The World and Everything in It: July 14, 2026

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MARY REICHARD, HOST: Good morning!

Beyond Washington, the death of Lindsey Graham has South Carolinians taking stock.

VAN RIPER: He’s been part of saving over 200,000 lives in South Carolina.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Also today, what we learned in the first court hearing for the man accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk.

And, why the pro-life movement is paying more attention to fathers.

Later: the calls first responders never forget.

FIELDS: I was looking at her, thinking somebody’s world is getting ready to be turned upside down.

And, WORLD Commentator Janie B. Cheaney on the coolest invention of the last century.

REICHARD: It’s Tuesday, July 14th. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Mary Reichard.

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

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

KENT COVINGTON, NEWS ANCHOR: Iran latest » President Trump says the U.S. is taking control of the Strait of Hormuz.

He's reinstating a naval blockade of Iran and American forces are blowing up Iranian air defenses, radar, and missile sites. And they’re taking out the small high-speed boats Iran uses to attack commercial ships in the strait.

TRUMP: We're taking out all of their capability for, uh, anything having to do with the strait, with the Hormuz Strait. And I think in the end, uh, we will end up just controlling the whole thing.

Iran claims the strait is its own. Iranian military spokesman Ebrahim Zolfaghari shot back:

ZOLFAGHARI: [Speaking Farsi]

…saying Tehran will not allow the U.S. to interfere with Iran's—quote—management of the strait.

The United Arab Emirates’ Defense Ministry said Iran just attacked two tankers in the strait, killing one person and wounding eight others.

Traffic has collapsed. Just 14 ships crossed Sunday. Before the war, about 130 crossed every day, representing roughly a fifth of the world’s oil supply.

And Trump says the countries that depend on that oil should pay the US to guard it — a 20 percent fee on their cargo.

TRUMP: We are going to be reimbursed for protection. We're protecting by the countries that we're, uh, helping.

That has drawn sharp criticism from some who accuse the Trump administration of doing what it said Iran had no right to do — charge tolls in the strait.

But the administration says reimbursing the US for security while Iran threatens the strait is very different from charging ships merely to travel the waterway.

Ukraine coalition » Ukraine and European partners are teaming up to defend the continent against ballistic missiles. WORLD’s Kristen Flavin reports.

SOUND: [Zelenskyy in Paris]

KRISTEN FLAVIN: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shook hands with French President Emmanuel Macron Monday. Zelenskyy was in France for talks with leaders from more than 30 countries that have pledged to defend Ukraine against Russia.

Ukraine and nine European nations announced a new anti-ballistic missile coalition — including Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. Their goal: build a shared missile shield for all of Europe.

And President Trump has pledged to let Ukraine build American Patriot defense system missiles, though that could take years.

Meanwhile, Russian attacks continue.

SOUND: Zaporizhzhia attacks

Ukrainian officials say at least two people were killed and nearly a dozen injured after Russian drones hit the city of Zaporizhzhia in southeastern Ukraine.

For WORLD, I’m Kristen Flavin.

Rubio on ICC » The Trump administration has announced new sanctions against the International Criminal Court.

The court calls itself a last resort — prosecuting genocide and war crimes when national courts won't. But Secretary of State Marco Rubio describes it this way:

RUBIO: It is a global tribunal staffed by unelected globalist bureaucrats who claim their power is almost unlimited. The danger of this global court has only continued to grow.

The administration says the court targets Americans and Israelis whose countries never joined the ICC. In 2024, it issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the war in Gaza. It also greenlit a probe of U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

The new sanctions hit four more court officials — freezing assets, barring travel. Washington sanctioned others last year.

RUBIO: Independence is our birthright. We will never let foreign bureaucrats take that away from us. If they believe they can deprive us of our sovereignty, we will teach them the full meaning of American resolve.

The ICC claims the sanctions are unlawful, and it has filed a lawsuit in a US district court.

California drug abortion reversals » A legal fight continues in California over abortion pill reversals.

