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American national detained in North Korea; new RSV drug approved; Elton John testifies in Kevin Spacey trial | Hot off the Wire podcast

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» The U.N. Command says an American national has crossed the border from South Korea into North Korea. The U.S.-led body that oversees the area tweeted Tuesday that the U.S. citizen was on a tour to the border village of Panmunjom and crossed the border into the North without authorization.

» A heat wave continues across the South with blistering temperatures in New Mexico and Phoenix.

» A Florida judge who issued a court ruling last year that critics said was unduly favorable to Donald Trump is set to preside over the first pretrial conference in his landmark criminal case concerning the willful retention of classified documents.

» President Joe Biden is hosting Israel’s figurehead president Isaac Herzog at the White House. 

» The Powerball jackpot rose yet again to an estimated $1 billion after no winning ticket was sold for the latest drawing. 

» A pack of dingoes has injured a woman who was jogging on a popular Austrailian tourist island in the latest clash between humans and native dogs. 

» The Orioles end their eight game winning streak, Shohei Ohtani homers in the Angels comeback win, Cardinals boss signals change is on the way, and NFL running backs' Saquon Barkley, Josh Jacobs and their respective teams fail in contract extention talks. 

» Russia has halted a breakthrough wartime deal that allows grain to flow from Ukraine to countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia where hunger is a growing threat and high food prices have pushed people into poverty.

» Authorities in Oregon say the deaths of four women whose bodies were found over three months are linked and that at least one person of interest has been identified.

» Longtime police official Edward Caban has been sworn is as commissioner of the New York Police Department, becoming the first Latino to lead the 178-year-old department.

» U.S. officials have approved a new long-acting drug to protect babies and toddlers against RSV, a respiratory virus that causes thousands of hospitalizations each year.

» New research shows another experimental Alzheimer's drug can modestly slow patients' inevitable worsening.

» Elton John has testified for the defense at Kevin Spacey’s sexual assault trial as the actor’s lawyer attempted to discredit a man who claimed Spacey aggressively grabbed his crotch in a car on the way to the singer’s house.

» A red sweater adorned with a flock of sheep worn by the young Princess Diana is expected to sell for more than $50,000 at auction.

» A Florida neighborhood is having to deal with a growing group of domestic rabbits on its streets after a breeder illegally let hers loose. Between 60 and 100 lionhead rabbits have taken up residence in the yards of a suburban Fort Lauderdale community.

» The World Health Organization says more than two dozen cats have been infected with bird flu across Poland, but no people appear to have been sickened.

» On this week's AP Religion Roundup, New Mexicans are fighting for the survival of their historic churches.

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