8.26.25 Parents rights in California, the rise of deadlier drugs, and a Pittsburgh chapel filled with religious relics

The World and Everything In It

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🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Protecting children in California, the rise of ultra-potent opioids, and religious relics on display in Pittsburgh. Plus, searching for true love, Daniel Darling on the 10 Commandments in classrooms, and the Tuesday morning newsSupport The World and Everything in It today at wng.org/donateAdditional support comes from Covenant College. Rigorous academics, grounded in Reformed theology, lived out in Christ-centered community. covenant.edu/WORLDFrom WatersEdge. Save more. Do more. Give more. Helping Christians support ministry by giving through a donor-advised fund. watersedge.com/DAFAnd from Audio Deacon, a podcast for Christians and listeners who want more than background noise. Episodes offer thoughtful album reviews, curated lists of recordings, and conversations with musicians and thought leaders teaching maturing believers how to listen to music with biblical wisdom. It’s also a resource for parents, guiding you through music’s glories, pitfalls, and conversations worth having. Listen and subscribe at audio-deacon.com and read more at audiodeacon.substack.com.

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0:00.0	Good morning. California debates a bill that expands who can take custody of a child if the parents are detained or deported.
0:13.0	It's a direct assault on parental rights. Also today a deadly new opioid is spreading into the U.S.
0:20.0	We have a report and a little church that's home to
0:23.0	thousands of relics. Each one is a jewel. Each one is a little master face. And the religious
0:29.5	left gets a big platform. It's Tuesday, August 26th.
0:40.1	This is The World and Everything in it from listeners-supported World Radio.
0:44.2	I'm Mary Reichert.
0:45.2	And I'm Nick Einker. Good morning.
0:48.7	Up next, Kent Covington with today's news.
0:52.6	Burn the American flag and go to jail.
0:55.8	That was President Trump's message at the White House
0:58.3	as he signed an executive order that seeks to penalize anyone
1:01.3	who desecrates the flag.
1:02.8	You burn a flag, you get one year in jail.
1:04.7	You don't get 10 years, you don't get one month.
1:07.0	You get one year in jail, and it goes on your record.
1:10.7	And you will see flag burning
1:11.9	stopping immediately. But there is no jail sentence outlined in the order. Instead, it directs the
1:17.3	Justice Department to prosecute people for setting fire to the flag by using existing laws,
1:22.2	like those penalizing an incitement to violence. When you burn the American flag, it incites riots at levels that we've
1:30.1	never seen before. People go crazy. The order also instructs the Attorney General to challenge a
1:34.9	1989 Supreme Court ruling that protected flag burning as political expression. Critics say the
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