The World and Everything in It: July 28. 2026

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MARY REICHARD, HOST: Good morning!

A new nuclear energy agreement with the Saudis.

AUDIO: President Trump's agenda in the Middle East has been commerce, not conflict. … and I'm thrilled at where this is going.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Also today: California moves to expand abortion-pill access on college campuses.

And a conflict between a church ministry and tribal religious tradition brings a unique legal clash.

Later: a conversation with pro-lifer Ryan Bomberger on his new memoir.

BOMBERGER: I want to disprove the world's lie that if you're unplanned, you're going to be unwanted.

And WORLD’s Bethel McGrew on assisted suicide in New York.

REICHARD: It’s Tuesday, July 28th. 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 talks » The U.S. and Iran have stopped shooting at each other for the time being. Now mediators are trying to make it stick.

Qatar and Pakistan are carrying messages between Washington and Tehran. Officials in the region say it's working. President Trump, aboard Air Force One Monday:

TRUMP: Well Iran took a beating over the last fourteen days, and they asked us very nicely, Please stop. Let's meet. And that's where we are right now.

Iran publicly denies asking for a ceasefire. Its foreign ministry says mediators pass along American messages, but Tehran isn't talking to Washington directly.

Iran has continued to effectively shut down commercial traffic in the Strait of Hormuz in the meantime.

President Trump says if the mediation fails, the U.S. goes back to bombing.

Trump meets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House today.

Zelesnkyy in UK » The war in Ukraine has outlasted four British prime ministers. Monday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met the fifth.

Andy Burnham took office a week ago, and Zelenskyy is the first foreign leader he's hosted. They met aboard a British aircraft carrier … where Burnham vowed to honor every commitment Britain has made to Ukraine.

And Zelenskyy told reporters:

ZELENSKYY: Our relationship with the UK is stronger than ever, and I thank Andy for his commitment to this partnership and for giving so much attention to defense and to our security

The two leaders talked about building drones together, and about Ukraine's need for interceptors to shoot down Russian ballistic missiles. Burnham is also handing Ukraine the designs for a British jamming system that hides drones from Russian air defenses.

Zelenskyy heads to the White House today, looking for more air defense.

Heat wave » Still no relief from the heat for millions of Americans.

Josh Weiss with the Weather Prediction Center says for most of this week through Friday the hottest temperatures look to span an area from the central Gulf Coast through Texas and up to Kansas and west to the Four Corners region.

And just how hot will it be?

WEISS: Looking at high temperatures that will be a hundred to a hundred and five, maybe locally a hundred and ten degrees. Uh, those are air temperatures, and then some areas that will produce heat indices that will be a hundred and ten to a hundred and fifteen degrees.

But for the plains, Weiss says there is light at the end of the tunnel.

WEISS: So if you're sitting in Kansas City or Oklahoma City, get through this week. It does look like it's going to relax a little bit as we head into the weekend. But if you're in the Southwest, Phoenix, Las Vegas, those areas, this is just beginning

Forecasters say daily records across the desert Southwest are in jeopardy.

The Washington Post reports that this month’s heatwave is already blamed for at least 70 deaths across numerous states.

Nigeria attack kills 30 » Gunmen in Nigeria have massacred at least 30 people in a farming village, eight of them children.

The attackers burned homes and shops in a rampage that lasted several hours.

A Nigerian Christian group says the victims were mainly Christians and called it an act of terrorism.

Armed groups have raided Christian villages in the region for years. The Trump administration has named Nigeria one of the world's worst violators of religious freedom, adding it last year to a list of Countries of Particular Concern for persecution.

Wildfire in France » A wildfire in southwest France stopped spreading overnight but remains a serious threat. WORLD’s Kristen Flavin reports.

KRISTEN FLAVIN: The flames are still about nine miles away from Bordeaux, France's wine capital and a city of a quarter-million people. The fire has burned an area four times the size of Paris and driven 220,000 people from their homes.

President Emmanuel Macron calls it France's worst fire crisis since World War II.

