UNITED NATIONS (AP) — World leaders will open their annual meeting at the U.N. General Assembly under the shadow of increasing global divisions, major wars in Gaza, Ukraine and Sudan, and the threat of an even larger conflict in the wider Middle East. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres previewed his opening “State of the World” speech to presidents, prime ministers, monarchs and ministers at Sunday’s “Summit of the Future,” saying “our world is heading off the rails — and we need tough decisions...
Sep 24, 2024•22 min•Season 3Ep. 224
Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes in southern Lebanon, killing at least 100 people. The Israeli military called on residents to immediately evacuate places where it claimed the Hezbollah militant group stores weapons. VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican has confirmed that plans remain in place for Pope Francis to go to Belgium and Luxembourg. That follows the cancellation of all of his audiences on Monday because of a “slight flu-like state.” BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Authorities in Alabam...
Sep 23, 2024•26 min•Season 3Ep. 223
Each week Hot off the Wire looks at a variety of stories in business, science, health and more. This week's headlines include: Voters split on whether Harris or Trump would do a better job on the economy AP-NORC poll. Tourists can finally visit the Oval Office. A replica is opening near the White House on Monday. Navy will use lessons from Ukraine and the Red Sea battles to prepare for future conflict with China. How small businesses can recover from break-ins and theft. Railroads and regulators...
Sep 21, 2024•15 min•Season 3Ep. 217
JERUSALEM (AP) — Hezbollah pounded northern Israel with 140 rockets. The strikes came a day after the militant group’s leader Hassan Nasrallah vowed to retaliate against Israel for a mass bombing attack. Israel’s military said the rockets came in three waves Friday afternoon targeting sites along the ravaged border. FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Authorities say a judge in a rural Kentucky county was fatally shot at the local courthouse. The local sheriff has been charged with murder in the killing. The ...
Sep 20, 2024•23 min•Season 3Ep. 221
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has rejected Speaker Mike Johnson's bill to temporarily fund the government. The legislation that failed Wednesday would have linked temporary government funding with a mandate that states require proof of citizenship when people register to vote. WASHINGTON (AP) — Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are set to make appearances that are meant to fire up core supporters. Harris is participating in a livestream Thursday night with Oprah Winfrey in Michigan. Trump is schedule...
Sep 19, 2024•29 min•Season 3Ep. 220
WASHINGTON (AP) — Having all but tamed inflation, the Federal Reserve is poised to do something Wednesday it hasn’t done in more than four years: Cut its benchmark interest rate, a step that should lead to lower borrowing costs for consumers and businesses. And yet an unusual air of uncertainty overhangs this week’s meeting: It’s unclear just how large the Fed’s rate cut will be. Wall Street traders and some economists foresee a growing likelihood that the central bank will announce a larger-tha...
Sep 18, 2024•21 min•Season 3Ep. 219
NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs is expected to appear in court after his indictment in New York on charges that are still sealed. The hip-hop mogul was arrested in Manhattan late Monday. Federal prosecutors didn't immediately detail the charges, but Combs has been sued by multiple people who say he subjected them to physical or sexual abuse. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump wasn’t harmed by Sunday’s apparent assassination attempt as he golfed near his Florida club. B...
Sep 17, 2024•20 min•Season 3Ep. 218
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is safe following what the FBI says “appears to be an attempted assassination” in Florida after another attempt on his life at a rally in Pennsylvania. Local authorities say the U.S. Secret Service agents protecting Trump fired at a man pointing an AK-style rifle with a scope as Trump was playing on his golf course in West Palm Beach. Law enforcement officials have identified the man as Ryan Wesley Routh. He was arrested in a neighboring...
Sep 16, 2024•32 min•Season 3Ep. 217
Each week Hot off the Wire looks at a variety of stories in business, science, health and more. This week's headlines include: Cars talking to one another could help reduce fatal crashes on US roads. Americans lost $5.6 billion last year in cryptocurrency fraud scams, the FBI says. Tube-tying rose most steeply in states that ban abortion after Roe was overturned. AP-NORCUSA Facts poll: Republicans are more likely to trust Trump than official election results. School districts race to invest in c...
Sep 14, 2024•16 min•Season 3Ep. 216
SEATTLE (AP) — Aircraft assembly workers have walked off the job at Boeing factories near Seattle and elsewhere after union members voted overwhelmingly to reject a tentative contract that would have increased wages by 25% over four years. The strike started at 12:01 a.m. PDT Friday, less than three hours after the local branch of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers announced 96% of voting workers rejected the proposed contract and 96% approved the work stoppage. Th...
