The World and Everything in It: October 28, 2025

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MARY REICHARD, HOST: Good morning!

After years of Russian aggression, European leaders are taking steps for their own defense.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Also, lessons from past deployments of the National Guard to American cities.

And, a street preacher’s message and style divides fellow pro-lifers outside an abortion facility.

SWEEZER: You can save a baby, but they can both go to hell if they don’t know Jesus.

And learning to be serious with WORLD commentator Janie B. Cheaney.

REICHARD: It’s Tuesday, October 28th. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Mary Reichard.

MAST: And I’m Lindsay Mast. Good morning!

REICHARD: It’s time for the news now with Kent Covington.

KENT COVINGTON, NEWS ANCHOR: Hurricane Melissa » Hurricane Melissa is slamming Jamaica this morning after strengthening to a Category 5 hurricane on Monday, packing winds north of 170 miles per hour.

Forecasters said it could be the strongest storm ever to strike the island nation.

Authorities in recent days urged residents to evacuate to higher ground or storm shelters. And they’ve warned residents that even if they don't live near the shoreline, that doesn’t mean they’re safe. Director of the Meteorological Service of Jamaica Evan Thompson:

THOMPSON:  If you think that you are free from that, think again because the heavy rains will also affect you. The strong winds reaching tropical storm force could still continue to affect you as we go through the day on Tuesday.

Officials said rainfall in parts of Jamaica would be measured not in inches, but in feet.

Once the storm has passed, it will take some time to assess the damage. Larry Kelly with the U.S. National Hurricane Center:

KELLY:  We're talking, you know, extensive structure, uh, infrastructural damage and long lasting power outages, communication. Um, you know, and then not to mention the, the life threatening storm surge that's gonna happen along the coast.

Melissa is now expected to take aim at Cuba and the Bahamas, moving into open Atlantic waters by Thursday.

Trump in Tokyo » President Trump is in Japan for meetings with the country’s new prime minister Sanae Takaichi.

Takaichi is the first woman to hold that office. And en route to Japan, Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One:

TRUMP: I look forward to meeting the new Prime Minister. I hear phenomenal things. She was a great ally and friend of Shinzo Abe, who was my friend.

Shinzo Abe served as prime minister during Trump’s first term in the White House. He was assassinated in 2022.

For her part, the prime minister is banking on a friendly relationship with Trump as she talks trade with the president.

And Tokyo is floating an idea that might appeal to the president: Buying a fleet of Ford F-150 pickup trucks.

TRUMP:  That's great. She has good taste. That's a hot, that's a hot truck.

Trump has long complained about American vehicles being shut out of the Japanese market.

Trump is seeking a Japanese investment of $550 billion dollars to reduce U.S. tariffs.

Ukraine/Russia latest » Trump also reacted on Monday to Russia's test of a new nuclear missile over the weekend … which Moscow claims can’t be stopped by air defenses.

He said of Russian leader Vladimir Putin:

TRUMP:  I don't think it's an appropriate thing to Putin for Putin to be saying either. By the way, he ought to get the war ended. A war that should have taken one week is now in its soon, fourth year. That's what he ought to do instead of testing missiles.

Meanwhile, a U.N. inquiry has found that Russia's drone attacks on civilians near the front line in Ukraine have created a "climate of terror."

Erik Mose chairman of the commission of inquiry:

MOSE: We have found in this recent report that these attacks against civilians and civilian objects amount to crimes against humanity. Crimes against humanity, both with respect to murder and with respect to forcible transfer of population.

Ukraine's foreign minister says his country is working with the United States and Britain speed up the delivery of certain air defenses.

That as Moscow continues its bombardment of Ukraine’s power grid ahead of winter.

SNAP is paused / shutdown latest » The US Department of Agriculture says no one will receive federal food assistance at the beginning of November if the government shutdown persists.

The USDA’s website says funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program–known as SNAP–has dried up during the weeks-long funding lapse.

Abby Tow works at the Great Plains Food Bank in North Dakota, and she says local charities are banding together ahead of the benefits freeze.

TOW: SNAP is a federally funded program. It is the most important, efficient and the largest hunger relief program there is in the country.

