7.24.25 Returning awards to female athletes, phone-free classrooms, and a Congo and Rwanda peace agreement

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🗓️ 24 July 2025

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The NCAA gets pressure to restore titles to female athletes, schools implement cellphone restrictions, and a peace deal between Congo and Rwanda. Plus, a mechanical chef, Cal Thomas on late night television, and the Thursday morning newsSupport The World and Everything in It today at wng.org/donateAdditional support comes from Cedarville University—a Christ-centered, academically rigorous university located in southwest Ohio, equipping students for Gospel impact across every career and calling. Cedarville integrates a biblical worldview into every course in the more than 175 undergraduate and graduate programs students choose from. New online undergraduate degrees through Cedarville Online offer flexible and affordable education grounded in a strong Christian community that fosters both faith and learning. Learn more at cedarville.edu, and explore online programs at cedarville.edu/onlineFrom Dordt University. Offering fast-track Ag degrees to help graduates make an impact in agriculture sooner. Dordt.eduAnd from The Joshua Program at St. Dunstan's Academy in the Blue Ridge Mountains: work, prayer, and adventure for young men. stdunstansacademy.org

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0:00.0	Good morning. State Attorney's General urged the NCAA to restore fairness in women's sports
0:11.6	before men were allowed to compete against them. Also, back to school season is here, and so is the battle over cell phones in the classroom. New rules draw lines between learning and distraction.
0:23.6	Quite often, teachers are spending a considerable amount of class time,
0:28.6	not teaching the subject, but just getting the kids to put the devices away.
0:33.6	And a historic peace deal between Congo and Rwanda. But after decades of bloodshed, can paper
0:40.4	promises bring real peace? And world commentator Cal Thomas says late-night television used to bring
0:47.3	laughs without lectures. It's Thursday, July 24th.
0:57.8	This is The World and Everything in it from listeners-supported World Radio.
1:01.9	I'm Mary Reichert.
1:02.8	And I'm Myrna Brown.
1:04.0	Good morning.
1:06.0	Up next, Kent Covington has today's news.
1:10.0	Cameras blast in Istanbul, Turkey, as negotiators from Russia and Ukraine met across the table Wednesday for a third round of peace talks.
1:18.6	Ukraine wants the meeting to lay the groundwork for a summit between Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenskyy and Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
1:26.1	But Moscow has played down any expectations of a breakthrough.
1:30.3	Meanwhile, the White House says President Trump remains ready to impose heavy secondary sanctions
1:35.5	against Russia if there is no peace deal in place soon.
1:39.3	Press Secretary Caroline Levitt said Trump is talking to lawmakers in Washington about those sanctions.
1:44.5	But the president has always maintained. He's the commander-in-chief and the president for a reason.
1:50.1	And so any decisions that are made with respect to sanctions, the president wants to reserve
1:55.6	that authority and that right to himself.
1:58.2	Trump gave Putin 50 days to sign a peace deal
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