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Israel hits Iran with a targeted counterstrike, how Sudan’s humanitarian crisis has gone from bad to worse, and a Russian family seeks U.S. asylum. Plus, Janie B. Cheaney on the things that scare us, a cheesy robbery, and the Tuesday morning news


A destroyed building hit in an Israeli airstrike in Tyre, Lebanon, Monday Associated Press/Photo by Mohammed Zaatari

PREROLL: Thousands of people have fled Russia not to escape the war, but to escape the long arm of the state after criticizing the war. I’m Kristen Flavin. WORLD recently spoke with one family hoping to find protection in the U.S. We’ll have their story in just a few minutes. Stay with us.


MARY REICHARD, HOST: Good morning!

Israel’s retaliatory strike on Iran: Is it an escalation or maybe a dialing back of the tension?

NICK EICHER, HOST: We’ll talk it over with an expert on the region.

Also today, we’re heading back to Sudan. Lindsay Mast will be along in just a moment with the second part of her report on the forgotten conflict.

WILLEMS: This is a war that is not televised. It's not pictured. Foreign reporters are not let in…

And later, the story of a Christian family from Russia seeking shelter in the US…after being punished for criticizing the war.

KOSIAK: I can’t be quiet because many of my friends and my parents are in Ukraine. I need to support them.

And commentary from WORLD’s Janie B Cheaney On the difference between horror and terror.

REICHARD: It’s Tuesday, October 29th. 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 now for the news with Kent Covington.


KENT COVINGTON, NEWS ANCHOR: One week till Election Day » Election Day is now exactly one week away. And both campaigns are sprinting to the finish line in a very close race.

Donald Trump campaigned in the Atlanta area last night. 

TRUMP: We will end inflation. We will stop the invasion of criminals coming into our country, and we will bring back the American dream …

Georgia is a key swing state, but it’s been trending in Trump’s direction for several weeks. Recent polls give him a lead of just over 2 points in the state.

Vice President Kamala Harris, meanwhile, urged supporters to turn out in force in one of a few swing states where polls show the race effectively tied

HARRIS: Early voting has started here in Michigan. 

The polls show a statistical tie in Wisconsin and Nevada as well. The race is also extremely tight in North Carolina and Pennsylvania, with Trump holding a very narrow lead in both states.

And in the popular vote, recent national polls show the race dead even.

Early voting » And speaking of early voting … some 45 million Americans have already cast their ballots.

According to an analysis at the University of Florida, about 40 percent of those who have voted so far are registered Democrats. Thirty-six percent are registered Republicans. And those not registered with either party account for the rest.

President Biden is among those early voters. He cast his ballot in Wilmington, Delaware on Monday. 

Poll Worker: Joseph Biden now voting

Dozens of states and cities have reported record early voting turnout this year.

Russia/North Korea/Ukraine » The number of North Korean troops on-the-ground in Russia is growing, according to U.S. officials. And some have already been deployed to the front lines against Ukraine.

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte:

RUTTE: Today, I can confirm that North Korean troops have been sent to Russia and that North Korean military units have been deployed to the Kursk region.

Rutte called the deployment as a significant escalation of Russia's illegal war against Ukraine.

RUTTE: The deepening military cooperation between Russia and North Korea is a threat to both the Indo-Pacific and Euro-Atlantic security.

Pentagon officials say that if North Korean troops do join Russia's fight against Ukraine, it will directly affect U.S. policies on Ukraine's use of American weapons.

Iran vows response to Israeli counterstrike » Iran is vowing to attack Israel yet again following an Israeli counterstrike against two Iranian military bases and assets. WORLD’s Paul Butler has more.

PAUL BUTLER: Iran’s Foreign Ministry said Monday that the authoritarian regime will—quoting here … “use all available tools to deliver a definite and effective response to the Zionist regime." End quote.

But Iranian officials did not expound on what that means.

One day earlier … Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei [hah-meh-neh-EE] was measured in his public response … He said the attack “should not be exaggerated nor downplayed.”

And he stopped short of calling for an immediate military response.

Israeli warplanes struck 20 targets across Iran Saturday during a counterstrike … in response to Iran’s recent missile attack against Israel.

For WORLD, I’m Paul Butler.

