On the version of Hot off the Wire posted April 6 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:

• Here's how to protect yourself from common scams this tax season.
• IRS claws back money given to businesses under fraud-ridden COVID-era tax credit program.
• Which states could have abortion on the ballot in 2024?
• Workers had little warning as Maryland bridge collapsed, raising concerns over safety, communication.
• Federal report finds 68,000 guns were illegally trafficked through unlicensed dealers over 5 years.
• Ford to delay production of new electric pickup and large SUV as US EV sales growth slows.
• U.S. traffic deaths fell 3.6% in 2023, the 2nd straight yearly drop. But nearly 41,000 people died.
• A biased test kept thousands of Black people from getting a kidney transplant. It's finally changing.
• ALS drug will be pulled from US market after study showed patients didn't benefit.
• J&J to pump another $13B into its MedTech business with Shockwave deal.
• Iowa's victory over LSU is the most-watched women's college basketball game on record.
• Blind people can hear and feel April's total solar eclipse with new technology.
• Invaders from underground are coming in cicada-geddon. It's the biggest bug emergence in centuries.
• Does your dog understand when you say "fetch the ball?" A new study in Hungary says yes.
• Americans star on an Iraqi basketball team. Its owners include forces that attacked US troops.
• NATO marks its 75th birthday as Russia's war in Ukraine gnaws at its unity

—The Associated Press

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