3.3.26 Blocking abortion clinics in Virginia, Texas elections, recent Supreme Court rulings, and homes for the homeless

Good morning. Pro-lifers in Virginia find ways to stifle the growth of the abortion industry.

Virginia is basically an abortion tourism state.

Also, today the Senate primary in Texas will have a report and how one couple is finding

solutions for the local homeless.

Being on the streets for so long when you walk in the door, it's very special.

The American death toll from Iran's response to U.S. and Israeli strikes has now risen

to at least six.

U.S. Central Command announced that U.S. forces recently, quote, recovered the remains

of two previously unaccounted four service members from a facility that was struck during

Iran's initial attacks in the region.

At the White House on Monday, President Trump said he mourns those lost.

In their memory, we continue this mission with ferocious, unyielding resolve to crush

the threat this terrorist regime poses to the American people and a threat indeed it

is.

The president again defended the military action, saying the time to strike was now to eliminate

the Iranian threat before it became any more dangerous.

We thought we had a deal, but then they backed out and they came back and we thought we

had a deal and they backed out, I said, you can't deal with these people.

Trump said that after focused strikes against nuclear targets in Iran last year, his administration

warned Iranian leaders not to take further action toward a nuclear weapon, but they did

not listen.

Interior of State and Acting National Security Advisor Marco Rubio also addressed reporters

on Monday.

He said that the imminent danger that motivated the U.S. to act when it did was the likely

retaliation by Iran from a planned Israeli strike.

But Rubio said that even if the U.S. had done nothing right now, it would have been forced

to act within a matter of months.

This operation needed to happen because Iran in about a year or a year and a half would

cross the line of immunity, meaning they would have so many short-range missiles, so

many drones that no one could do anything about it because they could hold the whole world

hostage.

The Secretary said the goal of this action was not regime change, though the administration

would be delighted to see more rational leadership in Iran.

The mission he said was to destroy the country's ballistic missile capability and prevent

a nuclear Iran.

And the hardest hits are yet to come from the U.S. military.

The next phase will be even more punishing on Iran than it is right now.

Someone was screaming how long will it take?

I don't know how long it will take.

President Trump said the initial timeline for this military action was four or five weeks,

but that the U.S. is more than capable and prepared to go longer if needed.

In time, Israeli ambassador to the UN, Danny Denon, echoed the remarks of President

Trump and Secretary Rubio saying that despite the short-term risks of this conflict for

Israel, his government had to act.

Look at what they're doing now without a nuclear weapon threatening the entire region.

Now imagine that same regime with a nuclear capability.

Israeli forces launched retaliatory strikes in Lebanon after the Iran-backed terror group

Hezbollah launched a missile attack at Israel, and an Israeli military official did not rule

out another ground invasion in southern Lebanon where Hezbollah is based.

Meantime in Washington, Democratic leaders are taking shots at President Trump's decision

to launch Operation Epic Fury in Iran.

One at Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told lawmakers yesterday that he's not shutting

any tears over the death of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Haminai, but at the same time

he accused the President of breaking a core promise to his constituents.

Donald Trump ran for office on the promise to wind down America's endless wars.

What he's doing is exactly, exactly, the opposite.

He's picking military fight all over the world and not taking care of business here at

home.

Schumer said he plans to lead a war power as resolution aimed at limiting Trump's

ability to launch similar strikes in the future without approval from Congress.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Iran's leadership left the President with no choice

but to act.

President Trump and his administration relentlessly pursued a diplomatic solution to the threat

posed by Iran, but the Iranian regime refused diplomatic offerings.

And all the President's taking action.

Thune added that Iran fuels terrorism throughout the Middle East and that the current regime

must be stopped.

With some of the U.S. expressing growing fears of terror attacks amid the conflict in Iran,

the shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security rolls into its third week, world's

Harrison Waters has more.

Lawmakers are still negotiating a deal to fund DHS after Democrats derailed funding last

month, demanding changes to immigration and customs enforcement, or ICE.

Neither side is budged since last week, even with heightened fears of threats to the homeland.

On Friday, many DHS employees received partial paychecks, but border patrol and ICE officers

received full paychecks, thanks to funding passed last year.

