Program note: Hot off the Wire will return on Wednesday, July 9, after a short holiday break.

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

• Truckers work on English skills as US proficiency policy takes effect.
• A Revolutionary War-era boat is being painstakingly rebuilt after centuries buried beneath Manhattan.
• 'Gas station heroin' is technically illegal and widely available. Here are the facts.
• These Canadian rocks may be the oldest on Earth.
• London's secret wartime tunnels are set to draw tourists with a spy museum and underground bar.
• Commuter traffic stops for whales on Australia's humpback highway.
• Flutes for Fido Volunteers play music to soothe shelter animals.
• Supreme Court limits nationwide injunctions, but fate of Trump birthright citizenship order unclear.
• Supreme Court says Maryland parents can pull their kids from public school lessons using LGBTQ books.
• Iran says level of damage to nuclear sites caused by US strike is 'high.'
• Trump says Iran must open itself to inspection to verify it doesn't restart its nuclear program.
• MAGA leaders warned bombing Iran would backfire on Trump. So far, his voters are cheering the move.
• Bipartisan bill aims to block Chinese AI from federal agencies.
• Key inflation gauge rose last month while Americans cut back on spending.
• Unemployment among young college graduates outpaces overall US joblessness rate.
• A wedding for the ages Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez's Venice extravaganza.
• Who is Zohran Mamdani State lawmaker seeks to become NYC's first Muslim and Indian American mayor.
• Windows' infamous 'blue screen of death' will soon turn black.
• Wimbledon 2025 Coco Gauff and Carlos Alcaraz give tennis two young superstars.
• 6 Americans detained in South Korea for trying to send rice and Bibles to North Korea by sea.
• A Supreme Court ruling allows religious objections to LGBTQ schoolbooks, and a new class of priests bucks a trend of decline.
• Sean 'Diddy' Combs’ lawyer mocks sex trafficking case in closing, says charges 'badly exaggerated.'
• How Sean 'Diddy' Combs' sex trafficking trial has played out.

—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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• On today's episode: President Donald Trump says the U.S. has signed a deal with China on trade; Iran says negotiations with the U.S. have been complicated due to the airstrikes; Israeli airstrikes hit Gaza; South Korea detains Americans for trying to send rice and Bibles to North Korea by sea; and the editor of "Vogue" is stepping down and changing roles.
• Senators diverge sharply on damage done by Iran strikes after classified briefing.
• Hegseth responds to an early intelligence briefing on Iran strike.
• Iran’s supreme leader warns against further American attacks in his first statement since ceasefire.
• Prosecutors tell judge government plans to deport Abrego Garcia to a country that's not El Salvador.
• Kennedy's vaccine committee endorses preservative-free fall flu shots.
• States can cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, the Supreme Court rules.
• Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary turned acclaimed TV journalist, dead at 91.
• Prosecutor casts Sean 'Diddy' Combs as a criminal who abused others through power, violence and fear.
• Former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman to lie in state as suspect faces court date.
• US stocks rise to the brink of a record and recover nearly all their 20% springtime drop.
• Duncan Hines parent Conagra Brands says it will phase out artificial colors.
• Kroger plans to close 60 US stores in 18 months to improve profits.
• Average long-term US mortgage rate drops to 6.77%, the lowest level since early May.
• US economy shrank 0.5% between January and March, worse than 2 earlier estimates had revealed.
• A former baseball All-Star is found guilty of sexually abusing a minor, Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani are named MLB All-Star starters, the NFL suspends a veteran kicker after sexual misconduct accusations, a pair of All-Americans are drafted early in round two of the NBA Draft and a shared course record at the Rocket Classic.
• Buildings damaged as wildfire prompts evacuations near Athens.
• North Korea will open its biggest tourist site next week, though it's not yet welcoming foreigners.

—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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On today's episode: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned against any further U.S. attacks on Iran while President Donald Trump says there will be talks between the two nations next week; European Union leaders are meeting to discuss global and regional issues; Kroger is closing dozens of stores; Myanmar is cracking down on illegal drugs; private astronauts have arrived at the International Space Station; Mississippi executed a prisoner; and a meeting with the CDC alarmed pediatricians.

02b President Donald Trump is insisting that U.S. strikes on Iran delivered a crushing blow to the Islamic Republic's nuclear program

02c Trump defends US strikes on Iran as intel assessment stirs debate

02d Trump affirms his commitment to NATO's Article 5 pledge for mutual defense

02e Trump meets with Zelenskyy and says higher NATO defense spending may deter future Russian aggression

03 Trump gets 'golden share' power in US Steel buyout. US agencies will get it under future presidents

04 Federal judge orders US Labor Department to keep Job Corps running during lawsuit

05 Kilmar Abrego Garcia to remain in jail while attorneys debate whether he’ll be deported if released

06 Iranian-backed hackers go to work after US strikes

07 Fed's Powell repeats warning about tariffs as some GOP senators accuse him of bias

08 US Rep. LaMonica McIver pleads not guilty to assault charges stemming from immigration center visit

09 Japanese court convicts a US Marine in sexual assault, sentencing him to 7 years in prison

10 Closing arguments are scheduled to start Thursday in Sean 'Diddy' Combs trial.

16 US stocks hang near their record as Wall Street takes a breath following two big days

Cooper Flagg is the new Maine man for the Mavericks as the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft, a draft night trade sends a seven-footer to Phoenix, a two-time WNBA champion is released, a two-time Cy Young winner flirts with a no-hitter, the West champs ship off a veteran in hockey and a proposed 84-game NHL season is discussed.

30 Iran says over 120 homes destroyed, 500 damaged in war with Israel

31 Drone debris found in Ukraine indicates Russia is using new technology from Iran

32 Zelenskyy will sign off on special tribunal to prosecute Russian leaders over Ukraine

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