Hot Off The Wire

Each week Hot off the Wire looks at a variety of stories in business, science, health and more. This week's headlines include:

• Egg prices are soaring. Don't expect that to change anytime soon.


• From avocados to autos, Trump tariffs on Canada and Mexico could hit close to home.


• Black History Month explained its origins, celebrations and myths.


• About half of Americans approve of using weight-loss drugs to treat obesity, AP-NORC poll finds.


• As small businesses face fire devastation and try to get back on their feet, a variety of aid exists.


• This year's hottest Super Bowl ticket Advertising space, Fox says.


• Take it from locals Super experience in New Orleans entails more than just the French Quarter. The AP's Stephen Smith reports.


• NFL players suffered fewest concussions in a season in 2024 since league began tracking 9 years ago.


• RFK Jr. kept asking to see the science that vaccines were safe. After he saw it, he dismissed it.


• New report outlines risks of artificial intelligence in early stages.


• US children fall further behind in reading, make little improvement in math on national exam.


• Some artists lost their life’s work in LA wildfires. Fellow artists are helping them recover.


• Independently funded jet's sound barrier mark revives talk of commercial supersonic travel.


• Study projects millions of European heat deaths as world warms.


• A New Zealand mountain is granted personhood, recognizing it as sacred for Māori.


• Theft in Netherlands of ancient golden helmet leaves Romania distraught.


• No, Spain isn't banning tourists. Here’s what to know before planning a trip.


• Hong Kong's snake soup is slithering away but still simmers in a decades-old kitchen.


• Tiger poachers use fishing boats to smuggle body parts out of Malaysia, study shows.


• On this week's AP Religion Roundup, a sacred mountain receives personhood status, and a deadly stampede kills dozens at the world's largest religious gathering.

—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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