Heavy rains swamp Northeast again; Carlos Alcaraz wins Wimbledon; striking actors join writers on picket lines | Hot off the Wire podcast

On this version of Hot off the Wire:

» Heavy rains are pounding an already saturated Northeast for the second time in a week, spurring another round of flash flooding, canceled airline flights and power outages.

» A heat wave continues to stretch across the South from California to Florida.

» Authorities say officers killed a man in an exchange of gunfire as they tried to arrest the suspect in the weekend killings of four people near Atlanta.

» Vehicle traffic on the single bridge that links Russia to Moscow-annexed Crimea and serves as a key supply route for the Kremlin’s forces in the war with Ukraine has come to a standstill after one of its sections was blown up.

» 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.

» Lots of sweeps and exciting finishes in Major League Baseball Sunday, Rory McIlroy supplied the exciting finish in golf and a marathon exciting Men’s final at Wimbledon that was won by Carlos Alcaraz.

» The sidewalks of Hollywood and midtown Manhattan teemed with actors joining Hollywood’s writers in protest outside the corporate offices of studios, streamers, and production companies.

» After a globe-trotting publicity blitz by star Tom Cruise, “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” launched with a franchise-best $80 million over five days, though it came in shy of industry expectations with a $56.2 million haul over the three-day weekend.