5.25.26 Intelligence tests and execution, rising bond yields and data centers, and the death of Harambe
The World and Everything In It
WORLD Radio
4.8 • 7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Legal Docket on an Alabama capital murder case over intelligence tests and execution, Moneybeat on the rising bond yields and NIMBY resistance to data centers, and History Book on the death of a Cincinnati Zoo gorilla. Plus, the Monday morning news
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. Two decades ago, the Supreme Court banned the death penalty for the intellectually |
| 0:10.4 | disabled. They do not act with the level of moral culpability that characterizes the most |
| 0:16.0 | serious adult criminal conduct. That's ahead today on legal docket. Also today, the Monday money beat how the AI boom may run into an old American problem, |
| 0:26.8 | not in my backyard. |
| 0:28.7 | And the world history book 10 years ago, the shooting of a gorilla in a zoo sparked an online outrage. |
| 0:35.6 | If that was your child or grandchild, would you want to wait for a tranquilizer with a 450,500 pound gorilla? |
| 0:46.1 | It's Memorial Day, 26. |
| 0:48.9 | This is the world and everything in it from listeners-supported World Radio. |
| 0:52.7 | I'm Jenny Ruff. |
| 0:53.8 | And I'm Nick Eiger. Good morning. |
| 0:57.7 | Up next, Kent Covington with today's news. |
| 1:01.7 | President Trump is telling his negotiators not to rush into any potential peace deal with Iran. |
| 1:07.5 | Trump posted Sunday that, quote, time is on our side. |
| 1:12.9 | That added a note of caution to his earlier weekend declaration that an agreement had been, in his words, largely negotiated. |
| 1:18.5 | And it also came shortly after Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters in India. |
| 1:23.1 | Some progress has been made, significant progress, although not final progress has been made. |
| 1:28.3 | Regional officials say the potential deal would reopen the Strait of Hormuz and require Iran to give up its highly enriched uranium. |
| 1:35.3 | In exchange, the U.S. would lift its blockade of Iranian ports and provide sanctions relief. |
| 1:40.3 | But Iran is pushing back publicly. |
| 1:43.3 | Tehran says the straight stays under its control |
| 1:46.3 | and nuclear issues aren't even on the table. But Secretary Rubio, while meeting with his Indian |
| 1:51.4 | counterpart, reiterated President Trump's red line. Iran can never possess a nuclear weapon. The president |
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