8.3.26 A request for religious accommodation, Warsh’s resolve on inflation, and Louis Armstrong

**Mary Reichard** (0:05)
Good morning. Today on Legal Docket, another case of conscience in the workplace.
A federal court in California working out what accommodation a government employer owes its religious employees.

**Jeffrey Little** (0:17)
I felt that I would be living a lie by going along with this.

**Nick Eicher** (0:22)
Also today, the Monday Moneybeat economist David Bahnsen on the latest Fed moves and the World History Book. We all owe our careers to Louis Armstrong. The musician whose sound still echoes through American music.

**Mary Reichard** (0:42)
It's Monday, August 3rd. This is The World and Everything In It from listeners supported World Radio. I'm Mary Reichard.

**Nick Eicher** (0:49)
And I'm Nick Eicher.

**Mary Reichard** (0:53)
Now the news. Here's Kent Covington.

**Kent Covington** (0:56)
President Trump says he called off a massive attack against Iran over the weekend with US forces locked and loaded.

**SPEAKER_5** (1:03)
We had an attack that would be the biggest attack since World War II, and it would have been disastrous.

**Kent Covington** (1:11)
He added that American and Iranian negotiators are set to try once more to end the five-month war. That, he said, comes after countries around the region asked him to hold off on that weekend strike including the intended target.

**SPEAKER_5** (1:24)
Saudi Arabia, UAE, and by Qatar, and by Iran.

**Kent Covington** (1:31)
US allies in the region were worried that hitting Iran's power plants would bring Iranian missiles down on their own oil fields. President Trump says a deal would end Tehran's nuclear threat and see Iran stop terrorizing the Strait of Hormuz right away. A fifth of the world's oil normally moves through it, but Tehran has effectively shut it down. Iran, for its part, said little publicly over the weekend. Its foreign minister warned on Sunday that its government would answer any new attack.
Police in Idaho say they know who carried out a deadly shooting at a fast food restaurant over the weekend, but they still don't know why.
Investigators say 24-year-old Chad Williams killed three people at an In-N-Out burger in Twin Falls and wounded seven more, two critically. He later took his own life. One eyewitness told KMTV.

**SPEAKER_6** (2:20)
As I was running, I faced the shooter head on and he pointed the gun at me and I ducked behind a white car just to have some sort of coverage.

**Kent Covington** (2:33)
Another witness was in a car when employees came running out.

**SPEAKER_7** (2:36)
You heard everybody running, screaming, shooter, active shooter, and we had to stop because I didn't want to run over all the employees and that window hurt some shots.

**Roger Marshall** (2:46)
Boom, boom, boom.

**Kent Covington** (2:47)
Police say two men in the restaurant shot back at the suspect that afternoon, an off-duty state trooper and an armed customer. Authorities say the two men drove Williams away from the restaurant and prevented more casualties.
Three states are now investigating Dr. Anthony Fauci. Louisiana joined Alabama and Florida over the weekend. They're looking into whether Fauci broke any state laws.
Former President Joe Biden gave Fauci a pardon on his way out of office, but that only shields him from federal charges. At a Senate hearing last week, Fauci refused to answer any questions invoking Fifth Amendment protections against self-incrimination more than a hundred times. The committee plans to vote this week on holding him in contempt of Congress for not cooperating. It would then be up to the Justice Department whether to prosecute. Republican Senator Roger Marshall.

**Roger Marshall** (3:37)
I don't know that we can throw him in jail over this, but I think that certainly a special council needs to get a hold of this. There's no way we can address this in one morning hearing in Congress.

**Kent Covington** (3:47)
Republicans contend that he had no right to plead the Fifth on Capitol Hill because due to his prior pardon, he was at no risk of federal prosecution. Wildfires around Spokane, Washington have burned at least 600 homes, businesses and other buildings. Authorities have evacuated 5,000 homes, no deaths reported as of last night. Washington is in a record drought. Governor Bob Ferguson declared a statewide emergency on Saturday and banned outdoor burning. The National Guard has sent in 30 troops to assist and the city has opened its convention center as a shelter.
At the weekend box office, Spider-Man is back with the second biggest opening weekend ever.

**Louis Armstrong** (4:31)
What is happening to me?

**Kayla Toney** (4:34)
I am totally out of control.

**Myrna Brown** (4:37)
I got to fix whatever this is right now.

**Kent Covington** (4:39)
Spider-Man, brand new day, hauled in a staggering estimated $355 million stateside and globally $927 million. That dethroned the Odyssey, which finished second with another $51 million in ticket sales. Worldwide, it has also topped $900 million after its third weekend in theaters.