The Trump administration says Democrats are to blame for continuing to block legislation in the Senate that would fund the government.

But Democrats are condemning the Trump administration, saying Trump officials could have used other funds to ensure benefits continued into November.

As of tonight, the shutdown will officially be four weeks old… With no end in sight.

Pakistan-Afghanistan peace talks » Diplomats from Pakistan and Afghanistan just held a third day of peace talks … working to halt the bloodshed along their shared border. WORLD’s Benjamin Eicher reports:

BENJAMIN EICHER: The two sides signed a cease-fire framework agreement more than a week ago. It includes commitments to stop the fighting, respect sovereignty, and keep an open dialogue.

And diplomats from both sides are now working to finalize the details … and then actually enact that ceasefire.

The latest round of violence broke out earlier in the month … after Pakistan launched airstrikes inside Afghan territory. Islamabad said they were aimed at militants responsible for a deadly attack on Pakistani soldiers.

Afghan forces then retaliated.

President Trump has offered help from Washington. But right now, there is no indication that U.S. diplomats are a part of the peace talks.

For WORLD, I’m Benjamin Eicher.

I’m Kent Covington.

Straight ahead: Europe gets serious about its own air defenses. Plus, a debate over how much to say during sidewalk counseling outside abortion centers.

This is The World and Everything in It.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: It’s Tuesday, the 28th of October.

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

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: And I’m Lindsay Mast. First up…Europe rearms.

Over the past month, European authorities have reported air incursions almost every day. Authorities have confirmed Russia is behind many of them… but the source of others remains speculative. In any case, it's the latest in a decade of Russian escalation.

REICHARD: It seems European leaders think enough is enough. This month, the European Union unveiled its “Defense Readiness Roadmap.” It’s a plan to make the continent ready to defend itself by 2030.

WORLD’s Mary Muncy reports on what’s in the plan and why now.

MARY MUNCY: Last week, a Russian fighter jet and a transport plane entered Lithuania’s airspace for about 18 seconds. Russia says it was just a routine training mission… but Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda condemned the incursion.

GITANAS NAUSEDA: This is a cruel violation of international law and territorial serenity of Lithuania, and we have to react to this.

Two Spanish fighter jets responded under NATO’s Baltic air policing mission and patrolled the area… The incident is becoming almost routine.

BBC: We begin with Estonia, which has described an incursion by Russian fighter jets…

BBC: Russian drones were shot down in Polish airspace overnight.

WSJ: Germany scrambled its Eurofighter jets to head off a Russian reconnaissance plane that was flying with its transponders turned off over the Baltic Sea.

Drone sightings have also shut down airports across the continent… some of them are confirmed Russian actions, and others are not. Some experts say Russia is trying to build a map of how Europe responds when faced with aggression—a reconnaissance project. Taking note of things like which people are called, what‘s mobilized, and how quickly it comes together.

And this is on top of an increasing number of Russian cyber attacks on governments around the world over the past ten years.

So, two weeks ago, the European Commission laid out its plan to rearm Europe.

HENNA VIRKKUNEN: We need to move now, we need to move fast, and we need to move together.

European Commission Executive Vice President Henna Virkkunen says they want to be fully ready to defend the continent by 2030.

VIRKKUNEN: After years of massive under investment in our defense, the white paper has identified the main critical capability gaps, such as drones and counter drones, cyber, artificial intelligence, missiles and ammunitions.

The commission plans to invest at least 800 billion euros into defense… a five-fold increase.

The plans include creating a drone network across Europe to defend the union’s skies, making its troops more mobile, and streamlining defense production to keep up with new military advancements.

VIRKKUNEN: These flagships, they will reinforce Europe's ability to deter and defend across land, air, sea, cyber and space, while contributing directly to NATO capability targets.

In recent years, the European strategy has been to make its enemies trading partners so they would see a war as too costly… So why the change in strategy now?

CHRISTIAN KAUNERT: The Russian war of aggression on Ukraine has really shattered the European security order.

