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from Wilmington Island, Georgia, where I live with my wife, Marcia and my daughter, Lillian,

and serve as the worship pastor at First Baptist Church of the Islands. My son is a freshman

theater education major at North Greenville University in Tigerville, South Carolina.

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Good morning. More candidates for the Republican nomination jump into the race. Can anyone

surpass Donald Trump?

He does not define the Republican Party and we have to have other voices and to me that's

the key thing for the future.

That's ahead on Washington Wednesday. Also today, World Tour, a new report on the state

of religious persecution. Plus adopting children with special needs.

Having special needs children means you now deal with all the people who love special needs children

and who pour their lives in special needs children.

And World Commentator Ryan Bomberger on Planned Parenthood by the Numbers.

It's Wednesday, May 3rd. This is The World and Everything in it from listeners supported

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Good morning.

Up next Kent, coming 10 has today's news.

President Biden is deploying 1500 active duty troops to the US Mexico border as authorities

brace for a major surge next week.

Patagon spokesman Brigadier General Pat Ryder.

In light of the changes on May 11th and the anticipated surge, DHS did reach out and

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