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Published February 14th, 2026, 12:00 pm

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

  • Get the love part right: It's about knowing each other, sacrifice and sticking around on bad days.
  • 'Don't jump in them' Olympic athletes' medals break during celebrations.
  • Studies test whether gene-editing can fix high cholesterol. For now, take your medicine.
  • Camp Mystic parents seek stronger camp regulations in other states.
  • CBO Federal deficits and debt to worsen over next decade.
  • Several ICE agents were arrested in recent months, showing risk of misconduct.
  • Trump's push for Greenland reveals a political weak spot, new AP-NORC poll finds.
  • Justice Department sues Harvard for data as it investigates how race factors into admissions.
  • Trump pardons 5 former NFL players for crimes ranging from perjury to drug trafficking.
  • Inflation measure falls to nearly five-year low as gas prices fall and housing costs cool.
  • Goldman Sachs' top lawyer Kathy Ruemmler to resign after emails show close ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
  • Misery deepens in the West Bank as Israel provides few Palestinian work permits.
  • A new round of US-brokered talks between Russia and Ukraine is set for Geneva next week.
  • Logistics giant DP World replaces chairman named in Jeffrey Epstein documents.

—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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