• On today's episode: An Air India plane bound for London crashes with more than 240 onboard; a UN nuclear watchdog board censures Iran; a federal court will hold a hearing Thursday on the use of military in Los Angles; and there are deadly floods in South Africa.
• Kennedy names 8 vaccine committee replacements, including COVID shot critic.
• Hundreds of laid-off CDC employees are being reinstated.
• Springsteen's Berlin concert echoes with history and a stark warning.
• US reduces the presence of people not deemed essential to work in the Middle East as tensions rise.
• Elon Musk backs off from feud with Trump, saying he regrets social media posts that 'went too far.'
• Veterans are divided over the Army's big parade, being held on Trump's birthday.
• Trump says US gets rare earth minerals from China and tariffs on Chinese goods will total 55%.
• Brian Wilson, Beach Boys visionary leader and summer's poet laureate, dies at 82.
• 2 men plead not guilty in New York crypto kidnapping and torture case.
• Families of those killed in collapse of Georgia ferry dock sue companies that built it
• Jury convicts Harvey Weinstein of top charge in the retrial of his landmark #MeToo sex crimes case.
• Not-so-hot pursuit of burglary suspect sees police cars chase tractor excavator at walking pace.
• Police arrest more than 20 people on first night of curfew aimed at protests in downtown Los Angeles.
• Wall Street's rally stalls as US stocks dip for their 1st loss in 4 days.
• Google offers buyouts to more workers amid AI-driven tech upheaval and antitrust uncertainty.
• Inflation barely rose last month as cheaper gas and cars offset some costlier imports.
• GM to invest $4 billion to shift some production from Mexico to the US.
• An unlikely hero puts the Pacers in front in the NBA Finals, the Knicks struggle to fill fired coach Tom Thibodeau’s vacancy, Aaron Judge goes deep again in another Yankees’ win and a four-time All-Star is named the NHL’s top defenseman again. 
• US Open: When it starts, how to watch, what's at stake, betting odds for golf's next major.
• Female athletes appeal landmark NCAA settlement, saying it violates federal antidiscrimination law.
• Deion Sanders says 'everything is OKAY' after not attending football camps in Boulder, Colorado.
• Anti-doping watchdog urges US authorities to shut down planned drug-fueled event in Las Vegas.
• At least 49 people have died in flooding in South Africa with toll expected to rise, officials say.
• Netanyahu's government faces possible collapse as the opposition seeks to dissolve parliament.
• Poland's Tusk faces confidence vote in hopes of 'new opening' after stinging setback.
• More than 55,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war, Gaza health officials say.

—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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