Later today, DHS Secretary Christine Nome will testify to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Democrats plan to grill her about the actions of ICE agents in Minneapolis while Republicans

are expected to dig into how the shutdown is affecting the function of agencies like

TSA and FEMA.

Reporting for World, I'm Harrison Waters.

And I'm Kent Covington, still ahead, pro-lifers in Virginia find ways to stifle the growth

of the abortion industry, plus a report on the U.S. Senate primary in Texas.

This is The World and Everything in it.

It's Tuesday, the 3rd of March, glad to have you along for today's edition of The World

and Everything in it.

Good morning, I'm Nick Eiger.

And I'm Lindsay Mast.

First up, local leaders in Virginia are using zoning ordinances to shut abortion businesses

out of their communities.

Many pro-lifers say the approach is a good one, but others say the regulations don't go far

enough.

World's Lauren Canterbury has the story.

Last month, residents of Lynchburg, Virginia packed the city council chambers to give testimony

about a proposed zoning ordinance.

The new regulation will significantly restrict where abortion facilities can open within

city limits.

About 70 people spoke in the meeting with the overwhelming majority supporting the ordinance.

The zoning amendment before you, as you've already heard, is simple in its purpose.

It simply places reasonable limits on where these facilities can operate.

You hold the power of life in your hands, whether you realize it or not.

And there is no one more vulnerable than a child who cannot speak, vote, or defend themselves.

The council voted four to two in favor of the ordinance.

City council member Martin Mischens said the protections are in line with the community's

values.

I can't imagine what it would look like if an abortion clinic petitioned to come into

Lynchburg.

The number of people that would show up to speak out against that would be exponential.

Other municipalities are also considering similar legislation as a proactive response to

a November ballot item that couldn't shrine abortion into the state constitution.

If that amendment passes, some pro-lifers worry that abortion businesses could flood Virginia.

After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, and pro-life trigger laws

took effect in states like Tennessee, West Virginia, and Kentucky, thousands of women

began traveling to Virginia for abortions.

Currently, the state is the only one in the South that still allows abortions through

the second trimester of pregnancy.

And a baby may still be killed later if three doctors agree that a mother's physical or

mental health is at risk.

China, Virginia is basically an abortion tourism state.

David Radford is the vice chairman of the Roe anote County Board of Supervisors.

Last month, Radford and his fellow supervisors directed the county's planning commission

to evaluate an ordinance similar to the one that passed in Lynchburg.

Roe anote County is located about 50 miles from West Virginia where babies are protected

in nearly all cases.

There are three abortion facilities in the county.

Radford said he and other local lawmakers started considering zoning ordinances after the

newest facility opened in the town of Vinton in 2024.

After Summit Medical Center's submitted paperwork to open an abortion facility in Vinton,

residents pushed back.

The town council approved an ordinance requiring a special use permit for abortion facilities.

But they were too late to stop Summit, and the facility opened just a few months later.

They caught him by surprise, and that's what's happening in Virginia right now is the

out of state abortion providers are targeting Virginia cities.

While the ordinances do not ban abortion outright, missions in Radford agree that the change

is the most legally defensible way to control where such facilities operate.

Virginia is a Dylan's rule state, which means local governments only have powers that the

state legislature explicitly grants to them.

Radford said that includes zoning.

Our basic ability at this point is we want to identify, call it out, and get the public

a chance to oppose it.

Otherwise, it looks like Virginia could be, you know, the capital of abortion on the

East Coast.

While many local pro-life leaders see these zoning ordinances as a win, others say they are

not really protecting unborn babies.

Barkley Dixon, founder of the Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn Initiative, believes abortion

should be outlawed in the same way many municipalities ban prostitution.

We do not say that it is okay for women to prostitute themselves on this street corner,

but not that street corner.

We do complete bans across the board.

More than 100 cities and counties across the country have done just that.

Using Sanctuary ordinances, outlawing abortion and abortion trafficking.

Dixon says the regulations are based on the Federal Comstock Act, which prohibits mailing

drugs or tools used to perform abortions.

He argues that abortion businesses can be banned because they are violating federal law.

Supporters of such bans believe municipalities should not treat abortion facilities as businesses

to be zoned, but as criminal entities.