Spain is burning, too. A fire west of Madrid is the largest in Spanish history. At least one person has died there, and about 75,000 people have fled their homes.

Roughly a dozen nations have sent planes and crews to help. But the weather isn’t helping. A new heat wave arrives this week, topping 95 degrees in southwest France, and 100 in Spain.

For WORLD, I’m Kristen Flavin.

Cracker Barrel CEO steps down » Cracker Barrel’s CEO is stepping down nearly a year after a costly failed rebrand of the restaurant and retail chain.

Julie Masino attempted to ditch Cracker Barrel’s iconic logo and interior design for a new look that critics panned as corporate and homogenized. The company reversed course after longtime fans revolted.

Masino will step down as CEO next month. David Deno will take her place. He’s a former top executive of Bloomin’ Brands, which owns Outback Steakhouse and other chains.

I'm Kent Covington.

California moves to expand abortion-pill access on college campuses. Later: a conversation with pro-lifer Ryan Bomberger on his new memoir.

This is The World and Everything in It.

NICK EICHER, HOST: It’s Tuesday July 28th.

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

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

First up, a nuclear deal in the Middle East.

The Trump Administration last week announced steps for a nuclear partnership with Saudi Arabia. Energy Secretary Chris Wright.

WRIGHT: President Trump's agenda in the Middle East has been commerce, not conflict. Saudi Arabia has been an ally of the United States since the nation's forming, and I'm thrilled in our efforts and where this is going.

A new nuclear energy agreement could open the door for U.S. companies to help Saudi Arabia build civilian nuclear reactors. Under U.S. law that kind of partnership requires a formal deal that spells out safeguards and limits. These are known as “1-2-3 agreements”—named for the section of the Atomic Energy Act that authorizes them.

EICHER: Supporters say the Saudi agreement strengthens an important Middle East partnership and keeps America in the game as China and Russia compete for influence. Critics say any nuclear cooperation with the Saudis requires careful oversight. The new Saudi 1-2-3 agreement comes after years of negotiations. Henry Sokolski is Executive Director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center. He says the Biden administration tried but failed to get a similar deal.

SOKOLSKI: They wanted the quid pro quo of Saudi Arabia recognizing Israel. When they didn't get that because of the massacre that occurred October 7, they just backed off.

REICHARD: Talks restarted after an executive order last year, requiring the Energy Department to export American nuclear technology to at least 20 countries by 2029.

Last week’s deal would allow American companies to sell American-made reactors and fuel assemblies to the Saudis. But the agreement also introduces the possibility the country could make its own nuclear fuel down the road.

Sokolski says the arrangement raises questions about Saudi Arabia’s goals.

SOKOLSKI: They're sitting on the world's some of the world's largest reserves of natural gas, a fair amount of oil, a whole heck of a lot of solar and a fair amount of wind. This this is not a country without alternatives that actually, when you do the economic analyses, and my center has, they’re cheaper.

EICHER: But U.S. Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz told CBS on Sunday the deal is about giving Saudi Arabia civilian nuclear power, not a path to nuclear weapons. He also noted the U.S. has worked similarly with other Gulf States.

WALTZ: Just like we have with the United Arab Emirates, the 123 agreement that we've had for for over a decade. There is no enrichment technology being provided to the Saudis. That will be done here in the United States, it’s some of our most sensitive technology.

REICHARD: The UAE committed not to enrich nuclear material. But Sokolski says that could change if the U.S. sweetens the Saudi deal to allow future enrichment.

SOKOLSKI: There is a proviso that says if we give a more generous set of terms to any of UAE neighbors, and surely that's Saudi Arabia. They, the UAE, gets to renegotiate or reopen negotiations for the terms of the deal.

He says that could incentivize other Middle East nations, like Egypt and Turkey, to increase their nuclear efforts as well.

SOKOLSKI: It could be a rather crowded nuclear edgy neighborhood.

