Each week Hot off the Wire looks at a variety of stories in business, science, health and more. This week's headlines include:
- The Chiefs' aim for a three-peat as they face the Eagles in the Super Bowl.
- Kendrick Lamar gets ready for the Super Bowl halftime show.
- Meet the woman keeping the adorable pups happy at this year's 'Puppy Bowl.'
- Flu season in the US is the most intense it's been in at least 15 years.
- American bald eagles are having a moment, ecologically and culturally.
- Dramatic drop in monarch butterfly count nears record 30-year low.
- Scientists solve the mystery of sea turtles' 'lost years.'
- Suit up! Met Gala reveals dress code and a slate of new celeb hosts.
- A spine-zapping implant helped 3 people with a muscle-wasting disease walk better.
- Forced leaves start for thousands at USAID under a Trump plan to gut the foreign aid agency.
- Paradox Museum Miami takes guests through a 21st century funhouse of mind-boggling illusions.
- How an ancient asteroid strike carved out 2 grand canyons on the moon
- The heist of 100,000 eggs in Pennsylvania becomes a whodunit that police have yet to crack.
- How to cook the perfect boiled egg, according to science.
- Only on AP The broadcasts of a Russian spy ship that military officials say hit trouble off Syria.
- Palestinians fear a repeat of their 1948 mass expulsion in the wake of Trump's remarks on Gaza.
- Making climate-friendly lifestyle choices isn't always easy. India learned the hard way.
- The number of snakes removed from this Australian yard will make you shudder.
—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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