Christian Kaunert is a professor of international security at Dublin City University. When Russia invaded Ukraine, European leaders started talking about upping defense… but Kaunert says it was just talk… until U.S. President Donald Trump signaled at the beginning of his second term that the U.S. military would no longer be Europe’s security guarantee.

DIARIO AS, DONALD TRUMP: And I said if you don’t pay your bills, we’re not going to participate, we’re not going to protect you.

A few months after that statement, NATO allies made a commitment to up their defense spending from two percent of GDP to five percent.

KAUNERT: That's unheard of. That's not been something that European countries have agreed to for very, very long time, if ever.

Kaunert says that right now, Europe’s defense industry is languishing… and it’s going to take time and money for a rebound. In the best case scenario he thinks it will take an extra 500 billion Euros on top of what the commission is planning… In the worst case scenario, he thinks it could be a trillion Euros more … if the U.S. were to completely pull out of NATO.

The European Commission is communicating with NATO so they don’t duplicate efforts… and to streamline decision-making processes.

KAUNERT: This entire program is not to replace NATO. This entire program is to strengthen NATO.

But some have concerns with parts of the plan.

KIER GILES: There are limitations to the concept of a drone wall just across Europe’s Eastern frontier.

Kier Giles is the director of the Conflict Studies Research Centre.

GILES: Even if it's a highly effective system with the most ambitious means of layering sensors and defenses to keep Russian drones out, that doesn't deal with the problem that we've seen demonstrated across Europe recently, where the drones are not actually coming from Russia.

Instead, they’re coming from Russian partners inside Europe.

Giles believes Russia has been demonstrating a real threat against Europe over the past few years… and he says right now, even the most well-armed European countries are not prepared.

GILES: For all of Poland being a clear leader in rearmament in Europe, in reinvesting in its armed forces to get them ready for the kind of conflict that Russia wages. They still weren't prepared for a drone incursion that was really just a tiny fraction of what Ukraine experiences every night.

For now, many parts of Europe’s defense initiative are still being worked out… but the commission plans for there to be a fully functional web of drone defense over the continent by the end of 2027… and to have all of their contracts for shoring up “capability gaps” in place by 2028.

International security professor Kaunert says just making the plan is a big shift for Europe in the right direction.

KAUNERT: There have been a number of different warnings, one that it could come as early as next year, other warnings that maybe we're looking at a Russian aggression towards the end of the decade. This is meant to, in a sense, get Europe ready in the next two years to be dealing with something if something happens.

Both Kaunert and Giles agree that whether Russia attempts to take more territory in Europe or not, the best way to keep peace in the West is to be ready for war.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Mary Muncy.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Coming up next on The World and Everything in It: The National Guard on the streets of American cities.

The Trump administration’s deployment of state-based military reserves to respond to unrest and protect federal property has raised questions.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: WORLD’s Josh Schumacher has the story.

JOSH SCHUMACHER: On May 1, 1992, President George H.W. Bush deployed the National Guard to Los Angeles.

BUSH: I will use whatever force is necessary to restore order.

Widespread riots had broken out after a jury acquitted four police officers of assault… even after they’d been caught on video beating a black man by the name of Rodney King.

Before the 1950s, U.S. presidents didn’t deploy the National Guard to maintain law and order domestically. Since then, they’ve only done it a handful of times. Before the Rodney King riots, President Lyndon Johnson deployed the National Guard to protect protesters at Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1965 March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. Johnson did so again to quell the race riots in 1967.

JOHNSON: The federal government should not intervene except in the most extraordinary circumstances. The fact of the matter however is that Law and order have broken down in Detroit, Michigan.

And then one year later, the Guard responded to riots in Washington, D.C., following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

Now, President Donald Trump has deployed the National Guard to Los Angeles and several other American cities…all within one year.

TRUMP: These are unsafe places, we’re going to make them safe.

Trump has said the goal is to crack down on rampant crime, but the specific justification is protecting federal immigration facilities and personnel from protesters. In Los Angeles, Portland, Oregon, and Chicago, protesters have gathered at federal immigration facilities… and in some cases engaged in violent acts against federal authorities protecting the buildings.

But some legal experts say pulling in the National Guard goes too far.

