The World and Everything in It: October 30, 2025

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MARY REICHARD, HOST: Good morning!

Government funding for food benefits runs out on Saturday, will lawmakers end the shutdown to keep SNAP benefits going?

HAWLEY: No child in this country oughta go to bed hungry because a bunch of politicians in Washington can’t decide what they want to do.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Also, Finland takes a Christian lawmaker to that country’s Supreme Court for quoting the Bible.

And part two of our report on the endangered Mexican wolf threatening a way of life.

MCQUEEN: Kids used to be able to play till all hours of the night. People used to walk wherever they wanted, used to go for jogs. I mean, that's changed completely.

And WORLD commentator Cal Thomas gives the over/under on sports betting.

REICHARD: It’s Thursday, October 30th. 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: Up next, Kent Covington with today’s news.

KENT COVINGTON, NEWS ANCHOR: Trump-Xi meeting preview »  Air Force One is en route back to Washington, just hours after President Trump met face to face with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in South Korea, looking to tamp down trade tensions.

Just ahead of that meeting, Trump, standing alongside the Chinese leader, told reporters:

TRUMP:  And we're gonna have a very successful meeting. I have no doubt. But he's a very tough negotiator.

Days earlier, both sides agreed on a framework for a trade deal … for the two leaders to discuss while in South Korea.

The reported terms of the framework would see the United States halt planned higher tariffs on Chinese goods for now. And Beijing would hit the pause button on new controls on the export of rare earth minerals.

Trump meets with South Korean president »  President Trump also met with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung. And Trump told reporters:

TRUMP:  A lot was determined and we made our deal. We pretty much finalized a, a trade deal and we discussed some other things having to do with, uh, national security, etc.

Related to national security, the United States will share closely held technology to allow South Korea to build a nuclear-powered submarine. Lee Jae Myung highlighted plans to increase military spending to reduce the financial burden on Washington.

Israel latest »  Israel is renewing its commitment to the ceasefire with Hamas after launching airstrikes in the Gaza Strip Tuesday night.

Those strikes came after an Israeli soldier was killed when Palestinian militants opened fire on Israeli forces in Gaza hours earlier.

But President Trump says he’s confident the ceasefire is durable.

TRUMP:  I think it's gonna hold for a long time, hopefully forever. Hopefully that's an everlasting one too.

Meantime in Jerusalem:

SOUND: [Rifle salute for Israeli soldier]

Mourners gathered for the funeral of that fallen soldier, 37-year-old Master Sergeant Yona Feldbaum.

Hamas denies any knowledge of the attack that killed him.

And in the Gaza Strip, mourners buried some of the dead from those airstrikes Tuesday night Israeli airstrikes.

SOUND: [Mourners in Gaza]

The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry claims more than 100 were killed in those strikes.

The Israeli military said it killed 30 terrorists holding command positions.

Fed rate cut » The Federal Reserve has announced its second interest rate cut of the year.

Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said the decision was made more difficult due to the government shutdown, as the government has not been putting out jobs and economic reports.

But he said based on what the Fed can gather:

POWELL:  In this less dynamic and somewhat softer labor market, the downside risks to employment appear to have risen in recent months.

And that was a major factor in the central bank’s decision to cut its key rate by another quarter-point.

But Powell said that data available from before the shutdown suggested that growth and economic activity may be on a better trajectory than expected. He pointed to stronger consumer spending.

He added that while the Fed may cut rates again in December, that is far from a sure bet.

Hurricane Melissa » Hurricane Melissa is now taking aim at Bermuda after tearing through the Caribbean and Bahamas.

The storm had weakened to a Category 1, but Mike Brennan with the National Hurricane Center warned on Wednesday:

BRENNAN:  The size of the storm gonna increase, uh, system could restrengthen a little bit over the next 12 to 24 hours. So we are expecting hurricane conditions in Bermuda late Thursday and Thursday night where we have a hurricane warning in place.

The good news is that right now, Bermuda is not expected to take a direct hit.

But the storm has already left catastrophic destruction in its wake.

