemmons, North Carolina. I hope that you enjoy today's program.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Good morning! San Francisco has a plan to bus homeless people back home. Will it ease the strain on the city?

WEBSTER: In the state of California, we make it very easy for people to be homeless.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Also today, making anti-discrimination protection for women for women only. The latest on the Biden Administration attempt to change Title IX.

And later, the growth of a Boy Scouts alternative. We’ll meet a trail master for the group Trail Life.

WILEY: Our boys are hearing only that their masculinity is toxic.

And what have two decades of online dating accomplished?

BROWN: It’s Tuesday, August 27th. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Myrna Brown.

EICHER: And I’m Nick Eicher. Good morning!

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

SOUND: [Israel rockets]

KENT COVINGTON, NEWS ANCHOR: Israel, Hezbollah exchange fire » Israel’s so-called Iron Dome missile defense system heard there shooting down incoming rockets over northern Israel.

Fighting resumed Monday between Israeli forces and the Lebanon-based terror group Hezbollah to the north.

On Sunday, Israel launched dozens of strikes on southern Lebanon, which it described as a preemptive operation.

U.S. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby:

KIRBY: Clearly, they felt the need, uh, to get ahead of what they saw was coming from, uh, from Hezbollah. This is something we've been watching closely as well. We certainly had indications that Hezbollah was serious about the threats that they were making publicly.

The United States’ top general, Joint Chiefs Chairman CQ Brown met with top Israeli defense leaders in Tel Aviv Monday, and visited the military’s Northern Command headquarters.

Biggest Russian attack on Ukraine in weeks » Kirby also reacted to the latest large-scale Russian attack against Ukraine.

Moscow’s forces battered much of the country with scores of missiles and drones that officials say killed at least four people and inflicted more damage on civilian infrastructure.

KIRBY:  This is a classic play out of the playbook for Vladimir Putin to go after energy infrastructure, particularly as he knows the weather's about to turn and people are going to need heat and power, um, a lot more as the, um, as things get colder, uh, in Ukraine.

President Volodymyr Zelensky described the latest attacks as “vile.” The barrage of over 100 missiles and a similar number of drones began early Monday morning in Russia’s biggest onslaught in weeks.

Ukrainian officials said drone attacks were followed by cruise and ballistic missiles.

House task force on Trump shooting visits Butler » A bipartisan task force of House lawmakers made a visit to Butler, Pennsylvania as part of an investigation into the assassination attempt on former President Trump.

Democratic Congressman Jared Moskowitz:

MOSCOWITZ:  Being here and seeing the proximity of the buildings, it reminds me, quite frankly, how outrageous it was that the former director of Secret Service did not come here, uh, to get a sense of, of what this looked like.

While the would-be assassin’s bullet narrowly missed its mark, clipping the former president in the ear, but one member of the audience was killed. And Republican Congressman Jeff Van Drew called it a completely avoidable tragedy.

VAN DREW:  President Trump never, ever should have been on that stage. There was somebody that we've seen an hour before that was on a rooftop. He immediately should have been pulled off the stage. He shouldn't have been on it.

Fox News reports that at least five Secret Service members have been placed on administrative leave, more than a month after the attack.

Trump/Harris debate » The debate before the debate.

The campaigns of Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are clashing over the rules for their scheduled presidential debate slated to take place two weeks from today.

But the campaigns are now quibbling over the microphones.

In what would be a shift from the last debate between Trump and President Biden, the Harrris campaign doesn’t want either candidate’s microphone muted when it is the other’s turn to speak.

Donald Trump told reporters:

TRUMP: We agreed to the same rules, same rules and same specifications, and I think that’s probably what it should be.

The Harris campaign says Trump’s handlers don’t trust him to act presidential when it’s not his turn to speak.

But the former president says Harris is getting cold feet about the debate and is looking for a way out.

Planned Parenthood » A pro-life organization is asking the IRS to investigate whether Planned Parenthood violated the terms of its tax-exempt status with its actions at last week’s Democratic National Convention.

KRISTEN FLAVIN: Non-profit groups with tax exempt 501(c)(3) status … are not allowed to engage in partisan political activity. But the pro-life group 40 Days for Life asserts that Planned Parenthood did exactly that last week in Chicago.

