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

• Hurricane Helene displaced thousands of students. Some struggled to get back on track with school.
• The world nearly beat polio. But fake records, an imperfect vaccine and missteps aided its comeback.
• Move over, green lawns. Drier, warmer climate boosts interest in low-water landscaping.
• Who qualifies for 'no tax on tips' and what counts as a tip Here are the new rules.
• Senate rejects competing bills to fund government, increasing risk of shutdown on Oct. 1.
• US attorney whose office is investigating Letitia James is told he's being removed, AP source says.
• What to know after President Trump suggested federal regulators go after networks that criticize him.
• Late-night shows address Jimmy Kimmel suspension with humor and solidarity.
• Trump says he and Xi will meet at APEC and he'll go to China, says TikTok deal approved.
• Senate confirms Mike Waltz as Trump's ambassador to the United Nations after months of delays.
• Florida federal judge tosses Trump's $15B defamation lawsuit against The New York Times.
• Mudslides trap drivers, bury roads and damage homes in southern California.
• Packers coach Matt LaFleur talks Jordan Love’s leadership and more.
• RYDER CUP '25: The recipe for what Justin Thomas calls the 'biggest golf event ever'.
• Many sports fans are unhappy with how much it costs to watch their games, an AP-NORC poll finds.
• On this week's AP Religion Roundup, support from faith-based groups helps stabilize Scouting America.
• Frida Kahlo portrait could sell for $60 million and shatter records at Sotheby's.
• Trivial Pursuit, Furbies and even snow might join the Toy Hall of Fame.
• Following Kirk's assassination, Republicans sour on direction of the country, new AP-NORC poll finds.
• It's 'do or die' for electric vehicle maker Rivian as it breaks ground on a $5 billion plant.
• More Americans say Israel has 'gone too far' in the Gaza conflict, according to new AP-NORC polling.
• Takeaways from AP's report on a boom in mercury mining in central Mexico.
• Notre Dame’s towers reopen after six-year restoration.
• Estonia says 3 Russian fighters entered its airspace without permission and stayed for 12 minutes.
• Haitians yearn for home as gangs welcome them while police warn it's too dangerou.
• West Africans deported by US to Ghana have all been sent to their home countries.
• Does painting cows with stripes prevent fly bites Researchers who studied this win Ig Nobel prize.

—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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