The World and Everything in It: June 9, 2025

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MARY REICHARD, HOST: Good morning!

Today we unpack five rulings—one slamming the door on a case against gunmakers, another affirming that civil rights law protects everyone, and a decision delivering a strong rebuke to a state for stepping in where it didn’t belong.

WEINBERGER: It is very encouraging to me to see a unanimous opinion on religious liberty. … The court can speak with one voice to that issue.

NICK EICHER, HOST: That’s ahead on Legal Docket.

Also today, the Monday Moneybeat: economist David Bahnsen standing by with wise financial words for new grads.

And later the WORLD History Book.

REICHARD: It’s Monday, June 9th. 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: Time for the news now with Kent Covington.

KENT COVNGINTON, NEWS ANCHOR: LA ICE protests » Law enforcement firing tear gas canisters on the streets of Los Angeles Sunday as protests continued against Immigration and Customs Enforcement — or ICE.

Most protesters have been peaceful, but not all.

LA County Sheriff Robert Luna:

LUNA:  Even as I was driving here, I was getting multiple reports of deputies asking for help. LA County deputies being attacked with rocks bottles. That is 100% unacceptable and, uh, we have to defend our employees

Protesters said they wanted ICE out of the city, and were demanding that everyone arrested during immigrant raids be released.

President Trump ordered the deployment of nearly 2,000 National Guard troops to rein in the violence. He told reporters yesterday:

TRUMP:  Well, we're gonna have troops everywhere. We're not gonna let this happen to our country. We're not gonna let our country be torn apart.

And he threatened tougher action. He authorized Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to call up active duty forces if necessary.

China trade » Top U.S. and Chinese trade officials are set to meet today in London to talk trade.

That follows a phone call between President Trump and Xi Jinping last week aimed at kickstarting stalled negotiations.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt:

LEAVITT:  We want China and the United States to continue moving forward with the agreement that was struck in Geneva. The administration has been monitoring China's compliance with the deal, uh, and we hope that this will move forward to have more comprehensive trade talks.

That Geneva agreement last month set out the terms of a ceasefire of sorts in the trade war, scaling back tariffs while negotiations moved ahead.

But the two countries haven’t had meaningful trade talks since.

China threats » Meantime, CIA Director John Ratcliffe says the United States is working to combat potential threats from China against the U.S. or its Asian allies.

RATCLIFFE:  We released two, um, Mandarin speaking videos to the Chinese people, uh, inviting them to contact us through the dark web because a lot of the people in China are not happy with what's happening.

His remarks come after federal authorities last week charged two Chinese nationals with attempting to smuggle a potentially dangerous agricultural pathogen into the U.S., raising serious national security concerns.

Some experts cautioned that the fungus is already native to American agriculture.

But authorities charge that the men were looking to conduct unauthorized research, possibly to to enhance its resistance to treatment, which could be used in a targeted attack against U.S. agriculture.

Johnson confident in budget bill » House Speaker Mike Johnson says despite loud opposition from Elon Musk, he’s confident that the GOP budget bill will eventually make it to President Trump’s desk for a signature.

JOHNSON:  Elon's number one responsibility is to save his company, the president and I have the responsibility of saving the country, and that's what this bill does, and we're really excited and proud of this product and we're gonna get it delivered.

The House passed what President Trump calls his ‘big beautiful bill’ last month. The Senate right now is sparring over the legislation.

Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO who just weeks ago headed President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, broke with President Trump over the bill, calling it a “disgusting abomination” that will pile onto the national debt. That disagreement has erupted into a bitter feud between Musk and the president.

GOP Sen. Tim Scott predicted the former allies will iron out their differences.

SCOTT:  I believe it'll be over way before the the Independence Day. The, the good news is these are two strong, powerful men who've worked together to deliver for the American people. One of the reasons why President Trump made promises on the campaign trail and brought Elon on was to make sure that we kept those campaign promises.

