Prepping for First Debate, Closing Tax Loophole, Fraud Concerns

On the version of Hot off the Wire posted June 22 at 6 a.m. CT:

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

• How Biden and Trump are taking very different approaches to preparing for next week’s debate.
• The Supreme Court upholds a gun control law intended to protect domestic violence victims.
• The IRS wants to end another major tax loophole for the wealthy and raise $50 billion in the process.
• IRS says ‘vast majority’ of 1 million pandemic-era credit claims show a risk of being improper.
• Study finds global luxury sales flattening amid self-inflicted creativity crisis and price hikes.
• Majority of Americans favor forgiving medical debt, AP-NORC poll finds.
• Business owners increasingly worry about payment fraud, survey finds.
• So long plastic air pillows Amazon shifting to recycled paper filling for packages in North America.
• U.S. bans on gasoline-powered leaf blowers grow, as does blowback from landscaping industry.
• Early blast of heat and humidity leaves millions sweltering across the US.
• No lie: Perfectly preserved centuries-old cherries unearthed at George Washington’s Mount Vernon.
• Think cicadas are weird Check out superfans, who eat the bugs, use them in art and even striptease.
• Lost chances to treat overdose survivors are documented in new Medicare study.
• On Juneteenth, monument dedicated in Alabama to those who endured slavery.
• The Iberian lynx is back from the brink of extinction, thanks to conservation efforts.

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.