February 21, 2026

Soaring coffee prices rewrite some Americans' daily routines

20 minutes

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

Soaring coffee prices rewrite some Americans' daily routines.

Study finds that dangerous days when weather is prone to fire soaring around the world.

How extreme cold is affecting Americans' lives, according to a new AP-NORC poll.

Tariffs paid by midsize US companies tripled last year, a JPMorganChase Institute study shows.

Supreme Court strikes down Trump’s sweeping tariffs, upending central plank of economic agenda.

Trump says he doesn't know if aliens are real but directs government to release files on UFOs, more.

Inflation rose more quickly than expected in December.

Saudi Arabia may have uranium enrichment under proposed deal with US, arms control experts warn.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after King, has died at 84.

Nearly 3.4 million pounds of recalled Trader Joe's chicken fried rice products may contain glass.

Union and New York hospital system reach a tentative deal to end the city’s largest nursing strike.

As some people push to make profound autism its own diagnosis, this family is raising twins with it.

A rare Paul McCartney and Wings trove heads to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this summer.

Hawaii residents sick of early crowing and aggressive pecking could be allowed to kill wild chickens.

Norway wins its 17th gold medal, breaking record for most golds won in a single Winter Olympics.

Searchers find wreck of luxury steamer lost in Lake Michigan more than 150 years ago.

Fur remains a fixture in Cortina, the co-host city of the Winter Olympics, in photos.

Vonn, Shiffrin and Brignone among the Olympic skiers voicing concern over receding glaciers.

Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia reaches its peak with the completion of its soaring central tower.

Thailand uses a birth control vaccine to curb its elephant population near expanding farms.

—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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