The abortion giant deployed a mobile facility to the convention to perform free vasectomies and chemical abortions. And it advertised on its website that it would provide the free services at the DNC.

40 Days for Life claims that Planned Parenthood effectively endorsed the Democratic party and its candidates with its actions.

Abortion access was a central theme of the Democratic convention.

Planned Parenthood’s (legally separate) political arm has endorsed Kamala Harris for president.

For WORLD, I’m Kristen Flavin.

Jack Smith appeal » Special counsel Jack Smith has asked a federal appeals court to reinstate the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump after a judge dismissed it last month.

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon threw out the case after concluding that the Justice Dept. improperly and unconstitutionally appointed Smith as special counsel. Smith’s team then challenged that ruling with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.

I’m Kent Covington.

Straight ahead: Title IX changes in the courtroom. Plus, raising the next generation of men who can lead well.

This is The World and Everything in It.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: It’s Monday the 27th of August.

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

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher.

Well, our colleague Mary Reichard continues to recuperate from the heart procedure that took her off the air a few weeks back. And while she’s working through her treatment, she’ll be making a slow—but we hope steady—return, starting today.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Mary had a conversation with Alliance Defending Freedom senior counsel Christiana Kiefer on civil rights protections for women in education.

You’ll remember that the Biden administration made controversial changes to what’s known as Title IX. Among other things was a redefinition of sex discrimination to include men who claim to be women. Lawsuits filed over the summer sought successfully to block enforcement of the rules while the legal challenge went forward.

EICHER: A week and a half ago, the Supreme Court denied the Biden administration emergency appeal to keep the rule change in place. Where does that leave the students Title IX was designed to protect?

Here’s Mary’s interview with ADF’s Christiana Kiefer.

MARY REICHARD: Christiana, thanks so much for joining us this morning.

CHRISTIANA KIEFER: Thank you for having me.

REICHARD: Well, when these rules went into effect on August 1 more than half of the states had secured injunctions blocking those rules from going into effect. So, do these injunctions mean only the new rules cannot be enforced, or do they mean Title IX as a whole cannot be enforced.

KIEFER: So, it only means that the new rules, the new Biden-Harris rules, cannot be enforced as they were issued in the spring. And that's great news for the female athletes and the other women and girls in those 26 states that are currently enjoying having those rules on pause. The big problem here is that the Biden-Harris rules flipped Title IX completely on its head by redefining sex discrimination to include gender identity, and as we have seen play out in the past, we know exactly how this turns out. It allows males who simply self-identify as girls to access girls’ sports teams, their locker rooms, their shower spaces, even their overnight hotel accommodations. So, it really flips Title IX on its head and would have a devastating impact on women and girls across the country if it's allowed to proceed.

REICHARD: Well, homing in on the Supreme Court's recent five-to-four ruling. What exactly did that decision do?

KIEFER: So, the Biden-Harris administration had asked the court to partially reinstate the new Title IX rules where they're currently blocked, and the Supreme Court said no. Now the court did not give us much analysis there, but he it did say that they unanimously agreed that the lower courts were right to block the rules, and in order to reach that conclusion, the Supreme Court had to agree with us, with the states, with the female athlete plaintiffs, that the new Title IX rules are likely to be unlawful and unconstitutional. So it's a very hopeful sign.

REICHARD: Well, as you say, the justices were unanimous in upholding those injunctions, but they did disagree on how broad the injunctions ought to be. Now, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote a dissent, and she was joined by the two liberal justices, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, and also conservative justice Neil Gorsuch. The four of them objected to putting on hold all of the Title IX rewrite – they would have just put on hold some of them. So, Christiana, my question is, what do you think Justice Gorsuch might have been thinking to want to let in some of the Title IX changes that the Biden administration wants?

KIEFER: So, I wouldn't read too much into that. Justice Gorsuch, in the past, has been very concerned about injunctions that he perceived to be over broad. And so, given the very technical nature of this emergency question that was presented to the court, I wouldn't read much beyond that. Yeah, I'm not too concerned about what it might look like in the future. I think he was really concerned about the overbroad nature of the injunction.

