On this version of Hot off the Wire:
» The World Health Organization says that COVID-19 no longer qualifies as a global emergency. The announcement on Friday marks a symbolic end to the devastating coronavirus pandemic that triggered once-unthinkable lockdowns, upended economies and killed millions of people worldwide.
🎧 Co-hosts Bruce Miller and Terry Lipshetz talk about the status of television, a new movie and icons of American history.
» The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is resigning. Dr. Rochelle Walensky says the waning of the COVID-19 pandemic is a good time to make a transition.
» The Supreme Court has blocked Oklahoma from executing death row inmate Richard Glossip after the state’s attorney general agreed Glossip’s life should be spared.
🎧 The hosts discuss which tactics prevent crimes from happening in the first place and whether the punishments we use properly deter criminals.
» President Joe Biden is expected to announce Air Force Gen. CQ Brown Jr. to serve as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
» America’s employers added a healthy 253,000 jobs in April, evidence of a labor market that still shows surprising resilience despite rising interest rates, chronically high inflation and a banking crisis that could weaken the economy.
Listen to the third chapter of Late Edition: Crime Beat Chronicles that examines the circumstances surrounding a death in a New Jersey resort town.
» Indigenous families and tribal communities are gathering across North America, many wearing red in solidarity as they honor thousands of missing and slain relatives.
» Closing arguments are expected Friday in the trial of a woman accused of killing her 11-year-old stepson in Colorado, putting his body in a suitcase and then dumping it over a bridge in Florida.
It was a remarkable winter in the western United States between heavy snow and rain. Now that things have quieted down, UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain discusses what's next.
» A court in Kenya has given police five more days to hold a pastor facing possible terror-related charges in the deaths of more than 100 his congregants.
» President Joe Biden celebrated Cinco de Mayo on Friday by stepping out for quesadilla and tacos at a food hall in Washington.
🎧 Get up to speed on the ceremony and the royal drama ahead of the coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla.
» King Charles III and Queen Camilla sent a message to London commuters on the eve of his coronation.
» Adidas still hasn't figured out what to do with $1.3 billion worth of high-end Yeezy sneakers after splitting with the rapper formerly known as Kanye West.
‘Volcano of Fire’ erupts in Guatemala, and more of today's top videos
Hundreds have been evacuated in Guatemala after the Fuego Volcano erupted, some in the U.K. want King Charles' coronation to be the last, and more of today's top videos.
The Fuego Volcano, or volcano of fire, erupted less than 30 miles outside of Guatemala City, sending lava and thick smoke shooting out of its …
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The Royal Family is on a charm offensive to extoll the virtues of having a coronation even amid a cost-of-living crisis. With photo ops and me…
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Fierce fighting persisted in Sudan on Thursday despite a truce agreement as US intelligence said rival forces were trying to gain the upper ha…
Princess Anne has the trusted role of Charles’ Gold-Stick-in-Waiting in tomorrow’s coronation, which basically means The Princess Royal is ent…
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