July 12, 2025

Understanding flood insurance, Justin Bieber's new album and a fact check

30 minutes

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

What flood insurance does and does not cover.

Intense downpours like those in Texas are more frequent, but there's no telling where they'll happen.

Two of Texas’ biggest sports teams are coming together to make a major donation after a weekend of deadly floods.

Investors snap up growing share of US homes as traditional buyers struggle to afford one.

Justin Bieber releases 'Swag,' his long-awaited seventh album Hear the best songs.

Veterans and civilians bond over beers and bluegrass at Nashville's American Legion Post 82.

FACT FOCUS: Trump misrepresents facts about wind power during Cabinet meeting.

How US views of immigration have changed since Trump took office, according to Gallup polling.

Most US adults say child care costs are a 'major problem,' a new AP-NORC poll finds.

US adults want the government to focus on child care costs, not birth rates, AP-NORC poll finds.

American kids have become increasingly unhealthy over nearly two decades, new study finds.

A Vermont dairy farm was raided. The mixed messages from Washington since then have increased fears.

Musk says he's forming a new political party after split with Trump over tax cuts law.

Protesters and federal agents clash during raid at Southern California farm.

Impostor uses AI to impersonate Rubio and contact foreign and US officials.

'Gas station heroin' is technically illegal and widely available. Here are the facts.

Mattel introduces its first Barbie with Type 1 diabetes.

Singer Chris Brown pleads not guilty to 2 further charges over London nightclub assault case.

Pete Alonso and Kyle Schwarber will skip Home Run Derby the night before All-Star Game.

Wimbledon blames human error for a mistake by the tech that replaced officials. Here's what happened.

China's first Legoland opens to visitors in Shanghai.

Scientists transplant crossbred corals to help save Miami's reefs from climate change.

A beer pioneer, South Africa's first Black female brewery owner trains a new generation.

Swiss medicines authority issues first approval for antimalarial drug for treatment of infants.

Thousands gather in Srebrenica on 30th anniversary of Europe's only acknowledged genocide since WWII.

Want to take a dip in Paris River Seine reopens to public swimming for first time in a century.

German tourist found alive 12 days after she was lost in the Australian Outback.

Pamplona holds opening bull run during San Fermín festival.

Church deacon who helps stop a mass shooting receives a new pickup truck.

On this week's Religion Roundup, the Christian summer camp community grieves after deadly Texas floods, and Pope Leo prays for urgency in the climate crisis.

—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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