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Nick Eicher (0:00)

Fifteen years of The World and Everything In It. Now we're closing in on 100 million downloads.

Mary Reichard (0:06)

So we made a commemorative sticker to give away, longtime listener or brand new, we would love to send you one with our compliments.

Nick Eicher (0:13)

Go to theworldandeverythinginit.org/sticker.

There is a handy link in the show notes to order yours. So we know how many to print and where to send them.

Mary Reichard (0:28)

Good morning. A former Ukrainian Education Minister talks about what back to school means there.

Anna Novasad (0:34)

It's the fifth year of schooling during which they will basically not go to school.

Nick Eicher (0:40)

Also today, first responders in rural America work to overcome short staffing and a new California law critic say could keep fraud hidden. Later, Frank Turek fights a war on reality.

Frank Turek (0:52)

Somebody says the God of the Bible is evil. Don't go into a defense of that. First question you ought to ask is what do you mean by evil?

Nick Eicher (0:58)

And WORLD commentator Janie B. Cheaney on Lindsay Clancy.

Mary Reichard (1:10)

It's Tuesday, September 8th. This is The World and Everything In It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I'm Mary Reichard.

Nick Eicher (1:16)

And I'm Nick Eicher. Good morning.

Mary Reichard (1:20)

Up next, Kent Covington with today's news.

Kent Covington (1:25)

Investigators are on the ground in Miami trying to figure out why an Amazon cargo jet overshot a runway at Miami International Airport on Sunday. They're looking at whether it landed too far down the runway, and they want to know why the pilots did not abort the landing and try again. Tracking data show the plane was still doing 130 miles per hour when it ran off the end of the runway. The Boeing 767 flew in from Puerto Rico on Sunday afternoon.

SPEAKER_6 (1:50)

Noise one, Miami.

Zachary Gilstorf (1:52)

Looks like we have an aircraft overran the runway on 30 Yes, sir.

Kent Covington (1:56)

The jet tore through a fence and hit cars on a road used by warehouse workers, killing five people and leaving three others in critical condition.

Isaac Elliott (2:05)

Planes on fire, planes on fire, put your gang faces on.

SPEAKER_9 (2:09)

Show me alert three, all available airport units. Alert three, runway three zero overrun.

Kent Covington (2:18)

The airport has been down two of its four runways with hundreds of flights canceled or delayed. The Miami airport has no arrestor beds. Those are the crushable pads that stop a plane from going too far. Federal rules don't require them there. The National Transportation Safety Board expects a preliminary report within weeks. The full investigation, though, will take a year or more.

Iran says it is about to draw a new line in the Persian Gulf, and any ship crossing it goes on Tehran's sanctions list. World's Benjamin Eicher reports.

Frank Turek (2:52)

An Iranian security official says its new restricted zone near the Strait of Hormuz starts at the US. Naval Blockade Line and reaches into the Persian Gulf. Analysts doubt that Iran can enforce it, but the threat alone could scare off traffic, and that could put more upward pressure on energy prices. Brent Crude just topped $97 a barrel, its highest since late July, and AAA reports that Regular Unleaded set a Labor Day record at $4.15 a gallon. Diesel hit $5.90, an all-time high.

Over the weekend, Iran launched missiles at a US carrier and destroyer. Central Command says both ships were unharmed, but US forces then completely destroyed one Iranian tanker and disabled two more. For WORLD, I'm Benjamin Eicher.

Kent Covington (3:43)

A right-wing party has won a German state election in a landslide three seats short of an outright majority. The Alternative for Germany party took 44 percent Sunday in Saxony-Anhalt. Chancellor Friedrich Merz's party fell from 40 seats down to 15

The Alternative for Germany party wants to end the country's constitutional right to asylum, deport far more people, halt new wind farms, and quit the treaties funding public television. Every rival so far has ruled out a coalition with the AFD, leaving it without an obvious path to power. One small party has left open some cooperation but says it will not vote for an AFD candidate for governor. However, two more states vote in 12 days.

Rescue crews in Nepal are still digging for some 5,000 missing people nearly two weeks after a Himalayan flood. World's Kristin Flavin has that story.

Kristin Flavin (4:39)

The government lowered its flags to half-staff Monday for the nearly 1,400 people confirmed dead. In Hindu tradition, mourning ends on the 13th day after a death, but thousands of families have no body to bury. A glacier gave way high on the border with China nearly two weeks ago, sending ice, rock, and water down the valleys below. Some 900 of the missing are hydropower workers, many believed trapped in tunnels inside the mountains. Rescuers pulled three workers out alive late last week, and on Saturday, crews dug a 64-year-old woman out of her buried house after her family had already held her funeral. Outside government offices, relatives have been demanding more crews and better equipment.