The World and Everything in It: June 11, 2026

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A key surveillance tool faces obstacles in Congress as President Trump looks for a new spy chief.

MALCOLM: There's a big game of chicken going on on Capitol Hill, and we'll, you know, see how it plays out.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: And, a new law puts more investigators on the hunt for child predators online.

Also, a doctor fighting Ebola in the Congo.

EBHELE: We just surrender it to the Lord.

And WORLD Commentator Daniel Suhr on another new sign that the gender-transition wave is subsiding.

BROWN: It’s Thursday, June 11th. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. 

I’m Myrna Brown.

REICHARD: And I’m Mary Reichard. Good morning!

BROWN: Up next, Mark Mellinger with today’s news.

MARK MELLINGER, NEWS ANCHOR: New U.S. strikes on Iran » The U.S. launched another round of airstrikes against multiple targets in Iran Wednesday. U.S. Central Command says the strikes were defensive and being carried out “in response to Iran’s unwarranted and continued aggression.”

Pentagon Chief Pete Hegseth says the end goal is to get Iran’s leadership serious about negotiating an end to the war.

HEGSETH: The War Department is prepared to set the terms to ensure that we get the kind of deal President Trump expects.

The president says Iran can expect to get hit hard until there’s a deal.

TRUMP: All they have to do is they have to start signing a paper. It’s fully negotiated. We have a fully negotiated [deal], but they’re tapping and tapping.

Iran’s president called Trump’s threats a sign of desperation.

The flare-up in fighting started when, according to the White House, Iran took down a U.S. Apache helicopter over the Strait of Hormuz earlier this week.

ICE/CBP funding bill becomes law » A bill funding U.S. immigration enforcement for the foreseeable future is now law.

President Trump made it official by signing the legislation Wednesday at a ceremony in the Oval Office. The bill ensures uninterrupted funding through the end of Trump’s term.

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin:

MULLIN: Now we won’t have the Democrats threatening to shut down Immigration & Customs Enforcement, which is ICE, or shutting down our Customs & Border Protection, which is… you know… protects our borders. They can’t do that anymore. They can’t use that as a leverage against the American people and against President Trump.

Mullin talking to Fox News.

Democrats held up the legislation for months, demanding changes to immigration tactics after two U.S. citizens died in conflicts with immigration enforcement agents earlier this year.

Trump defends Pulte » As a key foreign surveillance program hangs in the balance, President Trump is defending his choice for acting director of national intelligence, Bill Pulte.

TRUMP: He's going to be there for a short while while we pick somebody else. We're interviewing five different people. They're all very good, very different, and we'll put somebody there.

Pulte already heads the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

Democrats object to Pulte’s appointment, saying he lacks national security experience and will only be in the role because he’s a Trump ally. They’re holding up reauthorization of a key section of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, FISA, unless Trump picks someone else for the interim role.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune:

THUNE: It’s very, very concerning when you have the Democrats here in the United States Senate essentially saying ‘We are not interested in reauthorizing this program,’ which will go dark at midnight on Friday if we don’t take action.

FISA Section 702 lets the federal government analyze foreign texts, calls, and emails without a warrant.

Pulte is slated to take over as acting DNI on June 19. But as you heard, the president says he’s getting close to nominating a longer-term pick for the job.

A deeper dive on this story is just a few minutes away.

Inflation highest in more than 3 years » Prices for the products, goods, and services you buy are rising at their highest level in three years.

According to the latest numbers from the Labor Department, consumer inflation in May rose 4.2 percent from a year earlier. That is the highest it’s been since April 2023. And for several months in a row now, inflation has outpaced wage growth. 

Gas prices, which have spiked because of the conflict in Iran, are fueling the overall inflation increase. 

David Anderson of the Texas A&M Department of Agricultural Economics explains:

ANDERSON: If we think about all of our food, we gotta get it from where we produce it to where we consume it. And that requires diesel, and gasoline, and rail traffic trucking, you name it.

Recent numbers also show consumer confidence declining and more Americans falling behind on their credit card bills.

