3.10.26 Iran’s path forward, recent Supreme Court decisions, the Convention of States, and becoming a Christian in Thailand

Good morning, Iran appoints a new Supreme Leader.

What does it mean for the war?

We'll talk to an expert.

Also the role states could play in amending the Constitution and the cost of conversion

in Thailand.

To be Thai is to be Buddhists and to be Buddhists is to be Thai.

And World Commentator Count Thomas on the Democrat new attempt to win the conservative

evangelical vote.

It's Tuesday, March 10th.

This is the world and everything in it from listener supported world radio.

I'm Mary Rankard and I'm Erna Burrell.

Good morning.

Up next, Mark Mellinger has today's news.

President Trump seems to be indicating the U.S. Israeli military action against Iran

could be nearing a close.

We wiped every single force in Iran out very completely.

The President talking to reporters Monday they were asking follow-up questions about a comment

he made during an interview earlier in the day when he called Operation Epic Fury quote

very complete.

Yet he says there's also still more work to be done in Iran.

We've already won in many ways but we haven't won enough.

That's the President talking Monday to a gathering of Republican lawmakers.

Trump also says Iran is at the beginning of building a new country and he's threatened

to take over the state of Hormuz.

Those comments are feeding Democrat concerns of a prolonged conflict.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer warns Americans don't want to repeat of the Afghanistan

or Iraq wars.

Americans simply don't want that.

And the brutal Iranian regime knows we don't want it either.

So they won't be incentivized to negotiate.

A group of Senate Democrats is now demanding public hearings on Epic Fury.

Trump insists the conflict will be short term.

He also gave new rationale for taking military action claiming Iran otherwise would have

attacked the U.S. within a week though other White House officials told Congressional

staffers privately that U.S. intelligence did not suggest Iran was about to launch a strike.

The military operation in Iran was also a topic of discussion during a phone call between

Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin Monday.

He wants to be helpful.

I said that you could be more helpful by getting the Ukraine Russia war over with.

That would be more helpful.

But we had a very good talk.

Putin has called for a ceasefire in the Middle East conflict.

One of the Russian leaders' aides called the hour-long call business-like and constructive.

Trump also said the leaders had a positive discussion about Russia's war on Ukraine, though

the president says there is tremendous hatred between Putin and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky

adding the two leaders, quote, can't seem to get it together.

Iran's capital got hit hard overnight.

So that audio is from earlier in the conflict.

Sounds around the city were similar as bombers and warplanes struck the city of Tehran with

the heaviest air raids since the operation began.

The barrage happened around midnight and lasted about a half hour.

There were similar explosions around other Iranian cities reported on social media.

No word on casualties.

Meanwhile, newly publicized video is raising questions about whether the United States

was responsible for an explosion at an Iranian school.

More than 160 people died in that strike.

Video circulated over the weekend by Iran's semi-official mayor news agency appears to show

a munition falling on a building sending a dark plume of smoke into the air.

The investigative group Bellingcat says the munition appears to be a Tomahawk cruise

missile suggesting the U.S. was responsible for the strike.

Republican Nebraska Congressman Don Bacon.

We should investigate this fully.

Be transparent.

And if it was us, I went up to it.

And I know it wasn't intentional, but transparency is bust in this situation.

But based on what he's seen, President Trump insists the explosion was caused by Iran,

which he says uses very inaccurate munitions.

Wild turns for U.S. stocks and global oil prices Monday.

The Dow, S&P, and Nasdaq all had early losses turned into solid gains by the end of the

day, buoyed by optimism that the conflict in Iran could be wrapping up soon in light of

President Trump's comments to the media.

And interior secretary Doug Burgham is working to tamp down concerns about rising oil prices.

They're absolutely not dependent on oil coming out of the straight-of-home hormones in

the Middle East.

We've never been more energy independent.

Burgham on Fox News channels.

The story with Martha McCallum echoing President Trump's reassuring tone.

The president said Monday he won't let Iran hold the world hostage over oil.

Oil prices had risen to almost $120 per barrel early in the day over fears of a drawn-out

conflict in Iran, but dipped back below $90 later on.

Wyoming is the latest state with brand new protections for unborn babies.

World's Travis Kircher has more.

Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon signed new legislation yesterday protecting unborn babies from abortion

after a heartbeat is detected.

