8.4.25 Defending religious liberty on Legal Docket, talking tariffs on Moneybeat, and History Book

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🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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On Legal Docket, defending religious liberty ; on Moneybeat, David Bahnsen untangles tariffs; and on History Book, three stories from New York City. Plus, the Monday morning newsSupport The World and Everything in It today at wng.org/donateAdditional support comes from Asbury University. Where academic excellence meets spiritual growth. asbury.edu/visitAnd 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/online

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0:00.0	Good morning. Religious liberty in school, in public, and on the job requires vigilance.
0:10.9	They put it in writing that she was fired for using the wrong pronouns.
0:14.9	That and other religious liberty battles ahead on legal docket.
0:18.5	Also, the Monday Moneybeat with David Bonson, and a New York edition
0:22.6	of the World History Book, including a flight attendant who quit his job without thinking
0:26.9	it through. I'd had it. I was absolutely done at that moment.
0:40.0	It's Monday, August 4th.
0:43.8	This is The World and Everything in it from listener-supported World Radio.
0:44.9	I'm Mary Reichert.
0:46.7	And I'm Lindsay Mask. Good morning.
0:50.7	Time for news. Here's Mark Mellinger.
0:57.2	White House cabinet members are defending President Trump's firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics Director.
0:58.8	Trump terminated Erica McIntyre for Friday after the Bureau's most recent jobs report
1:04.1	came in lower than expected, and job gains from the previous two months were revised down
1:09.9	hundreds of thousands. Trump claims the
1:12.6	jobs reports were rigged to make him look bad. White House National Economic Council Director
1:18.1	Kevin Hassett is backing the president's decision, claiming the numbers didn't make sense.
1:23.5	When I first saw the big revisions, which by the way, were the largest revisions going all the way back for 50 years, if we exclude the COVID years.
1:31.5	When I saw those revisions, I thought it must be a typo.
1:34.0	I've never seen a revision like this.
1:36.2	Democratic California Senator Alex Padilla tells NBC's Meet the Press.
1:41.3	The Bureau is just one of many government agencies.
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