SBC advances formal ban on women pastors » The Southern Baptist Convention has overwhelmingly voted to advance a formal ban on women pastors.

The SBC already rejects the appointment of women pastors in its core statement of belief—the Baptist Faith and Message—and has expelled churches in violation from its membership before.

But Wednesday’s 3-to-1-margin vote is a first step toward enshrining the belief in the denomination’s Constitution. The amendment will need to pass again next year with at least a two-thirds majority for that to happen.

Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President Dr. Albert Mohler sponsored the amendment, and says it’s a key line dividing liberal and biblical evangelicalism.

MOHLER: Southern Baptists want this issue clarified. The vast majority of Southern Baptists, and by that I mean the overwhelming majority of Southern Baptists, are absolutely clear and have been all along that the office of pastor is restricted to men.

That’s Mohler in a video he produced this spring leading up to this week’s Southern Baptist Convention in Florida. Mohler is the editor of WORLD Opinions.

Canada introduces bill to ban social media for kids » Canada has introduced legislation to ban children younger than 16 from having social media accounts.

The law would create a new government regulator to monitor and strengthen social media safety protections. Social media companies would be able to get exemptions and allow younger children onto their platforms if they’ve put sufficient safeguards in place.

Canadian Identity and Culture Minister Marc Miller:

MILLER: We’re failing our children. Enough is enough. Our parents cannot face these challenges alone, and the safety of children can’t be an afterthought.

If this passes, it’ll make Canada part of a growing global movement. Australia, Brazil, and Indonesia have all introduced aged-based social media restrictions, while other countries like Britain, Denmark, and Thailand are considering them.

I’m Mark Mellinger.

Straight ahead: What would happen if a key section of FISA is not renewed? And later, a key sign that the gender transition wave is subsiding.

This is The World and Everything in It.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: It’s Thursday the 11th of June.

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

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

Up first, spy powers up for debate.

The Senate faces down a deadline of midnight tomorrow to reauthorize FISA, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and section 702. That post-9/11 tool allows the FBI and other agencies to screen messages sent to and by foreign actors without a warrant.

REICHARD: Conversations about renewing the law often include debates over adding more protections for American citizens whose messages get caught up in warrantless searches.

But this week, the debate has still another dimension: the future of America’s director of national intelligence.

WORLD’s Harrison Watters reports from Washington.

HARRISON WATTERS: Four months ago, Bill Pulte’s main objective was increasing the value of mortgage securities companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

PULTE: Under President Trump, we are running Fannie and Freddie like businesses, and that's why we have the flexibility to do this…

Now the Federal Housing Finance Agency Director is poised to temporarily add another hat as Acting Director of National Intelligence. That’s after Tulsi Gabbard resigned to care for her husband, who has cancer. Pulte will oversee 18 agencies, including the CIA and NSA, starting June 19th. Pulte has no known background in the intelligence community but President Trump expressed confidence in Pulte as acting director. He told reporters aboard Air Force One Pulte might clean house and trim the number of staff in the Office of Director of National Intelligence.

TRUMP: If he cut, I wouldn't mind that

But Democrats condemned the move, citing Pulte’s lack of experience and actions he’s taken to seemingly go after the President’s enemies. Last year, Pulte made several criminal referrals to the Department of Justice against officials including California Senator Adam Schiff and Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook.

Here’s legal expert John Malcolm with the think tank Advancing American Freedom.

MALCOLM: He's also the person that has been largely behind investigations into potential mortgage fraud by Letitia James, the Attorney General in New York City…

The Republican response to the appointment has been muted. Here’s Senate Intelligence Chairman Tom Cotton last Tuesday, after Trump’s announcement.

COTTON: I have no observations on the matter.

Malcolm says the president’s choice complicates things for Republicans, who need Democrat support to hit the Senate’s 60-vote threshold required to renew FISA’s Section 702.

MALCOLM: Some Republicans are essentially saying, you know, while Pulte is there in that position, they are not prepared to provide these tools to the intelligence community because they don't trust how he will use them.