The case is People v Heartbeat International. California Attorney General Rob Bonta alleges the defendants falsely advertised abortion pill reversal as safe and effective. The state is seeking $20 million in penalties.

Defense attorney Paul Jonna with Thomas More Society says cross-examination of the lead expert for the state of California actually strengthened the defense:

JONNA: The attorney general doesn’t have any supporting science to establish that the claims are false. … The First Amendment also protects our clients.

He also points out a contradiction:

JONNA: The irony here is that the side that claims to be pro-choice is really trying to strip women of their choice to continue with their pregnancies, and it's really an unconstitutional attack on those rights.

The bench trial before a state judge is expected to continue through July before the defense rests.

McConnell breaks silence on health » Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell has for the first time revealed what led to his hospitalization. WORLD’s Benjamin Eicher has more.

BENJMIN EICHER: The 84-year-old Kentucky senator says a fall is what landed him in the hospital four weeks ago.

McConnell explained his long silence as being hesitant to "share the vulnerability that comes with growing older.”

McConnell said he will not be returning to the Senate “quite yet” but continues to work with his staff on Senate business.

For WORLD, I’m Benjamin Eicher.

Sam Neill obituary » Hollywood is mourning the death of actor Sam Neill at the age of 78. He was known for his role as Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park:

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But also played notable roles in other blockbusters, like The Hunt for Red October and Thor: Ragnarok.

The New Zealand native also enjoyed a successful television career, earning several Emmy and Golden Globe nominations.

Neill said he had a rare type of lymphoma in 2023. But his family said he was cancer-free when he died Monday. The initial statement did not reveal a cause of death.

I'm Kent Covington.

Coming up, how the sudden loss of Senator Lindsey Graham is being felt in Washington and his home state. Plus, what we learned in the first court hearing for the man accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk.

This is The World and Everything in It.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: It’s Tuesday, July 14th.

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

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

Up first, unfinished business.

Yesterday, South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster announced his appointment to finish the term of the late Senator Lindsey Graham.

MCMASTER: It's my honor to ask his little sister, Darline Graham, to finish his work for him now.

Graham raised his teenage sister after their parents’ death while he was in college.

NORDONE: Now to Lindsey, I miss you more than I can even put into words, but I'm going to do this. I got it.

REICHARD: The senior South Carolina senator’s death on Saturday comes at a critical moment for Republicans in Congress, allies abroad, and advocates at home.

Graham spent more than 20 years in the Senate, and sat on the powerful Judiciary and Appropriations committees. In 2018, he rallied support to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court in the face of a MeToo-style campaign to oppose him.

GRAHAM: I hope you're on the Supreme Court. That's exactly where you should be, and I hope that the American people will see through this charade.

EICHER: He went on to lead the Judiciary committee’s confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett in 2020. As Budget committee Chairman, Graham played a leading role passing tax cuts and budget reconciliation bills. And as a staunch pro-life Senator, Graham long called for national protections for the unborn, but also found ways to get incremental wins. Here’s South Carolina Citizens for Life President Lisa Van Riper.

VAN RIPER: We had hoped of course, that there would be an absolute ban on public funding for Planned Parenthood, but what we got instead in the Big Beautiful Bill was a one-year pause on that funding.

Van Riper says Graham’s state and federal legislation had a meaningful effect on the number of abortions.

VAN RIPER: We can document that he's been part of saving over 200,000 lives in South Carolina.

REICHARD: Graham was also an advocate for American alliances abroad, including Israel and NATO. He made ten trips to Ukraine since Russia’s invasion, and called for supporting Ukraine with military aid when other Republicans had different ideas.

GRAHAM: We've reached agreement with the White House on a version of the Russian sanctions bill that they will support.

On Friday, Graham told reporters in Ukraine he was working with the White House and Senate colleagues to pass new sanctions on countries buying Russian oil and gas.

GRAHAM: I've never been more optimistic than I am today that we have the formula to end this war.

EICHER: Graham’s death Saturday evening upends that plan…along with other Republican priorities. President Trump told CNN he was discussing priority legislation hours before Graham’s cardiac emergency.

