10.30.25 Debate over SNAP, Finland’s battle over Biblical views, and ranchers contending with wolves

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🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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SNAP funding amid the shutdown, a Finnish lawmaker defends her Biblical views, and ranchers react to the return of wolves. Plus, Texas crowns the state’s fattest squirrel, Cal Thomas on sports gambling, and the Thursday morning newsSupport The World and Everything in It today at wng.org/donateAdditional support comes from Asbury University — where students are known, supported, and prepared to lead. Customized visits available. asbury.edu/visitFrom The Issues, et cetera podcast. Expert guests, Expansive topics, Extolling Christ. More at issuesetc.orgAnd from Cedarville University—a Christ-centered, academically rigorous university located in southwest Ohio, equipping students for Gospel impact across every career and calling. Cedarville integrates a biblical worldview into every course in the more than 175 undergraduate and graduate programs students choose from. New online undergraduate degrees through Cedarville Online offer flexible and affordable education grounded in a strong Christian community that fosters both faith and learning. Learn more at cedarville.edu, and explore online programs at cedarville.edu/online

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0:00.0	Good morning.
0:06.0	Government funding for food benefits runs out on Saturday.
0:10.0	Will lawmakers end the shutdown to keep SNAT benefits going?
0:13.0	No child in this country ought to go to bed hungry because a bunch of politicians in Washington can't decide what they want to do. Also, Finland takes a Christian lawmaker to that country's Supreme Court for quoting the Bible.
0:26.6	And part two of our report on the endangered Mexican wolf threatening a way of life.
0:31.6	Kids used to be able to play till all hours of the night.
0:34.6	People used to go walk wherever they want. I mean, that's changed
0:39.7	completely. And world commentator Cal Thomas gives the over-under on sports betting.
0:50.9	It's Thursday, October 30th. This is The World and Everything in it from listener-supported World Radio.
0:57.2	I'm Mary Riggard.
0:58.1	And I'm Lindsay Mass.
0:59.3	Good morning.
1:02.2	Time now for the news.
1:03.6	Here's Kent Covington.
1:05.7	Air Force One was in route back to Washington this morning.
1:09.1	Just hours after President Trump met face-to-face
1:12.2	with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in South Korea looking to tamp down trade tensions.
1:17.6	Just ahead of that meeting, Trump, standing alongside the Chinese leader, told reporters,
1:22.1	And we're going to have a very successful meeting, I have no doubt.
1:25.2	But he's a very tough negotiator.
1:27.4	Earlier in the week, both sides agreed on a framework for a trade deal that the two leaders
1:31.8	would discuss while in South Korea. The reported terms of that framework would see the United
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