Small Business Saturday, preventing strokes and college athletes

Hot Off The Wire

Each week Hot off the Wire looks at a variety of stories in business, science, health and more. This week's headlines include:

• Small businesses can capitalize on Small Business Saturday with some planning.
• Here are new guidelines for preventing stroke, the nation's 4th biggest killer.
• Trump won more young voters, but many don't agree with him on issues AP VoteCast.
• Birth control and abortion pill requests have surged since Trump won the election.
• FACT FOCUS: Election officials knock down Starlink vote rigging conspiracy theories.
• 1 million migrants in the US rely on temporary protections that Trump could target.
• New York 'Subway Therapy' has commuters talking life, Trump, and the Knicks.
• The Army's answer to a lack of recruits is a prep course to boost low scores. It's working.
• US overdose deaths are down, giving experts hope for an enduring decline.
• Money in NCAA sports has changed life for a few. For many athletes, college degree remains the prize.
• My Little Pony finally hits the Toy Hall of Fame, alongside Phase 10 and Transformers.
• Insurers say bear that damaged luxury cars was actually a person in a costume.
• Social media star squirrel euthanized after being taken from home tests negative for rabies.
• The Boy Scouts inspired Norman Rockwell. His works will now help pay abuse survivors.
• What makes walking so great for your health and what else you need to do.
• Bluesky has added 1 million users since the US election as people seek alternatives to X.
• Businesses at struggling corner where George Floyd was killed sue Minneapolis.
• The world's most polluting cities are revealed at COP29 as frustration grows at fossil fuel presence.
• COP29 activists are using creative measures against restrictions on demonstrations, and to get their message across.
• Painter Frank Auerbach, who fled the Nazis and became a major artist, dies at 93.
• Vatican, Microsoft create AI-generated St. Peter's Basilica to allow virtual visits, log damage.
• On this week's religion roundup, the Archbishop of Canterbury resigns over his handling of an abuse scandal.

—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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