Each week Hot off the Wire looks at a variety of stories in business, science, health and more. This week's headlines include:
- San Carlos Apache teenager's death reverberates throughout Indian Country.
- Thrust into unemployment, axed federal workers face relatives who celebrate their firing.
- The US penny costs nearly 4 cents to make. But for one sector of souvenir sellers, it's a living.
- Businesses scramble to contain fallout from Trump's tariffs on Canada, China and Mexico.
- Toys are expected to cost more by fall due to new US tariffs on Chinese imports.
- US tariffs on Canada and Mexico take effect, as China takes aim at US farm exports.
- Facing Trump's threats, Columbia investigates students critical of Israel.
- Homeland Security ends collective bargaining agreement with TSA staffers, an attack on worker rights.
- Jobs lost in every state and life-saving cures not discovered Possible impacts of research cuts.
- Trump says he sent a letter to Iran's supreme leader over country's advancing nuclear program.
- NASA powers down two instruments on twin Voyager spacecraft to save power
- Private lunar lander is declared dead after landing sideways in a crater near the moon's south pole.
- First national analysis finds America's butterflies are disappearing at 'catastrophic' rate.
- One moment, calm waters. The next, a 900-pound dolphin landed on their boat.
- Scientists genetically engineer mice with thick hair like the extinct woolly mammoth.
- AI pioneers who channeled 'hedonistic' machines win computer science's top prize.
- As warming climate hammers coffee crops, this rare bean may someday be your brew.
- A women accusing former Governor Andrew Cuomo of sex assault speaks out.
- US employers add a solid 151,000 jobs last month though unemployment up to 4.1%.
- US offers $10 million reward for fugitive snowboarder accused of running deadly drug ring.
- Women's rights are under attack 30 years after leaders adopted a blueprint for equality, UN says
- On this week's AP Religion Roundup, thousands flock to a medieval town to venerate Saint Francis and West Texas Mennonites face a measles outbreak.
—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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