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The Wednesday Flyover Replay : DC Crackdown Grows, Ribeye Catastrophe, and a Black Moon Rising.
Presented by Russell Sherrard.
Narrated by Artificial Intelligence, Our Hosts are Christopher and Jenny.
THE FLYOVER REPLAY.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2025.
Good Morning! On this day in 1920, the first commercial radio station in the United States, 8MK—now known as WWJ-AM—began operations in Detroit under the ownership of The Detroit News. Elton Plant, an office boy at the News, became the first U.S. radio announcer, reaching perhaps 30 Detroit homes.
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TAKEOFF.
DC Crime Crackdown Intensifies.
National Guard troops deployed to Washington, D.C., may now be armed, an Army spokesperson said Sunday, reversing earlier guidance that they would not carry weapons.
Since Aug. 7, federal officials say over 450 arrests have been made, including an alleged MS-13 gang member, and 48 homeless encampments dismantled.
Nearly half of the non-immigration arrests occurred in Wards 7 and 8, which have some of the city’s highest violent crime rates.
National Guard troops from Mississippi, Ohio, South Carolina, and West Virginia have been sent to reinforce patrols. The Guard is tasked with supporting local police and providing a visible deterrent in busy areas.
Oklahoma Tests New Teachers for Indoctrination.
Oklahoma is now requiring new teachers from New York and California to pass a 50-question test screening for woke indoctrination, according to state superintendent Ryan Walters.
Developed with the conservative group PragerU, the quiz covers topics such as biology, American history, and Christianity’s influence on the U.S. See the first five questions at the bottom of this article.
Walters says the move is meant to ensure classrooms reflect “honest, pro-American education in every classroom.”
National teachers’ union officials decried the new test, saying it’s going to be a “huge turn off” to teachers and make it hard for Oklahoma to recruit educators.
Sweden Rolls 113-Year-Old Church to Safety.
A 113-year-old wooden church in Kiruna, Sweden, is completing a rare two-day relocation today to escape ground damage caused by decades of iron ore mining.
The 672-ton red timber structure, often called Sweden’s most beautiful pre-1950 building, is being moved 3 miles on massive rolling platforms at just 0.3 miles per hour. Watch a video here.
Engineers kept the church fully intact—altarpiece, organ, and all—secured with scaffolding and steel beams. The move is part of a billion-dollar effort to shift Kiruna’s town center, funded entirely by the state-owned mining company.
Locals and visitors, including Sweden’s king, lined the streets as the slow-motion spectacle was broadcast live nationwide.
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Thanks Christopher.
Now, back to the News.
POLITICS.
President Trump pledged Tuesday that American troops would not be deployed to Ukraine as part of U.S. security guarantees against Russia, but said American air support could be part of the plan.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard revoked the security clearances of 37 current and former officials who “abused public trust by politicizing and manipulating” information—including several who were involved in a controversial assessment of Russian influence in the 2016 election.
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is joining the Justice Department as the co-deputy director of the FBI. He’ll share duties with Dan Bongino.
California GOP legislators filed a petition in the state Supreme Court Tuesday to stop Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to redistrict House seats in the state. The GOP petition argues that any new bills must be in print for 30 days, a provision that was bypassed for the redistricting bill.
Chicago community leaders criticized the partially built Obama Presidential Center as an eyesore that is disrupting a historic South Side neighborhood. The project’s cost has ballooned from an original estimate of $330 million to $830 million.
SPORTS
A program from the first National Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremony in 1939 signed by all 11 living inductees at the time has sold at auction for just over $315,000. The program’s signers include Babe Ruth, Cy Young, and Ty Cobb.
Auburn University has officially claimed four additional football championships (1910, 1914, 1958, and 2004), bringing its claimed grand total to nine.
CBS Sports named LeBron James the NBA’s quarter-century MVP in a recent list, followed by Stephen Curry and Tim Duncan.
The NFL has agreed to a licensing deal with footwear brand Crocs to produce a line of football-themed shoes.
FINANCE.
Big Stock Move: Viking Therapeutics stock fell 42% Tuesday after the company released midstage trial data on its obesity pill, which disappointed investors.
Nexstar Media will acquire rival broadcast company Tegna for $6.2 billion, which, if approved, will add Tegna’s 64 stations in 51 markets to Nexstar’s lineup of over 200 stations in 116 markets.
Air Canada’s flight attendants returned to work after a deal was reached to end a three-day strike that affected an estimated 500,000 customers.
Online broker Robinhood announced Tuesday that it’s launching new prediction markets for professional and college-level football, allowing customers to trade on the outcomes of “the most popular” NFL and college football games.
SCIENCE AND TECH.
NASA’s Webb Telescope has discovered a previously unseen moon orbiting Uranus, measuring just six miles wide and likely missed by Voyager 2 due to its faint size. The find bumps the planet’s moon count to 29.
Japan has launched its first osmotic power plant in Fukuoka, only the second in the world after Denmark, using the natural pressure created when seawater and treated freshwater meet to spin turbines and generate electricity.
A rare black moon will occur early Saturday, marking the third new moon in a single season, an unusual event that happens about every 33 months. While you won’t see the moon, the sky offers prime stargazing, especially for viewing the Milky Way.
THE ROTATOR.
WISDOM WEDNESDAY.
Here’s a quiz to help people find the best pet for them based on their personality, lifestyle, and energy level.
A psychologist says couples in the happiest relationships talk about five key things daily.
Building friendships in adulthood takes effort and vulnerability, but even small daily interactions can spark lasting connections.
ET CETERA.
Two food influencers were caught on tape as a car slammed into a restaurant in Houston, Texas, spraying them with glass as they tried to eat.
A tractor-trailer carrying 40,000 pounds of ribeye steaks caught fire Monday on I-44 in Phelps County, Missouri, forcing a temporary highway closure and resulting in a total loss of the meat. Firefighters put out the blaze, which some locals jokingly called the “best-smelling fire” they’d ever seen.
A Michigan autoworker’s wallet lost in 2014 was found under the hood of a Ford Edge at a Minnesota repair shop, 11 years and 151,000 miles later.
A 19-year-old in the U.K. went viral after cutting down tree branches to improve visibility at a tricky junction ahead of her driving test—an idea backed by her instructor and mom.
Daily Quote.
“It’s a historic event, a very big and complex operation and we don’t have a margin of error. But everything is under control.”
— Project manager Stefan Holmblad Johansson, of preparation to move a 113-year-old church three miles up the road.
Inspirational Verse of the Day.
Proverbs Chapter 3 Verse 15 She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her. KJV
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