Each week Hot off the Wire looks at a variety of stories in business, science, health and more. This week's headlines include:
- People love to hate changing clocks twice a year, but can't agree how to fix it.
- The sea is higher than we thought and millions more are at risk, study finds.
- What to know before asking an AI chatbot for health advice.
- Jarring alarms out, quieter alerts in. New firehouse dispatch systems aim to ease stress.
- For US Muslims, immigration crackdown fears, new war worries and anti-Muslim rhetoric cloud Ramadan.
- Stranded travelers share firsthand accounts from the Middle East.
- Trump calls for Iran’s ‘unconditional surrender’ as Israel strikes Lebanon.
- Gulf allies complain US didn't notify them of Iran attacks and ignored their warnings, sources say.
- Israel strikes Beirut’s southern suburbs after issuing a blanket evacuation order.
- Attempted suicides, fights, pain 911 calls reveal misery at ICE’s largest detention facility.
- 'Smartphone for pets' lets furry friends call their owners.
- The US lost a surprising 92,000 jobs last month as the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.4%.
- Retail sales fall modestly in January as American consumers pull back on spending.
- They have a nose for finding people. Bloodhounds and their low-tech sniffers help police track.
- Triceratops skeleton 'Trey' to hit the auction block as dinosaur market soars.
- Dutch museum makes 'needle in a haystack' confirmation of Rembrandt painting.
- On this week's AP Religion Roundup, decades of clergy sex abuse in Rhode Island, and American Muslims face growing tension during Ramadan.
—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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