We shouldn't even entertain organizations coming into our cities, coming into our counties,

saying that they want to end the life of innocent children made of the image of God.

Dozens of cities and counties have successfully introduced sticks in Sanctuary ordinances.

But some legal experts say federal law is too easy for Congress to change and is difficult

to enforce.

I know I wouldn't want to hang my hat on the Comstock Act.

Founding Freedom's Law Center's Josh Hetzler.

If Virginia Law says generally, you know, there's a fundamental right to an abortion, well,

I don't think a local government's going to be able to say otherwise.

Hetzler acknowledges that a zoning ordinance won't protect all unborn babies.

But he still sees the tactic as a small victory.

There may be a way that is more perfect when we should continue to strive for that, but

it's not a compromise to move the law forward.

Reporting for World, I'm Lauren Cantor-Berry.

Coming up next on the world and everything in it, a Senate showdown.

Today is the last day for Texas voters to choose their candidates for the November general

election.

Early voting began in February and polls say the races are very close.

On the Republican side, a long time incumbent faces a challenge from the state attorney general

and a U.S. congressman.

On the Democratic side, a moderate branded state senator and a U.S. congresswoman are vying

for the seat.

World's Todd Vision has more from Houston.

Republican Senator John Cornyn is seeking a fifth term in Washington, and he's running

on a long track record.

He has millions of dollars in funding from the National Republican Sanitorial Committee.

He's endorsed by law enforcement groups, and he votes with President Trump 99 percent

of the time.

He doesn't always vote with you, but he always does the right thing as far as he can make

it work.

Suzanne Feather is a longtime Cornyn volunteer.

She helped with set up at a Houston restaurant before the senior Texas senator spoke to about

50 supporters the first week of early voting.

He is the only politician that I have worked with that I have never been disappointed in.

The Cornyn faces the stiffest competition of his long political career from Texas attorney

general Ken Paxton.

Here he is during a campaign stop at a bar aptly named The Angry Elephant.

I've been acquitted, I've been redeemed, and I'm on my way to winning this race.

Paxton champion is no-holds-barred attacks on progressive politics and federal overreach.

That message resonated with Republicans like Tom Oliverson, a state representative who

sits at the desk Paxton once occupied.

The status quo is not okay for me.

Oliverson introduced Paxton to supporters during early voting.

I want someone with more conservative values, and I want somebody who's going to be like

Ted Cruz was when he first got in the senate.

But Paxton's career and personal life have been riddled with scandal.

He narrowly survived impeachment proceedings over financial fraud allegations.

And last year, his wife filed for divorce on biblical grounds.

Paxton has said the allegations are political hit jobs.

He had a slight lead in the polls heading into early voting.

We have so many issues that we need to deal with from the deficit, to China, to better judges,

to actually representing Texas values on second amendment.

But the GOP worries he could lose a general election and a crucial seat in Washington.

Here's Senator Tim Scott, chair of the GOP's Senate Fundraising Committee on Fox and Friends.

If it's not John Cornyn, it's a guaranteed $100 plus million spent and no guarantee that we hold Texas.

Cornyn also faces a primary challenge from U.S. Congressmen Wesley Hunt.

Hunt's polling and fundraising trails behind the leaders, but he could block any of the candidates

from getting 50% of the votes.

If that happens, the top two will head to a runoff in May.

In the Democratic primary, state representative James Talleriko and U.S.

Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett are both pitching themselves as the answer to combating the Trump administration.

The actual politics and policies proposed by both Crockett and Talleriko are pretty similar.

Rice University political science fellow Mark Jones says Crockett is in the lead with non-white voters.

But Talleriko is enjoying a popularity surge and their campaigns are completely different.

It's more in terms of style and background and just overall vibes and likeability.

Crockett is a former lawyer known in Washington for her quick comebacks and arguments with conservative

House Republicans.

Like this one with then Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene last year.

Well, you don't want to talk about I think your fake eyelashes are messing up with you.

No, no, no, no.

I'm just curious, just to better understand your ruling.

If someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody's bleach blonde bad built

bush body that would not be engaging in personalities, correct?

Uh, what now?