It slammed Jamaica on Tuesday as a monstrous Category 5 storm, one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes ever recorded.

One resident described the devastation:

MITCHELL: It's gone terrible, because all the foods, food, trees, everything washed away.

185 mile-per-hour winds, storm surge and flooding also washed out roads and destroyed the power grid in some places.

The storm also lashed Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic.

Melissa is blamed for at least 30 deaths in the Caribbean.

Crackdown on violent anti-ICE protesters » Acting U.S. attorney Bill Essayli has announced the arrest of 10 people charged with engaging in violence directed at law enforcement and civil disorder over ICE operations in LA this summer:

ESSAYLI:  Violence in any form, specifically targeted at law enforcement is unacceptable and illegal.

Ninety-seven people have been charged with related crimes since June.

Essayli said 18 suspects have pleaded guilty, and 16 are in what he called a post-complaint and pre-indictment stage.

Forty-four are set for trial between now and the spring.

ESSAYLI: Two defendants charged in today's complaint were recorded lighting debris on fire and throwing it at CHP vehicles, pouring what appeared to be flammable liquid, which increased the size of the flames.

Others are accused of throwing rocks, bottles, and pepper spraying officers.

Sudan Maternity hospital deaths » In Sudan, officials say hundreds of people were killed inside a maternity hospital. WORLD’s Benjamin Eicher reports.

BENJAMIN EICHER: The World Health Organization —or WHO, says more than 460 patients and their companions were killed at the Saudi Maternity Hospital in El-Fasher.

But exactly how it happened remains unclear.

Local witnesses told reporters that shelling and gunfire struck the hospital repeatedly over the past week.

The city had been under siege for months, and the killings occurred shortly after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces seized control last weekend.

Doctors in Sudan have accused RSF fighters of executing patients and staff inside the hospital.

But the WHO has not confirmed who carried out the attack or whether the hospital itself was deliberately targeted.

For WORLD, I’m Benjamin Eicher.

I'm Kent Covington.

Straight ahead: feeling the pinch from the partial government shutdown. Plus, we head back to New Mexico to hear how the successful reintroduction of wolves into the wild comes with some challenges.

This is The World and Everything in It.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: It’s Thursday the 30th of October.

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

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

First up on The World and Everything in It: hitting pause on food stamps.

With no agreement for government funding in sight after a nearly month-long shutdown, federal programs are sounding alarms.

MAST: The U.S. Department of Agriculture says that by Saturday, it won’t have the money to help buy groceries for families enrolled in SNAP, or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. What happens if lawmakers don’t make a deal before the deadline?

Washington Bureau reporter Carolina Lumetta has the story.

CAROLINA LUMETTA: Food banks in Washington, D.C., and across the country are expecting a surge in demand after this weekend.

MILLER: Our pantry is a non -perishable emergency style pantry…

That’s Julie Miller. She’s the director of operations at Lutheran Church of the Reformation on Capitol Hill. The church runs a food pantry only a few blocks from the U.S. Capitol Building.

MILLER: Because it's an emergency style pantry it's meant to be a stopgap as folks find other regular food pantries that operate more frequently than we do.

While food pantries are a helpful resource, Miller told WORLD’s Josh Schumacher they aren’t designed to feed the public at large.

MILLER: They are supposed to you know provide help in in gaps of life if if, you know, something were to happen… Our bag of food that we hand out is created to be able to support a family of four for about like two days as they look for other resources.

Long-term public assistance is where programs like SNAP, better known as food stamps, come in. Families in the program get electronic benefit transfer cards that work like debit cards to buy groceries. SNAP deposits money onto the cards each month for recipients to buy certain kinds of food. Audio here from a USAFacts video online:

USA FACTS: It's got to be groceries and can't be items such as alcohol, tobacco, or foods that are hot at the point of sale.

Republican lawmakers updated eligibility rules earlier this year to set more strict work requirements. They also made sure illegal immigrants aren’t allowed to enroll. Roughly 42 million people used the program last year… That’s 12 percent of the U.S. population.

