This recipe is a great way to spice up your green beans. It’s quick, easy, and a great addition to any fall meal.
Ingredients
~1 lb fresh green beans, trimmed
2 tbsp. olive oil or butter
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 shallot, thinly sliced
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. pepper
pinch of red pepper flakes
Instructions
1. Blanch the Green Beans Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil and add the green beans. Boil them for 3–4 minutes until bright green and just tender. Then, drain and immediately plunge the green beans into a bowl of ice water (or run under cold water) to stop them from cooking further.
2. Sautéthe garlic and shallot In a large skillet, heat olive oil or butter over medium heat. Then, add the minced garlic and sliced shallot and cook until slightly caramelized, about 2-3 minutes.
3. Combine the flavors Toss the green beans in the caramelized mixture, then season with salt, pepper, red pepper flakes and any other seasoning of choice.
4. Serve and enjoy Serve immediately and enjoy these green beans as a fantastic side to your meal.
Miami won last year’s meeting in a series that typically features multiyear streaks. FSU had won three straight before last year, while Miami won four in a row before that to end FSU’s seven-game run that reached back to 2010.
The undercard
— No. 24 Virginia (4-1, 2-0) at Louisville (4-0, 1-0), Saturday, 3:30 p.m. ET (ESPN2)
Tony Elliott’s Cavaliers have gone from being picked to finish 14th in the league to cracking the AP Top 25 for the first time since spending six weeks there in 2019. Their lone loss, at N.C. State, was a nonconference game outside the ACC scheduling model. Jeff Brohm’s Cardinals were picked to finish fifth in the league and are 4-0 for the second time in three seasons.
— Clemson (1-3, 0-2) at North Carolina (2-2, 0-0), Saturday, noon (ESPN)
This game stood out in preseason for the coaching matchup between the Tigers’ Dabo Swinney and the Tar Heels’ Bill Belichick. That curiosity is still there, but both teams are struggling. The preseason league favorite Tigers are sitting alongside Wake Forest and Boston College at the bottom of the ACC standings, while UNC has two lopsided losses against Big 12 teams.
Impact players
— Virginia Tech running back Terion Stewart. The Bowling Green transfer had been hobbled in preseason but broke out with 15 carries for 174 yards in last weekend’s surprise win at N.C. State. The Hokies (2-3, 1-0) host Wake Forest (2-2, 0-2) on Saturday with two straight wins since firing coach Brent Pry.
— Duke receiver Cooper Barkate. The Harvard graduate transfer has been a steady target for quarterback Darian Mensah and now he’s finding the end zone. Barkate had a TD grab against N.C. State on Sept. 20 then had two more in last weekend’s romp at Syracuse. The Blue Devils (3-2, 2-0) visit California (4-1, 1-0) on Saturday.
Inside the numbers
The league has four ranked teams in the AP Top 25 poll, with No. 17 Georgia Tech joining Miami, FSU and Virginia. … The Hurricanes (13th, 244.5 yards allowed) and Cardinals (18th, 268.3) are the only league teams in the top 20 nationally in total defense. Miami is ninth in scoring defense (11.5 points allowed per game). … No ACC team is in the top 25 nationally in turnover margin, though Syracuse, BC, Georgia Tech and Pittsburgh all rank 107th or worse. … Georgia Tech and Stanford have open dates this week.
Duke coach Jon Scheyer has agreed to a two-year extension running through the 2030-31 season as he enters his fourth year coming off a Final Four run.
The school announced the deal Thursday for the 38-year-old successor to retired Hall of Famer Mike Krzyzewski. Scheyer is a former Blue Devils player who helmed a run to the NCAA title as a senior in 2010, and was an assistant on Krzyzewski’s staff that won the 2015 title.
“He has delivered championships and national prominence, and he continues to lead a program built on character, connection and a relentless pursuit of greatness,” athletic director Nina King said in a statement. “Jon’s vision for Duke Basketball aligns perfectly with our highest aspirations, and we couldn’t be more excited for the future of this program under his leadership.”
Scheyer has also remained an elite recruiter to keep the Blue Devils program elite, with Duke having earned 247Sports’ No. 1-ranked recruiting class in 2022, 2024 and 2025 while ranking second in 2023.
Scheyer first arrived at Duke as a slender guard from Northbrook, Illinois, in 2006. He returned to Duke for the 2013-14 season, first as a special assistant before being elevated to assistant coach and later associate head coach.