REICHARD: So, the Supreme Court ruled on the injunction, but not the merits of the matter. Is there any case coming up through the federal courts that the justices might take for review this next term?

KIEFER: So, there are two cases the court has currently been asked to review, one out of Idaho, Hecox v. Little, and one out of the state of West Virginia, B.P.J., and both of those are ADF cases trying to protect the right of states to preserve fair and safe sports for female athletes. Both Idaho and West Virginia passed laws to ensure that if you have a girls sports team, only female athletes compete on that team. And both of those laws were immediately challenged by the ACLU, representing males who were demanding access to those female spaces. So, we've asked the court to consider both of those cases, and we hope that the court might take those up this term.

REICHARD: You know, I'm curious about something. You don't see girls invading boys’ sports and taking away their trophies and their scholarships and so forth. We only see it going the other direction. Why isn't that front and center in the arguments against what the Biden administration is trying to do?

KIEFER: It certainly does highlight the physical differences between the sexes, right? That's the reason that we have Title IX passed more than 50 years ago, to start with, is to ensure that women and girls put that past discrimination behind them. They get that level playing field and the equal athletic opportunities. And really, as a result of Title IX, we have watched America produce some of the most incredible female athletes the world has ever seen, Katie Ledecky, Simone Biles, so we want to continue that legacy and ensure that women and girls are protected, and the future generations have these opportunities as well.

REICHARD: Final question here, Christiana. These rules also cover how to handle claims of sexual harassment. I've heard many voices saying they also fail to protect the due process rights of the accused, usually young men. That's just to name two other aspects of the Title IX changes. Are there other rules in this guidance that families and states where the rules are still in effect, should they be aware of?

KIEFER: I think parents and school districts across the country should be deeply concerned about the Biden-Harris rule rewrite. This 1500 pages of new regulations, it involves changes to 25 different regulations, and certainly at its core, redefining sex to include gender identity is going to have massive downstream effects in ways that are, frankly, even unpredictable at this point. So, I think the entire rule change, is deeply problematic and something that needs to be stopped.

REICHARD: Christiana Kiefer is senior counsel for the Alliance Defending Freedom. Thanks so much for your time!

KIEFER: Thanks for having me.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Coming up next on The World and Everything in It: local policies on homelessness.

Last month, California Governor Gavin Newsom ordered cities to clear encampments of homeless people.

Soon after that —

AUDIO: It’s a controversial push to get San Francisco’s unhoused population out of town.

—the mayor of San Francisco got involved. Mayor London Breed announced her crackdown on public camping: offering bus tickets when city shelters are full.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Mayor Breed’s executive order cites survey data saying nearly half of the homeless population in San Francisco came from elsewhere. The mayor’s so-called Journey Home program requires city workers to encourage homeless to leave before offering other city services.

BROWN: The stated goal is to reunite the individuals with family or friends back home.

But how effective is it?

WORLD Radio’s Anna Johansen Brown now with a story reported by WORLD’s Addie Offereins:

ANNA JOHANSEN BROWN: People end up on the streets of San Francisco for a lot of reasons. Unemployment. Mental illness. Drug use.

PAUL WEBSTER: In the state of California, we make it very easy for people to be homeless.

Paul Webster used to serve as senior policy adviser in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Now, he’s executive director at the LA Alliance for Human Rights. Webster says a range of factors draw people to the state, from generous cash assistance welfare policies to warm weather.

WEBSTER: Because there is very lax enforcement of anti-camping, anti-sleeping ordinances. And that’s why you see some of these challenges and some of these issues with people coming to California who may not have the resources, the skills sets, or other challenges that cause them to become homeless in California.

So where do the unhoused people on California’s streets come from?

Last year, the University of California, San Francisco, released a study. It found that 9 in 10 homeless people lost their housing in the state. The study also claims that 7 in 10 were homeless in the county where they were once housed. In other words, they’re Californians.

But in a recent homeless count, the city of San Francisco found different results: Forty percent of the individuals surveyed came to the city from out of town or out of state.

