Biden in France for 80th anniversary of D-Day; Amanda Knox reconvicted of slander in Italy; Alec and Hilaria Baldwin plan TLC reality series

On the version of Hot off the Wire posted April June 5 at 7:45 a.m. CT:

AUKAR, Lebanon (AP) — The Lebanese military said that its solidiers shot and captured a gunman who attacked the U.S. embassy near Beirut after a shootout that injured an embassy security guard. The attack took place Wednesday as tensions continued to simmer in the tiny Mediterranean country, where months of fighting between Hezbollah militants and Israeli troops has displaced thousands along the border.

PARIS (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden is headed to France for the 80th anniversary of D-Day, where he'll join other world leaders to commemorate the invasion that helped bring an end to World War II. He will arrive at a time when the Western alliances that were forged in that era are being threatened in the United States and overseas.

FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — An Italian court has reconvicted Amanda Knox of slander, quashing her hope of removing a legal stain against her that has persisted long after her exoneration in the brutal 2007 murder of her British roommate. 

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Hunter Biden’s ex-wife is expected to be among the witnesses at his federal gun trial in Delaware. Kathleen Buhle was married to President Joe Biden’s son for roughly 20 years and says they divorced after his infidelity and drug abuse became too much to overcome. Witness testimony is expected to continue Wednesday.

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire man has been sentenced to 40 years to life in prison for fatally stabbing his mother after the two had argued about the volume on the video games he was playing. 

NEW YORK (AP) — James Kane has used a magnet to fish all manner of junk from New York City waterways, but he says the stacks of $100 bills he pulled from a safe were something else entirely. Kane’s girlfriend, Barbi Agostini, told The Associated Press on Monday that she thought he was joking as she filmed their Friday find. The magnet fisher who promotes his exploits online pulled a slimy safe out of a lake in Flushing Meadows Corona Park on Friday. The couple estimates that the safe contained $100,000 in damaged currency. 

In other news: 

• Biden says he's restricting asylum to help 'gain control' of the border.
• Biden lays into Donald Trump over convictions and says he now poses a greater threat than in 2016.
• Attorney General Merrick Garland slams attacks on the Justice Department, telling lawmakers 'I will not be intimidated.'
• Trump's lawyers ask judge to lift gag order imposed during New York trial.
• Wisconsin attorney general files felony charges against attorneys, aide who worked for Trump in 2020.
• Kim, Bashaw win New Jersey primaries for Senate seat held by embattled Menendez.
• Amid election-year push on reproductive rights, Senate to hold test vote on access to contraception.
• 3-year-old dies in what police say was random stabbing in Ohio grocery parking lot.
• US job openings fall to 8.1 million, lowest since 2021, but remain at historically high levels.
• How AP covered the D-Day landings and lost photographer Bede Irvin in the battle for Normandy.
• Silence and heavy security in China and Hong Kong on 35th anniversary of Tiananmen crackdown.
• Alec and Hilaria Baldwin announce TLC family reality series.
• Halsey reveals illness, announces new album and shares new song 'The End.'
• Muhammad Ali's childhood home is for sale in Kentucky after being converted into a museum.
• Major League Baseball makes news on and off the field, a WNBA team looks to remain undefeated, there will be a new men's champion at the French Open, a long time NHL star hangs up his skates, and a legendary NCAA women's basketball coach is given a contract extension.
• Baseball star Shohei Ohtani says he has 'closure' after ex-interpreter Ippei Mizuhara's guilty plea.

—The Associated Press

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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.