Welcome to a special year-end bonus episode of Hot Off The Wire. We’ve been collecting special reports from The Associated Press that look back at select topics from the past year. We’ll be covering dysfunction in the House of Representatives, artificial intelligence, Elon Musk and Taylor Swift.
We’ll look at the war in Ukraine and the reemergence of China from its ‘zero-COVID’ policy. There were words of the year, Google and Wikipedia searches, and top songs on Spotify. And in sports, it was a year of college conference realignment as well as impressive performances from Simone Biles and Shohei Ohtani.
— Compiled and narrated by Terry Lipshetz from Associated Press reports
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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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