June 28, 2025

Truckers work on English skills and an inside look at the Sean 'Diddy' Combs' trial

46 minutes

Program note: Hot off the Wire will return on Wednesday, July 9, after a short holiday break.

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

Truckers work on English skills as US proficiency policy takes effect.

A Revolutionary War-era boat is being painstakingly rebuilt after centuries buried beneath Manhattan.

'Gas station heroin' is technically illegal and widely available. Here are the facts.

These Canadian rocks may be the oldest on Earth.

London's secret wartime tunnels are set to draw tourists with a spy museum and underground bar.

Commuter traffic stops for whales on Australia's humpback highway.

Flutes for Fido Volunteers play music to soothe shelter animals.

Supreme Court limits nationwide injunctions, but fate of Trump birthright citizenship order unclear.

Supreme Court says Maryland parents can pull their kids from public school lessons using LGBTQ books.

Iran says level of damage to nuclear sites caused by US strike is 'high.'

Trump says Iran must open itself to inspection to verify it doesn't restart its nuclear program.

MAGA leaders warned bombing Iran would backfire on Trump. So far, his voters are cheering the move.

Bipartisan bill aims to block Chinese AI from federal agencies.

Key inflation gauge rose last month while Americans cut back on spending.

Unemployment among young college graduates outpaces overall US joblessness rate.

A wedding for the ages Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez's Venice extravaganza.

Who is Zohran Mamdani State lawmaker seeks to become NYC's first Muslim and Indian American mayor.

Windows' infamous 'blue screen of death' will soon turn black.

Wimbledon 2025 Coco Gauff and Carlos Alcaraz give tennis two young superstars.

6 Americans detained in South Korea for trying to send rice and Bibles to North Korea by sea.

A Supreme Court ruling allows religious objections to LGBTQ schoolbooks, and a new class of priests bucks a trend of decline.

Sean 'Diddy' Combs’ lawyer mocks sex trafficking case in closing, says charges 'badly exaggerated.'

How Sean 'Diddy' Combs' sex trafficking trial has played out.

—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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