This week's Short Wave news roundup

Toronto's rookie pitcher Trey Yesavage had a record-breaking Game 5

ACA 'window shopping' for health care costs begins as shutdown fight continues

Trump calls meeting with China's president 'outstanding.' What actually happened?

Shutdown puts thousands of schoolkids at risk of losing Head Start services

Planet Money team is getting into the board game business

Experts worry Guard deployments could change the way military is used on U.S. soil

In 'Morbidly Curious,' a psychologist explores the human draw to ghosts and gore

Trump says he wants to resume nuclear testing. Here's what that would mean

Why car insurance costs have soared (and what drivers are doing about it)

For one volunteer firefighter in Pine Haven, Wyoming, helping is the biggest reward

How the town of Cortina, Italy, is preparing to co-host the 2026 Winter Olympics

Sen. Peter Welch on efforts in Congress to fund SNAP amid the shutdown

The 'clippers' who make internet stars viral

Time for an interstellar flyby! Meet 3i/ATLAS, a very old comet

Federal Reserve cuts interest rates again as concerns grow about U.S. job market

A day after a deadly police raid in Rio de Janeiro, 2 very different stories emerge

Phyllis Trible, a groundbreaking feminist Bible scholar, dies at 92

International Committee of the Red Cross president on transporting remains and delivering aid in Gaza

Food banks and state governments work to bridge aid gaps as SNAP cutoff looms