September 07, 2024

Fake online reviews, cell phones in schools and a warming climate

23 minutes

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

Fake online reviews and testimonials are a headache for small businesses. They hope the FTC can help.

Schools are competing with cell phones. Here's how they think they could win.

Party of one Restaurants are catering to a growing number of solo diners.

COVID-19 government disaster loans saved businesses, but saddled survivors with debt.

Ballot measures in 41 states give voters a say on abortion and other tough questions.

Botched college financial aid form snarls enrollment plans for students.

Feeling the heat as Earth breaks yet another record for hottest summer.

Runners are used to toughing it out. A warming climate can make that deadly.

Young girls are using anti-aging products they see on social media. The harm is more than skin deep.

Teen vaping hits 10-year low in the US.

Boar's Head plant linked to deadly outbreak broke food safety rules dozens of times, records show.

US clears updated COVID shots from Novavax, adding a 3rd fall vaccine option.

Consumers should immediately stop using this magnetic game due to ingestion risks, agency warns.

Donating a kidney is even safer now than long thought, US study shows.

Africa's mpox outbreaks result from neglect and world's inability to stop epidemics, experts say.

Philadelphia airport celebrates its brigade of stress-busting therapy dogs.

Giving up pets to seek rehab can worsen trauma. A Colorado group intends to end that.

Babe Ruth's 'called shot' jersey sells at auction for over $24 million.

Judge orders Martin Shkreli to turn over all copies of unreleased Wu-Tang Clan album.

Child abuse images removed from AI image-generator training source, researchers say.

In New Orleans, nonprofits see new money and new inclusive approach from the NBA Foundation.

Jewish family can have anti-hate yard signs after neighbor used slur, court says.

California woman fed up with stolen mail sends Apple AirTag to herself to catch thief.

An upstate New York nonprofit is reclaiming a centuries-old cemetery for people who were enslaved.

Residents in Boston suburb raised $20K after town officials shut down boy’s ice cream stand.

Newborn rattlesnakes at a Colorado 'mega den' are making their live debut.

—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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