Israel UNRWA » We’ll take a much closer look at Iran’s potential response very shortly.

Meantime, the Biden administration is not happy with the Israeli government … after parliament passed two laws to severely restrict the U.N. Palestinian relief agency known as UNRWA.

State Dept. spokesman Matthew Miller: 

MILLER:  They really play an irreplaceable role right now in Gaza, where they are on the front lines getting humanitarian assistance to, uh, the people they need. There's nobody that can replace them right now in the middle of the crisis.

But UNRWA was also at the center of a massive scandal after the Hamas terror attacks against Israel last year.

Israel has alleged that some UNRWA staff members actively participated in those attacks and that Israeli forces found Hamas military assets in or under the agency’s facilities. UNRWA fired nine employees after an internal investigation but denied it knowingly aids terrorist groups.

Miller would not say whether the White House will consider punitive action against Israel over the new legislation. He told reporters before the bills passed

MILLER: We will consider next steps based on what happens in the days ahead.

The first bill passed Monday bans UNRWA, from conducting “any activity” inside Israel. The second cuts ties with the agency and designates it as a terror organization. 

I'm Kent Covington.

Straight ahead: the Israeli military finally retaliates against Iran. Plus, one Russian family’s hopes of finding freedom in America.

This is The World and Everything in It.


NICK EICHER, HOST: It’s Tuesday the 29th of October.

This is WORLD Radio and we thank you for listening. Good morning, I’m Nick Eicher.

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

First up on The World and Everything in It: Israel strikes back.

Early on Saturday morning, Iran state media reported explosions in the capital city, Tehran. Since then, Israel has confirmed that it carried out a series of airstrikes on Iranian military sites.

EICHER: It was the retaliation everyone was expecting. The Israel Defense Forces hitting back for an Iranian attack on Israel—following Israeli operations against Hezbollah and Hamas.

KHAMENEI: Their exaggeration is wrong, but note that downplaying this is wrong too.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei told an audience on Sunday that Israel’s attack shouldn’t be exaggerated or downplayed.

REICHARD: Joining us now to talk about it is Michael Singh. He’s a former senior director of Middle East Affairs for the National Security Council. He’s now Managing Director at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

Michael, good morning.

MICHAEL SINGH: Good morning.

REICHARD: Israel launched several waves of advanced fighter jets. What’s known about the targets Israel hit?

SINGH: It seems as though Israel's targets in this airstrike were pretty much military-only targets. So there was a lot of speculation, obviously prior to the strikes, as to whether Israel would target Iran's energy infrastructure, whether it would target nuclear sites. It appears to have done neither of those things, and to have confined its targets really just to military sites, so sites associated especially with the production of missiles, sites associated with Iran's air defense and so forth, and it seems to have been a very precise strike in that sense.

REICHARD: Mmm-hmm…I’ve seen some reporting that Israel took out several missile defense batteries from Russia that were supposed to protect Iran from strikes like this…and now those air defenses are gone. Well, based on that, then what response would you expect from Iran?

SINGH: Well, that is the $64,000 question. And I think what U.S. officials are likely hoping is that number one Iran, privately, Iranian officials in their internal deliberations will look at the Israeli strike and see it as essentially proportionate, a sort of reciprocal response to Iran's October 1 strike on Israel, as opposed to something escalatory that demanded an escalation in turn. And as I think U.S. officials look at Iran's public rhetoric, the public rhetoric of Iranian generals and officials, what we hear is we hear those officials downplaying the attacks, and that seems to me to at least implicitly, be sort of leading towards deescalation, you have Iranian officials saying, Look, this was no big deal. And if, in fact, they're saying it's no big deal, maybe that means no significant response is necessary.

REICHARD: Do you think U.S. pressure influenced Israel’s decision not to hit Iran’s nuclear program or oil industry?

