On this version of Hot off the Wire:
» The Republican presidential candidates vying to be the leading alternative to front-runner Donald Trump fought — sometimes bitterly — over the future of the party during the first primary debate of the 2024 campaign.
» Donald Trump is set to surrender to authorities in Georgia on charges he schemed to overturn the 2020 election in the state.
» Temperatures are soaring in the central U.S., leading to deaths and damage. A National Weather Service official says more dangerous heat is expected this week.
» Authorities say three people were killed and five others were wounded in a shooting at a Southern California biker bar.
» Authorities in Pittsburgh say a man facing eviction opened fire at officers from inside a home, prompting evacuations and a police siege that lasted much of the day and ended with authorities saying he was dead.
» Russian state news agency Tass says the arrest of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was detained on espionage charges, has been extended to Nov. 30.
» During the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century, a developer of land around a threatened Maui community urgently asked state officials for permission to divert stream water to help fight the growing inferno.
» Donald Trump skipped the debate stage typically relished by presidential candidates on Wednesday and instead appeared in an online interview peppered with his election lies, attacks on his rivals and lavish praise for the crowd of supporters he spoke to before they stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
» Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin and some of his top lieutenants were presumed dead in a plane crash — widely seen as an assassination to avenge a mutiny that challenged President Vladimir Putin’s authority.
» In sports, Boston, San Francisco, Baltimore and Milwaukee are among baseball’s winners, Shohei Ohtani is hit with injuries for the Angels, and the ACC is again exploring expansion.
» Around 100 million Americans are experiencing extreme temperatures.
» Tropical Storm Franklin is unleashing heavy floods and landslides in the Dominican Republic after making landfall in the country’s southern region.
» Authorities evacuated neighbors from a Pittsburgh neighborhood after someone reportedly facing eviction began firing from inside a home.
» Sixty years ago, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. issued his resounding call for racial harmony that set off decades of push and pull toward progress. The historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom remains a marker by which progress is measured.
» Rudy Giuliani has surrendered to authorities in Georgia to face an indictment alleging he acted as former President Donald Trump’s chief co-conspirator in a plot to subvert the 2020 election.
» India became the first country to land a spacecraft near the moon’s south pole on Wednesday — a historic voyage to uncharted territory that scientists believe could hold vital reserves of frozen water, and a technological triumph for the world’s most populous nation.
» U.S. regulators have announced a settlement with the company that runs Dollar Tree and Family Dollar aimed at improving worker safety at thousands of the bargain stores across the country.