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12.18.25 Trump’s naval blockade, ministering in Uganda, and historical Christmas festivities
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Good morning. This is Katie McCoy. Sorry for sounding a little under the weather, but I'm a little under the weather. You know, culture is loud right now. Lots of heat, lots of reaction, and a lot of people talking past each other. At World, the aim is different, to tell the truth carefully, to keep moral categories clear, and to resist the pull toward outrage, even when the story itself is unsettling. That kind of journalism takes time, judgment and steadiness, and it depends on listeners who decide it's worth sustaining. So during the December giving drive, would you support World with a gift you can give@wng.org donate I'll be talking with you tomorrow on Culture Friday, but for now, I hope you enjoy today's program.
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Good morning. Aid sanctioned oil tankers in the Caribbean, what it means for Russia, Iran and for Americans.
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We'll talk with a policy expert. Also today, the mission of a Ugandan pastor in the face of opposition and how Jackson, Mississippi, is helping locals connect with their history. Some people have been here all their lives and still haven't seen the capital, the mansion. And world. Commentator Cal Thomas says the most influential people today will never make Time magazine's list.
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It's Thursday, December 18th. This is the world and everything in it from listeners supported World Radio. I'm Mary Reichert.
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And I'm Myrna Brown. Good morning.
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Up next, Kent Covington has today's news.
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Good evening, America.
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President Trump spoke from the White House last night with a clear message. From the very start, 11 months ago.
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I inherited a mess and I'm fixing it.
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Trump said under his administration, things like car prices, gas, airfare, and even Thanksgiving turkeys have all come down. He also touted his use of tariffs, which he says will bring many manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. companies know.
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That if they build in America, there are no tariffs, and that's why they're coming home to the USA in record numbers. They're building factories and plants at levels we haven't seen AI billion automobiles.
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The president also pointed to major progress in securing the border and curbing illegal immigration. And he highlighted peace deals that his administration helped broker, particularly in the Middle East. Trump also announced a bonus for US Troops, what he called a special warrior dividend before Christmas.
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In honor of our Nation's founding in 1776, we are sending every soldier $1,776. Think of that. And the checks are already on the way.
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Democrats, though, called the president's pronouncement of a successful first year fiction, saying it has been a disaster, pointing in particular to tariffs. An average of recent polls shows Trump's approval rating underwater, especially on economic issues. But for one recent decision the president made, some Democrats are actually voicing support. Senator Richard Blumenthal says he agrees in principle with President Trump's order to blockade sanctioned oil tankers headed into Venezuela.
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There's ample justification to seize tankers that are under sanction and in fact I would urge that we seize all of the shadow fleet tankers that are transporting Russian oil. Clearly fueling Russia's oil a war machine.
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Against Ukraine that comes as Trump ramps up pressure on the country's authoritarian leader, Nicolas Maduro. The move also comes after US Forces last week seized an oil tanker off Venezuela's coast, an unusual move that followed a build up of military forces in the region. On Capitol Hill on this vote, The.
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A's are 216, the nays are 211. The bill is passed without objection. The motion to reconsider is laid on the table.
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House Republicans passed a health care bill Wednesday that they say would help lower insurance costs by expanding coverage options and boosting competition. GOP leaders say the plan makes it easier for small businesses and self employed workers to band together to buy insurance and adds new price transparency rules that they argue will put downward pressure on premiums. Speaker Mike Johnson the Lower Premiums for.
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All Americans act does exactly what the title suggests.
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It will reduce premiums for all Americans.
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By, on average, at least 11% overall. And that's just the beginning.
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But Democrats say it will do no such thing. They blasted the bill, which does not extend Covid era Obamacare subsidies that are set to expire at year's end, and Democrats say that will lead to soaring health care costs for many Obamacare enrollees. Hours later, four Republicans joined Democrats to force a House vote on extending those subsidies, but it is highly likely that neither plan would have the needed 60 votes to pass. In the Senate, Russian leader Vladimir Putin says if peace talks with Ukraine are unsuccessful, the Kremlin will push to conquer more territory in Ukraine. Putin says Russia's goals will be achieved one way or the other. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky blasted Putin's comments and urged allies to show Russia continuing its war is pointless. And in France, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told EU leaders yesterday's peace is gone.
