Biden highlights infrastructure plan; ex-Twitter execs to testify; NHL great Bobby Hull dies; pressures of tipping | Hot off the Wire podcast

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» President Joe Biden went to Baltimore to visit an aging rail tunnel that’s slated to be replaced with help from bipartisan infrastructure legislation he signed in 2021.

» The House Oversight Committee is set to hear testimony from former Twitter employees involved in the social media platform’s handling of reporting on President Joe Biden’s son Hunter.

» A sixth Memphis Police Department officer has been disciplined for his involvement in the brutal beating and arrest of Tyre Nichols.

» A Detroit-area doctor has been sentenced to nearly 17 years in federal prison and ordered to pay $30 million.

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» The Ukrainian presidential office says Russian shelling has killed at least five people and wounded 13 others over the past 24 hours.

» Hall of Fame forward Bobby Hull, who helped the Chicago Blackhawks win the 1961 Stanley Cup Final, has died. Hull was 84.

» Barrett Strong, one of Motown’s founding artists and most gifted songwriters who sang lead on the company’s breakthrough single “Money (That’s What I Want)” and later collaborated on such classics as “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” and “War,” has died. He was 81.

» T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach, anchors at the afternoon extension of ABC’s “Good Morning America,” are leaving the network. Their romance was revealed when photos of them holding hands and spending time together surfaced in November.

» The U.S. population center is on track this decade to take a southern swerve for the first time in history.

» A silent frustration has been brewing about an age-old practice of tipping, and many people think it’s getting out of hand.

» On this week’s AP Religion Roundup, Pope Francis says homosexuality is sin but not a crime, protests against Quran desecrations erupt across the Middle East, and a group of young Jewish rescuers are commemorated on Holocaust Remembrance Day.

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