SINGH: Well, look, one of the U.S. goals since October 7 of 2023, since that horrific attack by Hamas in Israel, has been to prevent the conflict between Hamas and Israel from turning into a regional war. Obviously, that hasn't succeeded. So we have now war between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Now we have direct conflict ever really since mid-April between Iran and Israel. So I think U.S. officials’ comments really reflect that desire to somehow keep this conflict contained. Yet I think there has been a recognition inside the U.S. government that the nature of Iran's attack on Israel on October 1 really merits a response by Israel, even if you know, they had hoped that, given the lack of significant damage in Israel, that Israel might, you know, sort of choose to “take the win,” as President Biden said previously. I don't think there was an expectation of that. So instead, you had, I think it a quite intense dialog between the US and Israel as to what constituted an appropriate response. And you heard President Biden publicly try to rule out certain categories of targets that the US felt would be escalatory, and talk about the need for any Israeli response to be proportionate, which I think we can interpret as meaning limited to military targets. In that sense, I think U.S. officials will look at this strike favorably and will think that their conversations and coordination paid off in that sense.

REICHARD: Final question: tapping into your expertise in this, what about Israel's conflict with Iran? Do you think the public may not understand or perhaps misunderstands from media coverage?

SINGH: Well, you know, it may be hard to tell, but, but there is still a sense that neither of these countries really wants direct conflict with the other. Iran has, you know, in the past, largely confined itself to fighting via proxies against Israel or against the United States. In fact, this is the first direct strike on Iran since the Iran Iraq War of the 1980s. Israel, too, has, you know, sort of hesitated to find itself in direct conflict with Iran, and largely has conducted what you might call a shadow war against Iran attacking Iranian targets well outside of Iran. Now, obviously things have escalated to the point where we see this direct conflict, but it does seem as though both sides are reluctant to to really sort of see that conflict through or escalated. And that may be a good sign, frankly, for those who are interested in you know, the eventual achievement of some more calm and peace in this region.

REICHARD: Michael Singh is Managing Director of the Washington Institute, and a former staff member of the National Security Council. Michael, thank you so much for your time.

SINGH: Thanks very much.


MARY REICHARD, HOST: Coming up next on The World and Everything in It: the crisis in Sudan.

The Sudanese suffered through years of war and unrest, but a few years ago seemed headed towards self-governance. Now, a new conflict has brought a humanitarian crisis, one that’s gotten little attention from the press.

WORLD’s Lindsay Mast has the story.

LINDSAY MAST: In the middle of the dusty Sudan countryside Raous Fleg spots a patch of low lying grass and starts picking leaves. She and two other women have walked for two hours from a displaced persons camp in the South Kordafan area. Video from Reuters shows them stopping sometimes to eat the leaves raw. It’s part of a desperate search for food.

Later, they’ll cook what they find with tamarind seeds and water over open fire and feed it to their children. It will be something resembling a meal.

In the last 18 months, a war between rival military groups has devastated Fleg’s country. The World Food Programme says nearly a quarter of Sudan’s 48 million people have fled their homes. More than 25 million face acute hunger and multiple areas are on the brink of famine, or already there.

SOUND: [CELEBRATIONS IN KHARTOUM]

In 2019, people celebrated in the streets of the capital of Khartoum… after a military coup deposed President Omar Al-Bashir, Sudan’s authoritarian ruler of 30 years. The country adopted a transitional civilian and military government that, at least in theory, would include the Sudanese people.

But in April 2023 the two armies that had worked to overthrow Al-Bashir turned against each other. The Sudan Armed Forces, or SAF, is the official Sudanese military. It started fighting the Rapid Support Forces, known as the RSF, which has roots in the Janjaweed Isalmist militia.

SOUND: [GUNFIRE]

A UN fact finding mission reports both groups have committed human rights violations and international crimes. Additionally, it found the RSF has killed, raped, and tortured non-Arab, ethnically Black people in West Darfur.

Joseph Siegle is Director of Research at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies.

SIEGLE: It is, I think, in some people's books, we could consider it genocide, and a real attempt to, if not, exterminate this population, but, you know, pushing them out of their long held in long known home areas.

Continued fighting raises concerns about a regional conflict. Sudan is the third-largest country in Africa. It also borders the Red Sea, an important shipping route. One analyst told The Washington Post, “whoever controls Sudan, controls the Red Sea.”

Joseph Siegle once again:

SIEGLE: “As in any conflict, once it becomes regionalized, internationalized, it becomes a lot more complicated to negotiate a ceasefire and have all sides stand down.”