EICHER: But the Saudi deal now faces another hurdle. Shortly after announcing the deal, President Trump said the Saudis need to join the Abraham Accords with Israel. The Saudis have long insisted on the creation of a Palestinian state before they will recognize Israel. Joining the Accords is not part of the current agreement, and Sokolski worries it may be too late.

SOKOLSKI: Once you have the deal, I think amending it is not really in the cards. You have to come up with a separate agreement of some sort.

The earliest the deal could go into effect once the president gives official notice to Congress is December.

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

A sermon clip goes viral, tribal leaders object, and a Christian ministry is ordered off a reservation in Wyoming.

NICK EICHER, HOST: For more than a decade, Foundations for the Nations has served Native American families around the Wind River Reservation. But after a minister connected with the group criticized tribal religious ceremonies, the Northern Arapaho Business Council ordered the ministry out.

WORLD’s Travis Kircher reports on the conflict now raising questions about religious liberty, tribal authority, and the future of church work there.

MUSIC: “I’m Gonna Sing Your Victory”

TRAVIS KIRCHER: It sounded like a normal Sunday inside the Foundations for Nations church building this week But the service at the small congregation felt different, because of what was happening outside.

SOUND: [Native American music]

Roughly three-dozen demonstrators stood at the entrance, holding signs and waving at church members as they drove in. Most were Native Americans who want the church and Pastor Sarah Lucas off the west-central Wyoming Wind River reservation.

THOMAS: It's too late for apologies. We just want her to go.

That’s activist Alice Thomas, who has a problem with how Lucas has talked about Native American ceremonies..

THOMAS: She made several disrespectful comments to our pipe and to our ancestors and disrespected us as Northern Arapaho people…

Thomas is referring to a clip from a July 5 sermon. Here’s part of what Lucas actually said:

LUCAS: This nation gathered this week and they prayed and they prayed to pipes and they prayed to ancestors believing that this is the way for their freedom, to be free from addiction, for people to be healed … Jesus is the chain breaker. He is the only God that we should be praying to. A pipe cannot hear your prayers.

Those words lit a powder keg, prompting the Northern Arapaho Business Council, a group that governs organizations that operate on the land to hold a meeting with Sarah and order Foundations for Nations to leave the reservation.

LUCAS: So it looks uncompassionate. It looks not loving.

Lucas says someone pulled a one-minute clip from a 90-minute sermon and took it out of context. But she stands by what she said. She also says the church has done nothing but love the community. Its programs include a food bank that feeds 2,000 people a month. But she says the church is about more than social services.

LUCAS: We didn't come out here to give good programming. We came out here to see a nation come to know Jesus because we know that's the answer to the problem out here…

And the problems on the res are obvious: a crime rate 5-7 times the national average, according to a study by the New York Times and an average life expectancy of less than 50 years. Lucas says there’s been vandalism at the church. Someone stole the church’s outdoor teepee. And then there’s the threats on social media calling for her assasination.

LUCAS: Saying "Charlie Kirk her." They were posting pictures of our church burning down and them scalping me.

SOUND: [Native American flute]

The demonstrators I talked to behaved peacefully, and said they knew nothing of any death threats. But they add the protests will continue.

THOMAS: We don't have to make it easy for her to stay here. We can sit here every Sunday and make noise and just be a thorn in her side until she has enough and leaves. But that's the ultimate goal: is to get her to leave.

Lucas says that’s not going to happen.

LUCAS: I'm not going to stop. My husband and I are not going to stop. We believe the Lord's called us here. Our staff has given up so much to be here.

She says she owns the reservation land, and has employed lawyers with Liberty Council, a Christian legal nonprofit that focuses on religious liberty issues, to represent her. But she says it’s not just about a legal battle. She believes God is using the controversy to bring about good.

LUCAS: We’re about ready to see a Great Awakening. We're believing we're going to see revival out of this. The gospel is being more preached, whether it's good publicity or bad publicity, still being preached, and so it's exciting. It's exciting.

Lucas says she has another meeting with the Northern Arapaho Business Council Thursday. She adds that while demonstrations have so far been peaceful, she does have concerns about what may happen if more groups show up.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Travis Kircher at the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Up next: expanding abortion-pill access on California college campuses.