And he has leaned into those long-running ties to the school, including joining with wife Marcelle in launching a “Kid Captain” program giving patients of the Duke Children’s Hospital access to the team and gameday tributes in famously rowdy Cameron Indoor Stadium.
Scheyer said last week that that program is expanding to create a position at the hospital to work toward enhancing the experience of patients there.
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks edged up to more records on Thursday as technology stocks kept rising and as Wall Street kept ignoring the shutdown of the U.S. government.
The S&P 500 added 0.1% to its all-time high set the day before. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 79 points, or 0.2%, and the Nasdaq composite climbed 0.4%. Both also hit records.
Thursdays on Wall Street typically have investors reacting to the latest weekly tally of U.S. workers applying for unemployment benefits. But D.C.’s shutdown meant this week’s report on jobless claims has been delayed. An even more consequential report, Friday’s monthly tally of jobs created and destroyed across the economy, will likely also not arrive on schedule.
That increases uncertainty when much on Wall Street is riding on investors’ expectation that the job market is slowing by enough to convince the Federal Reserve to keep cutting interest rates, but not by so much that it leads to a recession.
“The Fed has been on record that they are very data dependent, and the lack of data from public sources is likely to be problematic,” said Brian Rehling, head of global fixed-income strategy at Wells Fargo Investment Institute.
So far, the U.S. stock market has looked past the delays of such data. Shutdowns of the U.S. government have tended not to hurt the economy or stock market much, and the thinking is that this one could be similar, even if President Donald Trump has threatened large-scale firings of federal workers this time around.
That left corporate announcements as the main drivers of trading Thursday.
Stocks in the chip and artificial-intelligence industries climbed after OpenAI announced partnerships with South Korean companies for Stargate, a $500 billion project aimed at building AI infrastructure.
Samsung Electronics rose 3.5% in Seoul, and SK Hynix jumped 9.9%.
The announcement also sent ripples around the world. On Wall Street, Advanced Micro Devices climbed 3.5%, and Broadcom gained 1.4%. Nvidia’s 0.9% rise was the strongest single force pushing the S&P 500 upward.
Excitement around AI and the massive spending underway because of it has been a major reason the U.S. stock market has hit record after record, along with hopes for easier interest rates. But AI stocks have become so dominant, and so much money has poured into the industry that worries are rising about a potential bubble that could eventually lead to disappointment for investors.
Fair Isaac jumped 18% to its best day in nearly three years after announcing a program that will streamline access to its FICO credit scores, potentially cutting out such big credit bureaus as TransUnion, Equifax and Experian.
TransUnion’s stock tumbled 10.6%, while Equifax slid 8.5%.
All told, the S&P 500 rose 4.15 points to 6,715.35. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 78.62 to 46,519.72, and the Nasdaq composite gained 88.89 to 22,844.05.
The stock of a third credit bureau, the United Kingdom’s Experian, fell 4.2% in London. It helped drag London’s FTSE 100 down by 0.2%, but indexes were much stronger across Europe and Asia.
South Korea’s Kospi leaped 2.7% for one of the world’s largest gains following the big jumps for Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix.
In the bond market, the yield on the 10-year Treasury eased to 4.08% from 4.12% late Wednesday.
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AP Writers Teresa Cerojano and Matt Ott contributed.
By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Gathered in the unusually quiet halls of the U.S. Capitol, Republican leaders faced the cameras for a second day and implored Democrats to reopen the government.
“We want to protect hardworking federal workers,” House Speaker Mike Johnson said Thursday morning, before criticizing his counterparts. “Democrats are the ones who have decided to inflict the pain.”
It’s a striking role reversal. Budget standoffs for years have been the bane of Republican congressional leaders who had to wrestle with conservatives on their side ready to shut down the government to get their policy demands. Democrats often stood as willing partners to keeping the government open, lending crucial votes to protect programs they had championed.
“Both parties have completely flip-flopped to the opposite side of the same issue that hasn’t changed,” said GOP Sen. Rand Paul. “Congress has truly entered the upside down world.”
The change is happening in large part because President Donald Trump exercises top-down control over a mostly unified GOP — and faces little internal resistance to his budget priorities. The shift is unfolding as the shutdown threatens government services, forces the furlough of federal workers and gives the Trump administration another opportunity to remake the federal government.
Democrats, meanwhile, have been left scrambling for leverage in the first year of Trump’s second term, using the funding fight to exert what influence they can. It’s an awkward posture for a party that has long cast itself as the adults in the room during shutdown threats — something not lost on Republicans.