Crockett is one long shot campaigns before and she believes she can win this year's race,

not by pitching to moderates, but by bringing out the blue progressives in a red state.

If I allow someone to disrespect me, how is it that the people that I represent will

believe that I will fight for this?

On Friday former vice president Kamala Harris endorsed Crockett.

Crockett's competition, James Talleriko, has won swing districts before too and he's

on a mission to convert Republicans.

That word love is maybe the most important word in the English language.

It's certainly the most important word in all of our lives.

And yet we rarely hear it spoken in our politics.

The 36 year old seminary student has put his ordination plans on hold to focus on politics

first.

Politics is just another word for how we treat our neighbors and we should treat each other

a lot better than this.

In 2021, he claimed God is non-binary while arguing against a law that would bar boys

from playing in girl sports.

Since then, he's condemned Christian nationalism, argued that the Bible does not talk about abortion

and claimed conservatives manipulate scripture for political gain.

Early voting turnout was unusually high with Democrats leading this urge.

Here's Jones again with the polling.

No Democrat has won a statewide election in Texas since 1994.

And so, you know, hope springs eternal, but Democrats this year are optimistic with

Donald Trump in the White House and the potential to face a damaged or flawed Republican

candidate that this could be the year that they actually are able to win a statewide race

and break that losing streak that's been hanging over them for now, you know, 30 years.

A record of $110 million has already been spent on each side for advertising alone.

If either race comes to a runoff, those will take place in May.

Reporting for World, I'm Todd Vision in Houston, Texas.

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Next week, the Supreme Court issued four opinions.

World Legal Correspondent Ginny Ruff has this roundup.

I'll start with a correction.

Last week, when I reported on the tariff decision, I said that along with Chief Justice John

Roberts' principal opinion and Justice Brett Kavanaugh's principal dissent, every other

justice with the exception of Samuel Alito wrote a separate concurrence or dissent.

But Justice Sonia Sotomayor didn't either, and Justice Alito actually brought up their

omissions during a recent oral argument.

The tariff opinion was the size of a small book, 170 pages.

Last Tuesday, a lawyer before the court suggested the justices could decide his case with a

super short written opinion.

All we're asking you to do is to reverse.

I mean, it could be an opinion that's 160 pages less than the tariff's opinion last week.

Well, if, well.

That's certainly a goal, too.

I felt very left out in the tariff's opinion.

Justice Sotomayor didn't write opinions, but if maybe we'll have a chance.

I did read all 170 pages, apologies for the oversight.

All right, moving on.

The court issued four more opinions last week.

First, Hain Celestial Group versus Palm Quest.

Sarah and Grant Palm Quest fed their son, Baby Food.

They say contained heavy metals that contributed to their son's autism.

Justice Sotomayor wrote the unanimous opinion.

She affirmed that a lower court correctly held the parents could pursue their case in

Texas State Court instead of federal court.

Here's Justice Sotomayor during oral argument giving an early indication of the decision to

come.

The rule is very simply.

This plaintiff filed in the forum it wanted.

And it filed appropriately.

It was entitled to stay in state court.

A trial in federal court has already taken place and the Palm Quest lost, but this decision

means a redo in Texas in the proper court.

Next, Geo Group versus Medical.

Geo Group runs an immigration detention facility in Colorado under a contract with ICE.

A group of detainees alleged the government contractor forced them to do janitorial work

for no pay or a dollar a day.

Geo Group lost its argument that it shielded from liability because it acted at ICE's

direction.

And it wanted to appeal that unfavorable ruling before the trial began, but the Supreme

Court said no.

This one too was unanimous, Justice Elena Kagan writing that the Geo Group can raise

that as a defense during the trial, but it'll have to wait to appeal the ruling denying

it immunity until after final judgment.

Number three, Vial Rial versus Texas, another unanimous judgment.

David Vial Rial took the stand at his murder trial to argue self-defense, but an hour into

his testimony, the judge called an overnight recess.

The judge instructed the defense attorney to refrain from discussing his client's testimony

during the recess, but he was permitted to talk about related topics with his client,

like whether he should take a plea.

At oral argument, Justice Katanjee Brown Jackson said that sounded reasonable.