California was the first state to require public universities to provide chemical abortion drugs through student health centers. Now lawmakers want to extend that mandate to dozens of community colleges.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Pro-lifers say the policy sends students a clear message: abortion is part of campus healthcare, while support for pregnant students remains more difficult to find. WORLD’s Lauren Canterberry reports.

LAUREN CANTERBERRY: Christian Alan was a senior at UCLA in the fall of 2022 when voters approved a proposal to make abortion a right under California’s state constitution.

CHRISTIAN ALAN: What followed after it passed was that in the UC Ship insurance, which is the insurance for all the UC system, the public school system for universities in California, they began to include abortion in their insurance.

A few months later, a law took effect requiring all 32 public universities in the state to begin stocking abortion pills.

ALAN: They made it known that if you needed to have an abortion covered, that was now covered.

California was the first state to pass a measure mandating university health systems provide chemical abortion drugs. Massachusetts, New York, and Illinois have since followed suit.

Now, California lawmakers want to extend the requirement to include 92 community colleges that have a student health center. Last year those schools enrolled about 2 million students.

California Right to Life outreach director Mary Rose Short says the move could strengthen the pro-abortion narrative.

MARY ROSE SHORT: Students think abortion is essential for student success and that you can’t be a parent and a successful student. If they know they are available on campus, it just plays into that idea of this is a critical part of being a student.

California has approximately 175 abortion facilities - the most of any state. Between that and mail-order pills, students already have access to the dangerous drugs.

SHORT: You would have to be at a pretty remote campus to not have same day or next day access to abortion.

While the measure has garnered support from pro-abortion lawmakers, some community college officials have raised concerns. Even those that are not pro-life.

The chief executive officers and health services association for community colleges both oppose the measure. They say campus health centers are not equipped to prescribe any medication or screen for complications.

According to one review published by the Ethics and Public Policy Center, up to one in ten women experience a serious adverse event after taking the abortion drug regimen. That can include hemorrhage, incomplete abortion, and infection.

Karen Pennington is the Colorado director for Concerned Women for America.

KAREN PENNINGTON: These clinics are healthcare clinics but they do not have ultrasound. They do not have a physician on staff.

Without an ultrasound, it is impossible to accurately determine how old an unborn baby is and if the woman is experiencing an ectopic pregnancy. Both cases would make taking abortion pills even more dangerous and ineffective.

PENNINGTON: We’ve removed any safeguards to protect women through these bills. It sends one strong message to young women – your only option if you get pregnant is abortion because that’s all we’ve got to offer.

Many pro-lifers say universities required to provide abortion drugs should also be required to provide clear information about alternatives.

Back in California, Christian Alan is trying to connect women with those support systems. He is now a regional coordinator for Students for Life and uses the group’s Standing With You platform to inform women about their options.

ALAN: The edge that Planned Parenthood had was that it’s accessible and it’s convenient. Standing With You does the same thing.

The virtual directory allows a woman to see local pregnancy centers, maternity homes, adoption agencies, and other resources in her area.

ALAN: If in those small moments we can convince someone to not abort and to choose life, and continue convincing them every time, then we see an extinction of abortion and we see a culture of life.

As more states eye college campuses for abortion pill distribution, pro-lifers say they will continue making sure young women know that they have other options.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Lauren Canterberry.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Most thrift-store victories are pretty modest: Maybe you find a vintage T-shirt. A decent lamp. Or a pair of jeans with the tag still on it.

But teenage thrifter Quinn Brown was digging through bins at a Goodwill near Portland, Oregon, when he came across something potentially amazing: a yellow L.A. Lakers warmup jacket.

Total cost: $3.07, pretty good price. An absurdly good price for an item tied to one of the greatest players in NBA history.

The name on the back, the name of Wilt Chamberlain, was good evidence. But it was the tape measure that sealed the deal.

BROWN: I looked at the measurements of the jacket. Wilt Chamberlain being seven foot one, the jacket measured 33 inches long, so would have gone down almost to my knees. I looked at it and it matched up.