MICHELE STEEB: People are coming to San Francisco from outside of San Francisco to enjoy more access to drugs, the access to benefits, whatever it may be…

Michele Steeb is a homelessness policy expert and the former director of a homeless shelter in Sacramento, California.

STEEB: Maybe they have friends and they just want to be in community with those friends that are, you know, living wherever they're living in San Francisco, on the streets. That is a really important point that this San Francisco example brings out.

So if many people who are homeless in California come from somewhere else, how does it work to help them return to where they came from? Paul Webster explains.

WEBSTER: People will say things like “I’m from Indianapolis,” or “I’m from Des Moines, Iowa,” or wherever they’re from, and instead of going through the tremendous expense of housing or other kinds of services, they say, “You know, doesn’t it kind of make sense if we can get you a bus ticket, a plane ticket, and get you reunified with your family?” And people will eventually accept that assistance and reconnect with their families of origin.

Still, homeless ministry leaders in California told WORLD they are skeptical that San Francisco’s busing program will effect lasting change in people’s lives. Helping someone move out of the city may merely shift the problem.

Jeff Hudson serves as interim CEO for the Union Rescue Mission in Los Angeles. His county recently documented 75,000 homeless individuals.

HUDSON: It is a serious, systematic challenge that people are facing down here and in San Francisco that will not be solved by providing a bus ticket back to Des Moines.

Since last September, San Francisco has sent 92 individuals out of town. Almost 30 percent relocated to other California counties.

And there’s another problem.

HUDSON: It's not a simple phone call to folks and saying, I'm lonely and I'd love to be picked up.

Heading straight home isn’t always wise. Broken relationships may have contributed to an individual’s homelessness in the first place. Sometimes going to rehab or getting connected with community where they are now is a better option. But providing that level of support requires more involvement than city officials are sometimes prepared to offer.

JAMES WHITFORD: If we’re just talking about government dollars trying to move homeless people out of the city and back to family, that’s most likely going to fail.

James Whitford is CEO of True Charity, a network of poverty-fighting ministries. True Charity ministries are committed to offering compassion that is personal and that challenges individuals to participate in their own recovery.

He is also the founder and executive director of Watered Gardens, a homeless ministry in Joplin, Missouri.

WHITFORD: We're asking people about that, people come in the door, where's your family, who's most closely affiliated with you, that we should be involving?

Reunifying an individual with family can be a vital part of their recovery…if it’s done well. And reconciliation is best done through personal relationships, not state funded programs. Whitford recalls one chronically-homeless man who was addicted to drugs when he walked through their doors in Missouri.

WHITFORD: He comes in the mission. He's in need, and I'm asking him, where's your family? He starts to tell me about the burnt bridges of his family back in California, who would never want to see him again.

Whitford asked if he could try and find his mother’s phone number.

WHITFORD: He says that's fine, but you know, they're not going to want to talk to me…and I call her, and I have her on the phone, and I tell her that her son, John, is right across from me, and she begins to weep, and wants to talk with him, which he would’ve never thought.

John decided to head back to California and reunite with his family, and Whitford says that was a vital piece of his recovery.

WHITFORD: There's something really powerful that happens in the bridge rebuilding process, the forgiveness that's required for that to happen that motivates a person to continue on a track that's healthy for them.

For WORLD, I’m Anna Johansen Brown, with reporting from Addie Offereins.

NICK EICHER, HOST: As a person of German descent, I can say this, our people do have a reputation for aggression. Even the language sounds like fighting words. A German can’t say something as funny as tongue twister with making it sound threatening.

Zungenbrecher!

See what I mean?

But then, sometimes they go and feed the stereotype—as here, listen to this:

AUDIO: [THE IMPERIAL MARCH]

That is the sound coming from a German Navy vessel, sailing down the River Thames in the center of London. Someone recorded this with his phone.

So why the Darth Vader vibe—given everything?

Well, because a German captain gets to play whatever he wants. And he’s a Star Wars fan. A statement from Deutsche Marine: “Die Musikauswahl hat keine tiefere Botschaft.”

Meaning, “The choice of music has no deeper message.”

You know you don’t have to dig all that deep. The criticism isn’t the subtlety.

It’s The World and Everything in It.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Today is Tuesday, August 27th. Thank you for turning to WORLD Radio to help start your day.