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We have no time to indulge in nostalgia.
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And she urged those leaders to use frozen Russian assets in Europe as backing for a loan to Ukraine. Those leaders are scheduled to meet today in Brussels to discuss it. Authorities continue to hunt for the gunman who killed two people over the weekend at Brown University in Rhode Island. But at least as of last night, police still did not know exactly who they were looking for, with video footage showing only a masked assailant. However, Providence Police Chief Oscar Perez says investigators are still gathering evidence, actual physical evidence.
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There's DNA evidence. There's a lot of evidence that we're collecting to ensure that we can find the answer.
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Police say footage shows another man in close proximity to the shooter prior to the attack and investigators are working to track him down for questioning. Nine others were wounded in that attack. And Providence, Rhode Island Mayor Brett Smiley provided this update. On Wednesday, we mentioned that one individual had been discharged. I'm happy to report that another individual.
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Has been discharged today.
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That leaves one survivor in critical and but stable condition. He said five others remained in stable condition. Nick Reiner, the son of famed Hollywood director Rob Reiner, appeared in court as he faces charges first degree murder in the death of his parents. The 32 year old did not enter a plea as he appeared Wednesday from behind the glass wall of a custody area. He was in shackles and wearing a jail suicide prevention vest. His lawyer Alan Jackson told reporters, we ask that during this process, you allow.
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The system to move forward in the way that it was designed to move.
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Forward, not with a rush to judgment.
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Not with jumping to conclusions, but with.
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Restraint and with dignity.
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The 78 year old Director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michelle Singer Reiner, were found dead from stab wounds in their Los Angeles home on Sunday. I'm Kent Covington. And straight ahead, oil tankers, drug boats and a US Naval blockade. Plus the power of the gospel in Uganda. This is the world, world and everything in it.
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It's Thursday, the 18th of December. Glad to have you along for today's edition of THE WORLD and EVERYTHING In It. Good morning. I'm Myrna Brown.
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And I'm Mary Reichert. Up first, tensions rising in the Caribbean. On Tuesday, President Trump declared a naval blockade against Venezuela to block sanctioned oil from getting in or out of the country. This after the US Coast Guard seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. The ship was running oil from Iran to Cuba and it was previously sanctioned by the US for ties to Russia.
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Joining us now to talk about it is Gil Guerra. He's an immigration policy analyst for the Niskanon Center. He researches Latin America and foreign policy.
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Good morning, Gail.
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Good morning, Mary. Good to be with you.
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Well, let's just start with the players involved here. The Wall Street Journal reported last week around 1.8 billion barrels of oil are out to sea on ships like the one the US captured last week. What do we know about the so called shadow fleet and this particular tanker?
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This is really an interconnected nexus of a number of different American adversaries. Obviously, the main one that we are concerned with here is Venezuela, which as you mentioned, does make most of its illicit income from oil shipments. But there are two other countries that really rely on Venezuela's shadow fleet and have a connection to the operations that it pursues, those being Iran and Russia, each of which have their own sanctioned oil that they use Venezuela to essentially get around some of those sanctions. So the so called blockade on the tanker that we have have announced, that President Trump announced, as well as the specific tanker that we seized, is a good example of how all of this works. So the tanker itself, despite being flagged under a different country, is crewed apparently mostly by Russians, according to reports, and was transporting oil to Cuba, another US adversary, to eventually make its way on to Eastern markets, most likely China. So the oil that Venezuela helps to evade sanctions or helps to move around sanctions really sits at the nexus of a lot of the interests of different U.S. adversaries. So this move is important not only because it creates a lot of pressure on the Maduro regime, which uses oil as a lifeline. It also creates pressure on the financial income sources of countries like Cuba, which relies very heavily on Venezuelan oil exports in order to fuel its own domestic industry, as well as countries like Russia and Iran that use Venezuela to get around existing US Oil sanctions.