But many countries have interest in Sudan– the Red Sea shipping route as well as its natural resources, like gold, silver, copper and uranium.

Russia has long wanted a Red Sea port in Sudan. It initially supported the RSF, prompting Ukraine to send special forces to Sudan to fight against Russia there. But Russia recently switched sides, aligning with Iran’s support of the SAF. The Washington Post reports that Iran has supplied drones to the effort.

On the other side, The U.N. reports that the United Arab Emirates has been sending the RSF weapons and ammunition through Chad. The UAE denies those allegations, though a New York Times investigation backs them up.

Some say applying global pressure to the UAE to stop aiding the RSF could help end the war. An opinion piece in The Washington Post called on the U.S. to do just that. America has led peace talks regarding Sudan, but also counts the UAE as an ally. Audio from a meeting between the UAE and US presidents.

BIDEN: UAE is going to become a major defense partner of the United States

In the meantime, the Sudanese people bear the brunt of the conflict with millions uprooted. Aid trucks have arrived, but both armies have been accused of hampering efforts to distribute it. And now, people are starving.

EDEM WOSORNU: We, the international community, have failed.

That’s Edem Wosornu, a UN Official, speaking about the first confirmed famine in seven years. It’s in Darfur’s Zamzam camp, which houses an estimated half million displaced Sudanese people.

SOUND: [RADIO DABANGA]

Yet media coverage of the crisis has been sparse. In May, The Economist reported that in the first five months of 2024, global media outlets ran about 600 stories on Sudan per month. By comparison, coverage of Gaza and Ukraine were more than 100,000 stories per month–for each conflict.

Part of the problem is that it’s hard for news from Sudan to get out. UNESCO reports that most internal media outlets have stopped broadcasting altogether. Journalists have fled, been taken captive, and even killed.

WILLEMS: The situation on the ground for journalists is very bad. People are really persecuted.

Leon Willems is a Senior Adviser at Free Press Unlimited who worked as a journalist in Sudan for years. He says the communication infrastructure wasn’t great to start with. And now much of it has been destroyed.

WILLEMS: Just imagine, the times before, you know Nokia 2g on your cell phone. You can send very simple text messages of 130 140 sign. So that is about what people can get out.

In a world where pictures and video plays an important role in getting people’s attention, that’s a challenge.

WILLEMS: If you don't see it, then you don't get the reaction, the International charitable reaction, the political urgency. This is a war that is not televised. It's not pictured. Foreign reporters are not let in, and so we depend on these local journalists.

Back in South Kordafan, the women put clumps of mushy leaves into the outstretched hands of toddlers and children. It’s hard to say if it will be enough to sustain them while they wait… wait for more political pressure, wait for aid to get through, and wait for the fighting to stop.

WILLEMS: There's many crises, and they're all important in many different ways, but this is one where silence leads to many people going dead.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Lindsay Mast.


NICK EICHER, HOST: Scammers are going to scam, and this time, someone’s muenstered up nearly 50,000 pounds of prize-winning cheddar. Chef Jamie Oliver took to social media for help.

OLIVER: There’s only a small handful of real cheddar cheese makers in the world and these are some of the cheeses or most of them that have got nicked. So a real shame.

A shame indeed—for cheese connoisseurs and a London-based cheesemonger that sources from dozens of makers across Britain and Ireland. Someone posing as a distributor managed to skim off around 1,000 wheels of the good stuff.

OLIVER: So if anyone hears anything about posh cheese going for cheap, it's probably some run ins.

Scotland Yard’s on the case, hoping to melt down the leads and catch the culprits before they shred the evidence, or brie-z through customs with their “grate” escape.

It’s The World and Everything in It.


NICK EICHER, HOST: Today is Tuesday, October 29th.

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

Good morning. I’m Nick Eicher.

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

Coming next on The World and Everything in It: A Christian family flees Russia.

Russians who criticize the Ukraine war risk freedom, personal safety, and even custody of their children. Amnesty International estimates 20,000 Russians have suffered reprisals for protesting the war.

EICHER: Zhanna and Sergey Kosiak fled Russia with their two children earlier this year out of fear for their family’s safety.

WORLD’s Compassion reporter Addie Offereins spoke with the couple a few weeks ago … and learned that the government targeted them and other members of their church for speaking out against the war.