Good morning. I’m Nick Eicher.

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

Coming next on The World and Everything in It: replacing the scouts.

The organization Trail Life began in 2013. It was an alternative to the Boy Scouts and a reaction to the LGBT course the scouts were charting.

Trail Life says it’s “undergirded by biblical values and unapologetically reflects a Christian worldview.”

In a little over a decade, Trail Life has continued to grow, now totaling about 60-thousand members across the U.S.

EICHER: WJI mid-career graduate Rachel Coyle talked with a South Carolina troop master who believes it’s his calling to teach young men their value.

AUDIO: [Sizzling] Someone with nasty chicken hands add some more here? Sure!

RACHEL COYLE: When 50 campers are hungry at the end of a long day, the pressure is on.

The aroma of sizzling meat makes the wait for dinner a little bit harder.

LEADER: Not the typical camp meal. My wife was thinking, are we gonna cook for 50 people over the campfire? I said, “Oh, no, not with Casey around.”

He’s referring to Casey Wiley, Troopmaster of the local Trail Life, who organized this camping trip. He’s also a gifted chef. Tonight’s dinner is hibachi chicken and fried rice. Trail Life leaders slice 20 pounds of chicken into bite-sized pieces for the grill. Thirteen-year-olds Gabriel and Matthew scrape and flip mounds of rice. This trip is a chance for boys to observe servant leadership and participate, too.

Troopmaster is just one of the leadership roles Casey has willingly stepped into. He doesn’t take on the leadership roles for himself; he does it to set an example for growing boys to follow.

CASEY: I keep doing it, because it's important. We work with these kids, we get to show them what Christian men are…

In a culture that struggles to define masculinity, Casey Wiley is up for the challenge of being a strong Christian male role model. That’s something he says he and many other men didn’t have when they were young.

CASEY: There was a good example of male leadership. There wasn't a good example of male Christian leadership when we were growing up. You know, it was missing. It’s why a lot of us dads have struggled with it and coming in as being the leaders of our family, and we want to equip our sons better.

AUDIO: [Sound of Wiley home]

Casey and his wife have four sons — and three daughters. Casey’s day job is manager of financial aid at a medical school in Greenville. Although it’s tough to balance the demands of work and family, Casey sees time spent in leadership as a way to equip the next generation of young men.

CASEY: We know that a good investment and thinking about retirement and that sort of thing takes time. It takes a lot of time, and it takes our resources. If you think about it from the time quotient, we need to be investing in our boys. When we don't invest in our boys, we end up with the society that we have right now, where men are being essentially shunted to the side.

Casey also believes that our culture throws around the phrase “toxic masculinity” without clearly defining it. And while it’s important to call out toxicity, he says it’s even more important to call it what it is: sin.

CASEY: What it's led to is our boys are hearing only that their masculinity is toxic.

When society perceives masculinity is toxic, Casey warns that ultimately, society views men as toxic, unnecessary, disposable. The well-being of society itself is at stake.

CASEY: Men have become more absent from the family, and we’ve seen a degeneration of the family. How much worse will it get?

Casey teaches the boys that masculinity isn’t toxic, sin is. And if boys exhibit harmful traits, he lovingly calls it out. He sets expectations to gauge the growth of Christian leadership for the boys in his troop.

CASEY: Are they willing to admit when they're wrong, and take direction and learn all of which are good leadership traits that we're trying to teach them, and what we should expect in terms of Christian male leadership.

For men who might be a bit reluctant to take on a leadership role, he has some good advice:

CASEY: What did Christ do? He served. Leadership is first jumping in and serving, wherever there's a need, you fill it, as best you can.

Leadership roles may require a lot of time, and if anyone knows how challenging that can be, it’s Casey’s wife, Stacy.

STACY: In some seasons, it’s just not the time to be saying yes to everything. And in other times, with prayerful consideration, God's going to meet your needs and make it to where you can serve, and be there for your family. Although, I highly recommend including your family as much as you can.

Some may be hesitant to step in and serve, or stand up and lead because they feel ill-equipped or inadequate. But maybe that’s a good thing.