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Gil, you used the phrase so called blockade. Why?
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Well, I think that the President himself obviously used that word and I think that many both supporters and critics of the policy will be using that word as well. But I actually think the policy itself is not nearly as dramatic as the fanfare rounding suggests. I think the President is using that word because he wants to make it seem like we are exerting a lot of pressure on Venezuela. And obviously this is an escalation that step. But if you actually look at the policy of what we're doing, we're basically just enforcing our pre existing policy, which is stopping sanctioned oil from Venezuela, which has been in place since 2019. Obviously we haven't actually been seizing tankers or enforcing that policy to quite this extent as we have before. But it's important to note that this is only with sanctioned oil and with sanctioned tankers. And the latest estimates as of this week, this could change. We designate more tankers. But it's estimated that only about 40% of the so called shadow fleet that Venezuela uses to actually transport this sanctioned oil is currently designated in a way that it could be seized. So this isn't a blockade that is stopping things like food or other shipments coming into Venezuela. It's actually only targeting illicit oil that is already under US sanctions and even then, not even at this point, a majority of sanctioned oil.
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So what does this blockade, or so called blockade mean for President Maduro and his allies?
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This is another way for the US to really put the screws on the Maduro regime. I think that we have been trying to do that without success, obviously until very recently. I do think our ultimate aim in Venezuela is to have a transition towards a democratic government. I think it's important to realize that the Maduro regime is currently occupying the government in Venezuela after having stolen elections. The entire reason why the Maduro regime has been able to hold on to power and has been able to suppress domestic uprisings and domestic protests and domestic dissents in Venezuela is because of the oil revenue and diplomatic, diplomatic support that it receives from China, from Russia, from Iran and from Cuba in different ways. And so unfortunately, it doesn't seem to me that there is a way to actually dislodge the Maduro regime unless we also take an active role, and especially if we also start to put pressure not only on Maduro, but also on the foreign backers and countries that support his illegitimate rule. So this is one way to actually start to put the screws on the regime by depriving them of that really essential income that they have and also starting to hurt their partners that are supporting them, whether that's China, Cuba, Russia or Iran.
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Well, Gil, wrapping up here, is there anything else we ought to be watching for?
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I think it'll be interesting to see what the Venezuelan reaction is and essentially how long they can actually withstand this. One of the reasons why the regime has turned towards criminality is because they simply did not have enough legitimate income for Maduro to bribe and pay off high ranking military generals in order to keep them aligned to him. So if this goes on for more than a month or so, I do think that if oil revenue falls in Venezuela, we will start to see more people who are the generals who essentially support Maduro out of self interest and not out of personal love, potentially start to crack.
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Gil Guerra is an immigration policy analyst researching Latin American foreign policy at the Niskanen center in Washington. Gil, thanks so much.
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Thank you very much.
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Coming next on the world and everything in it, a report from East Africa. Much of the news out of Africa lately is focused on the persecution of Christians in Nigeria and the battle between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Recently, I traveled with a team to the region that borders those two warring countries. Here's my report. You expect to hear the Muslim call to prayer in countries where Islam is the dominant religion. But this is Uganda, a predominantly Christian nation. Population 48 million. Anglican and Pentecostal Christians make up a combined 43% of the population. Roman Catholics, another 39%. Census data puts the Muslim population at about 12 to 14%. But the Uganda Muslim Supreme Council that represents Islam in Uganda suggests it's much higher than that.
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We knew our battle is not against flesh and blood.
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Pastor Robert Nablari was born in Uganda. He says he doesn't pay much attention to demographic statistics, but he knows his people need Jesus. In 2005, Pastor Robert, as he's called, planted Miracle center church in Kuempe, a busy metropolitan area in Uganda's capital city of Kampala. Wooden beams covered with sheet metal support the one story sanctuary. The large Brooklyn. The room is filled with colorful plastic chairs. The church sits atop a steep hill with uneven terrain. On rainy days, the hill can be difficult to navigate. But Pastor Robert says the more difficult barriers keeping people from hearing the gospel aren't physical.