To the extent that the lawyer couldn't manage, coach, prep, practice with the witness while

he's on the stand, why should he be allowed to do so during an overnight recess?

She wrote the opinion of firming a lower court's ruling.

Finally, the last case today, US Postal Service versus Conan.

Conan sued the Postal Service alleging it wrongfully withheld her mail, and its reason for

doing so was racially motivated.

The Postal Service argued a federal statute protects it from claims arising out of the

law, miscarriage, or negligent transmission of letters.

Here, the debate centered over whether the statute's language protected the Postal Service

from intentional misdelivery.

In a five-to-four ruling, in favor of the Postal Service, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote

the majority opinion to say it does.

Justice Sotomayor dissented, joined by Justice Kagan, Neil Gorsuch, and Jackson.

Reporting for World, I'm Jenny Ruff.

A five-year-old boy in Colorado just conducted his first airline audit, five years old William

Hines loves airplanes.

So when a family friend gave him a Southwest Airlines pilot training manual, he didn't

just flip through.

He studied that thing and spotted what appeared to be a discrepancy, two-terrain graphics.

It didn't quite match up, so he told it grown up.

In the note made its way all the way to the desk of the CEO, Southwest says it wasn't

actually an error, just different zoom settings on those graphics, but that ultimately was

not the point.

The kid was impressive, so Southwest invited William and his family to Dallas for a VIP tour.

The youngster even got in the simulator, got to sit in the captain's seat.

At five, cleared for takeoff, wow.

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And I'm Nick Eiker.

Next up on the world and everything in it homelessness in America.

Thousands of 2024 nearly 800,000 people are homeless driven by a mix of factors, massive

migration, high housing and rental costs, family instability, the sudden loss of income,

not to mention untreated mental illness and substance abuse.

One solution for the chronically homeless is found in Springfield, Missouri.

It's not a government program, it's privately supported and local.

It's called Eden Village, one of two such projects in town and world's Mary Rikard paid

a visit.

I've driven past this drab area on the old industrial side of Springfield, Missouri for years.

It's a mishmash of strip mall buildings and concrete by the train tracks.

But then there is this four and a half acre stretch of cheery houses, painted red, blue,

green, orange or yellow on each side of a neatly paved road.

Eden Village is a gated neighborhood for chronically homeless people.

Estimates are that this town with a population of around 170,000 has up to 2700 homeless people.

Heather Cole used to be one of them until she landed here.

I really never had a place in my own.

She recalls the day she unlocked the door to her brand new home.

When you're being on the streets for so long, when you walk in the door, it's very special.

It's overwhelming.

It's breathtaking.

I cry like a baby.

This is what Eden Village provides for people.

Linda Brown founded it with her husband, David.

And the longer they're on the street, the longer it takes to re-actimate.

They can't live beyond the hour they're in.

They can't even think about tonight.

They can't think about tomorrow.

They're incapable.

They've gotten so used to just surviving in the moment that they can't project out.

Well, if I do this, I can do this.

They've got to relearn all that.

The Browns saw the problem up close after they moved to downtown in 2010.

Linda explains.

I've always had a passion, curiosity.

What is their story?

Why are they homeless?

What happened to them?

So we started with a small space.

One place to serve meals and to get to know people.

It came to me after a while, after several years, that what we're doing is basically a band-aid.

The Browns got to go home and sleep in warm beds.

Their friends walked back to the woods and alleys to sleep exposed to the elements.

So Linda got an idea.

The tiny home craze was starting at that point and I said, let's check out some tiny homes

and see.

And so we researched that on real estate and so we found this vacant mobile home park

here and we thought this would be a perfect place.

The infrastructure for building was already there, but there was a lot more involved.

Our idea is, let's give some dignity to our friends.

They don't have it on the street, nobody pays attention to it.

And so what we said, we're going to put them in something we would live in, not something

in between, which would be better than living on the street, but we still wouldn't live

in it.

What does that say to that person?

So they decided on a 400 square foot, fully furnished home.

To fund the project, the couple spoke to any group that would listen, like local rotary

clubs.

Soon others caught the vision too.

Community support led to a $3 million plus development of 31 tiny homes.

The residents also have skin in the game.

They pay about $300 a month in rent, usually out of welfare or disability checks.

