Small Business Sabbath Planning and Stroke Prevention Tips

Each week, Hot off the Wire discusses a variety of stories about business, science, health, and more. This week’s headlines include:

• Small businesses can take advantage of Small Business Saturday with some planning.
• Here are new guidelines to prevent strokes, the fourth leading cause of death in the country.
• Trump won more young voters, but many disagree with him on AP VoteCast issues.
• Requests for birth control and abortion pills have increased since Trump won the election.
• FOCUS ON THE FACTS: Election officials shoot down Starlink vote-rigging conspiracy theories.
• One million migrants in the United States depend on temporary protections that Trump could target.
• New York’s ‘subway therapy’ gets commuters talking about life, Trump and the Knicks.
• The army’s response to the lack of recruits is a training course to improve low scores. It’s working.
• Overdose deaths in the United States have declined, giving experts hope for a lasting decline.
• Money in NCAA sports has changed lives for some. For many athletes, a college degree is still the prize.
• My Little Pony finally makes it to the Toy Hall of Fame, along with Phase 10 and Transformers.
• Insurers say the bear that had damaged the luxury cars was actually a person in disguise.
• Social media star squirrel euthanized after being taken from home, rabies test came back negative.
• The Boy Scouts inspired Norman Rockwell. Their works will now help pay back abuse survivors.
• What makes walking so good for your health and what else you should do.
• Bluesky has added 1 million users since the US election as people look for alternatives to X.
• Businesses on struggling corner where George Floyd was killed sue Minneapolis.
• The world’s most polluting cities are revealed at COP29 as frustration grows over the presence of fossil fuels.
• 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 an important artist, dies at 93.
• Vatican and Microsoft create AI-generated St. Peter’s Basilica to allow virtual tours and record damage.
• In this week’s religious roundup, the Archbishop of Canterbury resigns over his handling of an abuse scandal.

Host Terry Lipshetz is the editor-in-chief of Lee Enterprises’ national newsroom. In addition to producing the newspaper Fresh off the wire news podcast, Terry does regular interviews for this Behind the headlines program, co-host of Transmitted and projected movies and television shows and is the former producer of On the other side of the sky, a podcast dedicated to weather and climate.

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