Tech giants are spending big on AI, but is it enough? Plus, what the looming end of food stamps would mean for millions of Americans.

And we look into what's driving the rise of legally sanctioned homicides in many states.

In the stand-your-ground states, there was a 59% increase in justifiable homicides over the six years

versus a 16% increase in overall homicides. So there were some very interesting findings of the

FBI data that nobody has ever really looked at before. It's Friday, October 31st. I'm Kate Bollivan

for the Wall Street Journal, and here is the AM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories moving your world today.

President Trump has urged Senate Republicans to get rid of the filibuster to reopen the government, the longstanding rule that requires

60 votes to advance most legislation. Posting on social media, Trump said it was time for

Republicans to go for the, quote, nuclear option of eliminating the filibuster. Government funding

lapsed on October 1st, after a stopgap spending bill passed by the Republican-led House

fell five votes short of the 60 needed in the Senate. Since then, Democrats have blocked the bill more than a dozen times,

saying they won't provide the votes to reopen until Republicans negotiate a deal to extend enhanced Affordable Care Act health insurance subsidies.

The mounting pressure to end the shutdown comes as a series of funding cliffs are starting to

pinch more Americans, with one looming deadline concerning SNAP benefits, which are due to end on Saturday.

Snap, once known as food stamps, is a federal program that provides assistance to people who

can't afford to buy their own, helping around 42 million poor and disabled Americans to buy food

each month. Journal reporter Sabrina Siddiqui explains what the cutoff to these vital benefits would look like.

What we've been hearing when we've talked to SNAP beneficiaries or recipients this week

is they already have received notifications from state authorities that funding will be paused for November because of the shutdown.

A lot of them are going to end up showing up at food banks and food pantries across the country

who have also said that they anticipate a sharp increase in people that they're going to need to feed,

and they're really going to have to turn people away because they're just not going to have enough supply. There are some states that are looking at

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