On this version of Hot off the Wire (posted March 8 at 6:38 a.m. CT):

• Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the people responsible would be punished. He also complained about the U.S. media’s coverage of the missing Americans, accusing them of sensationalism.
• Memphis plans to release about 20 hours of video and audio related to the Tyre Nichols case.
• National Security Council spokesman John Kirby says the United States does not seek to escalate tensions with China.
• The Biden administration is preparing to relax COVID-19 testing restrictions for travelers from China as soon as Friday.
• French train and metro drivers, refinery workers, garbage collectors and others are holding further strikes against President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to raise the retirement age to 64. 
• A passenger who helped restrain a threatening man on a weekend flight from Los Angeles to Boston says the entire chaotic episode was over within seconds thanks to teamwork.
• In sports, the Milwaukee Bucks won again while New York's streak came to an end, Gonzaga dominated at the West Coast conference title game, action continued in the NHL and there are a lot of quarterback updates from the NFL.

From the original version of Hot off the Wire (posted March 7 at 4 p.m. CT):

• Two Americans are back on U.S. soil Tuesday after surviving a deadly kidnapping in Mexico, and have been taken to a Texas hospital for treatment. Two other Americans were killed.
• The Biden administration is considering detaining migrant families who cross into the U.S. illegally as it prepares to end COVID-19 restrictions at the U.S.-Mexico border.
• The Federal Reserve could increase the size of its interest rate hikes and raise borrowing costs to higher levels than previously projected if evidence continues to point to a robust economy, Chair Jerome Powell says in prepared testimony to a Senate panel.
• Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has positioned himself as the architect of a new conservative vision for the nation during his annual State of the State address.
• The U.K. government says it's ready for human-rights legal challenges to a tough new law intended to stop tens of thousands of migrants a year reaching the country in small boats across the English Channel.
• Five women who said they were denied abortions even when pregnancy endangered their lives are suing Texas over its abortion ban.
• A second person died following a stampede after a rap concert in Rochester, New York.
• A new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research indicates that voters support adjusting the number of immigrants and asylum-seekers allowed into the country.
• Federal agriculture officials are proposing a new rule that would clarify the meaning of meat labels that say foods are “Made in the USA.”
• A rocket made by the largest metal 3D printer is set to lift off this week. It is 85% 3D printed.

—The Associated Press