White House officials were reportedly trying to schedule a call between President Trump and Musk, but the president told Fox News, he wasn't interested in talking it out.

Abrego Garcia returned to face charges » An illegal immigrant from El Salavdor at the center of a legal and political battle is now back in the United States.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia is reportedly now in a Tennessee jail after he was mistakenly deported back in March. Despite entering the country illegally, a judge had shielded him from deportation.

The Trump administration says he is an MS-13 gang member. Border Czar Tom Homan:

HOMAN:  We're bringing him back here to prosecute him. We're bringing him back here to put him in prison. Then when he is done in prison, guess what? He'll be deported immediately again.

The newly unsealed indictment accuses Abrego Garcia of smuggling thousands of illegal immigrants across the US and of participating in a murder.

His defense attorney calls the new charges preposterous.

Ukraine latest / drone strike numbers » Ukraine released additional video footage over the weekend of drone attacks last week that struck Russian aircraft deep inside Russian territory.

We reported last week that the drone attack destroyed dozens of aircraft. But U.S. intelligence now estimates that roughly 10 aircraft were destroyed, while as many as 10 others were damaged.

The Kremlin has vowed retaliation.

This comes amid stalled efforts to broker a ceasefire. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday:

ZELENSKYY: They don’t want — they don’t want to stop the war. This is the problem.

The latest round of peace talks last week in Turkey did not yield any progress toward a ceasefire.

I'm Kent Covington.

Straight ahead: The Monday Legal Docket, unpacking unanimous decisions at the Supreme Court. And later, the WORLD History Book.

This is The World and Everything in It.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: It’s Monday, the 9th of June.

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.

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It’s that very busy time at the Supreme Court during this final month of the term. Five opinions handed down on Thursday, four of them unanimous…in what one court watcher considered “conservative” opinions from liberal justices.

EICHER: It struck me the same way: When the most liberal Supreme Court justice—Sonia Sotomayor—when she writes an opinion on religious liberty and Justice Samuel Alito says, in effect, “yeah, what she says,” that’s got to get your attention, and it has ours. Our first of three really big decisions is the Catholic Charities case.

This one has to do with its legal fight with the state of Wisconsin. All nine justices ruled that the state violated the First Amendment by denying the Catholic nonprofit an exemption from state unemployment taxes.

Wisconsin’s Supreme Court said it wasn’t religious enough to suit the state.

REICHARD: Lael Weinberger is an academic fellow at Stanford Law School and a former law clerk for Justice Neil Gorsuch. He says the court’s message is crystal clear:

WEINBERGER: So the bottom line ruling is that you can't discriminate on the basis of religion. And the state of Wisconsin was trying to implement a rule that would basically have said that some religious groups got the benefit of a tax exemption effectively, and others wouldn't on the basis of their religious practices, and the Supreme Court said you absolutely cannot discriminate in that way.

Here’s a refresher on the backstory: Catholic Charities Bureau is part of the Diocese of Superior, Wisconsin. It serves the poor, elderly, and disabled regardless of their religious commitments. Catholic Charities paid into the state’s unemployment insurance system for years.

It eventually asked for a religious exemption so it can join a church- run alternative better aligned with Catholic teaching.

EICHER: But Wisconsin said no, arguing Catholic Charities wasn’t “operated primarily for religious purposes.”

To the state, the organization didn’t tick certain boxes to qualify as religious. For example, it doesn’t proselytize or limit its help only to Catholics.

That theme arose during oral argument back in March, with Justice Gorsuch pressing the state’s lawyer with a hypothetical:

GORSUCH: Are you going to go --is Wisconsin going to go around and --and this soup kitchen, you know, you have to go -- you have to go to the service before you get your soup, they're good to go. But that one, they just invite you to the service after the soup, and they're bad. I mean, is it really that's the --I would have thought this would entangle the state in --in religion a whole lot more than a non-discrimination rule between religions.