The Kosiaks are now hoping to reach the United States by way of Mexico.

REICHARD: WORLD’s Kristen Flavin has the story.

AUDIO: [SINGING AROUND THE TABLE]

KRISTEN FLAVIN: Zhanna and Sergey are gathered with a small group of Russians around a wooden dining table in Tijuana, Mexico, singing praise songs in the home of a Mexican pastor.

When the couple fled Russia earlier this year, they weren’t sure whether they’d have a roof over their head, let alone a welcoming community.

AUDIO: [SINGING AROUND THE TABLE]

Zhanna and Sergey met in 2010 at a Bible school in Ukraine. Sergey is Russian, Zhanna Ukrainian. The couple married and settled in a Russian city near the Russia-Kazakhstan border with their two children

KOSIAK: I've been in Russia for 14 years.

That’s Zhanna. Sergey doesn’t speak much English. Two years ago, everything changed for the family of four.

ANCHOR: Good morning from the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. Gunfire and explosions have been heard here and in the second city of Kharkiv …

When the war started, the couple decided that Zhanna would speak out against it.

KOSIAK: I can’t be quiet because many of my friends and my parents are in Ukraine. I need to support them. So we decided that only I will post, and we were thinking that if something happened, maybe they wouldn't take a mother of two kids.

She posted on Facebook and made videos explaining why she believed the war was wrong and describing how it was devastating her homeland.

AUDIO: [ZHANNA ON YOUTUBE]

That’s Zhanna in one of her YouTube videos in the early days of the war.

The pastor of their church also vocally opposed the war.

KOSIAK: In Russia, churches don't say anything about the war. So in our city, only our church has an anti war position.

Children at the church made bracelets, baked goods, or painted pictures to raise money to support Ukraine.

KOSIAK: For us, a Christian position is an anti war position in this time, and if you call things by their proper names, that war is war, you will be persecuted everywhere.

Men at the church handed out leaflets opposing Russia’s role in the war.

KOSIAK: That it was a sin before God to kill a brotherly people.

Police arrested one of the men.

KOSIAK: He was held at the police station for almost two days. He was beaten, humiliated

Authorities searched his home and confiscated information about the other church members.

KOSIAK: If they see that you have posted something, you go to prison, they can take your kids to the government house for kids.

Most of the church members decided to flee to the United States’ border with Mexico and request asylum.

KOSIAK: We in the Russian Federation are deprived of the opportunity to protect ourselves. We are deprived of the opportunity to speak our Christian position. We are deprived of the opportunity to speak the truth.

The Koziaks left Russia in February. Authorities interrogated Zhanna for two hours at the Russian border. But, eventually, the couple boarded a plane in Turkey bound for Mexico.

KOSIAK: We are praying and asking God for help, because we only have money to live in Mexico for two months. We pray and pray and pray. And then our pastors call us and say, oh, there is one place for your family in Tijuana.

Juvenal González pastors a church in Tijuana, just across the border from San Diego, California. His church distributes breakfast at a border shelter and he and his wife have also opened their home.

GONZALEZ: We decided about two years ago to allow people to stay in our home, especially those people from Afghanistan. They're Christian, and they've been persecuted and all that because of their Christian beliefs. And also people from Russia.

The pastor and his wife are currently hosting five Russian families, some of them were also members at the Kosiak’s church in Russia

KOSIAK: Pastor Juvenal’s house is like a refuge, and for us, it's God’s miracle.

The Kosiaks hope to request asylum in the United States—a status granted to individuals fearing persecution on account of their race, religion, or political opinion. Asylum-seekers must first apply for an appointment to enter the country at a port-of-entry using a Customs and Border Protection mobile app.

PUTZEL-CAVANAUGH: So a person would make a registration on the app, and then every day, they would have to ask for an appointment.

Colleen Putzel-Cavanaugh is an associate policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute.

PUTZEL-CAVANAUGH: And the way that those appointments are allocated, there's 1450 border-wide spread across eight ports of entry

The average wait time for an appointment is about six months. The Kosiaks have been waiting for more than seven.

KOSIAK: Many people just want to go to the United States. They don't have persecution or something.

