2.26.26 New York’s rent stabilization, school denies teacher religious accommodation, Ukraine’s long resistance, and helping girls in Kenya
The World and Everything In It
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🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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New York’s vacant apartments and rent stabilization, school denies teacher religious accommodation, Ukraine’s long resistance, and helping girls in Kenya. Plus, Seth Troutt on on engineered masculinity, a record-setting romance, and the Thursday morning news
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. |
| 0:06.6 | Proposed rent rules in New York City may bite both renters and landlords. |
| 0:11.7 | I think many owners these days would be happy to be making zero to break an even instead of digging in their pocket and running in the red. |
| 0:17.7 | Also today clarifying the religious rights of teachers in public schools, |
| 0:22.8 | and later, a ministry that helps vulnerable girls in Africa remain in school. |
| 0:28.2 | By graduation, you'd still have like 22, 23 boys, but one or two girls. Why can't they be |
| 0:33.8 | educated? And World Opinions commentator Seth Trout on so-called Looks Magazine. |
| 0:46.0 | It's Thursday, February 26th. |
| 0:48.6 | This is The World and Everything in It from listeners-supported World Radio. |
| 0:52.7 | I'm Mary Reichert. |
| 0:53.6 | And I'm Arnold Brown. Good morning. Time now for the news with Kent Covington. Officials from |
| 1:01.6 | Ukraine and the United States are expected to meet today ahead of high stakes peace talks with Russia |
| 1:06.8 | in Geneva early next month. Ukrainian president, Vladimir Zelensky, told reporters that Ukrainian land currently occupied |
| 1:13.3 | by Russia remains a major sticking point. |
| 1:16.1 | We understand that Americans want to stop this war as quick as possible. |
| 1:21.2 | The problem is with the political will to stop this war and the question of territories. |
| 1:31.3 | This question, I repeat again and again, |
| 1:39.7 | these questions, I think to my mind, has to go to the level of leaders. In today's meeting, |
| 1:45.6 | Zelensky says U.S. and Ukrainian officials plan to discuss possible post-war recovery plans for Ukraine. |
| 1:52.6 | Iran is pushing back defiantly in response to President Trump's remarks in his Tuesday night speech. |
| 1:58.3 | Ahead of critical talks in Geneva with Tehran over its nuclear program, Iran's foreign ministry spokesman dismissed Trump's remarks as, quote, big lies. |
| 2:02.5 | Meantime, Iran's parliament speaker said Wednesday that the U.S. could either engage in diplomacy |
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