Days after the announcement, the Senate voted to bring the FISA bill to the floor, and seven Republicans voted with most Democrats to block it. Some were concerned about Pulte’s appointment. Others are holding out for an amendment requiring a warrant to access any electronic communications by Americans. But Malcolm says changes in the last few years already raised standards and reduced the number of known queries of Americans.

MALCOLM: Back in the early 2022, 2023 there was something like 120,000 queries. In the last year, it was under 7500 queries.

Malcolm says failing to reauthorize Section 702 would be a technological setback for American intelligence.

MALCOLM: They're going to have to rely a lot more on human intelligence, both in this country and overseas, and hope that our covert spies and undercover agents have done an effective job of infiltrating these groups and can stop an attack before it happens.

While the deadline to reauthorize FISA is Friday at midnight, FISA investigations will continue through March 2027 under authority from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Even so, Malcolm says members of Congress will use the deadline to exert as much leverage as possible.

MALCOLM: There's a big game of chicken going on on Capitol Hill, and we'll, you know, see how it plays out.

Meanwhile, President Trump has asked for a second short-term extension to give him time to choose a full-time intelligence director. He’s said he’s considering five candidates, but has yet to name them. Majority Leader John Thune told reporters on Tuesday, the sooner the President picks a new spy chief, the better.

THUNE: Getting some certainty and closure on that issue about who that might be will certainly play an important role in unlocking the support that we need to get FISA done.

If Republican leaders cannot get Democrats on board to extend the deadline, Congress will likely run out the clock on Friday.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Harrison Watters, in Washington.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Coming up next on The World and Everything in I, fighting child exploitation.

This story contains some very difficult subject matter that may not be suitable for children.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: President Donald Trump signed the Secure America Act yesterday, appropriating 70 billion dollars to fund the DHS, the Department of Homeland Security. The bill includes more than 108 million dollars specifically to combat child exploitation.

WORLD’s Mary Muncy has the story.

MARY MUNCY: Last month, Missouri Senator Josh Hawley made a floor speech telling how one DHS investigator tracked images to try to find a little girl.

SENATOR JOSH HAWLEY: They could see the the sick torture that she was being forced to endure. They could see the pain in her face, but they had no idea where she was.

The investigator eventually determined she was in the south, but that’s all he knew for years.

That type of story is all too common.

Last year, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s tipline received 60 million files related to suspected child sexual exploitation.

The DHS’s Cyber Crimes Unit analyzes them and tries to find the children.

HAWLEY: Here's the only problem with that. There's only seven of them. That's right. There's seven forensic analysts, seven experts who can analyze these images.

Now, thanks to Hawley’s proposition, the DHS will hire another 200.

Jeff Tiegs is the founder of Skull Games. A non-profit that fights human trafficking. He says the move will help with finding the worst of offenders.

JEFF TIEGS: I think what this bill is going to support more is the stuff that resides on the deep and dark web, and these closed forums that these pedophile networks have, and they communicate, communicate back and forth.

There are laws against accessing those sites and against viewing child sexual abuse material in general, so only government officials are able to investigate those cases.

Tiegs says if Skull Games touched it, he’d be under investigation as well.

TIEGS: The US, and in conjunction with the world, has built some pretty good flagging systems. We see a good amount of the abuse that's happening.

Skull Games works on the open source side of the internet… investigators send them a few child exploitation suspects a week that they want to find more information on. But that’s a fraction of the work that needs to be done.

TIEGS: But it's moving so fast. and they are leveraging every technological advantage they have, as well.

And separating AI-generated images from real ones has brought new challenges.

Tiegs says the next investments will need to be in storage space and image sorting programs.

TIEGS: If you have 10,000 flags that have come in, and those flags are going to show you what the IP address has downloaded, that all has to be stored in its own secure sector.

Prosecutors need that evidence to be pristine to build a case.

Tiegs says over the past few years, pornography has been trending younger and more deviant.

TIEGS: I can't define what pornography is. We know it when we see it, but I also know what degradation looks like, and humiliation, and violence, and unfortunately pornography has been really intertwined with that, and you're seeing the same thing with these, this, these internet crimes against children.

In the case Hawley described, the investigator eventually saw a picture with a playground in it, and used it to identify where the child was.

