June 13, 2025

Kitten season, Marty McFly's guitar and a millennial saint

33 minutes

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

Welcome to kitten season, when animal shelters need all the help they can get.

Peanuts or almonds? Rice or millet? Planet-friendly grocery shopping choices go beyond cutting meat.

Indiana Jones' whip, Kane's Rosebud sled and Culkin's 'Home Alone' snow cap are going up for auction.

Where's Marty McFly's guitar? Search is on for 'Back to the Future' prop 4 decades later.

Military commander says 200 Marines moved into Los Angeles to protect federal property and personnel.

Appeals court temporarily blocks judge's ruling to return control of National Guard to California.

Trump administration gives personal data of immigrant Medicaid enrollees to deportation officials.

US shifts military resources in Mideast in response to Israel strikes and possible Iran attack.

NIH scientists publish declaration criticizing Trump's deep cuts in public health research.

Study finds little agreement between Republicans and Democrats on media sources they trust.

Emperor penguins show dramatic decline in one region of Antarctica, satellite photos show.

Milky Way's chance of colliding with galaxy billions of years from now New study puts odds at 50-50.

Ping, ping ping. Here's what it's like to drive into a big hailstorm in the name of science.

Scientists say a record amount of seaweed hit the Caribbean and nearby areas in May.

Video shows dolphin calf birth and first breath at Chicago zoo. Mom's friend helped.

Consumer sentiment rose in June for 1st time this year as inflation remains stayed tame.

The Black hair industry imports products from China. Here's what tariffs mean for braids and wigs.

Who's that knocking at your door It's Anthony Weiner on a comeback tour.

A quirky vegetable sculpture contest features a squash Donald Trump and a papal 'Cornclave.'

Bustling crowds and bus rides are part of the annual peony pilgrimage to Michigan.

Miss Atomic Bomb, the woman, the mystery and the man who solved it.

When a fox says ‘help’ in London, there’s often an ambulance on its way.

The AP reporters covering the Sean 'Diddy' Combs Case.

First millennial saint Carlo Acutis will be canonized Sept. 7, the pope says.

On this week's Religion Roundup, Gaza Muslims struggle and celebrate, and witnesses recall a antisemitic attack.

—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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