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Each week Hot off the Wire looks at a variety of stories in business, science, health and more. This week's headlines include:
- Patients go without needed treatment after the government shutdown disrupts a telehealth program.
- Ramen instead of Reese's Looming SNAP cuts change what's on offer for Halloween trick-or-treaters.
- Republican leaders reject Trump's demands to scrap the Senate filibuster to end the shutdown.
- A majestic Norway spruce from upstate New York chosen as Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree.
- Don’t toss your Halloween pumpkin — bake, compost or feed it to farm animals instead.
- Dictionary.com’s word of the year is '6-7.' But is it even a word and what does it mean.
- Crossing guards face life-threatening dangers on the job.
- What to expect in New York on Election Day.
- Multiple people have been arrested in Michigan in a Halloween weekend attack plot, FBI director says.
- Senate report says detainees face neglect in US immigration centers.
- New Hampshire man resumes dialysis after record 271 days living with a pig kidney.
- FDA says drugmakers have recalled a blood pressure medicine tainted with a cancer-causing chemical.
- How mountaineer Jim Morrison made the first skiing descent of Everest's most dangerous route.
- Texans QB C.J. Stroud discusses upcoming matchup against Denver, the team's latest win.
- A solid gold toilet is up for auction with a $10 million starting price.
- Starting at home and moving overseas, South Asian musicians are scoring hits worldwide.
- King Charles III strips Prince Andrew of titles and evicts him from royal residence.
- Russia deploys 170,000 troops for push in Ukraine's Donetsk region, Zelenskyy says.
- On this week's AP Religion Roundup, Fear and solidarity over deportations at a DC church, and Orthodox Jews protest mandatory military service.
—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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