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This place, before we came here, people told me it's a Muslim stronghold. They told me the witch doctors and the Muslims had had a sacrifice service to sacrifice any pastor that would come in this area. Me, I was sent by heaven. Whatever is there, we have the victory. Jesus has overcome the one. So we came.
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Pastor Robert and his wife Rose have boldly planted three additional churches. The road leading to one of those church plants is congested with minivans, motorcycles, pedestrians, and open market merchants. It soon gives way to dirt roads surrounded by fields of sugar cane and cabbage. The locals call this the bush. We drive as deep into the lush greenery as we can. Then we follow the praise. About two dozen men, women, and children are celebrating the blessing of their new church building. Right now, it's a simple wooden skeleton frame.
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Jesus said on this rock, I'll build my church. Yes. Yes.
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Pastor Robert addresses the small crowd in English, but his protege, Pastor Michael, translates in the Luganda language. That's the language most of the villagers still use. Pastor Michael has served in this village since 2010. He says the obstacles he faces in the bush are similar to the challenges Pastor Robert faces in the city.
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Almost every home, every family, they had a shrine. They were worshipping spirits. They were believing in witchcraft.
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But Pastor Michael pushed on.
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People came to Jesus they began believing Jesus and we started destroying the witchcraft. We started destroying the shrines.
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Back on the road, we've got one more stop to make.
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We are in Wakiso district, about 25 miles from the capital city.
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In 2012, Pastor Robert bought land in this rural part of Uganda. He and his wife dreamed of planting churches and schools here. The population of Uganda is majority young people. More than 50% of our 48 million people is below the age of 15. The devastation of the AIDS epidemic left many young people orphaned. The Ugandan government provides free education, but most students can't afford the school books, meals and uniforms. So in 2008, the Nablaris opened Miracle Destiny Primary School. Four years later, they added a high school and a boarding school for students who grew up like Pastor Robert.
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I put on my first pair of shoes at the age of 14 and a half. I came from a polygamous family. My dad had three wives, all at the same time.
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Pastor Roberts says he worked hard to stay in school because education was his way out of poverty. But gradually, it became something more.
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I was not a believer, but I thought education is my only hope.
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Pastor Robert says once he got to college, he realized his pursuit of education had become his God, a God that would ultimately let him down.
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What I saw how the kids behaved. I said, wait a minute. Education is not the Savior. There must be something deeper. That's when I encountered Christ. Is Christ at the center with education.
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From the primary school to the high school? He's modeled that standard for nearly two decades and is now able to see and hear the fruit of his labor. This is Israel. He's the youngest of six children. He and his three older siblings have attended Miracle Destiny High School. Two are now at university. Back at Pastor Robert's church, where it all began, Israel's mother, Harriet, remembers that day back in 2007. She walked through the church doors abandoned and defeated. My husband went and left me with the kids in the house, and I had no hope. I was tired. I was going to commit suicide. But she says Pastor Robert assured her God had another plan. She now works at the primary school. They have been there for me and for my children. So emotional. When I think of the goodness of God, I just shed tears because God has been so good to me.
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While it's hard to believe that the movie Home Alone debuted 35 years ago, it turned a quiet house in suburban Chicago into a tourist attraction. John Abenshine owned the place during filming and lived there the whole time.
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After the shoots, the cast and crew just kind of hung around because they.
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Were away from home themselves and the home became kind of a second home to them.
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So they became what I describe as our Hooby family.
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Abenshind sold it it 2012 and those owners sold it again early this year. And guess what? The new owners are restoring that home to how it looked back in 1990. A sort of longing behind that. Just like in the movie.
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Can I just see my mother? I never want another thing as long as I live. I just want my mother.
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There's just no place like home.
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Ain't that the truth.
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It's the world and everything in it.
