10.9 | Culture Friday · Consent at Cornell

Myrna Brown (0:05)

Good morning. Today's sexual assault allegations at Cornell University raise questions about the culture that made it possible.

Nick Eicher (0:13)

Katie McCoy sitting in once again for John's Stone Street Culture Friday is coming up. And If You Like Westerns. I'm looking for something.

SPEAKER_3 (0:21)

A lot of fellas been through here.

SPEAKER_4 (0:23)

You're going to have to be more specific.

SPEAKER_5 (0:25)

This one has a bullet in it.

Nick Eicher (0:27)

WORLD's Joseph Holmes reviews a remake of John Wayne classic, Angel and the Badman. Later, a little language history. George Grant on why we call the days of the week what we do. Wordplay for this month.

Myrna Brown (0:47)

It's Friday, October 9th. This is The World and Everything In It. From listener-supported World Radio, I'm Myrna Brown.

Nick Eicher (0:54)

And I'm Nick Iker. Good morning.

Myrna Brown (0:57)

Up next, Kate Covington with Today's News.

Kent Covington (1:01)

Hurricane Isaias is expected to lash the Gulf Coast with powerful winds, driving rain and dangerous storm surge tonight. National Hurricane Center Director Michael Brennan said he expects landfall somewhere along the north central Gulf Coast late tonight into early Saturday morning.

SPEAKER_5 (1:19)

We are expecting Isaias to be a dangerous hurricane. When it makes landfall, we have hurricane warnings in effect for portions of the Mississippi, Alabama and Florida Gulf Coast.

Kent Covington (1:27)

Officials in Alabama's Gulf Shores and Orange Beach have urged visitors to leave and nearby Foley warns that bridges could close as early as noon today. And Florida Governor Ron DeSantis warned.

SPEAKER_7 (1:40)

You are going to see potential for storm surge all the way down the Florida panhandle. You will start to see a risk of tornadoes prior to the eye of the storm reaching landfall.

Kent Covington (1:51)

Forecasters also warn of isolated rainfall totals reaching 15 inches in parts of northern Florida, threatening flash floods.

The Trump administration is accusing Microsoft and Adobe, among others, of abusing foreign worker programs. World's Harrison Waters has more from the nation's capital.

Harrison Waters (2:11)

The PERM program, as it's known, allows companies to put foreign workers on a pathway to permanent residency in the United States. Vice President JD. Vance says the program was designed to give companies access to foreign talent they can't find in America, but he asserts that Microsoft and Adobe are using the program to cut costs.

SPEAKER_9 (2:30)

Microsoft laid off last year 6,000 American workers. At the same time, the company benefited from 6,300 H1B visas and almost 3,000 green cards. In other words, if you do the math, for every worker that Microsoft laid off, they replaced that worker with one and a half foreign indentured servants.

Harrison Waters (2:52)

And Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling says those two tech giants can no longer use the PERM program.

Keith Sonderling (2:57)

I am hereby suspending, from the permanent labor certification program, some of the largest IT outsourcing firms in the world.

Harrison Waters (3:05)

Six other IT companies were on the list as well. The Labor Department is also looking into alleged abuse and higher education related to visas and possible foreign influence in federally funded research.

For World, I am Harrison Waters in Washington.

Kent Covington (3:21)

A bloody day in Ukraine.

Rescue crews picked through debris after a Russian strike hitting two public buses in eastern Ukraine killed more than 30 people. United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, reacted.

SPEAKER_3 (3:37)

The scale and manner of these attacks, killing and injuring people on buses, at their homes and work in different areas of the country is reprehensible.

Kent Covington (3:47)

Meantime, Russia is stepping up attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure with power outages worsening in Kyiv. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky publicly urged Washington to intensify economic pressure against Moscow.

Volodymyr Zelensky (4:00)

The Americans can do more. I think President Trump can do more. And he has, between us, has to do more because so many losses.

Kent Covington (4:08)

His comments came during a visit by the British foreign minister who arrived in Kyiv to announce new sanctions against Russia.

The ousted former dictator of Venezuela, Nicholas Moruro, is facing a new charge in US. Federal Court. US.

SPEAKER_12 (4:23)

Attorney Jamie McDonald announced that his office in the Southern District of New York unsealed a superseding indictment charging Nicholas Moruro and his wife Celia Flores de Moruro with a broad conspiracy to commit torture.

Kent Covington (4:39)

McDonald says the indictment charges that Moruro and other Venezuelan leaders worked to silence political opposition.

SPEAKER_12 (4:46)

Through murder and threats to murder victims' families, electric shock, asphyxiation, starvation, beatings and rape.

Kent Covington (4:57)

Prosecutors say Moruro approved torture methods and that his wife helped build the system used to crush dissent. US forces captured the couple in Venezuela in January. Both remained jailed in New York and have pleaded not guilty to the earlier drug charges. The case is set for trial in June of next year.