CASEY: I’m constantly reminded of the fact that I need to rely on God.

Ultimately, that develops the humility servant leadership requires, and will make any man equipped for the task that lies ahead.

CASEY: The difference between Christian male leadership, and secular male leadership is all about modeling who Christ is. And again, we're still sinful, Christ was not, we're going to apologize, Christ never had to. But we can model something in apology, that will help our boys be better leaders in the future that will help them be better Christian men leaders themselves, and better husbands, which is a key thing.

Back at the campground, conversation picks up around dinner. One Troop Leader observes the importance of brotherhood among Christian men who lead.

LEADER: As dads, we all have our shortcomings. But when we come together like this, they get to learn from other men things that I’m not good at as well as see that there’s other men in this world that love God and love their families.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Rachel Coyle in Boiling Springs, SC.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Today is Tuesday, August 27th. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Myrna Brown.

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher.

World Opinions Commentator Samuel James now on obstacles to finding true love in the age of dating apps.

YOUTUBE VIDEO: [EXCERPT]

SAMUEL JAMES: Thanks to the ironclad memory of YouTube, anyone can watch this commercial that aired in 2006 for the online dating service eHarmony.

WARREN: At eHarmony, we use the scientific system to help you find someone who's looking for someone like you.

The website was a sensation in the mid-2000s and one of the first internet dating tools to market itself as a viable marriage maker. Its creator was a Christian theologian and counselor named Neil Clark Warren. He appears in the ad, looking and sounding every bit like a pastor cheering on two of his congregants toward wedded bliss.

Twenty years ago, the promise of online dating was that single men and women could skip the overwhelming uncertainty of chance encounters and find someone who was a truly compatible soulmate. Two decades later, online dating apps are now the norm. But soulmates—and marriages—are not. And between tumbling stock prices and increasing user complaints, the days of dating apps may also be numbered.

So why has online dating not fulfilled its promises? One reason may be the paradox of choice. Many observers have noticed that the streaming era has apparently created audiences who have access to everything imaginable but very little interest in 99 percent of it. Similar dilemmas could happen when streaming potential mates. An infinite amount of choice combined with broad freedom to choose sounds liberating but instead becomes paralyzing.

Another reason may be that the internet is not that conducive to the highest experiences of life. The great promise of online dating was to help singles overcome the problems posed by limited choice and the tedious trial and error that in-person dating presents. For some, including Christians, online dating has connected men and women who might not otherwise cross paths in real life. The resulting marriages happened because those people didn’t stay online. The overall verdict, however, seems to be that a generation has been conditioned to hide behind their digital technology. Younger Americans report more difficulty than their elders with things like friendship, major life transitions, and even things like getting a driver’s license. Are these things just that much more difficult than they were 20 years ago? Or has the frictionless experience of digital life made encounters with offline reality feel harder?

Add to that the growing political rift between the sexes, as men break to the right and women to the left, thanks in part to online spaces that fuel their polarization. It’s hardly breaking news that men and women may not totally get each other. But could increasing resentment between the sexes be a consequence of our culture’s stagnant singleness? And might that unwanted loneliness be a further consequence of an overreliance on technology to solve what is ultimately a human need, not a technical one?

Christians know that human beings are designed for something greater than seamless efficiency and maximal choice, and that gives them an advantage over secular neighbors on this issue. This doesn’t necessarily mean throwing out online dating. But it’s still true that friendship, membership in a church and local community, and in-person camaraderie offer the most reliable path toward wedding bells.

Start with friendship by helping ourselves and our children normalize conversation and eye contact. Resist the temptation to always retreat into devices. Meaningful membership in a local church might limit our freedom in some ways, but it also provides a holy context in which to get to know people and practice the art of relationship.

These practices aren’t just quaint “hacks” for a less distracted family life. They are theological and even political habits that just might offer a way out of frustration, paralysis, and the battle of the sexes.

I’m Samuel James.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Tomorrow: The RFK Jr. endorsement of Donald Trump. What effect might that have on this tight race? That’s Washington Wednesday. And, Rwanda starts enforcing new rules for churches. We’ll have a report. That and more tomorrow.

I’m Nick Eicher.

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

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