August 30, 2025

Reporters reflect on Hurricane Katrina, 20 years later

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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:

A Mississippi city's tax break spurred post-Katrina building. But will homes stand the next storm.

AP reporters reflect on Hurricane Katrina, 20 years later.

On this week's Religion Roundup, a Minneapolis Catholic church grapples with a shooting and AI rhetoric is turning religious.

Gun used in Emmett Till's lynching is displayed in a museum 70 years after his murder.

Smells of weed. Roars of airplanes. Loud crowds. It's all part of the US Open's chaos.

Michael Jordan-Kobe Bryant basketball card sells for a record $12.9 million at auction.

Doctors want women to know the nuanced reality of hormone therapy for menopause.

Key US inflation gauge holds mostly steady though core inflation ticks higher.

Handling crime a strength for Trump as many in US see a 'major problem' in big cities AP-NORC poll.

Scientists give harsh grades to Trump administration work aimed at undoing a key climate finding.

Appeals court blocks Trump administration from ending legal protections for 600,000 Venezuelans.

Trump blocks $4.9B in foreign aid Congress OK'd, using maneuver last seen nearly 50 years ago.

Trump revokes Secret Service protection for former Vice President Harris after Biden had extended it.

Zelenskyy seeks talks with Trump and European leaders on slow progress of peace efforts with Russia.

Outraged over Russian strike on Kyiv, European defense leaders pledge pressure to end the war.

Should the air conditioning be turned off when you're out, or left on It depends, experts say.

To get that perfect ear of corn, weather has to cooperate. But climate change is making it dicier.

Great white sharks head north, following seals and alarming beachgoers.

US deportation flights hit record highs as carriers try to hide the planes, advocates say.

UN food agency chief says women and children are starving in Gaza and pressed Netanyahu on aid.

Nonalcoholic beer and mocktails can help people stay sober or drink less, but are not for everyone.

The call of a native frog is heard again in Southern California thanks to help from Mexico and AI.

High above the Arctic Circle, these Philly cheesesteaks are filled with moose and reindeer meat.

From empty party to an all-night stadium bash, a Mexican teen’s 15th birthday goes viral.

—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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