That includes unborn babies conceived through rape or incest.

The law does make an exception in cases where the mother's life or health is threatened.

Critics of the law call it an attack on the rights of Wyoming residents to make what abortion

advocates characterize as their own health care decisions.

A heartbeat is typically detectable at about six weeks' gestation.

Gordon's signature makes Wyoming the fifth state to offer protections for unborn babies

at that stage of the pregnancy.

For World, I'm Travis Kircher.

And I'm Mark Mellinger.

Straight ahead, what Iran's choice for its new Supreme Leader tells us about the nation's

posture amid its conflict with Israel and the U.S.

This is the world and everything in it.

It's Tuesday, 10th March, so glad to have you along for today's edition of the world

and everything in it.

Good morning.

I'm Mellinger.

And I'm Urna Brown.

Up first, Iran digs in.

Ten days after U.S. and Israeli air strikes annihilated the regime, crowds gathered in

Tehran on Monday to chant death to America.

They also pledged allegiance to the newly appointed Supreme Leader, Moj Taba Hamanay, son

of the late Ali Hamanay.

This comes after President Trump insisted the U.S. would take a role in appointing the

new leadership of Iran.

What does the move signal for the conflict?

Here to talk about it is Jonathan Sayah.

He's an Iranian-American research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies,

he focuses on Iranian domestic affairs and the Islamic Republic's influence.

Jonathan, good morning.

Hi.

It's great to be with you.

Well, how would you describe the phase of the war the United States is in currently?

We are swiftly arriving at the second phase.

The initial phase that started in February 28th, up until the second week of the war,

more or less, has been mostly focused on taking out the military installation.

The main mission there was to ensure that the regime does not have enough retaliatory

measures.

So I think quickly after that, the pivot would be how we can leverage the momentum on

the ground.

Whether it's going to be some ground operations, I know the administration hasn't ruled

that out.

There's discussions about arming separatist groups.

So that in itself tells you where the war is headed.

It's gone beyond just taking out military installations and really getting into the weeds

now.

So let's talk about what's been accomplished so far and then what are the challenges the

US faces?

Let's start with what's accomplished so far.

Taking out not necessarily all the ballistic missiles themselves because you're talking about

thousands, but taking out their ability to launch them has been really significant, taking

out the launchers, launch pads.

So that's been on the military front and of course the decapitation of the leadership

that has been effectively destroyed the commence and structure of the Islamic Republic.

So that said, the next phase or I was really a remainder of that is the personnel themselves.

So we hear numbers estimates anywhere between three to five thousand military officials

that which is not that extensive because you're still talking about maybe a hundred thousand

of personal remaining.

And then what are some challenges the US faces?

It would be how they can leverage the momentum on the ground because I don't think Trump

is going to pursue boots on the ground, at least not in an extensive way.

There might be some covert operations that they want, want to secure nuclear sites or

certain areas.

But when it comes to the large scale ground operation, that's going to be the main challenge

because you can bomb the regime from the outside and they'll still like remain intact

in the long term.

So comes down to how we're going to signal to Iranians if we're going to use our intelligence

services to somehow arm Iranian protesters or whether we think the repression capacity

has degraded enough for us to move forward with messaging to the masses.

So I think it's going to be the next phase that they should really look out for.

And what do we know about Iran's military capacity right now?

We do know they're definitely running out of missiles.

If we look at the trajectory of how many they launched as days have gone on, we see about

a 20% if not more decreased day by day.

And as I know that they've also taken out their launching capabilities.

So we do know that they're increasingly losing their missiles, which means now they're switching

to using more drones.

They have plenty of more drones they're cheaper to make.

And as they're very expensive to intercept because you'd be using the same air defense

systems, a lot of cases that you'd be using for missiles.

But so far it seems like we're using Patriots to shoot down drones, which is really expensive

costly on us.

Jonathan, I've seen reports that the U.S. is running through its supplies rather quickly.

What do you know about U.S. ammunition supply?

So there's a few angles of looking at this one.

Of course, it's a supply for our own naval force.

The other one is allies in Israel.

So the fact that it's been a coalition that's been defending the southwest and west of

the Middle East, southwest of Iran against these regime aggressions, that in itself is

sounds it makes it more promising.

Once the protests happen in January, the U.S. military had some time to really deploy

enough forces to the region.

