Each week Hot off the Wire looks at a variety of stories in business, science, health and more. This week's headlines include:
- Seahawks, Patriots set to meet in Super Bowl 60.
- Bad Bunny says he will bring his culture to 2026 Super Bowl halftime performance.
- This year’s Super Bowl commercials feature AI, weight-loss drugs and celebrities galore.
- US births dropped last year, suggesting the 2024 uptick was short-lived.
- Hims & Hers launches copy of Wegovy pill, prompting legal threats from drugmaker Novo Nordisk.
- Pandemic disruptions to health care worsened cancer survival, study suggests.
- 2-month-olds see the world in a more complex way than scientists thought, study suggests.
- 08 Study shows particle pollution from wildfire smoke was tied to 24,100 deaths per year in the US.
- Takeaways from the AP's reporting on PFAS contamination of private drinking water wells.
- Trump's racist post about Obamas is deleted after backlash despite White House earlier defending it.
- Key participant in 2012 Benghazi, Libya, attack that killed 4 Americans is in custody, Bondi says.
- Trooper and pilot mourned after they were killed in Arizona law enforcement helicopter crash.
- Actor Timothy Busfield indicted on 4 counts of sexual contact with a child.
- US stocks soar to their best day since May as the Dow tops 50,000 and bitcoin stops plunging.
- With caviar McNuggets and heart-shaped pizza, fast food chains hope to win Valentine's diners.
- Collar cams offer a bear's eye view into the lives of grizzlies on Alaska's desolate North Slope.
- EU accuses TikTok of 'addictive design' that harms children, seeks changes to protect users.
- Norwegian crown princess issues apology to those 'disappointed' amid scrutiny of Epstein links.
- On this week's AP Religion Roundup, New York gets a new archbishop, and too-political angel is painted over.
—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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