On this version of Hot off the Wire:
» A hurricane watch is in place for portions of Maine, while a large area of coastal New England is under a tropical storm watch as Hurricane Lee is expected to reach the region later this week.
» With just over 24 hours left before a strike deadline, United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain says offers from Detroit automakers aren’t enough and the union is getting ready to strike.
» The operator of a luxury cruise ship that ran aground in Greenland with 206 people on board says at three passengers have contracted COVID-19.
» Firefighters around the country are concerned that gear laced with PFAS, a group of toxic industrial compounds, could be one reason why cancer rates among their ranks are rising.
» American researcher Mark Dickey says he thought he would die after falling ill while exploring a Turkish cave system.
» At a closed-door Senate forum, tech leaders loosely endorsed the regulation of artificial intelligence.
» In sports, it was a busy night of Major League Baseball as the Braves dominance of the NL East continued, the Astros came up just short of a history making pitching performance, the AL East race got tighter and NFL players made their concerns known regarding the safety of playing surfaces.
» North Korea’s Kim Jong Un vowed “full and unconditional support” for Russia’s Vladimir Putin as the two leaders isolated by the West held a summit that the U.S. warns could lead to a deal to supply ammunition for Moscow’s war in Ukraine.
» Escaped murderer Danelo Cavalcante was captured after eluding hundreds of searchers for two weeks in rural southeastern Pennsylvania.
» Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer Schumer said more than 60 senators attended a forum on artificial intelligence and that there was some broad consensus in building a foundation for bipartisan AI policy.
» Utah Republican Sen. Mitt Romney will not run for reelection in 2024. The former presidential candidate and Massachusetts governor announced his intentions in a video statement Wednesday, creating a wide-open contest in a state that heavily favors Republicans and is expected to attract a crowded field.
» Preventing dengue fever has long meant teaching people to fear mosquitoes and avoid their bites. But now mosquitoes are bred in laboratories to carry bacteria that halt the spread of dengue.
» Authorities say a wandering bull moose has been captured in downtown Santa Fe and relocated to a suitable habitat in northern New Mexico.
» The famous stopwatch will still announce the show as “60 Minutes.” But for six episodes this fall, the long-running CBS newsmagazine will become 90 minutes.
» A former NFL Media journalist is accusing the league of refusing to address what he calls long-standing institutional discrimination and says his contract was not renewed because he repeatedly voiced concerns regarding equity and racial injustice.
» After months of testing, TikTok is fully launching its e-commerce product in the U.S., in an effort to translate the app’s cultural relevance among young consumers to sales.
Hope fades in Morocco's search for quake survivors, and more of today's top videos
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