5.27.26 Ken Paxton’s landslide, Colombia’s presidential election, and a classical school for students with special needs
The World and Everything In It
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4.8 • 7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Washington Wednesday on Ken Paxton’s landslide, World Tour on Colombia’s presidential election, and a classical school for students with special needs. Plus, Daniel Suhr on Pope Leo XIV’s call for moral guardrails, England’s annual cheese-rolling race, and the Wednesday morning news
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. A Texas tussle determines who will take on James Tolariko for a seat in the Senate. |
| 0:11.2 | Tonight, we just made history. |
| 0:13.8 | That's ahead today on Washington Wednesday. Also today, world tour on presidential elections in Colombia. Later, how one mom started a |
| 0:24.3 | school for her daughter and for other students who have special needs. We can't send her to a school |
| 0:29.4 | with 2,000 students just to kind of like hope she does okay and hope she catches truth. And world |
| 0:35.7 | commentator Daniel Sur responds to Pope Leo's statement on AI. |
| 0:47.0 | It's Wednesday, May 27th. |
| 0:49.4 | This is The World and Everything in it from listener-supported World Radio. |
| 0:53.1 | I'm Lindsay Mast. |
| 0:54.0 | And I'm Nick |
| 0:54.7 | Eicher. Good morning. Up next, Kent Coveington with today's news. A chemical tank exploded at a |
| 1:03.7 | paper mill in southwest Washington State, Tuesday, killing multiple workers and injuring at least 10. |
| 1:09.9 | The 80,000 gallon tank held a corrosive |
| 1:12.2 | chemical brew used to break down wood for paper. Crews are still in the area and the cause is |
| 1:17.9 | still unknown. Longview Fire Battalion Chief Mike Gorsuch called it a mass casualty scene. |
| 1:23.4 | There were multiple critical injuries and patients were transported to hospitals in Longview and throughout the Vancouver Portland area. |
| 1:29.9 | Meantime in Southern California, evacuations are easing near a chemical tank and an aerospace plant that nearly exploded last week. |
| 1:37.9 | Some 16,000 residents are still waiting for the All Clear to return home, down from about 50,000 evacuees. |
| 1:45.3 | A small crack over the weekend let pressure out and averted a catastrophic blast. |
| 1:51.0 | NASA is building a permanent moon base, and it is investing big into moonbuggies and aerospace drones. |
| 1:57.7 | The space agency just handed out hundreds of millions of dollars to four U.S. |
| 2:01.6 | companies, NASA administrator, Jared Isaacman. We are working alongside our lunar lander providers, |
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