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When you're alone and life is making you lonely, you can always go downtown.
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Today is Thursday, December 18th. Thank you for turning to World Radio to help start your day. Good morning. I'm Mary Reichert.
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And I'm Myrna Brown. Coming next on the WORLD and everything in it going downtown. Things will be great when you're downtown. Many downtown areas and capital cities across the country face empty streets. That means fewer people enjoy historical spaces like state capitols and museums.
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But one southern city has come up with a creative way to get people to visit its historical landmarks. World senior writer Kim Henderson brings us this report.
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The two Mississippi museums. We have the Opossum Ridge exhibit and some food and drink.
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It's a big night in downtown Jackson, Mississippi, the annual Christmas by Candlelight tour. Visitors hop on chartered buses that run between different spots on the tour, like the building that houses Mississippi's history museums. Inside, a high school choir is performing. Drew Gardner is part of the Department of Archives and History team that's responsible for the Christmas by Candlelight tour. He says tonight it's all hands on deck.
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You've got staff that are our archivists that are volunteering to pour hot chocolate. We've got folks that work in historic preservation that are hopping on these charter buses to help people get from one stop to the other.
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The tour is a holiday response to a year round problem.
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It can be challenging to get somebody to come and connect with a building.
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A structure, a story.
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That feels old. That feels that was in the past. But I think the beauty is, is that so many of these places, they.
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Have such rich stories, stories of constitutional conventions, the birth of the blues, even the law that led to the overturning of Roe v. Wade. The buildings on the tour aren't just historical gems, they're educational opportunities. One houses a huge model train layout. The Possum Ridge model train exhibit depicts a typical Mississippi railroad town during the 1940s. Children climb stools to look through the plexiglass barrier as tiny locomotives pass by. Engineer Lucky Osborne has been hand making buildings and scenes for the exhibit since 1976.
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I think because the trains are moving, the kids love it, the buildings, the adults love it. I remember that. So, you know, it's kind of a nostalgic thing for an adult and it's a whimsical thing for a child.
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A couple of blocks away, visitors at the old Capitol are greeted by surprise snow flurries. They're coming from a machine on the second story balcony. In the inside, oil paintings of historic figures hang above very modern children making crafts. The main attraction, however, is a one of a kind gingerbread house, an edible replica of another historic spot in the Jackson area, author Eudora Welty's house.
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Yes, it is a Tudor style revival.
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Home built in 1925.
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Typewriters like Welty used are also on display. Kids can type letters to Santa.
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The one she would have used when.
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She traveled would have been similar to this one. And this is a more updated model of the one that she would have used regularly.
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Down the street, it's open house at the governor's mansion, the second oldest continuously occupied governor's residence in the United States.
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First lady are right there to your right. You can walk upstairs. Downstairs, outside we have hot chocolate and.
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Santa under docents are on hand to give tours. The theme this year is A season of Success celebrating our teacher, students and education gains in Mississippi. Tour guides also know other tidbits of information. John F. Kennedy stayed in the cream bedroom. BB King has been here numerous times. Times. Out in the gardens, visitors enjoy hot chocolate. A ride on train is making the rounds. It's a delightful scene. Dimitri Crane has been bringing her son to the candlelight tour for years. She says visiting historical sites like the ones on the tour has given him an educational edge.
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When he was small, he can engage in conversation as to Ivan, I know that place. I know where it is and I visit that with my mom.
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Crane's son is now in college. She says too many of his friends don't understand the downtown buildings and the role they play in government.
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They don't know it even exists. Some people have been here all their lives and still haven't seen the capital, the mansion.
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Jamie Rasberry agrees. She thinks the event is important because it brings people inside buildings they're used to only seeing from a car window.
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My daughter's been in the Capitol before, but her friend has never been in there before. And to see it decorated and just the grandeur of the building, she was really just kind of overwhelmed in a good way to see that here.
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She's referring to the new Capitol, a popular stop on the tour. It's where state lawmakers conduct all their business.
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Hey, jingle bells, jingle bells.