REICHARD: That narrow view on what qualifies as religious is where the state crossed a line.

Back to the former Gorsuch clerk Weinberger:

WEINBERGER: That's what the majority opinion emphasizes, that the government can't be taking sides on what kinds of religious practices are good and what kinds of religious practices are less favored. And if they're going to say that you get the benefit of a particular tax write off an exemption from a regulatory scheme based on the way that you practice your faith, and the people who who pray more or more publicly or focus more on public ceremony, that they are treated as religious. But if you're going to go and live out your religion in everyday life and try to help people as a way of of living out your faith.

EICHER: That was the approach of Catholic Charities … that Wisconsin saw more as Charities and not so much as Catholic.

Weinberger explained to us that this was the inquiry the state made that the court said the state had no business making.

And even if it were a legitimate state function to judge whether a charitable outreach is a religious one, Wisconsin’s judgment was just wrong to hear Catholic Charities explain its approach. Serving soup to hungry people flows from Catholic teaching, with no need to preach to its clients.

For Lael Weinberger it’s just as well that the government got out of this business—and the court’s unanimity puts an exclamation point on it.

WEINBERGER: It is very encouraging to me to see a unanimous opinion on religious liberty. Because I think over the last few years in particular, there has been a strong sense that many have had that religious liberty has become a partisan issue, and that there has been increasing polarization. And if you roll back the clock 40 or 50 years, you see bipartisan super majorities rallying around religious-liberty issues—whether it's in Congress, in the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, or whether it's in the courts, where in the 1970s, 1980s, religious-liberty, free-exercise concerns were concerns that were widely shared Amongst liberal justices as well. So it's encouraging to see that here for a clear issue of religious discrimination, there are nine justices. This is not something that divides the court. The court can speak with one voice to that issue.

Bottom line? The court reaffirmed that religious exercise isn’t limited to what happens in a pulpit. It includes faith in action.

REICHARD: In another unanimous ruling, the court threw out a lawsuit brought by Mexico’s government against American gun makers.

Mexico accused Smith & Wesson, Colt, Glock, and others of aiding and abetting illegal gun trafficking. It accused the companies of turning a blind eye as their guns were funneled through American gun dealers to drug cartels in Mexico, reaping destruction there.

But the opinion says Mexico’s complaint just doesn’t hold up. Gunmakers are generally immune from liability for crimes committed with their products.

There’s an exemption if a company knowingly breaks a gun law. But Mexico didn’t plausibly allege that. At most, the gunmakers knew that some dealers were misbehaving. But that amounts to indifference, not assistance. What the law requires, the Court said, is “active participation” in specific illegal gun sales.

EICHER: The third big opinion is Ames v Ohio Department of Social Services. This one says that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act applies to everyone. Whether you’re in a minority group or majority group makes no difference.

The justices sided with Marlean Ames, a woman who worked for the state for years. She accused her boss of passing her over for a promotion in favor of a lesbian candidate. Then she was demoted and her job filled by a homosexual male.

REICHARD: Ames sued the state under Title VII, claiming discrimination based on sexual orientation—what some media reports have called reverse discrimination. At oral argument back in February, Justice Sotomayor described the problem:

SOTOMAYOR: She was a member of the majority group, she was a 20-year employee, great reviews, and then all of a sudden she's not hired, and someone's hired who's gay, doesn't have her level of college experience, and didn't even want the job. Something's suspicious about that. It certainly can give rise to an inference of discrimination.

Ohio Solicitor General Elliott Geiser represented the Ohio Department of Youth Services before the high court. WORLD’s Harrison Watters called him up after the decision was handed down. Geiser said the state never violated Title VII:

GEISER: She’s still at the department. As far as I'm concerned, Ohio never discriminated on the basis of sexual orientation or sex, and that's what she's claiming, and we dispute that, and we're going to continue to fight to vindicate Ohio's process in this matter.