TRUMP: He was pushing very very hard, you probably know, he wanted to pass the Save America Act.

Senate leaders now need to fill Graham’s committee seats…and quickly. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is scheduled to appear before the Judiciary committee tomorrow. And with Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell out for extended health issues, the Republican majority is effectively now 51-47.

Van Riper says it all amounts to considerable setbacks for Republicans…and pro-lifers.

VAN RIPER: That doesn't mean that a new person won't be raised up. I think we just have to wait and see who that is.

REICHARD: Following Monday’s appointment, Darline Graham will serve the rest of her brother’s term through January. She is an optician who currently leads the state’s Commission for the Blind.

South Carolina political advisor Randy Page says Governor McMaster wanted to honor Graham but not yet put a thumb on the scale in the November race to replace him.

PAGE: I don't think he really wanted to give someone a leg up, you know, to where they would have the power of incumbency in the snap primary that'll be held this August.

Candidates will begin filing to run next Tuesday.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Coming up next on The World and Everything in It: The Charlie Kirk case.

Five days of testimony offered the public an unusually detailed look at the prosecution's case. WORLD's Mary Muncy reports.

MARY MUNCY: Last week, Utah prosecutors laid out part of their case against 23-year-old Tyler Robinson. They presented footage they say places Robinson at Utah Valley University.

Investigator David Hull described footage after the shooting:

HULL: Mr. Robinson lowering himself and jumping off the roof of the Losee building onto the grassy area… He appears to be carrying some kind of object.

Investigators later found a rifle with engraved bullets near campus. They then matched an engraver at Robinson’s apartment with those bullets.

They also presented DNA evidence linking Robinson to items found at the scene.

The defense questioned the reliability of the DNA testing.

DEFENSE ATTORNEY: You're not in your report stating to the court that your testing has a zero error rate. Correct?

AMANDA BAKKER: Correct.

ATTORNEY: You're not saying that the test is infallible.

BAKKER: I am not. No.

Later, investigator Brian Davis read text messages Robinson allegedly sent to his roommate and romantic partner, Lance Twiggs.

WITNESS: Tyler says, “I’m still okay my love, but I’m stuck in Orem for a little while longer yet. Shouldn’t be long until I can come home. But got to grab my rifle still. To be honest I had hoped to keep this secret until I died of old age. I am sorry to involve you.”

And then Lance replies, “You weren’t the one who did it right?”

And Tyler says, “I am, I’m sorry.”

Robinson turned himself in the day after the shooting.

The defense repeatedly requested evidence not be made public. They also called their own expert to testify about the DNA evidence.

SPENCER: I have never ever seen as much discussion about how evidence will be shown

Utah criminal defense attorney Randall Spencer thinks that may have to do with the case’s high-profile nature.

SPENCER: The defense is obviously concerned about the jury pool and the information that the the jury pool is being bombarded with from the media.

Spencer also thinks Kirk’s widow, Erika, wants people to know what happened. She represents the victim in the case, and her lawyers keep pushing for transparency.

SPENCER: She has been the subject of of attacks, criticisms, and and even assertions that she may have had something to do with with Charlie's death.

But Spencer thinks cameras in the courtroom can put strain on juries.

Others disagree.

JILL WINE-BANKS: I am a big believer that the American public would trust the courts more if they could see trials.

Jill Wine-Banks is a lawyer who worked as a special prosecutor on the Watergate case.

During the hearing, one piece of evidence that was to remain unpublished appeared on the screen while cameras were rolling.

BANKS: But it's not fatal, and especially because the particular piece of evidence is likely going to be trial evidence… you don't want something that won't be introduced in evidence to be seen by that jury.

Spencer expects Robinson to enter a not guilty plea. He believes the possibility of the death penalty may be why the defense entered so many objections and argued so often over procedure. That could aid an appeal later.

SPENCER: You never know what may end up being significant in the future when additional information inevitably comes to light.

