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What's the filibuster and why does Trump want to get rid of it during the shutdown? 10/31/2025 07:06pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Seemingly frustrated by the government shutdown and Democrats' unwillingness to accept a Republican funding bill, President Donald Trump is once again demanding that the Senate eliminate the legislative filibuster. The filibuster is a longstanding parliamentary tool that halts ac Republican leaders reject Trump's demands to scrap the Senate filibuster to end the shutdown 10/31/2025 07:04pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Back from a week abroad, President Donald Trump threw himself into the shutdown debate, calling on the Senate to scrap the filibuster and reopen the government, an idea swiftly rejected Friday by Republican leaders who have long opposed such a move. Trump pushed his Republican P Militia attack on hospital in Darfur came in waves, WHO says 10/31/2025 06:22pm • CAIRO (AP) — Groups of gunmen who reportedly killed at least 460 people at a hospital in Sudan attacked in several waves, abducting doctors and nurses, then gunning down staff, patients and people sheltering there, the World Health Organization said Friday. The attack Tuesday in the country’s Da Sean 'Diddy' Combs transferred to New Jersey prison to serve 4-year prostitution-related sentence 10/31/2025 06:00pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs has been transferred to a prison in New Jersey to serve out the remainder of his four-year prison sentence on prostitution-related charges. The hip-hop mogul is currently incarcerated at the Fort Dix Federal Correctional Institute, located about 34 miles (55 Seattle's Sam Darnold is the next QB to face shaky Washington secondary 10/31/2025 05:59pm • Seattle (5-2) at Washington (3-5) Sunday, 8:20 p.m. EST, NBC BetMGM NFL Odds: Seahawks by 3 Against the spread: Seahawks 5-2, Commanders 3-5 Series record: Commanders lead 13-10. Last meeting: Seahawks beat Commanders 29-26 in Seattle on Nov. 12, 2023. Last week: Seahawks were off; Commanders lost t Jaguars place two-way star Travis Hunter on injured reserve with a right knee injury 10/31/2025 05:49pm • JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The Jacksonville Jaguars placed two-way star Travis Hunter on injured reserve Friday because of a knee injury. Coach Liam Coen announced the move a day after Hunter injured his right knee in practice. Coen called it a non-contact injury — it happened while he was going Guirassy strikes to sent Dortmund past Augsburg and into second in the Bundesliga 10/31/2025 05:38pm • AUGSBURG, Germany (AP) — Serhou Guirassy returned to goal-scoring form as Borussia Dortmund won at Augsburg 1-0 and moved into second place in the Bundesliga on Friday. Guirassy got the only goal seven minutes before halftime when he gathered a loose ball on the edge of the box and calmly slotted Miami Dolphins and General Manager Chris Grier agree to part ways 10/31/2025 05:30pm • MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — The Miami Dolphins and Chris Grier have agreed to part ways, ending his 10-year tenure as general manager. The decision comes after Miami fell to 2-7 on the season following Thursday night’s 28-6 rout against the Baltimore Ravens. During Grier’s tenure — he has bee NFL fines the Baltimore Ravens $100,000 over the inaccurate injury report involving Lamar Jackson 10/31/2025 05:29pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The Baltimore Ravens have been fined $100,000 by the NFL for incorrectly listing star quarterback Lamar Jackson as a full participant in practice on Oct. 24. The league disclosed the fine for violating the injury report policy Friday. A week earlier, Baltimore listed Jackson Disney pulls ABC, ESPN and more from YouTube TV as talks break down 10/31/2025 05:29pm • YouTube TV viewers can no longer see Disney channels including ABC and ESPN after the two sides failed to agree on a new content distribution deal. Other channels that vanished from Google's pay TV platform include the Disney Channel, FX and Nat Geo. Google's pay TV platform said in a blog post la Christian McCaffrey and the 49ers aim to get back on track at the Giants 10/31/2025 05:21pm • After falling behind forced the San Francisco 49ers to throw the ball early and often and run the fewest times in franchise history, they could be ready to grind away on the ground against the New York Giants. With the Giants coming off allowing the most rushing yards in a game of anyone in the NFL Raiders, Jaguars come off bye weeks, looking for a win 10/31/2025 05:18pm • Jacksonville (4-3) at Las Vegas (2-5) Sunday, 4:05 p.m. EST, FOX. BetMGM NFL odds: Jaguars by 3. Against the spread: Jaguars 4-3, Raiders 2-5. Series record: Jaguars lead 6-5. Last meeting: Raiders beat the Jaguars 19-14 on Dec. 22, 2024, in Las Vegas. Last week: Jaguars and Raiders had byes. Jaguar Trump opens the door for sanctions on Nigeria over persecution of Christians 10/31/2025 05:11pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has opened the door for sanctions to be imposed on Nigeria for allegedly failing to rein in the persecution of Christians in the West African country. Trump announced Friday that he would designate Nigeria “a country of particular concern” as it relate Amazon carries Wall Street to the finish of another winning week and month 10/31/2025 05:02pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon led the U.S. stock market on Friday to the finish of another winning week and month. The S&P 500 rose 0.3% and pulled closer to its all-time high set on Tuesday. It closed out a third straight winning week and a sixth straight winning month, its longest monthly winning Giuffre family welcomes Andrew's fall from royal status but wants more action 10/31/2025 05:00pm • LONDON (AP) — British politicians, the public and the family of Virginia Roberts Giuffre on Friday praised King Charles III’s decision to strip his brother Andrew of his princely title and spacious home, a banishment that has left the disgraced royal increasingly exposed to political and legal s