EICHER: The Supreme Court didn’t decide whether Ames was discriminated against. It remanded the case to lower court, where that question will get sorted out. What the justices did decide is this: Ames no longer has to meet a higher burden just because she’s part of a majority group. Title VII protects all equally.

You heard Mary refer to media outlets describing the ruling as a case of reverse discrimination. But Geiser says that’s not accurate.

GEISER: The Supreme Court did not use that term in this case, and to my understanding, has not used that term. Some lower courts have. And as I said at oral argument, and as Ohio has pressed all along, the law treats everybody equally. Uh, discrimination is wrong no matter who it is against…We’ve always maintained that Ohio acted properly in this case. And we’ll continue to press our claims and defenses below.

REICHARD: So the case proceeds in lower court without that higher burden of proof on Ames the employee.

EICHER: Alright, before we go, quick treatment of the next two opinions.

In CC/Devas v Antrix, the Indian government canceled a satellite contract with an Indian media startup. The startup won a big arbitration award and turned to U.S. courts to collect. All nine justices sided with the startup in its collection efforts, and so the case now goes back to a lower court for more proceedings.

REICHARD: And finally: Blom Bank Sal v Honickman. Victims of Hamas attacks sued a Lebanese Bank, claiming it helped terrorists by providing financial services to its clients. Lower courts dismissed the case. So the plaintiffs asked the Supreme Court to reopen it, based on newer legal arguments.

But the Supreme Court said no—changing your legal theory after the fact isn’t enough to bring back a case that’s already been closed.

And that closes our cases on this week’s Legal Docket!

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

NICK EICHER, HOST: Time now to talk business, markets, and the economy with financial analyst and adviser David Bahnsen. David heads up the wealth management firm The Bahnsen Group. He is here now. Good morning to you, David.

DAVID BAHNSEN: Good morning, Nick. Good to be with you.

EICHER: Let’s start with the latest jobs report. It showed 139,000 new jobs—higher than I’d seen in the consensus forecast. The unemployment rate held at 4.2%, but there were downward revisions for March and April totaling almost 100,000 jobs. I believe the labor force participation rate also declined. So, a mixed picture. What’s your read?

BAHNSEN: Yeah, you summed it up well. Kind of a mixed bag. There was a little bit better of a number for the month of May than had been expected. Remember, what had been expected wasn’t great, and what we got was still well below the normal average. But it was a little better than expected there, and revisions a little worse, and then the unemployment rate itself didn’t change.

So as is often the case when a monthly report has four or five different data points that sometimes can pull in different directions. There’s a little something in there for everybody.

EICHER: Let’s shift to something a bit less economic and a bit more dramatic. There’s this odd back-and-forth between Elon Musk and Donald Trump. Musk criticized the “big beautiful” bill, and we’ve had our own critiques of that bill. But is there any actual economic news value here, or should we just steer clear?

BAHNSEN: You know, people want to ask me about various events that may be relevant, and from a financial and economic standpoint, that’s the lane in which I work and live. Sometimes these things overlap, Nick, with politics or with the just kind of big news stories of the day. The Musk Trump issue is pretty big story for the political realm, what it could mean for midterms, and whatnot. There’s a drama there that I certainly understand.

But when you look to policy, will this impact the Senate’s appetite to vote for the big, beautiful bill? I don’t really think so. I think it helps a little bit to give some of the senators that want to make the bill a little better. It gives them a bit more leverage.

But in the end, are they likely going to get to a place where they get the “yes” votes for the bill, and the bill will end up being pretty close to what it is now. Now that’s my best guess.

The other issues around DOGE, I'm pretty sober about this. Soaking wet, they may not be at $100 billion of the savings, and there had been talk of $1 to $2 trillion. And I think that the phrase DOGE has now become a meme to talk negatively about the cause of deregulation and trimming governmental fat. So there's a lot of unfortunate things out of this.