JOSH HAWLEY: And after that, Homeland sent a team of investigators to start walking blocks.

They eventually found the girl. And now with more DHS staff the goal is to help even more children.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Mary Muncy.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Next up, inoculating our children in an age of deviancy.

As parents, we want to shield our children from the darkness of this world for as long as we can.

But the reality of today’s digital world means that inappropriate sexual content is coming after kids. They don’t have to look for it. So how do we “porn-proof” our children before the damage is done?

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Joining us to talk about it is Kristen Jenson, founder of DefendYoungMinds.com and the author of Good Pictures, Bad Pictures. It’s a series of books organized into very short chapters of 1-3 pages with colorful, family-oriented illustrations.

MARY REICHARD: So, Kristen, how do you explain to a child what is happening without also exposing him or her to adult concepts you’d rather they not hear? You write of the “thinking brain” and the “feeling brain.”

KRISTEN JENSON: We don't go to the dark part, you just need to give them enough information so they recognize what they're seeing, right? If they're seeing nudity online, you should know about it as a parent. So it's a very simple definition. In any case, we do talk about the thinking brain and the feeling brain. That feeling brain is that primitive center part of your brain that is always trying to help you survive. It's where you have your hunger and your thirst and your basic drives. And your thinking brain is that prefrontal cortex in the front, you know, right behind your forehead. And that part of the brain is what is immature in a child and grows and and matures until you're about twenty-five. And that part of the brain, those are the brakes. And that's the part of the brain that can say,”Mmm, you know, hold off, maybe I shouldn't do that. Maybe that's not a good idea.” And we teach children to begin using their thinking brain. You know, stop at the curb, hold mom's hand before you run out into the street.

REICHARD: Let’s break down the exact actions to take. You use an acronym, “CANDO.” Walk us through the CANDO safety plan that parents can practice with their children.

JENSON: Every kid needs a definition, a warning, and a plan. The CANDO plan has five steps. CANDO is the acronym because we want to empower our kids to know they CAN DO this. They can reject pornography. And C stands for “close your eyes.” You want to limit the amount of time you are looking at that image or that video. A is “always tell a trusted adult,” so it's not a secret. And N is “name it when I see it.” When you name something,”that's pornography,” suddenly your thinking brain is stronger and is more in control because that feeling brain is super curious. And then the D and the O part is all about training your brain to kind of forget that image. Now we're like, you can't ever forget it. But you can actually, there's some tricks you can do to neutralize a memory.

REICHARD: Okay, so that’s D for “distract” and O for “order.”

JENSON: And then when those terrible or those shocking or even those intriguing images come back into the mind, which they will do, they will pop back up, it's important to teach your child how to distract themselves away from them. And we have some very specific steps on how to do that and how your child can practice. And then order my thinking brain to be the boss. That's the O. Again, very specific steps to help that child practice putting their thinking brain in charge, making their thinking brain the boss, because otherwise that feeling brain is going to lead them down to curiosity and we don't want that. 

REICHARD: Kristen, you teach that practicing these steps is absolutely imperative. Why is that?

JENSON: You've got to give kids some good reasons why not. And you've got to give kids a specific plan and they need to practice it.

REICHARD: I’m wondering, have you gotten real feedback that it works?

JENSON: One nine-year-old boy went to school. His mother read him Good Pictures, Bad Pictures. He knew the CANDO plan. He practiced it. And went on the playground and one of his friends came up with a phone, third grade, and showed him pornography. Well, he recognized it. He had the vocabulary, right? He knew what it was and he knew what to do. And when he got home, he told his mom. And he said, “I was scared, but I knew what to do.” I was scared, but I knew what to do. And this is the burden that we need to share with our children. No child deserves to face pornography alone.

REICHARD: What’s the big takeaway you want for parents in all this? They might worry kids will be scared by it.

JENSON: I have never heard of anyone saying that their children were scared when they read the book. I have heard the opposite, that they loved the book. I expected the parents would appreciate the book, but I did not know the children would say, “This is my favorite book. Read this book to me again!” you know? And I think it's because we go about it in such a warm way that children really love. They love to be educated. They love to be trusted with knowledge and they love to be taught. And nobody wants to be caught off guard. 