But that said, it's not going to be sustainable for us to have this cat and mouse in the next

month or so.

I do think it's a matter of time until they effectively ensure that the regime cannot

have enough retaliatory measures that would not deplete our stockpiles out there.

Let's talk about this new leadership announced over the weekend.

Iran introduced its new Supreme Leader, the previous Supreme Leader's son, Mojtaba

Homenay.

What does this choice of leadership tell us about Iran's posture toward the war?

They could have went with other Ayatollas because the Supreme Leader has to be clergy.

But the idea was that Tehran would elevate the certain camp to signal openness to the West.

But they didn't.

And that in itself tells us that they're opting escalation over compromise.

It would also tell us that the Islamic Revolutionary Garcourt, the mean ideological and military apparatus

of the regime, has again prevailed to shape Iran's internal politics in its favor.

Now, if the U.S. and Israel say they cannot work with Mojtaba Homenay, where do things stand

then?

I think Mojtaba is a dead man walking as we speak.

The idea that somehow you're going to be able to work with someone within the regime

is not going to be feasible.

These are still ideological individuals and institutions.

I think executing a Venezuela model in Iran is not going to be practical because the

multiple pillars, most of them are armed.

So the idea that you can somehow use one against another, it's not going to play out as

we wanted to, which is why we need to be pursuing it more of a systemic sweeping change as

opposed to just playing the internal politics of choosing one eye as whole over another.

Now, Jonathan, President Trump has called on the Iranian people to seize the opportunity

and retake their country once the U.S. completes its airstrikes.

Are we seeing anything on that front?

Momentum has not died.

We see Iranians chant against the regime officials and against the Supreme Leader Sun.

We saw security forces opening fire on them as they're in their homes.

Now that the regime has lost a lot of its missiles but still has thousands of personnel.

Now they're switching.

Their focus to really go after internal repression, go after crackdowns, they fire at buildings

that are chanting.

They set up checkpoints.

The regime is preparing for a major large-scale uprising.

That set is really strikes and American strikes have really destroyed a lot of the repression

infrastructure, but again, not the personnel.

It's not going to be easy to ask Iranians know it, but they risen up before and they have

the willingness to do even more because for them it is now or never and there's no way

out but through.

Now Iran has warned for years that an attack on that country would spill over into a broader

regional war.

We do know that they've struck other nations.

Are those predictions turning out to be the case?

The prediction of the regime internationalizing the war was, of course, accurate, but the implications

of that is not what the regime thought it would be.

They thought by dragging in different neutral states into the war, they're going to somehow

inflict more political costs against their adversaries whereas in reality we sing a coalition

reform.

When you look at Turkey and Qatar, two countries that wanted to mediate between Tehran

and Washington not stuck in the crossfire, they're increasingly turning against Islamic

Republic.

So instead of dragging neutral entities into the conflict in its favor, it's actually

creating more enemies by its irrational foreign policy endeavors.

Jonathan Sia is an Iranian-American research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of

Democracies.

Jonathan, thanks so much.

Thank you for having me.

Coming up next on the world and everything in it, three Supreme Court decisions handed

down last week.

First, Gillette V. New Jersey Transit Corporation.

A unanimous court held that the public transportation system cannot claim sovereign immunity from

lawsuits that arise from accidents in which it is involved.

Two men and separate accidents in different states sued and the transit corporation claimed

immunity from the lawsuits as an arm of the state, just as Kataji Brown-Jackson hinted

at the outcome during argument in January.

New Jersey could have set this up as an agency and perhaps would have preserved the kind

of arguments you're talking about, but instead it chose corporation.

Another reminder that the chosen legal structure of an entity matters.

Two injured men may now proceed with their lawsuits.

The second decision is in Mirabelli, V. Banta, a win for parents and teachers of public

school children.

The court found that state policies requiring teachers to keep parents in the dark about

their child's gender transition at school are likely to be unconstitutional.

This one came to the court on an emergency basis, meaning the case isn't finally resolved

on the merits, so the legal fight on the merits can now proceed.

Lastly, Urias Oriana Vibhondi, a unanimous decision that strengthens decisions of the

board of immigration appeal in asylum cases.

In this case, a Salvadoran national claimed grounds for asylum in the U.S., but an immigration

judge found his story did not meet the legal threshold for persecution.