At this point, the judge only has to determine whether there’s probable cause to go to trial… Spencer and Banks believe he will. Both sides will deliver their final arguments on September 1st. If the case does go to trial, Spencer believes a jury’s decision could still be up to a year away.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Mary Muncy.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Up next, the missing fathers.

Every unexpected pregnancy involves both a mom and a dad, but for decades most pro-life ministries have emphasized exclusively the mother.

NICK EICHER, HOST: New research indicates fathers may have more influence than many have assumed. WORLD reporter Lauren Canterberry reports on efforts to help men speak up—and show up.

LAUREN CANTERBERRY: Sean Corcoran and his girlfriend were in their first semester of college when she told him she was pregnant and had made up her mind to have an abortion.

SEAN CORCORAN: The best that I could do was just say no. And that didn’t work.

Corcoran asked her to reconsider, and his father offered to adopt their baby, but she went ahead.

The couple’s grades took a hit as they struggled in the aftermath. A school counselor agreed to waive his girlfriend’s classes for the semester without penalties but Corcoran was denied the same option.

CORCORAN: They just said no, this doesn’t affect you because you’re a man.

Corcoran flunked out. He became addicted to methamphetamines as he tried and failed to complete his degree two more times. He entered a rehab program and started to see that his struggles were tied to the abortion. A counselor helped him process his grief and suggested he name his unborn child.

CORCORAN: His name is Michael.

Women may carry the physical burden of pregnancy, but pro-lifers say men’s voices are often ignored in the abortion discussion.

Liam Siegler is a researcher with the Vitae Research Institute and he says pro-abortion groups effectively silence men with phrases like “my body, my choice” and “no uterus, no opinion.”

Earlier this year, Vitae published its first study examining how men respond to unplanned pregnancy and abortion. Nearly half said they told their girlfriends or wives they would support them no matter their decision.

SIEGLER: They either said that out of a desire to avoid conflict because they thought that was what she wanted to hear, or they felt that if they took a strong position it would cause a problem in the relationship.

But Siegler said women did not find that response helpful because it shifted the responsibility onto women alone.

Siegler hopes Vitae’s research will equip pro-life organizations and pregnancy resource centers to serve the fathers of babies at risk of abortion.

Crossroads Care Center in Auburn Hills, Michigan is doing just that. When Don Schumaker began volunteering in 2023, he was one of three men serving in the center’s men’s program. Now the team has grown to eight.

DON SCHUMAKER: So teach the guy, ‘you got a voice.’ Do you want this child? You have to let her know that and that means not just wanting the child to live but you’re going to be with her for helping to raise the child.

At Crossroads, men can attend infant care classes and meet with staff to share their needs and concerns. Schumaker is also shifting the men’s classes and locations to accommodate traditional work schedules.

SCHUMAKER: We want them to be working so it’s really coming down to figuring out a way to meet them where they live.

Schumaker said men need community and accountability to feel ready to become fathers. Corcoran agrees.

CORCORAN: There’s a hunger in young men for something greater.

After rehab, Corcoran went back to school, became a lawyer, and started his own family. Now he is the CEO of the national nonprofit Men for Life. It works with pregnancy centers to develop men’s programming.

CORCORAN: By filling that hunger with authentic masculinity, with Biblical masculinity, we can serve that young man to where he has the confidence to raise the child.

A Gallup poll published last summer says 54% of American men identify as pro-life. But Corcoran said more men need to speak out publicly.

CORCORAN: Right now we’ve got half of the pro-life army on the sidelines. When men return back to the arena, to fight boldly for life, that’s when we’ll end abortion.

Pro-lifers say getting men back in that arena will require a new narrative around who should be involved in abortion decisions.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Lauren Canterberry.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Most museums preserve masterpieces.

This one had to remake one, one trowel-full of peanut butter at a time.

Would you have ever guessed? It’s a modern art exhibit in the Netherlands called “Peanut Butter Floor.”

The title pretty much tells it.