They resubmit their appointment application every day

AUDIO: [SINGING AROUND THE TABLE]

Often, the Kosiaks and the other families gather around the dining table with Pastor González and his wife to sing and pray.

GONZALEZ: We pray for the needs, for the families and even for their job and future here in the United States.

He knows the wait can be discouraging.

GONZALEZ: Thousands of people are applying every day. Sometimes, they say, sorry, Pastor, we did not get it today. They worry that maybe one day I'm gonna get up in the morning and I say, everybody need to leave my house, I say, No, that's not going to happen. As long as God is being faithful and provided we will continue to support you

The Kosiaks aren’t sure how much longer they’ll be waiting in Tijuana. But they're grateful for the family they’ve found in the meantime.

KOSIAK: We understand that God's time is the best…So every day, we are praying only for this, that God's will will be in our life

For WORLD’s Addie Offereins who wrote and reported this story, I’m Kristen Flavin.


NICK EICHER, HOST: Today is Tuesday, October 29th. 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. Here’s WORLD commentator Janie B. Cheaney now with a reflection on our culture’s fascination with the macabre and why we should not fear.

JANIE B CHEANEY: C.S. Lewis writes: “Almost the whole of Christian theology could perhaps be deduced from two facts: (a)That men make coarse jokes, and (b)That they feel the dead to be uncanny.”

As he goes on to explain, both phenomena indicate an uneasy disconnect between body and soul, as though we humans were uncomfortable with being human. We find reproduction funny because it associates us with animals, even though we know we’re something more. We find death uncanny because we perceive that we’re not made to die.

Does that “uncanniness” account for our culture’s fascination with Halloween thrills and chills? Whatever we fear fascinates us, but the fear sparked by a rattlesnake is not the same as that inspired by a ghost or a zombie. As there are degrees of fear, there are also kinds.

I divide scary stories into two main categories: terror and horror. Horror stories include one or more of the following: buckets of blood and an innocent victim or victims.

Horror stories operate like shock therapy. Fans claim this is cathartic—dramatizing our deepest fears in order to drain the potency from them. Fair enough, but I wonder how much is too much. For another, horror scores its greatest impact from mutilating the human body. How can watching the desecration of God’s “fearfully and wonderfully made” work be a pleasure?

Finally, horror is obsessed with death. For Christians, death is the wages of sin. Christ drew the sting of death by the terrible necessity of taking it on himself, but to flirt with it, even glamorize it, may not be healthy.

Terror stories are another cauldron of fish. They may involve blood but don’t rely on it. They almost always include a strong element of the occult or supernatural; and—this is important—they grant agency to the victim, who helps bring about his own destruction. Here’s how Mary Shelly described her inspiration for the most iconic Halloween story of all time:

I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, stir with an uneasy, half vital motion . . . [I thought,] “I have found it! What terrified me will terrify others.”

The novel Shelly wrote from this uncanny vision is seldom read today but the “hideous phantasm” she created is recognized the world over. When a story creates its own frame of reference, there’s always a reason. Dr. Frankenstein, that “pale student of unhallowed arts” is potentially all of us, lusting for power and self-glorification. Tales like Frankenstein, “The Tell-Tale Heart,” even Rosemary’s Baby, can be a powerful reminder of our enemy the devil, seeking souls to devour, and that is legitimately scary.

But, as Martin Luther penned in his great hymn: “The prince of darkness grim, we tremble not for him; his rage we can endure, for lo! his doom is sure; one little word shall fell him.”

That word is Jesus, the one who bore our terror and horror was mutilated for us, so that we will not fear.

I’m Janie B. Cheaney.


NICK EICHER, HOST: Tomorrow: Election Day 2024 is right around the corner. Early voting is well underway. What are states doing to make sure elections are secure? We’ll have a report on a few specifics on Washington Wednesday.

And, it’s not easy to get accurate, up-to-date crime statistics. What’s the reason for that? We have an analysis. That and more tomorrow.

I’m Nick Eicher.

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

The World and Everything in It comes to you from WORLD Radio. WORLD’s mission is biblically objective journalism that informs, educates, and inspires.

The Bible says: “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.” —Romans 12:2.

Go now in grace and peace.


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