HAWLEY: My view is that no child in this country oughta go to bed hungry because a bunch of politicians in Washington can’t decide what they want to do.

Last week, Republican Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri proposed legislation that would keep SNAP funded without ending the shutdown.

Vermont Senator Peter Welch is the lone Democrat to co-sponsor Hawley’s bill. I asked him about his support.

WELCH: The point is to protect healthcare for people who have it. It's not to take food from people who need it. So that's why I'm co -sponsoring.

LUMETTA: Are you concerned it might prolong the shutdown?

WELCH: I'm really concerned about people not getting fed.

But other Senate Democrats say it isn’t that simple. In a letter to Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, 46 Senate Democrats say that the U-S-D-A has money in reserve that could fund SNAP. It’s just refusing to use it. Twenty-five state governments and the District of Columbia have sued, making the same argument. So far, the agency insists that is not the case.

Democratic Senator Chris Coons from Delaware told me that if SNAP funding is cut off, it will be Republicans’ fault.

COONS I think that Republicans should be negotiating with us about reopening the government so that millions of Americans aren't hungrier, less healthy, and poorer.

And he said that the blame goes all the way to the top:

COONS: President Trump ran on reducing people's costs and making America healthy again. His decisions so far as an administration have gone in the wrong direction on both.

Every Democrat in the Senate has thrown their support behind a different bill also aimed at funding SNAP through the shutdown. But on the Senate floor yesterday, Republican Senate Majority Leader John Thune said he won’t bring this bill up for a vote.

THUNE: This bill is a cynical attempt to provide political cover for Democrats to allow them to carry on their government shutdown even longer. And we're not going to let them pick winners and losers. It's time to fund everybody.

Meanwhile, Republicans say they’ve been trying to get SNAP funded, and it’s Democrats who aren’t cooperating with them.

Here’s what Senator James Lankford of Oklahoma told me.

LANKFORD: We've literally tried three different ways to be able to get onto something. The CR, just to be able to make sure it happens. The full year appropriations bill, that was blocked. And then Senator Hawley’s proposal, but right now it's, ‘Why can't we get resolution on this?’

Debate over the dueling bills got heated yesterday, as Majority Leader Thune and Democrat New Mexico Senator Ben Ray Lujan yelled at each other across the chamber.

THUNE: SNAP recipients shouldn’t go without food. People should be getting paid in this country. And we tried to do that 13 times! And you voted no 13 times!

LUJAN: When you have to negotiate, when you hold power, when you’re in the majority, you meet people. You pull them in. You don’t tell them, “you know where my office is.”

While lawmakers wrangle over funding, private sector food banks are bracing for the shortfall. Here’s Julie Miller from the Lutheran Church of the Reformation’s food pantry again.

MILLER: The need is definitely going to increase so we're trying to figure out how we can best support those who you know may need to come more frequently or you know come up with we other resources that folks can use in addition to us… Hunger is something that affects everything and should not be taken lightly.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Carolina Lumetta in Washington

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

Freedom of religious expression in Scandinavia.

Today, the Supreme Court of Finland will hear the case of an outspoken Christian lawmaker named Päivi Räsänen. The charges against her? Criminal agitation against a minority group.

PÄIVI RÄSÄNEN: When the Police interrogated me altogether, 13 hours, the questions were very theological.

MAST: In 2019, Räsänen criticized the nation’s Evangelical Lutheran Church for its celebration of LGBT Pride. She posted a photo of a page from the Bible, with verses from Romans 1 about God’s judgment for homosexuality.

RÄSÄNEN: The police asked, what is the message of the book of Romans? What is the message of its first chapter? And to explain the words “sin” and “shame.”

REICHARD: The state prosecutor took Räsänen to court. The case included her comments on social media and in a radio show appearance, as well as a pamphlet she wrote on biblical sexuality.

PRICE: What we're focusing on is whether or not it's actually possible for a Christian to express their views in public life.

MAST: Lorcán Price is an attorney with the Alliance Defending Freedom International, representing Räsänen. He told WORLD’s Liz Lykins the case is about more than a single person’s freedom of speech.