REICHARD: Kristen Jensen is author of Good Pictures, Bad Pictures, a guide to helping kids avoid the harm of pornography in a culture that is saturated with it. Kristen Jensen, thank you so much.

JENSON: Thank you, Mary.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Transportation officials in Wisconsin have a reminder for drivers: “Road Closed” signs aren’t suggestions.

Highway cameras captured the driver of a pickup truck stopping at a construction zone, getting out, and moving a road-closure barrier.

Then he climbs back into the truck and drives onto an on-ramp that crews had just covered with fresh concrete.

What would ensue didn’t take long.

The pickup truck sank into more than a foot of wet pavement and later had to be pulled out.

Afterward, the Wisconsin DOT released the video with a simple warning:

Please don’t be that guy.

Officials haven't said whether he received a citation.

But imagine the call he had to make to his insurance company beginning with the words: “I ignored a Road Closed barrier.” It just gets worse from there.

It’s The World and Everything in It.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Today is Thursday, June 11th.

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

Good morning. I’m Myrna Brown.

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

Coming next on The World and Everything in It: fighting Ebola in the Congo.

Ebola is continuing to spread in the Democratic Republic of the Congo…the DRC. Confirmed cases have jumped up to 515 and at least 91 people have died.

It’s the largest recorded outbreak of a rare Ebola strain called Bundibugyo. Some worry it may reach the heights of an outbreak in 2014 in West Africa.

BROWN: Bundibugyo has a fatality rate of more than 30%, and no vaccine or cure. Doctors and nurses risk their lives on the frontlines to care for the sick and dying. WORLD’s Grace Snell talked to one Congolese surgeon caring for Ebola patients in the epidemic’s epicenter, and offering the hope of Jesus along the way.

GRACE SNELL: Jacques Ebhele was working as a surgeon in Malawi when his wife had a dream. It was about a Bible passage, from Joshua 22.

In it, Joshua sends the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh across the Jordan. Back to their own lands.

Ebhele and his wife felt sure the verses were for them.

EBHELE: That was clear to us, it was from God that it was time to go back to your country. But when you go back to your country, continue to fear the Lord.

Ebhele is from eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo—a region plagued by conflict and poverty.

EBHELE: The first question was, ‘Why, God, why, why? You know, I’m just fine in Malawi, you know, good salary, good environment, no insecurity.

In Congo, Ebhele would face the exact opposite situation. No salary. No security. Not even a good school for his kids.

Still, Ebhele knew God would provide.

EBHELE: I chose to come back just to obey the Lord. You know, when God calls, and He will equip whatever is lacking. He will, he will fulfill.

Ebhele came back to Ituri province, where he’s from. It’s rich in minerals and agriculture. But he says those riches attract outsiders with nefarious motives.

EBHELE: Those people who want to steal minerals and they want to just create chaos.

Dozens of rebel groups and militias also prowl the area and kill civilians.

Then came Ebola.

EBHELE: This is a Bundibugyo strain. It has no specific medication, no proven vaccine.

Ebhele’s hospital treats people from across Ituri province—an area about the size of Sri Lanka—as well as some patients from neighboring provinces. At first, they were only seeing about three or four suspected Ebola cases a day. Now, that number’s between seven and 10 patients a day.

Ebola symptoms mimic endemic diseases like malaria and typhoid. So, doctors rely on testing to identify cases. Ebhele says only about 40% of their tests turn out to be positive, and patient numbers seem to have hit a plateau.

But, those are just the people showing up at the hospital. Many are suspicious of the healthcare system and simply refuse to come.

All the unrest in eastern Congo also makes it difficult to track cases and exposures. People displaced from conflict zones often live in overcrowded refugee camps.

EBHELE: Which is a bad, bad condition, especially for Ebola, because the transmission will be easy, or that among those populations.

Meanwhile, infected people continue arriving at the hospital each day. Ebhele has put all his elective surgeries on hold to keep up.