At a Wednesday morning news conference, Republicans looped an old clip of New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez declaring, “It’s not normal to shut down the government if we don’t get what we want.”
A new GOP consensus on short-term spending Short-term government funding legislation — known as continuing resolutions on Capitol Hill – once roiled hardline conservatives who viewed them as a dereliction of their duty to set the government’s funding levels. That fight became so bitter in 2023 that right-wing lawmakers initiated the ouster of Kevin McCarthy as House speaker after he relied on Democrats to pass a “clean” continuing resolution.
But now, Paul of Kentucky has been the lone Republican to join Senate Democrats in opposing a short-term funding measure backed by GOP leaders that would keep government funding generally at current levels through Nov. 21. In explaining his vote, Paul said the measure “continues Biden spending levels” which Trump had previously pledged to roll back.
Many of Paul’s previous fiscal hawk allies, however, have changed their tune.
“We need to reopen the government. Let’s fix America’s problems, let’s work together to solve them, but let’s reopen the government,” Vice President JD Vance said Thursday.
When he was in the Senate, Vance never voted in favor of final passage of a continuing resolution. Instead he argued that the leverage should be used to gain significant policy wins.
“Why shouldn’t we be trying to force this government shutdown fight to get something out of it that’s good for the American people?” Vance said last September on the Shawn Ryan Show podcast.
This week, Vance said: “You don’t have policy disagreements that serve as the basis for a government shutdown.”
Trump’s budget director, Russ Vought, has also taken a new tack now that he is back in the White House. While Joe Biden was president, Vought directed a conservative organization called The Center for Renewing America and counseled Republicans in Congress to use the prospect of a shutdown to gain policy concessions.
Yet this week, he charged that Democrats were “hostage taking” as they demanded that Congress take up health care policy.
In retaliation, Vought has threatened to initiate mass layoffs of federal workers and Wednesday announced that the White House was withholding funding for already approved projects in some blue states.
Trump’s tight grip unifies the GOP on the surface The shutdown, which began Wednesday, shows no sign of resolution. Republicans appear increasingly comfortable with their position, reflecting Trump’s firm control on the party’s agenda.
In a striking contrast to the internal division that once plagued GOP spending fights, party leaders displayed unity on the Capitol balcony on the first day of the shutdown.
“The President, House Republicans, Senate Republicans, we’re all united on this,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune said at the gathering, while holding the pages of the Republicans’ continuing resolution that has already passed the House. That bill would reopen the government if it passed the Senate.
Trump’s second term has seen far less resistance from Republicans than his first. His major tax and spending proposal, along with his personnel appointments, have largely moved forward unchallenged — a break from his first term when GOP lawmakers frequently pushed back against his proposals and actions.
Still, tensions remain just below the surface. The Republican administration’s push for aggressive spending cuts — and its resistance to renewing certain health care subsidies — has sparked quiet concern inside the party.
Signs of Republican unease One of the biggest flashpoints is the impending expiration of Affordable Care Act tax credits.
Some Republicans are sympathetic to the Democratic demands for an extension of the tax credits. If they allowed to expire, there will be large rate increases for many people who purchase their health care coverage on the marketplace. It would add financial stress to key Republican constituencies like small business owners, contractors, farmers and ranchers.
When Sen. Mike Rounds, a South Dakota Republican, floated a one-year extension to the health care subsidies during a Senate floor vote Wednesday, it attracted attention from Democrats and Republicans alike.
“Sometimes there’s a misunderstanding that we’re divided on the ACA credits, we’re not. So now we’re moving forward to eliminate the fraud and also find a way back to pre-pandemic levels,” Rounds said.
There’s also a growing unease with how the Trump administration is leading Republicans through the shutdown. GOP lawmakers feel they hold the political advantage in the fight, but some are beginning to express doubts as the president and his budget director prepare to unleash mass layoffs and permanent program cuts.
Trump’s penchant for hurling insults at Democratic lawmakers – many who will be crucial to leading Congress out of the spending impasse – has also undercut the messaging of Republican leaders. When Johnson was asked Thursday what he thought about Trump posting doctored videos of House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries in a sombrero, he offered a bit of advice for his Democratic counterpart.
By JONATHAN MATTISE and KRISTIN M. HALL Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Country music star Morgan Wallen denied to police that he threw a chair off a Nashville honky-tonk bar roof before and after he was arrested and charged with reckless endangerment in 2024, police video obtained by The Associated Press shows.