Brenner Fissell is a law professor at Villanova University.

FISSELL: I think that the justification that they're giving, which is to protect federal assets, has a requirement which has not been met, which is that the local police are unable or unwilling to, um, to step up. And that has not been the case.

Local police have been on the scene to confront protesters in Portland, Oregon, and in Los Angeles. But in Chicago, Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order prohibiting local police from assisting federal immigration personnel.

Essentially, Fissell explains that things have to get so out of control that local police are overwhelmed… and it’s no longer possible to enforce federal laws, or other types of laws for that matter.

That was the case during the Rodney King riots. And it was also the case in Massachusetts in 1786.

BRAVER: In Shay's Rebellion, it wasn't a riot. It wasn't that they were just destroying random property.

Joshua Braver is a law professor at the University of Wisconsin’s Law School.

BRAVER: It's that farmers were upset that courts were going to foreclose on their farms, and they shut down the courts. So if you shut down the courts, If you take over an entire city… that might also be a reasonable opportunity for the federal government to step in.

Braver says National Guard deployments are only supposed to be a last resort.

But administration supporters say there is precedent for using the National Guard to ensure the proper enforcement of American laws, even when a city isn’t burning down.

Zack Smith is a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation.

SMITH: President Eisenhower, actually sent in the 101st Airborne active duty troops into Little Rock, Arkansas to make sure that the civil rights, the federal civil rights of American citizens were being guaranteed. And so there is ample precedent, ample authority for presidents using National Guard, even using active duty troops to make sure that federal law can and will be enforced.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals last week ruled that the Trump administration was acting within the bounds of its authority when it deployed the National Guard to Portland, Oregon.

The court of appeals also said that protesters had engaged in violent acts against federal agents at Portland’s ICE facility… and had even succeeded in shutting down operations at the building.

But the courts are split on this issue. The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Illinois has stopped the administration from deploying federal troops on the streets of Chicago while legal proceedings play out.

Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act in order to get the National Guard troops back onto the streets. Fissell says that would be an over-the-top measure.

FISSELL: The Insurrection Act requires an insurrection… even violent protests that become riotists are not rebellions against the authority of the United States. They're breaking laws to be sure if you're violent and rioting, but it's not an insurrection in the meaning, which is like a group of people who are challenging the actual basic authority of the government.

Fissell acknowledges that the text of the Insurrection Act leaves it up to the president to decide when obstruction of government activities is severe enough to invoke the statute.

FISSELL: He has a lot of authority under the Act to it says “Whenever the president considers…” So some have argued that there's no way to review that. It's up to him. Now, whether, I mean, but I can still say he's wrong to do it.

While Fissell emphasizes that none of the protests against ICE activities have turned into actual rebellions against government authorities… that determination is still left up to the president.

So far, Trump’s threats to invoke the Insurrection Act are still just threats.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Josh Schumacher.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Brent Chapman was blind for decades… before receiving the gift of sight again…through his tooth.

Yeah, his tooth. Surgeons pulled a tooth, drilled a hole in it, inserted a little lens, and then implanted it into his eye. Because it’s material from his own body, it won’t be rejected.

The technique isn’t new but for Chapman, the results certainly were! And when he made eye contact with his doctor for the first time?

BRENT CHAPMAN: We both just burst into tears. I hadn’t really made eye contact in 20 years.

Here’s his doctor, Greg Maloney:

GREG MALONEY: To watch them come back into the world? It’s an incredibly rewarding feeling.

Chapman’s vision in that eye is now around 20/40…meaning he can read, walk without a cane, even shoot some hoops.

CHAPMAN: It’s a whole new world.

I bet! It’s The World and Everything in It.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Today is Tuesday, October 28th. Thank you for turning to WORLD Radio to help start your day.

Good morning. I’m Lindsay Mast.

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

Coming next on The World and Everything in It: gospel preachers at abortion facilities.

Pro-lifers who gather on public sidewalks outside abortion businesses often don’t see eye-to-eye. One question that divides them is whether spiritual conversations should be used with women considering abortion.

MAST: Today, WORLD’s Leah Savas introduces us to a man who says gospel conversations should come first.

