Finding impartial jurors for Trump's trial, the future of 'dry' communities and Salt Lake City's bid for the Olympics

Hot Off The Wire

On the version of Hot off the Wire posted April 13 at 6 a.m. CT:

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

• Manhattan court must find a dozen jurors to hear first-ever criminal case against a former president.
• More Republican states sue to block Biden’s student loan repayment plan.
• Measles cases are up in 2024. What's driving the increase?
• AI-operated fighter jet will fly Air Force secretary in a test of military's future drone warplanes.
• Alcohol is still illegal in some New York towns. A proposed law would ban 'dry' communities.
• Almost 10% of Florida's youngest children were missed during the 2020 census.
• A healthy US economy's secret ingredient Immigrant workers, eager to fill jobs.
• The Small Business Administration offers assistance for small businesses hurt by the Maryland bridge collapse.
• Instagram begins blurring nudity in messages to protect teens and fight sexual extortion.
• JPMorgan CEO James Dimon warns inflation, political polarization and wars are creating risks not seen since WWII.
• Company that made millions of defective sleep apnea machines ordered to overhaul manufacturing.
• Tesla settles lawsuit over man's death in a crash involving its semi-autonomous driving software.
• The women's NCAA title game outdrew the men's championship with an average of 18.9 million viewers.
• As many cities sour on hosting the Olympics, Salt Lake City's enthusiasm endures.
• Nine Major League Baseball teams cut payroll this winter, and the average salary is up just 1.5%.
• Track and field becomes the first sport to pay prize money at Olympics. Paris gold medalists get $50,000.
• Maryland lawmakers OK plan to rebuild Pimlico Race Course, home of the Preakness.
• Simona Halep tells the AP she was nervous about returning to tennis after her doping ban appeal.
• Teaching refugee women to drive goes farther than their destination.
• Russian soldiers who quit Russian President Vladimir Putin's war get no hero’s welcome abroad as asylum claims surge.
• A dengue fever outbreak in Argentina leads to a shortage of a must-have item mosquito repellent.
• Istanbul Airport provides anxious travelers with paw-sitive experience by hiring five therapy dogs.

—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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