Sep 13, 2024•29 min•Season 3Ep. 215
MORGAN CITY, La. (AP) — Francine has weakened to a tropical depression after slamming into Louisiana as a Category 2 hurricane, causing widespread power outages and sending a dangerous storm surge rushing into coastal communities. The National Hurricane Center predicted the sixth named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season would continue weakening. WRIGHTWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters battling three major wildfires in the mountains east of Los Angeles are taking advantage of cooler weather as...
Sep 12, 2024•26 min•Season 3Ep. 214
Kamala Harris pressed a forceful case against Donald Trump on Tuesday in their first and perhaps only debate before the presidential election, repeatedly goading him in an event that showcased their starkly different visions for the country on abortion, immigration and American democracy. Less than two months from Election Day and hours before the first early ballots will begin to be mailed Wednesday in Alabama, the debate offered the clearest look yet at a presidential race that has been repeat...
Sep 11, 2024•24 min•Season 3Ep. 213
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are gearing up to take the stage for Tuesday night’s debate in Philadelphia, where they’ll fight to sway 2024 election voters on the biggest stage in U.S. politics. The event, at 9 p.m. Eastern, will offer Americans their most detailed look at a campaign that’s dramatically changed since the last debate in June. In rapid fashion, President Joe Biden bowed out of the race after his disastrous performance, Trump survived an assassination attempt and bothsides chose t...
Sep 10, 2024•29 min•Season 3Ep. 212
HIGHLAND, Calif. (AP) — More than 35,000 structures are being threatened by a wildfire in the foothills of a national forest east of Los Angeles. The so-called Line Fire burned uncontrolled Sunday along the edge of the San Bernardino National Forest, about 65 miles east of LA. As of Sunday afternoon, the blaze had charred about 27 square miles of grass and chaparral. The cause is under investigation. LONDON, Ky. (AP) — A grueling manhunt stretches into a third day Monday for a suspect in an inte...
Sep 09, 2024•28 min•Season 3Ep. 211
Each week Hot off the Wire looks at a variety of stories in business, science, health and more. This week's headlines include: Fake online reviews and testimonials are a headache for small businesses. They hope the FTC can help. Schools are competing with cell phones. Here's how they think they could win. Party of one Restaurants are catering to a growing number of solo diners. COVID-19 government disaster loans saved businesses, but saddled survivors with debt. Ballot measures in 41 states give...
Sep 07, 2024•24 min•Season 3Ep. 210
WINDER, Ga. (AP) — The 14-year-old accused of fatally shooting four people at his high school in Georgia is expected to make his first court appearance. It comes a day after his father was also arrested for allowing his son to have a weapon. According to arrest warrants obtained by The Associated Press, Colt Gray is accused of using a semiautomatic assault-style rifle to kill two students and two teachers at Apalachee High School in Winder. Nine people were also hurt in Wednesday’s attack. Autho...
Sep 06, 2024•22 min•Season 3Ep. 209
WINDER, Ga. (AP) — More than a year ago, tips about online posts threatening a school shooting led Georgia police to interview a 13-year-old boy, but investigators didn’t have enough evidence for an arrest. Officials say that boy opened fire Wednesday at a high school outside Atlanta and killed four people and wounded nine. The teen has been charged as an adult in the deaths of two Apalachee High School students and two teachers. At least nine other people were taken to hospitals with injuries. ...
Sep 05, 2024•21 min•Season 3Ep. 208
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is using a New Hampshire campaign stop to propose an expansion of tax incentives for small businesses. She's presenting a pro-entrepreneur plan that may soften her previous calls for wealthy Americans and large corporations to pay higher taxes. She wants to expand from $5,000 to $50,000 tax incentives for small business startup expenses, with the goal of eventually spurring 25 million new small business applications over four years. Harris is making...
Sep 04, 2024•20 min•Season 3Ep. 207
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The head of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog is holding talks with senior officials in Ukraine after attacks were reported near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Rafael Mariano Grossi was holding the talks on Tuesday. Grossi has highlighted the vulnerability of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure because of Russian attacks. He is making his 10th visit to Ukraine since the war began in February 2022. TEL AVIV, Israel (AP...
Sep 03, 2024•28 min•Season 3Ep. 206
Each week Hot off the Wire looks at a variety of stories in business, science, health and more. This week's headlines include: Powell at Jackson Hole 'The time has come' for the Fed to soon begin reducing interest rates. New surveys show signs of optimism among small business owners. Trump’s post of fake Taylor Swift endorsement is his latest embrace of AI-generated images. What's for breakfast? At Chicago hotel hosting DNC event, there may have been mealworms. Fannie Lou Hamer rattled the Democ...
Aug 24, 2024•17 min•Season 3Ep. 205
CHICAGO (AP) — Kamala Harris has summoned Americans to reject political divisions and instead chart what she called a “new way forward.” She accepting her party’s nomination with a speech Thursday that blended biography with warnings about electing Donald Trump again to the White House. Taking the stage to a thunderous standing ovation as she closed out the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, the vice president argued that her personal story and prosecutorial background made her uniquely ...
