The World and Everything In It

Wed » Hunter Baker weighs Republicans’ gamble to make the midterms feel like a Trump election.

World Tour follows Britain’s speech laws from a Facebook video to 17 days in custody and a 17-minute acquittal. At the 9/11 Memorial, Dana Tamuccio makes her brother Mike—and thousands of others—more than names on a wall. Cal Thomas asks what “never forget” requires teaching a new generation. Plus: a black bear walks into a fire station.

Today’s stories
Wednesday morning news 
Washington Wednesday: Betting the midterms on Trump
World Tour: Seventeen days to 17 minutes 
Kicker: A bear walks in 
Feature: The people in the names 
Cal Thomas: What to remember 

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Tue » Ukrainians build classrooms Russia may destroy, while a national struggle to fill paramedic jobs leaves one rural Michigan medic on duty for most of a 200-hour stretch. Frank Turek hears new questions since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, and Janie B. Cheaney traces the troubling turn of the “poster child.” Plus: the Tuesday morning news, California may chill fraud-busting journalism, and the Ig Nobels keep science weird.

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Mon » Legal Docket follows an Ohio homeowner who stopped gathering for Sabbath prayer after a city order—and lower courts said he still had more process to finish before he could sue. David Bahnsen’s Monday Moneybeat asks when AI’s staggering investment begins to pay and, on Labor Day, why work is rooted in the image of God. Plus: the WORLD History Book on the night Ed Sullivan’s “never” ran into Elvis and the Monday morning news.

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A new book argues that classical Islamic law conflicts fundamentally with the U.S. Constitution on apostasy, due process, and the rights of women and non-Muslims. Mary Reichard speaks with A.S. Ibrahim, professor of Islamic studies at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, who says Christians should love their Muslim neighbors while opposing political Islam.

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