April 12, 2025

Whole milk in schools, an ancient jawbone and bodega cats

21 minutes

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

There's a new push to put whole milk back in school meals. Here's what you should know.

George M. Johnson's 'All Boys Aren't Blue' tops 2024 list of most 'challenged' US library books.

Critics see Trump attacks on the 'Black Smithsonian' as an effort to sanitize racism in US history.

Fewer foreign visitors are traveling to the US in what some see as a sign of a 'Trump Slump.'

This federal rule helped clear air over America's most beloved parks. Trump's EPA wants to kill it.

Trump is stronger on immigration and weaker on trade, an AP-NORC poll finds.

LeBron James becomes first professional male athlete to have likeness depicted in a Ken doll.

Four space tourists return to Earth after a private flight over the poles.

A British woman has become the first in the UK to give birth to a baby using a womb transplant donated from her sister.

A stroke survivor speaks again with the help of an experimental brain-computer implant.

Ancient jawbone from Taiwan belongs to a mysterious group of human ancestors, scientists say.

Chinese researchers report a pig kidney transplant and a first-step liver experiment.

Scientists map part of a mouse's brain that's so complex it looks like a galaxy.

Shingles is awful, but there may be another reason to get vaccinated. It may fight dementia.

Two moms, one human and one gorilla, bond over pregnancies at Arkansas zoo.

Sewage sludge can find a second life on farm fields. Here's how it's made.

Despite legal limbo, bodega cats make New Yorkers' hearts purr.

Tears and tail wags Inmates reunite with service dogs they raised.

On this week’s AP Religion Roundup, a solemn passover in California, and King Charles meets with Pope Francis.

Most immigrants at risk of deportation from US are Christian, report finds.

—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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