Roughly two weeks after his April 2024 arrest, Wallen commented on social media: “I’m not proud of my behavior, and I accept responsibility” and said he “made amends” with Nashville law enforcement and others. Then in December, he pleaded guilty to two counts.
Newly released police footage shows that country singer Morgan Wallen denied throwing a chair off a rooftop bar in downtown Nashville in 2024 when questioned by police. Wallen later pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of reckless endangerment. (AP Video)
The Metro Nashville Police Department released the footage of Wallen’s arrest, captured by several officers’ body and cruiser cameras, in response to a public records request from the AP. A previously released arrest affidavit did not get into the details of what Wallen told officers.
A broken chair by Chief’s
A police car camera shows two officers, who were standing outside, react to something apparently falling from above on a late Sunday night. And one officer’s body camera video begins with a shot of a broken chair in the road near his parked police cruiser, close to Chief’s on Broadway, in the city’s entertainment district.
Then, as Wallen and his bodyguard team come down to the main entrance on Broadway, one of the men with Wallen is shouting, “He didn’t see anything. You don’t have witnesses, you are accusing!”
“He didn’t throw nothing, he didn’t throw nothing,” the bodyguard continues, and accuses two bar workers of “being aggressive.”
When an officer asks Wallen what happened, the musician replies, “I don’t know.”
He later tells another officer, “We’ve not tried to cause no problems, man. I don’t know what they are — I don’t know why.”
That officer said police were figuring out what happened after a chair came flying off the roof and landed by his patrol car. Wallen replied, “As you should.”
Calling Eric Church
At one point, Wallen is on his cellphone, then points it at the officer and says, “Eric Church is on the phone.” Church, another country star, co-owns Chief’s. During the call, Wallen had used an expletive to describe the officers he said were “trying to take me to jail outside of your (expletive) bar.”
Church, who can’t be heard on the police recording, recommended to the officer that Wallen wait in a private space instead of standing on the public sidewalk, said a representative for Church.
The officer responds: “It’s not really something we can do. Law enforcement have to enforce the laws. Figure out what happened. We’ve got a supervisor coming to the scene. Gotta treat it like we would with anybody else.”
Representatives for Wallen did not respond to requests for comment.
Back in the bar, police were in an office watching security footage from the roof, body camera footage shows. The security video was not clear from the officers’ body cameras and a police spokesperson said there was no security camera footage from the bar in the case files.
The officers return outside and a sergeant, who says he watched security video of Wallen throwing a chair off the roof, handcuffs him.
Another officer talks to two witnesses. One, referring to the chair, says she saw Wallen “lift it up and throw it off” and laugh.
Throughout the hour-and-a-half ordeal, Wallen makes apologetic comments to officers without explicitly admitting to anything, including: “I truly didn’t mean no harm,” “Sorry to cause problems, I didn’t mean to,” and “God damn it, I am sorry man.”
“He didn’t admit to it, but we got him on camera doing it,” one sergeant says after Wallen was cuffed, also noting police had witness statements.
Some fans took notice as Wallen stood surrounded by police in Nashville’s busy tourist hub. One yells, “We love you Morgan!” Once Wallen is in the back of the police car, he says to the officer, “Get us out of here,” noting that people were videotaping him.
Born and raised in Sneedville, Tennessee, the two-time Grammy nominee is one of the biggest names in contemporary popular music, loved for his earworm hooks and distinctive combination of bro country, dirt-rock and certain hallmarks of hip-hop. 2023’s “One Thing at a Time” broke Garth Brooks’ record for longest running No. 1 country album, and this year’s “I’m The Problem” spent 12 weeks at No. 1.
Wallen’s career has been marked by several other controversies, including a 2020 arrest on public intoxication and disorderly conduct charges after being kicked out of Kid Rock’s bar in downtown Nashville. In 2021, after a video surfaced of him using a racial slur, he was disqualified or limited from several award shows and received no Grammy nominations for his massively popular “Dangerous: The Double Album.”
A Thomas Rhett sing-along
Wallen was talkative in the cruiser, the footage shows, saying, “I ain’t done nothing wrong,” and pressing the officer for his favorite country musicians.
“I can tell you my top three right now,” the officer replies. “You’re honestly one of them.” One of Wallen’s songs with Thomas Rhett comes on from the officer’s playlist.
“This is me and Thomas Rhett! Turn it up. That’s me and TR! That’s me right there,” Wallen says, before singing a couple of the words from the song.