PRICE: She happens to be a member of parliament, a former government minister, but it's also applicable to anybody who wants to, take on the orthodoxy of our time on sexual morality and to give it authentically Christian perspective.

REICHARD: Challenging Finland’s cultural orthodoxy has been a six year legal battle. After the district court of Helsinki unanimously ruled in 2022 that Räsänen was not guilty the state prosecutor appealed. Here’s Räsänen again.

RÄSÄNEN: I hoped that it would have ended to the Court of Appeal, the acquittal in court of appeal, but the prosecutor has been very eager to continue the case.

MAST: The appeals court also ruled unanimously that Räsänen was not guilty. While that might have ended the case in many countries, Price says Finland’s unique legal system allows the state to appeal to the Supreme Court.

PRICE: So at each stage, the prosecution has been able to appeal, not the sentence, but the fact that she was found not guilty.

REICHARD: That’s not the only oddity.

PRICE: The court normally deals with things what lawyers call “on the papers.”

REICHARD: That means the justices typically read the legal submissions and make their decisions, no oral arguments required. Räsänen’s case is different.

PRICE: This is an actual hearing, so it'll be an oral hearing where Päivi will be in the Supreme Court, Bishop Juhana will be there as well, and they, as far as I understand, they will be called to testify… So that's extremely rare.

MAST: Räsänen is not a stereo-typical social crusader. She is soft-spoken and deferential. But she has a quiet boldness.

VLASTUIN : When Päivi gives an interview, she always looks for an opportunity to testify about Jesus and His blood.

REICHARD: Evert Van Vlastuin is the Netherlands-based Chief Editor of CNE News, a Christian network covering continental Europe. He says Rasanan’s kindness and professionalism has kept the case focused on the legal space for biblical witness in public.

VLASTUIN: In some other cases that that might be comparable there, there is more more doubt, more noise, so to say in the case and and that is not there in Päivi’s case, she has always been very friendly to people with other convictions.

MAST: Vlastuin’s organization will be covering oral arguments today, with a live blog at CNE.news. He says if the court hands Räsänen a third win:

VLASTUIN: …then the case is settled. Then it's clear to all judges in Finland what the legal space is for Christians with regards to sexuality and homosexuality.

MAST: But if the court rules against Räsänen, she’s not quite out of options.

VLASTUIN: If she loses, she can go as a citizen of one of the European countries to the European Court of Human Rights that's in Strasbourg.

REICHARD: Räsänen’s attorney Lorcan Price is no stranger to the Strasbourg court, and is prepared to go again. While this case could have been concluded years ago, Price says it has given Räsänen’s a wider witness.

PRICE: In the Finnish media, it's called the Bible trial. So if you want to know more about the Bible trial, why not read the Bible? And so it's, it's backfired on the prosecution.

MAST: Räsänen’s commitment to sharing the whole gospel, of sin and salvation, remains as strong as when she posted her concern about the church celebrating Pride month in 2019.

RÄSÄNEN: If people lose their trust on the Bible, then it is not only about such issues as sexuality or gender or marriage, but it is also about eternal life, because if you do not trust God's word, what he speaks, for example, about sin, it is also your trust on on the gospel will be threatened.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Chunky is hunky down in Texas where the state just wrapped up its first annual Fat Squirrel Week. It’s the brainchild of park ranger Carolanne Brannon at Meridian State Park. Audio from CBS:

BRANNON: The public is eating it up.

She was inspired by Alaska’s Fat Bear Week in which the public votes on which brown bear bulked up most to hibernate.

Sixteen squirrels with names like Chunk Norris, Nutella, and Stanley the Texas Tank competed. What’ll the victor get?

BRANNON: Bragging rights, first of all. They get to survive winter. Always a good thing.

And the winner is: Chunkasaurus Rex from Dinosaur Valley State Park!

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: We all gotta work on that winter bod, Mary.

REICHARD:  It’s The World and Everything in It.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Today is Thursday, October 30th.

