COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A fire has swept through one of Copenhagen’s oldest buildings, causing the collapse of the iconic spire from the 17th-century Old Stock Exchange. Passersby rushed to help emergency services save priceless paintings and other valuables. The Danish culture minister said it was “touching” to see how many people helped. The fire began in the copper roof of the Old Stock Exchange. The cause of the fire was not immediately known.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is allowing Idaho to enforce its ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth while lawsuits over the law proceed, reversing lower courts. The justices’ order Monday allows the state to put in place a 2023 law that subjects physicians to up to 10 years in prison if they provide hormones, puberty blockers or other gender-affirming care to people under age 18.

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson is pushing for a vote on aid for Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan this week. He has unveiled a plan to contort the package to squeeze it through the House’s political divides on foreign policy. 

NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — NASA says it determined that an object that crashed through the roof of a Florida home last month was a chunk of space junk from equipment discarded at the International Space Station. The debris struck a home in Naples on March 8. NASA recovered the object from the homeowner and took it to the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral for analysis. 

In other headlines:

• The Biden administration agrees to provide $6.4 billion to Samsung for making computer chips in Texas.
• Trump Media stock slides again to bring it more than 66% below its peak as euphoria fades.
• Tesla plans to lay off 10% of workforce after dismal quarterly sales, multiple news outlets report.
• Justice Clarence Thomas misses the Supreme Court session Monday with no explanation.
• Review says Abbey Gate bombing wasn't preventable, refutes claims troops sighted the would-be bomber.
• The gun supervisor for the movie "Rust" gets 18 months in prison for fatal shooting by Alec Baldwin on set.
• 190 decaying bodies were found at a Colorado funeral home. The owners are charged with COVID fraud of $880,000.
• The second high-profile stabbing to rock Sydney in recent days is declared a terrorist attack.
• Women's college basketball's top star turns pro, winners are crowned in the Boston Marathon, the Mets climb to the .500 mark and the Islanders extend their season.

—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.