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

• Ahead of the presidential election, small biz owners are growing more uncertain about the economy.
• Missed out on the northern lights Scientists expect more solar storms to produce auroras.
• US retail trade group expects holiday season sales to grow more slowly.
• Wealthier Americans are driving retail spending and powering US economy.
• Most AAPI adults think legal immigrants give the US a major economic boost: AP-NORCAAPI Data poll.
• What's behind the widening gender wage gap/
• Amazon, Google make dueling nuclear investments to power data centers with clean energy.
• Whooping cough is at a decade-high level in US.
• Another study points to correlation between helmet use on motorcycles and odds of survival.
• Lowriding is more than just cars. It's about family and culture for Mexican Americans.
• His country trained him to fight. Then he turned against it. More like him are doing the same.
• Pumpkin weighing 2,471 pounds wins California contest.
• A full-scale replica of Anne Frank's hidden annex is heading to New York for an exhibition.
• Canadian doctors who provide euthanasia struggle with the ethics of killing vulnerable patients.
• Who am I? A South Korean adoptee finds answers about the past — just not the ones she wants.

—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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