You bet it did. The jacket was authenticated as a warmup Chamberlain wore during the ’72 NBA Finals, when the Lakers won the championship.

Sotheby’s auctioned it off, and the final price was just under 90 grand.

A nearly 3 million percent return.

Numbers Chamberlain himself might’ve admired.

It’s The World and Everything in It.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Today is Tuesday, July 28th. 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: when your origin story changes.

Ryan Bomberger grew up knowing he was adopted. But at age 13, he found out he had been conceived in rape.

REICHARD: His new memoir is titled Should Have Been Aborted.

I spoke with Ryan recently about how the revelation of his origin shaped—and ultimately strengthened—his faith.

Here’s an excerpt of our conversation:

Your story does begin with violence, as you say, but it is defined by love. So when did you stop thinking of yourself as a a child conceived in rape and start thinking of yourself just as Ryan, loved by God?

RYAN BOMBERGER: I always believed and understood that I was loved by God. I understood my identity was in Christ from a really young age, 'cause I had two parents who loved Jesus. It was only when I was a teenager when I found out my actual origin story that I started to doubt that.

REICHARD: And then what happened, whenever you started to doubt that you were loved by God, how did that manifest itself in you?

BOMBERGER: Well, so finding out at thirteen, but you know, it's kind of a devastating time 'cause your teenage years are already tumultuous anyway, so throw in there a rewrite of your origin story and it becomes even harder. I knew I was wanted by my parents and by at least most of my siblings. That's a whole other story. But I really challenged that and struggled with that because I just thought, wait a minute, how could someone conceive in such horrific circumstances be loved and have purpose? Like so there were these two competing things, having grown up being told this and taught this and yet questioning it. And it went into my adult years and the way it manifested itself, unfortunately, was in perfectionism because I didn't want to do anything wrong, because I had a lot of self-rejection that definitely did not come from my family. And unfortunately it led to severe depression. And it was being set free from that that also solidified the truth that I am wanted, wonderfully made like anyone else. Psalm 139. There's not an asterisk there that says, “Wait, sorry, if you were humanly planned, then all the rest follows.”

REICHARD: I want to talk about the title. It’s kind of jarring. I mean, I'm a pro-life person all the way too, but when I heard Should Have Been Aborted, it kinda unsettled me. So I'm curious as to why the decision to use words that will maybe unsettle people.

BOMBERGER: It's in my nature, because I don't tend to do things, I guess, in a conventional way, but they're actually inspired by people telling this to my face, saying this to my face. In particular, I mean, at a debate at Harvard where I had an LGBT activist who came up afterward and said some choice words that I cannot repeat and then said you should have been aborted. So to have people say that, it was so, I guess, it's shocking to me that someone can be so cold and so callous and also have this weird sort of privileged mindset that, I mean, you had nothing to do with your conception. You have nothing to do with the fact that you existed in the first place, but yet you want to throw shame on someone else because of circumstances that I couldn't control. So that was one of many times of being told that to my face or at least a similar sentiment. So I just thought, you know what? I wanna disprove the world's mindset, the world's lie that somehow if you're unplanned, you're gonna be unwanted, you're gonna be unloved because it's so untrue.

REICHARD: Well, Ryan, am I right that your parents adopted ten kids and had three biological kids as well?

BOMBERGER: Yes, they had three biological children and I was the first of ten adopted.

REICHARD: Alright. So what did they do that made you feel wanted?