Yet, where it goes from here, this stuff moves so fast. There’s such a high turnover in the administration. People could mean it as a compliment or as insult, but there's a sort of reality TV element to the presidency—and yet the economy moves on. Right?

The issues that are going to happen with this tax bill, the issues that are going to happen with the trade deals, those things are far more important to me, economically and financially, than this drama with President Trump and Elon Musk.

EICHER: Before we go, David, I wanted to commend you on this week’s Dividend Café. Very timely, especially with graduation season. You offered advice for young adults—some new, some revised. We don’t have time for the whole thing, but could you highlight one or two key takeaways for recent grads?

BAHNSEN: Well, you know, I think that the way I concluded that Dividend Café is probably the one. Advice to young people about credit-card debt, about home purchases, about avoiding temptations of get-rich-quick ideas, of how capital ought to be compounded over time—all of these are very important. But they still presuppose certain things about one’s income, one’s career, one’s direction of their life; and those things I tried to summarize my conclusion. But I’ll say now for our listeners, that most young people—and by young it could be an 18-year-old right out of high school, it could be a 22-year-old right out of college, it could be a 25-year-old who never went to college—there’s a lot of different paths that someone may have at the young-adult stage of their life. But regardless of where exactly one is in that journey, the universal takeaway is that we are in a position in society right now that we need more and more young men and women of faith to choose a life rooted to virtue and character.

A lot of distractions exist from social media, the online world, the temptations of AI, the temptations of our phones and a life on a screen, as well as just, you know, the worldly elements that have been there forever. But then, I think right now, in this stage that we find ourselves in, there is a cynicism that can take over, where people believe that the system is rigged against them, that AI is going to take away all the job opportunities, that the state is out to get them, or the man is out to get them, or the system is out to get them.

When I talk about virtue and character, what I’m encouraging young people to do is realize that God has a plan for their life that is not going to be derailed by self-pity and by victimhood, that you have it in you to do the right thing, to make the right decisions, and to overcome evil with good. In doing so, and in taking a career path, choosing every good endeavor to produce goods and services that meet the needs of humanity, you find a calling in that; you find a good life. And I think that this is a message that needs to become universally preached and taught and, hopefully, adhered to, and we’ll all be better off for it.

EICHER: All right, David Bahnsen is founder, managing partner, and chief investment officer at The Bahnsen Group. He writes regularly for WORLD Opinions, and at dividend-cafe.com. David, thank you so much. We’ll see you next week.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Today is Monday, June 9th. 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. Up next, the WORLD History Book. Twenty three years ago two criminals attempt a daring getaway in a delivery van.

But first, nearly 150 years ago, explorers set sail to plant the American flag in Arctic soil for the first time. But the mission fails when they discover they’ve been misled by a popular myth, WORLD’s Emma Eicher has the story.

EMMA EICHER, REPORTER: On June 13th, 1881, the U.S.S. Jeannette creaks and shudders. Sealed in the frigid ice packs of the Arctic Ocean, the ship is about to collapse. Voice actor Kim Rasmussen reads what a crewman later wrote:

KR: Each successive shock … resounded with awful distinctness upon her sides like death strokes.

The Jeannette has been making little progress for more than a year. Sometimes the ship is stuck in ice, and other times, drifting among the ice caps. Its captain, George De Long, dreams of being the first explorer to reach the North Pole. He’s a large, broad-shouldered man convinced he can prove what many scientists theorize: that there’s open sea around the North Pole making it easy access for ships.

Many believe that the “Open Polar Sea” is real but nobody actually knows the truth. The men who had gone on expeditions before De Long had all failed to reach their goal.

De Long still has hope the Jeannette might pull through. A few days earlier, the ship broke free of the melting winter ice and slid back into the water. The captain and crew cheered at the turn of events. He declared:

KR: The crucial moment in our voyage is at hand!

But that hope fades fast. Soon, sheets of floating ice pound against the ship with deadly force. Then the ice bursts through the hold, and cold water pours in. Metal and wood groan and splinter under the pressure.

