The Race and Ethnicity and Digital Audio and Radio teams from The Associated Press produced “This City Was Black,” a six-part narrative audio series that traces Black history in New York City. This edition of Hot off the Wire combines the six parts into a single episode:

• Part one: "Migration."
• Part two: "Housing."
• Part three: "Religion."
• Part four: "Politics."
• Part five: "Entertainment."
• Part six, "Education."

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

• Luigi Mangione's lawyers seek to delay his state and federal trials.
• As winters warm, falling through the ice is becoming more common — and deadly.
• Tax scams are on the rise. Here's what to know.
• US deploying 3 more warships and roughly 2,500 more Marines to the Middle East, official says.
• Iran threatens world tourism sites and says it is still building missiles 3 weeks into war.
• Chuck Norris, martial arts master and actor whose toughness became internet lore, dies at 86.
• CBS News shutters its storied radio news service after nearly a century, ending an era.
• Dozens of boys and young men are dying in South Africa's traditional circumcision rites.
• NASA hauls its repaired moon rocket from the hangar back to the pad for an early April launch.
• Georgia woman charged with murder after police say she took pills to induce an abortion.
• More than 150,000 uncounted COVID-19 deaths occurred early in the pandemic, a study finds.
• From slavery to the White House, the Ficklin family served presidents for nearly 8 decades.
• Amazon offers 1-hour and 3-hour deliveries for US customers willing to pay an extra charge.
• French bulldog frenzy may be cooling in US, but dachshunds are riding high.
• Oldest known whale recording could unlock mysteries of the ocean.
• A fleet of festive pubs on wheels brings a taste of Ireland to New England.
• Decades after a Florida canal project was abandoned, advocates are trying to reunite 2 rivers.
• Dozens of boys and young men are dying in South Africa's traditional circumcision rites.
• Greece launches an animal airlift to evacuate pets and their owners from the Mideast.
• Lost episodes of Doctor Who from the 1960s have been recovered in the UK..
• Making menstrual leave official-2 paid days off a month for period pain in Kenya.
• They were under siege by a Mexican cartel. Now these civilians fight back with AK-47s and grenades.
• Aid flotilla prepares to sail from Mexico to Cuba amid rising U.S. pressure.
• Civil lawsuit in London against Gerry Adams’ alleged IRA role is dropped.
• Dozens of boys and young men are dying in South Africa's traditional circumcision rites.
• Iran threatens world tourism sites and says it is still building missiles nearly 3 weeks into war.
• On the AP Religion Roundup, Jehovah's Witnesses on blood transfusions, Pope Leo on divorced Catholics, and war impacts the Ramadan celebrations.

—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.

Theme music

The News Tonight, used under license from Soundstripe. YouTube clearance: ZR2MOTROGI4XAHRX