Chief Justice John Roberts said as much during oral argument in December.

The sort of findings that we typically leave to a district court or another fact finder

involving credibility, weighing of facts, and all that sort of things to reach a particular

determination.

It seems to me a prototypical case for the BIA.

This ruling limits the scope of federal judicial review over BIA decisions with regard to persecution.

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Up next, checking the power of the federal government.

The movement for a convention of states is picking up across the country.

The goal is to amend the Constitution through a convention of state legislatures rather

than Congress.

The idea is to give power back to the states and to the people.

The old Emma Iker has the story.

In January this year, the Kansas House of Representatives passed a resolution to join

the convention of states.

It's the 20th state so far.

We are calling for a convention of states to impose fiscal restraints on the federal

government, limit power in jurisdiction of the federal government, and limit the terms

of office for members of Congress and federal officials.

The convention of states is an alternative way to pass constitutional amendments.

The concept relies on Article 5 of the Constitution, which allows either Congress to pass amendments,

or 34 state legislatures can apply to Congress to call a constitutional convention.

The group convention of state's action is spearheading the movement.

Billy Norp is the Idaho director.

Article 5 of the Constitution allows two different ways for an amendment to be proposed to the

Constitution.

If you can get two-thirds of the states to pass exactly the same resolution that calls

for a convention of states, then a convention of states would be called.

The organization wants a convention of states in response to expanding federal power.

Norp says one item on the agenda for a possible amendment is term limits on Congress.

Many of the senators and representatives have spent their whole lives in Congress.

Our founders never intended it would be a lifetime job to be a senator representing for

the country.

Another priority is the nation's $38 trillion of national debt, a number that ticks higher

every second.

Dan Foreman is a Republican Idaho state senator.

We're on a collision course with financial destruction, so we need to do something.

The U.S. has never held an Article 5 convention of states.

The closest historical parallel is a 1787 constitutional convention.

There, state delegates took the opportunity to write the Constitution as we know it today.

It's the best example of states convening to place guardrails on federal power.

They gave us Article 5 as part of the Constitution.

They wouldn't have done that if they hadn't envisioned someday that we would need to

use it.

And we do need to use it.

Last year, Idaho legislators tried to pass a resolution to join the convention and met

strong pushback.

Idaho is a deep red state, but there isn't a united front on this issue within the Republican

party.

Idaho is a microcosm of challenges the convention faces in other Republican-led chambers,

where disagreement stretches across both sides of the aisle.

Some of their concerns are legitimate.

They're voiced by patriotic citizens that are genuinely afraid of a convention.

Foreman says the biggest pushback against the convention is that it could go beyond its

intended scope.

Opponents worry that a so-called runaway convention might result in radical political agendas being

pushed all the way through to a constitutional amendment.

Another concern is that Americans aren't united enough to produce meaningful change,

but Director Billing-Norpp says the ratification of amendments is a strict process.

The convention can only propose not ratify, and nothing becomes part of the Constitution

unless 38 states ratify it.

State delegates of the convention must also stick to a predetermined agenda with penalties

in place if they exceed it.

But legal scholars are uncertain whether those restrictions would actually be enforced.

The states determine the agenda, the states select and instruct and limit their delegates.

The states retain enforcement power, they can recall, replace and penalize their delegates

that go.

Fourteen states will consider passing a resolution on the convention of states this year,

and seven states have already passed the resolution in one chamber, but not the other.

Here's Senator Foreman again.

I think the American people today are of the same bloodline that the founding fathers were.

I think we're equal to them in every way because we're Americans and because we do care

about our country, and I think we'll rise to the challenge and do just as good a job

as they did.

Foreman says he's optimistic that more legislators will join the movement, making the states

a substantial force in the bid to check the federal government's power.

Reporting for World, I'm Emma Eiger.

We'll hear something that may remind you of the heart-tugging theme running through

the Toy Story movies.

We found it at a zoo near Tokyo.

It involves a young macaque by the name of Punch.

As a baby, Punch was abandoned by his mother.

Zookeepers gave Punch a stuffed orangutan for comfort, and he rarely let it go.

Photos of the tiny monkey clutching the toy's spread online with the hashtag, hang in there

Punch.

But lately, Punch has been hanging in there just fine.