JORDAN SWEEZER: If you would turn away from your sins and turn towards Jesus Christ, He will not cast you out.

LEAH SAVAS: That’s 30-year-old Jordan Sweezer, doing what he’s been doing regularly for the last three years…

SWEEZER: He will not say to you, you're too bad. He sacrificed Himself on the cross, and that is a greater price to pay than any sin you could possibly have committed. So turn to Jesus today and receive His love and His mercy.

Sweezer is preaching outside the Planned Parenthood in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He’s trying to get the attention of people in the lobby.

When more people are coming and going, Sweezer tries to start one-on-one conversations. He approaches cars or calls out to the people in the parking lot.

SWEEZER: Please trust in Jesus today. Please come and talk with me. We can help you.

His main goal is to tell the people there about Christ, whether they’re there for STD tests, body modifications, abortions, or just walking through the neighborhood. But he sees that as working in tandem with his other goal of saving babies, since only God’s Word can change hearts.

SWEEZER: I have no ability to change anybody's mind. I have no ability to manipulate or convince or even if I did, it would be short term. They would come right back, you know. And God does the work.

The main abortion facility in town used to be a couple minutes away on a busy street. But when that facility closed in 2023, Sweezer moved to this Planned Parenthood on Cherry Street. It’s quieter here—a cozy-looking neighborhood with rows of fancy old houses and people walking their dogs.

But Sweezer’s arrival brought backlash from the neighbors.

NEIGHBOR: All of you, get out of here right now!

That’s audio from one day in 2023, when Sweezer and some fellow pro-lifers were gathered to pray. A woman who lived across the street cussed them out. A neighborhood man threw eggs at them. Another guy drove his Subaru into the Planned Parenthood driveway…

SOUND: [Car driving over]

and sat on the vehicle’s roof, holding a sign saying, “Pray to end male oppression.” Sweezer was trying to read a Bible verse.

SOUND: [Metal music and Jordan reading Bible verse]

The sidewalk has quieted down since then.

SWEEZER: It was a mess out here, you know, not that we were doing anything wrong. We were still loving and kind and sharing the gospel, but they were blasting their music and honking their horns for four hours, you know. And so it looked pretty wild out here.

But some local pro-lifers say the street-preaching style Sweezer uses agitated the community.

MELISSA YEOMANS: The sound actually does impact people who are just living alongside that abortion facility.

Melissa Yeomans is a local leader with the national organization Sidewalk Advocates for Life.

YEOMANS: And so it stirs up a lot of anger amongst the neighborhood. It becomes a toxic environment where there's a lot of tension and there's a lot of emotion, and all of that I feel distracts from that focus on being ever present and ready to respond to that abortion-vulnerable woman the moment that she is ready to engage.

Yeomans agrees the spiritual needs of women considering abortion are important. But she said leading with talk of sin and repentance isn’t a good idea.

YEOMANS: Shame-based, condemning messages are not effective. They don't reach that woman in her moment of considering abortion.

When all the sidewalk groups moved to this Planned Parenthood, the change affected the local pregnancy center as well. PRC Grand Rapids shares a parking lot with the abortion facility, and the pregnancy center staff got a front-row seat to the sidewalk drama. Becky Buick is the center’s chief operations officer.

BECKY BUICK: I still, you know, I want to get out of my car in the parking lot. I'm not crazy about hearing a microphone. I mean, my spirit initially goes, “Ugh!” you know.

Initially, her instinct was to question their approach to pro-life work because it was so different from hers. But she’s since had a chance to get to know Sweezer and see his love for Jesus and knowledge of Scripture.

BUICK: And I think as Christians, it's really easy to throw a stone at someone who's preaching on the corner and to have prejudice about them.

The Lord, she said, ministers to people in unique ways, including through street preaching.

BUICK: And just because that's not something that would appeal to me doesn't mean that it's not something that would really cause someone's heart to melt, and I've seen it.

SWEEZER: How are you doing today?

Back on the sidewalk, Sweezer keeps trying to strike up conversations.

WOMAN: Hi. I have an appointment, I’m sorry.

