Hot Off The Wire

A decline in violent crime, severe obesity and cold beer on a warming planet


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Each week Hot off the Wire looks at a variety of stories in business, science, health and more. This week's headlines include:

  • FBI finds violent crime declined in 2023. Here's what to know about the report.
  • Here's how to avoid getting pressured into signing up for store credit cards.
  • Almost all small businesses are using a software tool that is enabled by AI.
  • Severe obesity is on the rise in the US.
  • How colorful, personalized patches bring joy to young cancer patients.
  • It's time to roll up sleeves for new COVID, flu shots.
  • Funds are cutting aid for women seeking abortions as costs rise.
  • Brewing a cold beer on a warming planet is hard. Germany uses education to fight climate change.
  • Hotter summers are making high school football a fatal game for some players.
  • Harris owns a gun Trump wants to cap credit card rates Party lines blur in campaign's last stretch.
  • Harris is more popular than Trump among AAPI voters, a new APIA VoteAAPI Data survey finds.
  • Are Trump and Harris particularly Christian That's not what most Americans would say AP-NORC poll.
  • Americans are more likely to see Harris' gender as a hurdle than they were for Clinton AP-NORC poll.
  • A new mystery firm enters Trump's orbit, rekindling criticism of his presidential campaign spending.
  • A Pennsylvania bakery known for its election cookie poll is swamped with orders.
  • Takeaways from an AP and Texas Tribune report on 24 hours along the US-Mexico border.
  • Tyreek Hill's traffic stop can be a reminder for drivers' constitutional rights.
  • The number of rhinos is slightly up but poaching has increased too.
  • —The Associated Press

    About this program

    Host Terry Lipshetz is managing editor of the national newsroom for Lee Enterprises. Besides producing the daily Hot off the Wire news podcast, Terry conducts periodic interviews for this Behind the Headlines program, co-hosts the Streamed & Screened movies and television program and is the former producer of Across the Sky, a podcast dedicated to weather and climate.

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