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

• Democrats see crime as a major problem. Their party is struggling to address it.
• A downturn in international travel to the U.S. may last beyond summer, experts warn.
• 1.2 million immigrants are gone from the US labor force under Trump, preliminary data shows.
• Army football player and his dad save a man from flames after a car crash near West Point.
• Homeland security official says 475 people were detained during an immigration raid in Georgia.
• Hiring stalls with US companies reluctant to expand in an uncertain economic landscape.
• New Texas laws ban youth cabins in floodways, require camp safety plans.
• Google hit with $3.5 billion fine from European Union in ad-tech antitrust case.
• Cork won a rare Trump tariff exemption thanks to lobbying on both sides of the Atlantic.
• Florida's vaccine mandate removal and what it means for public health.
• Girls fell behind boys in math during the pandemic. Schools are trying to make up lost ground.
• Transgender federal employees say they face fear and discrimination under Trump.
• Moms' careers and personal time are hit hard by school drop-off demands, a poll finds.
• LSD shows promise for reducing anxiety in drugmaker's midstage study.
• Here's how to try and get into the Guinness World Records.
• On Football with Rob Maaddi Regular season is here, with guest Emmanuel Acho.
• Ned is a perfectly nice snail, but a rare shell means a doomed love life.
• Ukraine's children start new school year in underground classrooms to avoid Russian bombs.
• In Africa, a continent full of children, the fates of young and old are intertwined.
• In the shattering ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab,’ the story of a 6-year-old killed in Gaza.

—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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