SWEEZER: At Planned Parenthood?

WOMAN: Yeah.

A handful of people come over to talk. Some are there for routine visits or STD testing. At least one is there because she’s thinking about aborting her baby.

WOMAN: I don’t even believe in it, but I have so much goin’ on. My money, I can’t afford—I’m just, you know. I have a lot going on.

Sweezer offers to buy her pregnancy tests. He tells her about adoption.

SWEEZER: So I just want to plead with you—make the commitment today to trust God and trust that he'll provide for you, but I'm literally here to be God's hands and feet to help provide for you.

A couple minutes later, she still walks into the building. Sweezer wants to see babies—like that woman’s—saved. But spiritual conversations take priority.

SWEEZER: I definitely feel like I've found my sweet spot, or what the Lord wants me to be doing out here. Just always gospel centered, always rushing to the cross because it's the power of salvation. You can save a baby, but they can both go to hell if they don't know Jesus.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Leah Savas in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Today is Tuesday, October 28th. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Mary Reichard.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: And I’m Lindsay Mast. Finally today, a gentle warning from a faithful friend…loose lips do still sink ships… usually, our own. Here’s WORLD commentator Janie B. Cheaney.

JANIE B. CHEANEY: In 1997 The New Republic published an article called “Spring Breakdown.” Reporting from CPAC, the up-and-coming young journalist Stephen Glass described college Republicans getting blind drunk after hours, talking disgusting trash, hiring a prostitute, and in general behaving badly. Liberal-leaning readers were free to infer that these were future leaders of the heartless, bigoted Republican party, so watch out, America. The problem with the story, as it later emerged, was that it was at least partially fabricated, like dozens of other articles Glass had written for The New Republic.

But the October 14th Politico story of young Republicans talking disgusting trash in an online chat is sadly true. It’s there for all to see: racial slurs, casual dismissals of rape and slavery, jokey references to the Holocaust. According to the Politico expose it’s a microcosm of the party as a whole. The author writes: “The private rhetoric isn’t happening in a vacuum. It comes amid a widespread coarsening of the broader political discourse as incendiary and racially offensive tropes from the right become increasingly common in public debate.” Must be dizzy up there on that high horse.

The chat involved a dozen Republican activists from four states. Much of the trash talk was directed against rivals on the right, and the participants were aware it was not fit for public consumption. One young politician wrote: “If we ever had a leak of this chat we would be cooked.” And so they are: The New York State GOP removed all the New York participants from their official positions. The other state GOPs likewise fired or dismissed many of theirs.

And in spite of Politico’s posturing, the coarsening of public discourse is not just happening on the right. After decades of being bludgeoned from the left with the Nazi label, perhaps it’s not surprising that some Republican millennials and Gen-Zs are trying it on for size. They’re not seriously Nazis, but that isn’t the problem. The problem is, they’re not serious.

Proverbs 29:8 says: “Scoffers set a city aflame.” These scoffers set a 24-hour news cycle aflame—wrecking their own careers…possibly for good. Might we take a lesson here?

When I was in high school, scoffing was cool. Scoffing was the only thing we took seriously, because it marked us as young sophisticates, laughing over our purloined beers through clouds of covert cigarette smoke. "What fools these mortals be,” was the undercurrent of our conversation: these presidents who wage war over nothing, these politicians who tell us we’re not smart enough to vote, these parents with their silly curfews. Nothing could shake our shallow cynicism. Except maturity.

Returning to the wisdom of Solomon. Proverbs 3:34 warns: “Toward the scorners God is scornful.” Life is serious business, and so is He. Honest laughter at our own mistakes and foibles is healthy, but scorn and scoffing directs itself at the other, casting ourselves as the smart set who can’t be fooled. It’s time to grow up. The coarsening of political discourse may begin with juvenile mockery, but it will set our cities aflame.

I’m Janie B. Cheaney.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Tomorrow: international politics, conservatism, and the Big Beautiful Ballroom…Hunter Baker joins us for Washington Wednesday. And, a question for conservationists: should the Mexican wolf still be considered endangered? That and more tomorrow.

I’m Lindsay Mast.

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

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