10.20.25 Louisiana’s racial gerrymander case, a future with AI, and the Great Barrington Declaration

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🗓️ 20 October 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Legal Docket on racial districting and ballot rules, Moneybeat on future work with AI technology, and History book on the Great Barrington Declaration. Plus, the Monday morning newsSupport The World and Everything in It today at wng.org/donateAdditional support comes from Covenant College, where Christian faculty equip students for their callings through hard ideas, deep questions, and meaningful work. covenant.edu/worldFrom Missions Upside Down - a FREE, award-winning video series about Christian missions in the past, present, and into the future. You can find this free resource on RightNowMedia or at missionsupsidedown.comAnd from the Peace of God Bible, inviting you to experience God's peace. With notes and devotions from Dr. Jeremiah Johnston. PeaceofGodBible.com

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0:00.0	Good morning. Can a state be sued twice, once for not using race, and then again for using too much of it?
0:12.3	It's essentially being used as a reverse partisan gerrymander on purely racial grounds,
0:17.9	and that is a constitutional problem. The future of the Voting Rights Act to head on legal docket. Also today, the Monday money beat.
0:25.7	And later, the world history book, looking back on the COVID lockdowns and a heroic scientist who pushed back.
0:32.5	The premise is not to do something reckless. The premise is to take account of all of public health, all of the harms.
0:47.1	It's Monday, October 20th.
0:49.2	This is The World and Everything in It from listeners-supported World Radio.
0:53.2	I'm Mary Reichert.
0:54.0	And I'm Nick Eicher.
0:55.2	Good morning.
0:57.7	Time for news.
0:58.7	Here's Mark Mellinger.
1:00.9	A bloody weekend in Gaza put the Israeli Hamas ceasefire to the test.
1:06.4	But despite the violence, the truce remains intact.
1:10.3	Hamas militants ambushed Israeli troops in southern
1:13.3	Gaza early Sunday, killing two soldiers. In response, Israel launched air attacks targeting Hamas,
1:20.4	killing dozens of Palestinians. Israel also temporarily suspended aid to Gaza. Prior to the strikes in an interview last week, President
1:29.9	Trump said he expects Hamas to disarm and implied the terror group will face action if it does not.
1:37.5	We're going to find out. So it's not a hard timeline, but it's a line in my own mind.
1:42.6	And at a certain point, if they don't do what they're
1:44.9	supposed to do, then we'll have to do it for them. Following the retaliatory strikes,
1:51.7	Israel's military says it resumed enforcing the ceasefire. It also says aid deliveries to Gaza
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