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: Mexican wolves. They’ve been on the endangered species list since 1976. But in the nearly five decades since, their numbers have grown.

MAST: And now the wolves are causing problems for both people and livestock. WORLD Senior Writer Kim Henderson went to New Mexico to find out what’s happening. Here’s the second of her two reports.

MCQUEEN: We are headed just south of Datil to a rancher’s place who's been hit really hard this year with the wolves . . .

KIM HENDERSON: That’s Audrey McQueen. She’s a big game hunting guide and nine-time world champion elk caller. McQueen is also a New Mexico rancher through and through. She’s as comfortable driving a goose-neck trailer loaded with six tons of feed as she is this brand new Suburban.

MCQUEEN: I love the mountains, I love the people, I love the wildlife. Our way of life is very simple, and so I love it.

But McQueen says her way of life is being threatened by Mexican wolves, an endangered species. That’s why she’s come to this meeting between a group of ranchers and officials from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

SOUND: [Sound of cow moos]

The meeting is outdoors, smack dab in the middle of a dry, dusty pasture. Things are getting a bit contentious.

RANCHER: All I want is the freedom to tend to my private land without looking over my shoulder.

Ranchers are in the business to feed people, but they’re losing cattle to Mexican wolves.

RANCHER: We are the epicenter right here. Seven head in five months. Not even five months…

Historically, Christian conservationists have viewed the Endangered Species Act as a tool for protecting God’s creation. But in this case, it's an apex predator we’re talking about, not a spotted owl or a minnow. The government’s effort to increase the number of wolves in the wild has succeeded. Packs have increased, and now cattle and horses are dying from wolf attacks.

And there’s another issue. The wolves don’t seem to have a natural fear of people. Audrey McQueen says they’ve become bold. Residents are afraid.

MCQUEEN: Kids used to be able to play till all hours of the night. People used to walk wherever they wanted. I mean, that's changed completely.

McQueen is a commissioner in Catron County. Catron County is a hot spot for the Mexican wolf reintroduction program. It’s home to more than 100 wolves.

MCQUEEN: In our commission meetings, it's usually always an hour of time ate up with the wolf stuff. Catron County has really got a plague right now that's hurting us.

Catron County Extension Agent Tracy Drummond agrees.

DRUMMOND: I mean, if it's so important for the wolf to be here for somebody else from somewhere else, why do the people here have to carry the brunt of that burden?

NEWS CLIP: That resolution is to declare an emergency in Catron County…

In April, Catron County declared a disaster because of the wolves.

MCQUEEN: We listened to, like, three hours of testimony from the people. And after hearing that, we decided, even though we do have a livestock issue, we have a huge human safety issue.

But Wolf advocate Bryan Bird thinks the declaration was a political move.

BIRD: Unfortunately, the Mexican gray wolf has kind of become a litmus test for your politics, your value system. Due to the current administration, the presidential administration, being more sympathetic, there's a movement to sort of gin up this fear of the wolves…

Some of the ranchers have banded together to push a media campaign against the wolves.

AUDIO: [MEDIA CAMPAIGN CLIP]

The ranchers say they just want the right to protect themselves and their property. But killing a Mexican wolf is strictly forbidden, with criminal penalties of up to $50,000 dollars and a year in jail.

SOUND: [Sound of crowd at meeting]

Back at the meeting in the middle of the dusty pasture, something unexpected has happened. The federal official agreed to provide a removal order for the rancher who’s lost so many cattle. Those orders are rare. They give the rancher the right to take care of the problem-causing wolf.

Audrey McQueen is surprised. And encouraged.

MCQUEEN: I mean, we'll see if it gets done. I think it will. But that was a win.

But even a removal order can’t solve the problem. The rancher has spent weeks trying to find the wolves that killed his calf. He hasn’t seen them again.

So the battle continues between ranchers and the Mexican wolf. And the question remains: Whose rights should prevail?

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Kim Henderson in Datil, New Mexico.

