June 29, 2024

Summer camps during heat waves, music diplomacy through YouTube and concerns over dengue

16 minutes

On the version of Hot off the Wire posted June 29 at 6 a.m. CT:

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

Summer camps are for getting kids outdoors, but more frequent heat waves force changes.

Baby cousin with cancer inspires girls to sew hospital gowns for sick kids across U.S. and Africa.

Looking for the Fountain of Youth? Try the gym and weight-resistance training.

IRS delays in resolving identity theft cases are 'unconscionable,' an independent watchdog says.

GOP Convention security will allow guns within outer perimeter, sets parade route for demonstrators.

Groups that work with victims of domestic violence praise Supreme Court gun ruling.

Border arrests fall more than 40% after Biden's halt to asylum processing, Homeland Security says.

Conservative-backed group is creating a list of federal workers it suspects could resist Trump plans.

Planned Parenthood says it will spend $40 million on abortion rights ahead of November's election.

State Department teams with YouTube for music diplomacy.

Mass shooting shutters Arkansas town's only grocery store — for now.

New Jersey police officer honored for rescuing pair from burning building.

FDA OKs first menthol e-cigarettes, citing potential to help adult smokers.

FDA warns maker of Sara Lee and Entenmann's not to claim foods contain allergens when they don't.

Health officials tell US doctors to be alert for dengue as cases ramp up worldwide.

Most kids get antibiotics for pink eye, study shows. Experts say they're usually not needed.

Obesity drug used in Mounjaro and Zepbound may help treat dangerous sleep apnea.

—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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