On today's episode:

• Crossing guards face life-threatening dangers on the job.
• Behind the AP investigation into crossing guard safety, death.
• At The Gentle Barn, turkeys are for snuggling, not stuffing at Thanksgiving.
• It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a rare Superman comic book! And it fetched $9.12M!.
• National Parks to raise fees for millions of international tourists to popular US parks.
• Paramount set to distribute 'Rush Hour 4' after Trump's reported request.
• New prosecutor won't pursue charges against Trump and others in Georgia election interference case.
• Average US long-term mortgage rate falls to 6.23%, ending a three-week climb.
• Fewer Americans sought unemployment benefits last week as job cuts stay low.
• College basketball player in Oklahoma dies after being injured during game.
• Under a cloud, the Olympic flame begins its journey to the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.
• Drugs sneaked into Ohio prison soaked into the pages of 'Hillbilly Elegy'.
• They relied on marijuana to get through the day. But then days felt impossible without it.
• The late Pope Francis’ popemobile unveiled in the West Bank.
• Thai woman found alive in coffin after being brought in for cremation.
• South Korea's largest satellite launched on Nuri rocket in ambitious space mission.
• Soldiers in Guinea-Bissau appear on state television saying they have seized power in the country.
• Indonesia investigates radioactive contamination in some exports to US and Europe.Israeli military says the Red Cross has received another set of remains from Gaza militants.

—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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