Aug 23, 2024•23 min•Season 3Ep. 204
CHICAGO (AP) — The Democratic National Convention’s third night showcased a familiar former president in Bill Clinton and introduced more Americans to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. He was little known outside his state until Vice President Kamala Harris selected him as her running mate. Walz used his background as a former teacher and football coach to put a home-town spin on the Democrats’ agenda of protecting individual freedoms and rejecting what they paint as the intrusive policies of Republican ...
Aug 22, 2024•22 min•Season 3Ep. 203
On the vers ion of Hot off the Wire posted Aug. 21 at 7:45 a.m. CT: CHICAGO (AP) — Warning of a difficult fight ahead, former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama have called on the nation to embrace Kamala Harris in urgent messages to the Democratic National Convention that were at times both hopeful and ominous. “America, hope is making a comeback,” the former first lady declared. She then tore into Republican Donald Trump, a sharp shift from the 2016 convention speech in which she told h...
Aug 21, 2024•23 min•Season 3Ep. 202
On the vers ion of Hot off the Wire posted Aug. 20 at 7:30 a.m. CT: CHICAGO (AP) — The Democratic National Convention’s first night has showcased speeches from the last Democrat to lose to Donald Trump and the last one to beat him. Hillary Clinton spoke hopefully of finally breaking the “glass ceiling” to elect a female president. Joe Biden laced into Trump and directly acknowledged the concerns of protesters against the war in Gaza who demonstrated a few blocks from the convention hall. And Vic...
Aug 20, 2024•23 min•Season 3Ep. 201
On the vers ion of Hot off the Wire posted Aug. 19 at 7:45 a.m. CT: WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is entering the Democratic National Convention with increased excitement from Democrats and a steady rise in her favorability ratings among Americans as a whole. A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows 48% of U.S. adults now have a very or somewhat favorable view of Harris. That is up from 39% at the beginning of the summer, before Presiden...
Aug 19, 2024•23 min•Season 3Ep. 200
On the version of Hot off the Wire posted Aug. 17 at 6 a.m. CT: Each week Hot off the Wire looks at a variety of stories in business, science, health and more. This week's headlines include: There's an apostrophe battle brewing among grammar nerds. Is it Harris' or Harris's. Artists who object to Trump using their songs from Celine Dion and Isaac Hayes' estate. How it works From Paris to Los Angeles How the city is preparing for the 2028 Olympics. Spending at small businesses rose in July as con...
Aug 17, 2024•14 min•Season 3Ep. 199
On the vers ion of Hot off the Wire posted Aug. 16 at 7:30 a.m. CT: DOHA, Qatar (AP) — International mediators have held a new round of talks aimed at halting the Israel-Hamas war and securing the release of scores of hostages. A potential deal is seen as the best hope of heading off an even larger regional conflict. The U.S., Qatar and Egypt met on Thursday with an Israeli delegation in Qatar. During talks, Gaza health authorities announced the Palestinian death toll from more than 10 months of...
Aug 16, 2024•22 min•Season 3Ep. 198
On the vers ion of Hot off the Wire posted Aug. 15 at 8 a.m. CT: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hurricane Ernesto is barreling toward Bermuda after leaving hundreds of thousands of people in Puerto Rico without power or water as sweltering heat envelop the U.S. territory, raising concerns about people’s health. A hurricane warning is in effect for Bermuda on Thursday, with Ernesto expected to pass near or over the island on Saturday. Ernesto is forecast to become a major Category 3 hurricane on Fr...
Aug 15, 2024•21 min•Season 3Ep. 197
On the vers ion of Hot off the Wire posted Aug. 14 at 8:15 a.m. CT: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Tropical Storm Ernesto is dropping torrential rain on Puerto Rico and has left hundreds of thousands of people without power in the U.S. territory as it threatens to strengthen into a major hurricane en route to Bermuda. Ernesto is expected to become a hurricane later Wednesday as it moves away from land. WASHINGTON (AP) — Year-over-year inflation reached its lowest level in more than three years in ...
Aug 14, 2024•22 min•Season 3Ep. 196
On the vers ion of Hot off the Wire posted Aug. 13 at 7:30 a.m. CT: KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s top military commander says his forces now control 1,000 square kilometers, or 386 square miles, of Russia’s neighboring Kursk region. His statement marked the first time a Ukrainian military official has publicly commented on the gains of the lightning incursion that has embarrassed the Kremlin. Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi made the comment in a video posted Monday to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelen...
Aug 13, 2024•19 min•Season 3Ep. 195