He's spending less time with the stuffed animal, and more time with the other monkeys.

The zookeepers saying here that Punch is gaining confidence every day, and learning how

to fit in, which means even a young monkey eventually learns that comes a time to put away

childish things.

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Coming next on the world and everything in it, becoming a Christian in a Buddhist country.

Thailand's population sits at just over 70 million people, and fewer than 1% are evangelical

Christians.

Old associate correspondent Abby Young spoke with one Thai woman about her path to Christianity

and the challenges she's faced.

We've chosen to use a pseudonym for her protection.

As a young girl, Floyd felt alone and afraid in her bed at night.

She would cry and pray to whoever out there was listening.

And I pray to the holy things that I want to go to the heaven.

Floyd is from northern Thailand and grew up in a Buddhist family.

She went to temples and prayed to golden statues of Buddha.

Buddhists believe that to get good things in the next life, they must earn merit by doing

good deeds.

For Floyd, that never made much sense.

There was no way to know if she'd ever earned enough.

She wasn't a well-behaved child and figured no amount of merit would save her.

Some night I cry a lot, and I don't want to die because I think after I die, I will

go to the hell for sure.

Most Thai people live their entire lives as Buddhists.

There are temples on every corner, homes and businesses display spirit houses for offerings

to guardian spirits.

They say to be Thai is to be Buddhist, to be Buddhist is to be Thai.

Laurie Taylor also grew up in northern Thailand.

So just the spiritual reality of like, wow, this is really sad that 95% of the country

is praying to spirits and just praying they have a peaceful life and not really living

in hope, but more of living in fear.

Taylor and her husband now serve as missionaries on a college campus there.

We work on the college campus because we believe that the future is the college students.

Those are going to be the next, you know, leaders of the country at Thailand.

When Floyd was a freshman in college in 2006, she heard the gospel from a similar campus

ministry worker.

Floyd said it was easy for her to understand that humans are sinful, but she couldn't

fathom that God loved her until she heard about Jesus.

Jesus died across from us and he is the real man he came to the earth, it's 2000 years

ago.

Chad and the, oh yeah, it's, it's the real man is the, it's not the story, it's the history.

When Floyd heard the gospel, she realized what she had never believed about a life of

earning merit.

Faith-based salvation was a missing piece.

She became a Christian that day and her whole life changed.

People who knew her before told Floyd she became kinder and gentler.

But her parents weren't happy.

They urged her not to go to church or join the campus ministry, but she didn't listen.

Soon, they stopped paying her tuition.

And my mentor encouraged me to like follow Christ.

She said that if you think the God is true, please like continue to follow Christ.

Floyd said it was difficult, but she prayed God would work in her parents' hearts.

Although it's legal to evangelize and be Christian, converts can pay a heavy social

price.

And families may disown them and parents sometimes kick their kids out of the house.

Floyd said the gospel arrived in Thailand over 200 years ago, but according to the evangelism

tracking organization, the Joshua Project, there aren't enough Christians in Thailand to

reach all the others without outside help.

Without the gospel, most Thai people will continue making merit and praying to Buddha, hoping

to live good enough lives.

Ties live in fear as Buddhist, but you share with them that Jesus, they don't have to like

do anything.

They don't have to live in fear, and it's not by words, but Jesus did it all, and many

times they're just like, kind of just in awe of this hope that they could have in somebody.

Though there are few Thai Christians, Floyd and Taylor both hope to see Thailand go from

receiving missionaries to sending them.

After Floyd graduated college, she joined staff with the campus ministry.

Today, she continues to meet with students to share the gospel, the way a staff member

did for her, and leads worship at weekly events.

Here's Taylor again.

The spiritual reality of pyrrhionis, the Buddhist neck of the world is really cool to think

about how reached Thailand and the world will be reached because pyrrion will go to

the rest of the world.

Taylor says Thai Christians can do substantial work, including outside the country.

Thai missionaries can travel to places missionaries from the West can't.

Floyd is passionate about missions to closed countries too, which means she must be careful

to keep her religion off the radar of hostile governments.

She recently went with a group of college-aged Thai Christians to a closed country, where

they share the gospel with people who may never have heard it otherwise.

And when we share the gospel for them to them, they all is the first time that they heard

about the gospel.