EBHELE: Even if I’m a surgeon, I can still do a supportive care, giving fluid, giving this medication, all that to try to alleviate the symptoms from the patients.

Lots of outside relief groups like Samaritan’s Purse and Doctors Without Borders have also arrived to help. But, Ebhele’s days are still long and unpredictable.

EBHELE: You do whatever support you can bring to the patient, including medication and including foods, and but the most support we can bring to the patient is to, to surrender them unto the mighty hand of Jesus.

Sometimes Ebhele does see patients recover—even from advanced stages of the disease.

EBHELE: I know a patient who came who was really, really bad, but we never understand how this patient just got better, and then he went out of the hospital, you know. So this is only God can do that.

In the middle of the fight, Ebhele relies on prayer.

EBHELE: Prayer is really, really the cornerstone of what we are doing, so we don’t joke with that. We really take that seriously, because we believe that without God we are nothing, and with Him we can do anything by the strength that He has put in us.

Every evening, he meets with members of his extended family for an hour of prayer. Later, he calls his wife for one-on-one prayer. They both also have prayer partners in the United States.

EBHELE: Hope is there, but the fear is also there, but we are praying so that the peace and the confidence we have in Jesus win over our fear.

They pray for God to heal people and to stop the spread. And they pray for strength to keep caring for their patients.

But, most of all, they pray for the gospel to go forward—no matter what.

EBHELE: We want to have this as an opportunity to talk about Jesus to people, you know, if something has no treatment, then we tell them Jesus is the solution.

As Ebola numbers keep rising, Ebhele asks for believers around the world to join him in that prayer.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Grace Snell.

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

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

One of the world’s most respected hospitals has agreed to stop offering procedures aimed at sex change for minors.

WORLD commentator Daniel Suhr says the significance of that decision reaches far beyond the Cleveland Clinic

DANIEL SUHR: Newsweek ranks the Cleveland Clinic as the second-best hospital in the world.

Only the Mayo Clinic ranks higher.

Which is why this week’s announcement matters.

The Cleveland Clinic has agreed to settle a legal action with the U.S. Department of Justice. The case involved its past practice of offering sex-change procedures for minors.

The financial terms are noteworthy. The Clinic will pay a monetary penalty related to alleged insurance billing practices. It will also establish a $2 million fund to provide care for detransitioners.

But the most important part of the agreement is not the money.

For the next twenty years, Cleveland Clinic will not offer procedures aimed at facilitating a gender transition for minors.

No surgeries.

No cross-sex hormones.

No puberty blockers.

That commitment alone would have been unthinkable just a few years ago.

This settlement follows another major agreement I told you about last week. Texas Children’s Hospital agreed to pay $10 million to resolve allegations related to similar practices.

At the time, I argued that a wave of accountability was approaching the medical institutions that promoted these interventions while minimizing their risks and uncertainties.

This week’s news suggests that wave is still building.

And Cleveland Clinic is not just another hospital.

Its physicians train doctors around the world. Its recommendations influence medical practice far beyond Ohio.

When an institution with that kind of stature decides it will no longer offer these interventions to minors for the next two decades, people pay attention.

The decision also comes as other medical organizations are showing greater caution.

Earlier this year, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons said the evidence does not clearly support these interventions for minors and recommended waiting until adulthood for surgery.

Even the American Medical Association acknowledged that the evidence for surgical interventions in minors is weak.

Taken together, these developments tell a story.

For years, the public was told that the science was settled.

Now some of the nation’s most influential medical institutions are acknowledging uncertainty, reassessing evidence, and stepping back from procedures that permanently alter healthy bodies.

That matters.

The debate over these interventions is no longer confined to politics, legislatures, or courtrooms.

It is increasingly taking place inside the medical establishment itself.

It is evidence that the tide has turned.

It is a sign that accountability has arrived.

For WORLD, I’m Daniel Suhr.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Tomorrow: it’s Culture Friday with John Stonestreet. And, a sci-fi film where mankind reckons with the extraterrestrial. Collin Garbarino will be along with a review of Disclosure Day. That and more, tomorrow.

I’m Mary Reichard.

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

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