HOST: To read the full print feature story on the Mexican wolves, look for the November issue of WORLD Magazine. We’ll post a link to the digital version of the story in the transcript of this episode.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Today is Thursday, October 30th. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Lindsay Mast.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: And I’m Mary Reichard. Up next, WORLD commentator Cal Thomas says it’s time to do something about sports gambling.

CAL THOMAS: In 2018, the Supreme Court voted 6-3 to strike down a federal law banning sports gambling. That decision permitted individual states to decide whether to allow it, or not. It didn't take a genius to predict what might happen, especially when politicians can find new sources of revenue beyond income, property and sales taxes.

Last week, more than 30 people were indicted as part of a national sports betting scandal involving high-profile figures. FBI Director Kash Patel admitted some will be upset by the arrests:

KASH PATEL: It’s not popular to go after some of the defendants we went after today. But justice is served blindly.

Those defendants include Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier.

Billups was charged in a scheme involving rigged poker games, and Rozier was charged for allegedly providing insider information to an illegal sports betting ring. A former player, Damon Jones, was also indicted for sharing insider information. The FBI said arrests were made in 11 states. New York Police commissioner Jessica Tisch reported that this investigation has been going for quite some time:

TISCH: What we’re announcing today is not just another take down, it’s the result of more than two years of coordinated investigative work by the NYPD joint organized crime taskforce and the FBI.

What may have surprised many were allegations that these schemes are linked to three different Mafia families. Isn't the Mafia the stuff of movies like "Goodfellas" and "The Godfather"? People may have thought crime families had been put out of business years ago by federal agents like Eliot Ness, then leader of a Chicago team known as the "Untouchables" that took on Al Capone.

Three of the five crime families allegedly involved in sports betting and rigged poker games are familiar to people with long memories: the Gambinos, the Bonnanos, and the Genoveses families.

FAN DUEL COMMERCIAL AUDIO

The National Basketball Association, which has Fan Duel and Draft Kings as its "official" sports betting partners, issued a statement following the indictments. It read in part: "We take these allegations with the utmost seriousness, and the integrity of our game remains our top priority."

The "integrity of our game" was the first thing to go. The seven-foot-one analyst and former center Shaquille O'Neal says it will be difficult to get that back.

O’NEAL: All of these guys knew what was at stake. And I’m just ashamed that they put themselves, and put their family, and the NBA in this position.

One wonders how people making millions of dollars would be enticed by offers of a few hundred thousand dollars to do something they had to know was against the law. Perhaps it was the thrill one can get from such behavior. Perhaps it was the instant cash delivered to their doorsteps. Former power forward Charles Barkley is now a sports commentator and FanDuel spokesman. He thinks it was something else.

CHARLES BARKLEY: This ain’t got nothing to do with addiction. These dudes are stupid.

Not all vices can be regulated. Prohibition is usually presented as the worst example. While not everyone conforms to every law, it sets a standard which tells people what history and societies have shown is best for them and the nation.

Gamblers, like the poor, we have always had with us, but when gambling becomes the norm…and especially when it is advertised during breaks in NBA and NFL games…it sends a message that this vice is acceptable, even recommended. Changing its name to "gaming" doesn’t help. Neither does the on screen “Gambling Problem?” message for those who can't afford to lose the rent or food money.

Cincinnati Reds star player Pete Rose was banned from baseball in 1989 for betting on games when he managed the club. After denying the allegation for years, Rose eventually admitted the charge which ended his eligibility for Hall of Fame consideration. A special committee is meeting in December 2027 to re-consider the ban.

In today’s climate, Rose may finally be granted admission to Cooperstown. But given the scandal involving the NBA, with possibly more indictments to come, Congress needs to step in and consider more regulation of the gambling industry. Legislation that could pass Supreme Court muster. But I wonder what the odds are of that happening?

I’m Cal Thomas.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Tomorrow: John Stonestreet will be with us for Culture Friday. And, a new Netflix movie imagines how the U.S. might handle the threat of nuclear war. Collin Garbarino will review A House of Dynamite. That and more tomorrow.

I’m Lindsay Mast.

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

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