De Long stands on the bridge, puffing on a meerschaum pipe. There isn’t much time left.

KR: Abandon ship! Abandon ship!

As everyone grabs belongings and escapes to the Arctic floes, De Long glances back at the collapsing vessel. It’s completely horizontal, sucked into the depths below. He writes in his journal:

KR: It will be hard to be known hereafter as a man who undertook a Polar expedition and sunk his ship at the 77th parallel … I fancy it would have made but little difference if I had gone down with my ship.

Now, the men are at the mercy of the tundra. They’re almost a thousand miles from the nearest land mass—the Arctic coast of Siberia. They have sleds, sled dogs, and three small boats. But they have only 60 days’ worth of food and water. Time is of the essence.

Months of struggling only brings them a fraction closer to escape or rescue. Desperate for food, they hunt seals and polar bears. Some of the men fall dangerously ill. De Long plows onward, keeping the men in line. He’s as much the captain on land as he was at sea.

Eventually, the crew splits into three parties. One perishes while taking an ocean route in one of the boats, but another makes it back to a Russian village. The last one, headed by De Long, is lost inland.

Sensing they might not make it out, De Long sends two men ahead to find help. But before they get back, the crew succumbs to the harsh weather. De Long’s final journal entry reads:

KR: October 30th, Sunday. One hundred and fortieth day. Boyd and Görtz died during the night. Mr Collins dying.

Of the 33 men, only 13 return. During their harrowing journey, De Long and his crew discovered three islands in an archipelago. They’re named De Long Islands in his honor. The disastrous expedition ended the theory of the Open Polar Sea.

Next, a polar opposite story, from frost to frosting.

Over the years there have been a handful of so-called “donut heists…”

On February 11th of this year a 32-year-old Indianapolis woman stole a Krispy Kreme delivery truck when its driver pulled up to one of his stops. But as she sped off, the truck’s door swung open. Leaving baker’s dozens covering the road.

Body cam footage afterward shows an officer cleaning up the street donuts by the box. If you listen closely you can hear one officer admit how good the donuts look, even on the street:

POLICE: You guys just helping out? These bad boys do look delicious though…

The woman was caught 11 miles later and charged with auto theft and possession of paraphernalia.

In late 2023 an Australian woman tried the same stunt, making off with 10,000 Krispy Kreme donuts when the unsuspecting driver stopped at a filling station.

NEWSCAST CLIP: This CCTV footage showing a woman stealing a van from a petrol station…

But the doors stayed shut. So, without the donut crumb trail, it took police two weeks to apprehend the woman. Most of the donuts were recovered but the evidence had to be destroyed as they had gone stale.

But one of the earliest Krispy Kreme donut truck thefts happened on March 27th, 2002 in Slidell, Louisiana.

At 3:30 in the morning, two men car-jacked a Krispy Kreme delivery van. Like the copycat crimes that followed, the driver had stopped to make a delivery but kept the truck running while entering the store. When he came back out, the van was gone.

The police quickly responded…leading to a 15-mile, high speed chase. Doughnuts spilled from the vehicle, sprinkling the road as they drove. Eventually they abandoned the van and the joy riding driver got away. It began a two month-long manhunt. Police knew the man liked donuts and kept an eye out for him at the local shops.

The search came to an end on June 10th, 2002, when the 21-year old attempted to flee from sheriff deputies—driving intentionally into a patrol car. He was eventually charged with auto theft, resisting arrest by flight, and attempted murder of a police officer.

Afterward, one of the Slidell police joked, “We’re glad he’s off the streets, but this unfortunately means we’re going to have to stop staking out all the local doughnut shops looking for him.”

That’s this week’s WORLD History Book, I’m Emma Eicher.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Tomorrow: a dispute that could wind up defining disability rights for every child in America.

And, what life’s like when your home is on the range.

That and more tomorrow.

I’m Nick Eicher.

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

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