On today's episode:

• FAA lifts order slashing flights, allowing commercial airlines to resume their regular schedules.
• In reversal, Trump says House Republicans should vote to release Epstein files.
• Off-duty pilot who tried to cut a flight’s engines midair to be sentenced in federal case.
• New York Jets cornerback Kris Boyd is critically wounded in a Manhattan shooting.
• Bangladesh's ousted PM Sheikh Hasina sentenced to death for student uprising crackdown.
• Polish prime minister says weekend rail line explosion near Warsaw was act of 'sabotage.'
• Border Patrol commander touts dozens of North Carolina arrests leaving residents 'overwhelmed.'
• Aircraft carrier arrives in the Caribbean in major buildup near Venezuela.
• Trump pardons Jan. 6 defendant for separate gun offense, releasing him from prison.
• Aficionados fret as Trump moves to make pasta great again.
• Trump drops tariffs on beef, coffee, tropical fruit as pressure builds on consumer prices.
• Emails suggest Epstein's network of the rich and powerful despite sex offender status.
• Ford Motor shows off new high-tech HQ. It has a 'crown jewel' showroom and room for 4,000 employees.
• 4 law enforcement officers shot in rural Kansas responding to domestic violence call.
• College football coach John Beam from ‘Last Chance U’ has died after being shot, Oakland police say.
• Wall Street scrambles back from a big morning loss as Nvidia and bitcoin swing.
• Walmart CEO Doug McMillon announces his surprise retirement at age 59.
• The Broncos keep pace atop the NFL with last-second victory, a four-time MVP QB exits with an injury, a five-TD performance in a top-10 matchup helps Georgia move up the AP Top 25 and Texas A&M rallies to stay unbeaten in college football, and the latest showdown between the top two rivals in tennis.
• UN climate talks shift into higher gear with government ministers and presidency's new document.
• Chile votes in a presidential poll pitting a communist against the far right.
• Finland's president urges Europe to hold its nerve as he warns no ceasefire likely soon in Ukraine.
• UK government poised to overhaul its asylum system as a political storm brews over migration.
• Zelenskyy says Ukraine is working on a prisoner exchange with Russia.
• First strong winter rains soak Gaza's makeshift shelters.
• Lebanon to file complaint against Israel for wall inside its territory.
• Colombian officials say 7 children were killed in an airstrike against a rebel group this week.
• Russian drone and missile attack on Kyiv kills 6 people and injures at least 35.
• Israel returns 15 Palestinian bodies to Gaza, as Israeli settler attacks in the West Bank reached an all time high in October.
• Once a shadowy dealmaker, former Zelenskyy associate is accused in Ukrainian corruption scandal.
• A bus crashes into a bus stop in Stockholm, killing 3 people and injuring 3.
• On this week's AP Religion Roundup, US Catholic bishops select conservative culture warrior as leader, and a horror film explores the origin story of Jesus.

—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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