Five years after becoming a Christian, Floyd visited home for Mother's Day.

She followed her parents around town, praying for them constantly.

That evening, she shared the gospel.

And after that God gave me, like, special gift, they become a Christian.

Floyd's parents told her that seeing how her life changed when she began to follow God

helped them accept the faith.

It brought Floyd back to those moments when she was a little girl, alone and afraid.

And remind me when I think about when I was young, that I pray to the holy things that

I want my parents to go to the heaven.

That night, over a decade after she first prayed for her parents, God answered her prayer

with a yes.

Reporting for World, I'm Abby Young in Northern Thailand.

Good morning.

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And I'm Mary Rankard.

Texas Democrats have their nominee for the U.S. Senate seat up for grabs this fall.

State Representative James Talleriko won his party primary last week.

He'll face either Senator John Cornyn or Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who still

have to settle the Republican race in a runoff.

Talleriko frequently touts his Christian faith and uses it as a frame for his progressive

political vision.

Though many of his interpretations of scripture have drawn scrutiny, here's World Commentator

Cal Thomas.

Democrats have struggled for decades to win conservative evangelical voters, most evangelical

vote Republican, and attempts to speak the language of faith have often backfired.

In the 2000 presidential campaign, for example, Al Gore tried to draw his environmental policy

from the Bible.

He pointed to the time Abel's blood cried out from the ground after his brother Kane murdered

him.

Gore said this was the first example of pollution and scripture.

Now another Democrat is trying a different approach.

Texas State Representative James Talleriko is running for the U.S. Senate seat currently

held by Republican John Cornyn.

Talleriko often talks about his Christian faith.

He studied at Austin Seminary affiliated with the mainline Presbyterian Church, USA.

Some of his interpretations of scripture are unusual to say the least.

In one speech opposing a bill that would keep boys and men out of girls and women's sports,

Talleriko argued that the opening lines of Genesis point to a modern view of God.

The first two lines in Genesis use two different Hebrew words to describe God.

God is the masculine Hebrew noun for divinity.

The second is the feminine Hebrew noun for spirit.

God is both masculine and feminine and everything in between.

God is non-binary.

In another discussion he calls modern gender theory scientific.

Modern science obviously recognizes that there are many more than two biological sexes.

Talleriko has also attempted to ground abortion rights in biblical themes.

Before God comes over Mary and we have the incarnation, God asks for Mary's consent, which

is remarkable.

Go back and read this in Luke.

The angel comes down and asks Mary if this is something she wants to do.

She says, if it is God's will, let it be done, let it be.

Let it happen.

So to me that is an affirmation in one of our most central stories that creation has

to be done with consent.

You cannot force someone to create.

Creation is one of the most sacred acts that we engage in as human beings, but that has

to be done with consent, it has to be done with freedom.

And to me that is absolutely consistent with the ministry and life and death of Jesus.

Jesus did warn that teachers should be evaluated by the fruit of their teaching, which raises

a practical question for voters.

What difference does a candidate's professed faith make in his political views?

On policy, Talleriko's positions largely mirror those of the progressive left.

He opposes school choice programs that allow parents, especially low-income parents,

to send their children to private schools.

Teachers unions strongly oppose those programs and contribute heavily to democratic candidates

who share their position.

Talleriko also supports government action to address economic inequality and backs many

of the Democratic Party's priorities on climate and social issues.

None of those positions require a theological explanation.

A secular progressive who never attended seminary could hold them all.

For 2000 years, Christian doctrine has centered on claims about sin, redemption, and salvation

through Jesus Christ.

Political platforms are something different.

That distinction may matter as Texas voters consider a candidate who frequently speaks

the language of faith while asking voters to accept his unorthodox interpretation of

it.

Texas voters should not be fooled because not everyone who calls me Lord-Lord will enter

the kingdom of heaven, or perhaps the U.S. Senate.

For World, I'm Cal Thomas.

Tomorrow, changes at the Department of Homeland Security.

We'll discuss them with Hunter Baker on Washington Wednesday.

And a special needs church ministry meets a pressing need.

That and more tomorrow, I'm Mary Reichard, and I'm Murna Brown.

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The Bible records the Lord's blessing for the people of Israel.

The Lord bless you and keep you.

The Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you.

The Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace, versus 24-26 of number six.

Go now and grace and peace.