Eligibility requires a person to be homeless in Springfield for at least a year and have

a diagnosed mental or physical disability.

And once housed, the rules are simple.

Be a good neighbor and keep drugs off the property.

If we find out that there are drugs in the home, we give them a choice.

If you either move out or if you go for treatment, we'll save your home.

And when you come out, you'll have your home.

And then it's their choice.

A disaster relief organization in Springfield provides common household items.

We have a store, a little store here on the property.

So the residents know that what's in the store and how many points it takes for toilet

paper, whatever.

And so they earn points by either mowing someone's yard and we keep track of all that.

So they accumulate their points and that's how they purchase.

So we're having to acclimate them into living as we do.

And so that's a transition for them.

The Browns see Eden Village as an expression of their Christian faith.

We call it God's project because we couldn't have done it on our own.

And our prayer in the beginning was, God, if this is not what you want us to do, close

the doors while you can see He's opening them.

As for Heather, who lives at Eden Village, she's got a job and her life is stable.

Does she plan to stay here forever?

I'm 48 years old and it is designed for single people.

And I don't know that I want to stay single for the rest of my life, however, I'm not

leaving my home for anything less than what I think God wants me to have, which is a

Godly man and a man that works and doesn't do drugs, you know.

I set my standards a little higher.

And in part, because of the opportunities a home brings, she's got higher standards for

herself too.

It was so pretty showing me that I was worthy enough for them to care about.

After nearly a decade on the streets, that has allowed Heather to go beyond surviving,

to learning how to really live.

Coming for World, I'm Mary Wrygherd in Springfield, Missouri.

Good morning, this is The World and everything in it from Listeners Supported World Radio.

I'm Nick Eicher.

And I'm Lindsay Mast.

A door has opened in Iran.

Whether it leads to freedom or slams shut again, depends on what happens next.

Here is World Opinions Editor Albert Moller.

The world order can change in a matter of hours.

We saw that this weekend.

Because Iranians began their work week, Israeli and American forces struck with overwhelming

military force.

By the end of the day, Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Hamanay, supreme leader of the Islamic Republic

of Iran for more than three decades, was dead.

And Iranian authorities confirmed it.

Hamanay was not merely a head of state.

He was the embodiment of a revolutionary regime born in 1979.

A regime built on clerical rule, sustained by repression, animated by a militant apocalyptic

vision of Shia Islam.

For 45 years, that regime has defined itself by hostility to the West, by sponsorship

of terror worldwide and by the relentless pursuit of nuclear weapons.

It appeared immovable until it wasn't.

History reminds us that regimes which seem permanent can fall with stunning speed.

The Ottoman Empire went seemed permanent, so did the Soviet Union, so did the Shah of

Iran.

And now, the second supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran is gone.

The military strikes continue, Iran's revolutionary guards remain powerful, the future is uncertain.

But this much is clear, the architecture of fear that held Iran in place has been shaken

at its highest level.

That matters.

Moments like this are rare, they're also dangerous, they can be decisive.

The Iranian people have endured decades of censorship, imprisonment, torture, and

the violent suppression of protest.

Many have longed for freedom, many have paid dearly for even a whispering that.

Now history has handed them a narrow window.

Whether the window opens into liberty or slams shut into even deeper repression will

depend on what happens next, what happens inside Iran.

President Trump is called upon the Iranian people to seize political control.

That is easier said than done, but the opportunity is real, it may close quickly.

Let's be clear, opportunities like this just don't linger, they're measured in days,

perhaps hours.

It's also be clear, the removal of a tyrant does not guarantee a free society, but it does

remove an historic obstacle that once seemed immovable.

So let's pray, pray that courage rises in Iran, pray that wise leadership emerges, pray

that the Iranian people recognize the gravity of this hour and seize it.

Because this is not merely a military development, it is a civilizational moment.

And as President Trump said, this is the moment for action, do not let it pass.

Pray it doesn't, for world, I'm Albert Mueller.

Tomorrow Washington Wednesday we'll talk about the Iran War and American politics and policy.

And we'll talk to the creators of a new graphic novel about a modern-day martyr in Pakistan.

That and more tomorrow, I'm Nick Eiker.

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