7.2.25 Senate passes President Trump’s bill, Supreme Court rules on religious liberty and child protection, World Tour, and Church of England disciplines chaplain

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🗓️ 2 July 2025

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On Washington Wednesday, the Senate passes Trump’s bill, on Legal Docket, Supreme Court supports online age verification; on World Tour, news from Poland, Hungry, Hong Kong, and China; and church doctrine deemed a threat. Plus, the World’s largest rubber duck, Hunter Baker on Whittaker Chambers, and the Wednesday morning newsSupport The World and Everything in It today at wng.org/donateAdditional support comes from The Issues, et cetera podcast. Expert guests, Expansive topics, Extolling Christ. More at issuesetc.orgFrom Ambassadors Impact Network. Inviting entrepreneurs with a mission to connect with faith-based investors who share their vision. More at ambassadorsimpact.comAnd from Dordt University, whose online MBA and MPA programs prepare leaders for lasting impact. Dordt University. Until All Is Made New.

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0:00.0	Good morning. A Texas law shielding kids from explicit online porn survives. We'll tell you why.
0:11.8	Supreme Court analysis of that coming up and two other cases, plus an update from Washington on the big beautiful Senate debate. Also today, world tour and later, an Anglican priest stands up for marriage and finds himself
0:25.9	at odds with church and state.
0:28.2	Jesus said this thing about taking up your cross daily and following him.
0:31.4	He didn't say it's going to be a walk in the park, everybody.
0:34.2	And world opinions, Hunter Baker tells of an ex-Sovviet spy who risked all to warn the west it's
0:47.4	wednesday july second this is the world and everything in it from listener-supported world
0:51.7	radio i'm wensie masth and And I'm Nick Eicher. Good morning.
0:57.6	Up next, Kent Covington has today's news. President Trump says Israel has agreed on terms for a 60-day
1:05.9	ceasefire in Gaza. And he is warning Hamas to accept the deal, saying it will not get better, it will only get
1:12.8	worse. That came just hours after the president told reporters he believes Israeli Prime Minister
1:17.8	Benjamin Netanyahu wants to halt the fighting and bring Israeli hostages home.
1:22.1	He wants to. I can tell you he wants to, and I think we'll have it. I think we'll have a deal
1:25.9	next week. That's what I think.
1:28.6	Netanyahu will meet with the president at the White House next week. Trump said U.S. and Israeli
1:33.5	officials held a long and productive meeting Tuesday about halting the war in Gaza.
1:38.7	Netanyahu, though, made no mention of a ceasefire deal when he discussed the upcoming visit
1:42.7	with his cabinet yesterday.
1:43.9	He told Israeli leaders that he is heading to Washington to hash out a new trade agreement, among other things.
1:51.0	The fate of what President Trump calls his one big, beautiful bill, is now in the hands of the House,
1:57.0	that after the Senate narrowly passed it with Vice President J.D. Vance casting the tie-breaking
2:02.5	vote. The yeas are 50. The nays are 50. The Senate being evenly divided, the vice president
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