BOMBERGER: Yeah. I was united with my parents when I was six weeks old. I was actually adopted officially on Juneteenth, which is why that day has a particular special meaning for me. But I was loved and I knew that I was loved. And when you had kids of different colors who didn't look alike and kids from different backgrounds coming into the family, and you were treated the same way. Although I do think that I was the favorite in the family and remain the favorite. I don't know, I'm just saying that, but I knew to the core of my being I was loved, which is also why finding out that devastating news of, you know, having the wrong origin story in my mind, apparently—I had created that—that I could not completely fall apart. I mean, my parents, as many children as they had, 13, spent individual time with us, they brought us up in the Word, which is everything. To know that you're loved by God, to know that you're loved by Jesus, and then they live that out. I had parents who I honestly can say I never once thought, my word, they're hypocrites. Not that they didn't make any mistakes. They certainly—all parents make mistakes. I have four kids. I make mistakes all the time. But I knew that they loved Jesus, and I knew that they loved each and every one of us. They endured really hard circumstances with a number of us, including myself. But we all knew we all lived it and I think just the outcome of our lives shows that just the evidence of being so deeply loved.

REICHARD: There's much more from Ryan Bomberger in our full interview. He tells the remarkable story of searching for his birth mother, reflecting on surviving depression and serious health scares, and explains why he's convinced that every person is "wanted by someone." You’ll hear the whole story Saturday on a special edition of The World and Everything in It.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Mary Reichard.

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

New York’s assisted-suicide law promises some conscience protections for medical workers who object.

But religious healthcare providers say the law may still force them to help patients pursue lethal drugs, or face punishment for refusing.

Here’s WORLD Commentator Bethel McGrew.

BETHEL MCGREW: Officially, New York’s Medical Aid in Dying Act includes a conscience clause for health care workers who refuse to administer euthanasia. But under previous state law, doctors and nurse practitioners are compelled to inform terminally ill patients about all legal end-of-life options. Once the new law takes effect on August 6th, assisted suicide will become one of them.

The parameters of the carveout are so narrow that religious practitioners will not only be forced to discuss the option, but also forced to guide patients through the qualification process and approve transferrals to a facility providing the lethal drugs. For the 13 plaintiffs currently suing the state, including multiple congregations of nuns and a network of five Catholic Long Island hospitals, this is unacceptable. But the price of defying the law will be high:

ADELE KEIM: New York is using its big stick, and it’s saying if you don’t do our work for us, you know, we’re gonna fine you, and if you persist, and you’re wilful, and you saying absolutely no way, then we could even put you in jail.

That was attorney Adele Keim, speaking on behalf of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, who is currently representing the plaintiffs. In the short term, they are demanding a pause in the law, with a longer-term demand for appropriate accommodations.

Congregations like the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne, founded by the daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne, have served New York’s dying poor for generations. Sister Catherine Marie Kauth is proud of their legacy:

SISTER CATHERINE MARIE: We take in patients who have incurable cancer, who have a financial need. We do not charge anything for the care that we give. No money from patient, families, insurance, government in any form. Our care is given out of our love for Christ, our consecration to Christ, and our care given to them is an expression of that love and for God's creatures.

This isn’t the only state law the Sisters of Hawthorne are defying. In April, they filed a separate lawsuit over a 2023 law that would require their policies to comply with transgender ideology. Like the Little Sisters of the Poor under Obamacare, they stand on the front line of the religious liberty wars.

Becket attorney Benjamin Fleshman is not a Catholic or even a member of a Christian denomination. In fact, he is a member of the Mormon Church. But he regards every American’s First Amendment rights as sacred:

BENJAMIN FLESHMAN: I think it really is critical that people understand the need to accommodate religious objectors. Again, I think that goes back to, the very best of our traditions as an American society are providing a space for religious liberty to flourish, and for religious communities, religious individuals to live out their faith in a way that they feel called to do by God.

Bishop John Barres has issued a strong statement on behalf of the Diocese of Rockville Centre, saying “Christ the Divine Physician calls us to accompany the sick and the dying with compassion, not abandon them to death. The court should protect that millennia-old mission.”

In response, the state has offered no comment beyond a brief written statement from Governor Kathy Hochul, assuring everyone that “the Department of Health is working on regulations that will implement the law thoughtfully and responsibly.”

For WORLD, I’m Bethel McGrew.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Tomorrow: Hunter Baker is back for Washington Wednesday. And, how one organization is bringing back long lost varieties of apples. That and more tomorrow.

I’m Mary Reichard.

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

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