Museum director Sandra Kisters:

KISTERS: It’s an absurd artwork. It also questions what art is. It's funny. In the Netherlands, every child eats peanut butter, so it’s also something people can relate to.

Robert Knoop is one of the men recreating the exhibit on his hands and knees.

KNOOP: Everything is covered in peanut butter, and I’m used to licking peanut butter off my fingers by now.

The exhibit raises the question, “What is art?”

Of course, I lack the sophistication to judge.

But bring me some bread and jam, and I can tell you what’s for lunch.

It’s The World and Everything in It.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Today is Tuesday, July 14th.

Thank you for turning to WORLD Radio to help start your day.

Good morning. I’m Mary Reichard.

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

Coming next on The World and Everything in It: Digging through the wreckage.

More than 30 years ago, firefighter Chris Fields was on the scene when a bomb exploded in downtown Oklahoma City.

REICHARD: The Oklahoma City bombing was the deadliest terror attack America had yet seen. Fields says it’s reverberated far beyond that day.

WORLD’s Abby Young has the story.

SOURCE: If you are anywhere downtown you probably heard it and felt it, an explosion of some kind downtown Oklahoma City.

SOURCE: The roar of the whole building crumbling.

SOURCE: It is emotional, I’ve met firefighters coming out of the building with tears in their eyes.

SOURCE: At the center of it all is the bombed out shell of the federal office building.

The morning of April 19, 1995, Oklahoma City firefighter Chris Fields felt the blast and saw the black smoke from his fire station. He and his unit rushed to the Murrah Federal Building.

FIELDS: It looked like a war zone, you know, I know it was one building, there was hundreds of buildings damaged, there was one building right in front of us, nine stories completely, you know, pancaked down on top of each other.

Fields spent the day searching for people in the rubble. He had just helped recover a woman trapped under debris when he encountered a police officer. The officer handed him a baby covered in dust, and told him she was in critical condition.

FIELDS: I had to clean some concrete dust out of her throat, and she had an open little, open skull fracture, and so I kept looking for signs of life, I couldn't find any.

The baby was one-year-old Baylee Almon. As Fields waited for a paramedic, he paused to look at the child cradled in his arms. He thought of his own two-year-old son.

FIELDS: I knew exactly what I was doing, and I was just thinking, I was looking at her, thinking somebody’s world is going to be turned upside down today.

Fields didn’t know it, but a freelance photographer snapped a photo. Baylee died later that day.

The Associated Press distributed the photo worldwide, and it later received a Pulitzer Prize.

In the weeks after the bombing, Fields and other first responders spent 12-hour shifts digging through the ruins for bodies. He said it was damp and cold inside the building.

FIELDS: It was, like… the quiet. I remember how quiet it was.

Search and rescue teams came from across the country to help. They worked until the building was imploded a few weeks later. Fields says the memories are haunting.

FIELDS: There’s a lot of stuff the outside world doesn’t need to know, you know, about search and rescue and recovery and things that they shouldn’t have to experience or hear about.

Like many firefighters, Fields spent years bottling up his emotional pain. He occasionally experienced depression and anger, but thought he’d moved on.

Until about 15 years later, while renovating his back patio, Fields smelled wet concrete.

FIELDS: I caught a smell of it, and in my mind I thought, my gosh, this is just like the building, being inside the building. I mean, it took me back, I could picture myself in there.

That was the moment everything fell apart. His depression and anger worsened, he began an affair, and got addicted to Xanax. He said he was an absent father to his two sons and a horrible husband to his wife, Cheryl.

FIELDS: Doing what I thought was best for Chris Fields, or what Chris Fields wanted to do, not, you know, not worrying about what I was destroying in the, in the wake.

Fields left Cheryl and their sons and moved out.

During their year-and-a-half-long separation, Cheryl prayed fervently for her husband’s healing. But Fields had given up hope.

FIELDS: I just thought one night, if I could mix up enough Xanax and alcohol that if I didn’t wake up the next day, everybody would start afresh.

But he did wake up. He grabbed his phone, called Cheryl, and asked to come home.

