On today's episode:
- Judge again bars Trump administration from deploying troops to Portland.
- Government shutdown could become the longest in history this week.
- Israel hands over bodies of 45 Palestinians after Hamas returns the remains of 3 soldiers.
- Tylenol, Kleenex, Band-Aid and more put under one roof in $48.7 billion consumer brands deal.
- The Dodgers prevail in baseball’s first World Series Game 7 since 2019 to win their ninth championship.
- Hegseth visits inter-Korean border ahead of security talks with South Korean officials.
- SNAP benefits cut off during shutdown, driving long lines at food pantries.
- Uncertainty over federal food aid deepens as the shutdown fight reaches a crisis point.
- Judges order the Trump administration to use emergency reserves for SNAP payments.
- Federal judge rules Trump can’t require citizenship proof on the federal voting form.
- New Pentagon policy undercuts trans troops' ability to ask to stay in the military, AP learns.
- Trump declines to clarify if the US will conduct tests of its nuclear weapons.
- Heidi Klum reveals her much-anticipated 2025 Halloween costume.
- Disney pulls ABC, ESPN and more from YouTube TV as talks break down.
- Amazon carries Wall Street to the finish of another winning week and month.
- Josh Allen bests Patrick Mahomes in latest clash of star quarterbacks, three teams share the NFL lead in wins, a record-long field goal and a star QB is injured, an SEC football coach is fired and two top 10 upsets result in AP Top 25 changes, a two-time NASCAR champ and results from the NYC Marathon.
- Jayden Daniels leaves game after Washington QB's left arm bends gruesomely.
- No. 12 Notre Dame escapes Boston College with 25-10 victory.
- NFL fines the Baltimore Ravens $100,000 over the inaccurate injury report involving Lamar Jackson.
- Miami Dolphins and General Manager Chris Grier agree to part ways.
- The latest on the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
—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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