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Tonight, though, a jazz ensemble is keeping the mood festive. And the kids love it, maybe even enough to return someday. Reporting for world, I'm Kim Henderson in Jackson, Mississippi.
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Good morning. This is the World and everything in it from listener supported World Radio. I'm Myrna Brown.
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And I'm Mary Reichard. Just a quick note before we wrap up today. 2025 is quickly coming to an end. And in preparation of next Friday's listener feedback segment, we would love to hear from you about some of your favorite moments from the program this year. Just email your reflections to editorng.org and if you can, please, please record your comments. We love to hear your voices. That's editorng.org all right.
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And now, here's world commentator Cal Thomas with a list of people who've shaped his life.
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Time magazine does not have the influence it once had, but that doesn't stop it from publishing its annual list of what itself describes as the most influential people of 2025. Their list includes artists, innovators, titans, icons, leaders and pioneers. Time's Person of the Year this year, artificial intelligence. That might also apply to Congress. Most of the people Time considers influential I've never heard of, so they clearly haven't influenced me. Maybe it's a generational thing. You may be wondering, as I was, how time defines influential. Here it is. The word influence is derived from an ancient astrological term describing the power of the stars to affect the destiny of human beings. The definition has changed a bit over the centuries, but influence remains a mysterious force and a difficult one to measure. Now might be the time for us all to sing together the Age of Aquarius. May the force be with you. Time's definition of influence begs the question. If the meaning keeps changing and is difficult to measure, what's the point of publishing the list? So I've put together my own partial list of categories and have included a few of the specific people who have influenced me throughout my life. A teacher whose knowledge and enthusiasm for a subject creates that desire for knowledge in a student. My American University history professor Bill Cromwell and countless books, including Those by David McCullough and Stephen Ambrose. An artist who creates and shares beauty, hands down, Julie Andrews. I had the privilege of interviewing her a few years ago, and she was as delightful in person as she is on stage and screen. A writer who, by the power of his or her argument, sometimes causes me to think differently or understand their reasoning. Former New York Times opinion columnist Frank Rich. And Maureen Dowd, who's still there. Also Henry Louis Gates Jr. And his profound PBS series on race and reconstruction. An orator who can speak without notes but with deep convictions that causes even people who might disagree with his or her positions to respect them and the way they communicate. I have three I'd like to mention the late Paul Harvey, Rush Limbaugh and Margaret Thatcher. A mother who chooses to stay home with her children while they're young rather than putting them in daycare. My own mom tops that list. Her name was Barbara. A husband who is faithful to his wife and puts her needs before his own, thus getting what he couldn't get by putting himself first. Sticking close to home once again, I point to my father, whose name was Clinton. A few more categories of influential people who don't usually make it into times. Annual list the Unsung, including volunteers who go into prisons and build relationships with inmates to help them lead a better life when they're released. The pregnancy help centers that tell women who have unplanned pregnancies the truth about their unborn children and persuade them to parent or place them in adoptive homes. The organizations that offer scholarships for children in failing public schools to attend private schools where they'll receive a real education. The pastor, who is not associated with the megachurch but works tirelessly to lead his congregation with financial and moral integrity. The list goes on. So for the person who has everything and you don't know what to give them, give them a present this Christmas season that will never lose its value. Tell them how much they have meant to you and how they have positively influenced your life. Make a list and check it twice. I'm Cal Thomas.
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Tomorrow, Katie McCoy is here for Culture Friday. Colin Garbarino has a review of the new film Fire and Ash and Wordplay and our next Advent reflection. That and more tomorrow. I'm Mary Reichert.
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And I'm Myrna Brown. The world and everything in it comes to you from World Radio. World's mission is Biblically objective journalism that informs, educates and inspires. The Bible says make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue and virtue with knowledge and knowledge with self control and self control with steadfastness and steadfastness with godliness and godliness with brotherly affection and brotherly affection with love. Most of verses 5 through 8 of 2 Peter chapter 1 go now in grace and peace. Sam.