FIELDS: She didn’t even hesitate. God gave her the grace to forgive me immediately, and she said, ‘Well, come on.’

Fields went to a rehab facility for trauma therapy. He moved back home, and he and his wife went to counseling and restored their marriage. Today, Fields still talks about Cheryl’s forgiveness with tears in his eyes.

FIELDS: The things I put her through are… I mean, it’s just ridiculous that she stands beside me today.

Fields encourages first responders to process their trauma before it spirals out of control, like his did.

FIELDS: You do not have to wait until the wheels fall off before you reach out, reach out for help. That was my biggest issue.

Decades after the bombing, Fields knows that first responders everywhere need support from people they know and those they don’t.

FIELDS: Keep them in your thoughts and prayers, of course the families and the victims, but also the first responders and their families, what they’re going through.

Now retired, Fields works for Oklahoma’s First Responder Wellness Division and often speaks to first responders about trauma. When he speaks, he always honors baby Baylee and the 167 others killed in Oklahoma City.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Abby Young.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Nick Eicher.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: And I’m Mary Reichard. Some technologies promise convenience. Others end up changing civilization. WORLD commentator Janie B. Cheaney says one everyday invention did both.

JANIE B. CHEANEY: When people complain about the heat, I often think—and may even say—“You should have grown up in Texas. Without air conditioning.” I remember a swamp cooler in the dining room of our small boxy house before we finally got a window unit. But the only cooling element in the kids’ bedrooms was an open window.

Living on a tight budget for the first half of our marriage meant using the AC as little as possible. It was even, I’m ashamed to say, a point of pride. We were tough. I didn’t bake until sunset and we ran the attic fan at night and shut down the house in the morning and suffered through those late afternoon hours with misting fans. Two factors changed that pattern: one, we got computers and two, we got old.

Willis Carrier got rich by applying the simple principle of condensation to air cooling and de-humidifying. In 1910 he installed his first practical cooling unit at a printing company where summer dampness was wreaking havoc with paper saturation and color values. His bulky apparatus reduced humidity to 55%. Hospitals, factories and theaters were the next to benefit from cool dry air, and from there American productivity boomed. Human comfort was secondary, after insuring the meat didn’t spoil and the machinery didn’t clog and the film didn’t curl; home air-conditioning was relatively scarce until the 1950s. Now, of course, at least 80% of American homes are so comfortable we only leave them from June through August to dart to our air-conditioned cars. AC changed America in ways hard to fathom now: Would Florida be Florida without it?

Climate concerns about air conditioning will probably never be taken seriously here, but it’s become a life-or-death issue in Europe. Literally: in the last four years, the continent has reported over 61,000 heat-related deaths. Europe is the fastest-warming landmass in the world; every summer since 2021 has been the hottest on record. Even Norway is steaming.

The solution is not as simple as a $400 window unit from Walmart. Energy costs are higher in Europe than in the U.S., and average incomes lower. More homes and public buildings were designed to conserve heat, not lose it, and converting to central air could be prohibitively expensive. Also, whatever their virtues, window units are not attractive, and they spoil the old-world ambience that charms tourists. Finally, the Paris Agreement of 2016 binds the European Union to limit its greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050 - not likely with a million compressors pumping heat into the atmosphere.

Every technology gives and takes away, and it can take decades, if not centuries, to determine the balance. The small-town America of covered front porches and neighborhood get-togethers and kids running through sprinklers is largely gone. But air conditioning boosts our productivity during sweltering seasons. More importantly, it saves our lives. Some Europeans say they would sacrifice lives to save the planet, but which lives? The ones who will invent cheap, clean energy that won’t raise the temperature? Humans are often the problem, but they are also the solution. So thank you, Willis Carrier. And thank your Creator.

I’m Janie B. Cheaney.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Tomorrow: it’s Washington Wednesday with Hunter Baker. And, how community college can either open the door for a bachelor’s degree or hinder it. That and more tomorrow.

I’m Mary Reichard.

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

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