Each week Hot off the Wire looks at a variety of stories in business, science, health and more. This week's headlines include:
- Despite economic concerns, Americans are set on getting away for Memorial Day weekend.
- Bored with manicured lawns, some homeowners adopt No Mow May all year long.
- Get ready for another busy Atlantic hurricane season, but maybe not as crazy as 2024.
- Most AAPI adults oppose college funding cuts and student deportations, a new poll finds.
- Stop making cents US Mint moves forward with plans to kill the penny.
- The crypto industry saw Trump as a champion. Some now fear he's putting personal profits first.
- Vance says Trump will use US military decisively rather than in 'open-ended conflicts' of the past.
- Horses on a Kentucky farm are helping men build sober lives, gain work and reunite families.
- NASA's Mars Perseverance snaps a selfie as a Martian dust devil blows by.
- Caught on camera, capuchin monkeys kidnap howler monkey babies.
- Clownfish shrink their bodies to survive ocean heat waves.
- Endangered whales gave birth to few babies this year as population declines.
- How many Americans believe in astrology and rely on fortune-telling A new survey has answers.
- For kids with autism, swim classes can be lifesaving.
- Weight-loss drugs may lower cancer risk in people with diabetes, a study suggests.
- A look at the 150-year history of ships hitting the Brooklyn Bridge.
- Fictional fiction A newspaper's summer book list recommends nonexistent books. Blame AI.
- Still finding trouble in the woods 'Blair Witch Project' star at center of Maine road dispute.
- College Football Playoff shifts to straight seeding model, no automatic byes for top league champs.
- Westminster Kennel Club sets plans for its 150th dog show next year.
- Record-setting British climber says he will scale Everest again next year, targeting his 20th summit.
- Five years later How the murder of George Floyd changed America.
—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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