10.9.15 Striking Venezuelan drug operations, abortions by deception, and meeting an Italian artisan

The World and Everything In It

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🗓️ 9 October 2025

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U.S. airstrikes on a Venezuelan drug cartel, coerced abortions with mail-order drugs, and visiting an Italian craftsman. Plus, missing an important call, Cal Thomas on conversion therapy, and the Thursday morning newsSupport The World and Everything in It today at wng.org/donateAdditional support comes from Ambassadors Impact Network, helping entrepreneurs who are looking for more than just funding. Discover a community of Christian faith-led investors. More at ambassadorsimpact.comFrom 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/onlineAnd from Covenant College, where Christian faculty equip students for their callings through hard ideas, deep questions, and meaningful work.

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0:00.0	Good morning.
0:06.0	Blowing up boats used by drug cartels may be effective, but is it legal?
0:11.0	Views differ.
0:12.0	Thomas Jefferson can activate the military against pirates.
0:15.0	I'm not sure how this is any different.
0:18.0	Also today, male order abortion drugs are leading to a rise in crimes
0:22.2	against pregnant women and the heart of an artisan. You have two hands. You can make so much in a day
0:28.4	and not more. There's also a beauty in that. And world commentator Cal Thomas weighs in on so-called
0:34.2	conversion therapy.
0:43.5	It's Thursday, October 9th.
0:47.8	This is the world and everything in it from listener-supported World Radio.
0:48.9	I'm Merna Brown.
0:50.9	And I'm Mary Reichard. Good morning.
1:00.0	Up next, Kent Covington with today's news. President Trump says Israel and Hamas have agreed to the first phase of his peace plan to halt fighting. The president said
1:05.2	this means, quote, that all of the hostages will be released very soon and Israel will withdraw their troops to an agreed-upon line, end quote.
1:13.6	Shortly before, he made that announcement on social media.
1:16.3	He cut short a roundtable event at the White House.
1:19.0	I was just given a note by the Secretary of State saying that we're very close to a deal in the Middle East,
1:25.3	and they'll get a need me pretty quickly. So I will take a couple
1:29.7	of more questions. And the Hamas terror group announced in an official statement, the reaching of an
1:35.1	agreement that ends the war in Gaza, provides for the withdrawal of Israeli forces and, quote,
1:40.5	implements a prisoner exchange. Israel would release Palestinian prisoners in exchange for
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