“TR is one of the best dudes in the world. He would definitely not be getting arrested,” Wallen adds.
Wallen pleaded guilty in December 2024 to two misdemeanor counts of reckless endangerment. He was sentenced to spend seven days in a DUI education center and be under supervised probation for two years.
When the judge asked how he would plead, he said, “Conditionally guilty.” His attorney has said the charges will be eligible for dismissal and expungement after he completes probation.
Wallen’s own Nashville honky tonk, not far from Chief’s, opened less than two months after his arrest.
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Associated Press Music Writer Maria Sherman contributed to this story from New York.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats kept their promise to reject any Republican spending bill that didn’t extend or restore health care benefits, choosing instead to force a government shutdown. Now they have to figure out how to get out of it.
Just hours after the shutdown began, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said that if the Republicans work with them, “the shutdown could go away very quickly.”
But that won’t be easy. Republican leaders — Senate Majority Leader John Thune, House Speaker Mike Johnson and President Donald Trump — have said that they won’t negotiate or be “held hostage ” by Democrats demanding concessions to reopen the government. The bill Democrats voted against was a simple extension of funding for 45 days, legislation they say should be noncontroversial.
While that uncompromising Republican position may not last long — there were some early, informal talks on the Senate floor Wednesday — reaching a deal would be difficult. It’s deeply uncertain, for now, if the two sides could find common ground on health care policy or sow enough trust for the Democrats to change their position.
“This Democrat shutdown is actually delaying progress on the issues that Democrats claim to be interested in,” Thune, who represents South Dakota, said on the Senate floor Wednesday.
Some wavering Democrats emerge in shutdown saga
Republicans were encouraged Tuesday evening when three Democrats voted with them to keep the government open — Democratic Sens. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania and Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada and Independent Sen. Angus King of Maine.
Republicans, who hold the majority, need eight Democrats to win the 60 votes needed for passage in the 53-47 Senate. Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul was the only Republican to vote with Democrats against the measure.
Thune is holding repeated votes on the measure, which failed 55-45 on Tuesday night and again Wednesday morning. He said he hopes that five Democrats will eventually feel the pressure and support the bill “when they realize that this is playing a losing hand.”
Republicans are eyeing several moderate Democrats who appeared to be wavering before casting “no” votes on Tuesday night, including Sens. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire and Gary Peters of Michigan. Both voted to keep the government open in March, along with Schumer, while many of their colleagues voted for a shutdown.
But Shaheen and Peters each voted no on Tuesday after extensive negotiations with colleagues in both parties on the floor. Shaheen said afterward that “I have been in intensive conversations with colleagues from both sides of the aisle on how to find a path forward and I’m eager to work with my Republican colleagues to find common ground.”
Democrats at a crossroad: To dig in or dig out?
As some Democrats are already looking for a way out, others say they need to dig in and fight.
“As Donald Trump’s lawlessness grows during this shutdown, our spines should stiffen, not bend,” Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut said in a social media post on Wednesday. “Let’s stand for something. The American people don’t want us to fund the destruction of their health care and the destruction of our democracy.”
The divisions in the caucus pose a dilemma for Schumer, who was blasted by base voters and activists in March when he voted with Republicans to keep the government open. Many Democrats in the House and Senate have suggested that shutting down the government is their only leverage to fight Trump and push back on his policies, including health care and spending cuts.
“Standing up to (Trump) on this is sending a message to him on those other issues as well,” said Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn.
The politics of health care
Democrats have demanded that Republicans immediately extend health care subsidies for people who purchase coverage through the Affordable Care Act marketplaces. The expanded subsidies first put in place in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic are set to expire at the end of the year, raising premium costs for millions of people.
Many Republicans have said they are open to an extension, but they want to see changes. Other Republicans — especially in the House — see it as an unacceptable expansion of President Barack Obama’s signature health care law, which Republicans have tried to eliminate or cut back since it was enacted 15 years ago.
Johnson has not committed to talks on the issue and said, “There has to be reform.”
Obamacare “is a flawed system,” Johnson said on CNBC.
Thune has repeatedly said that Republicans are willing to negotiate on the issue once the government reopens.
Even so, some Republicans began informal talks with Democrats on the Senate floor Wednesday about potentially extending the expanded subsidies for a year and then eventually phasing them out. The idea floated by Republican Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota would likely be rejected by many Republicans, but Democrats said they were encouraged that the two sides were talking at all.
“At least we’re on the same page talking about the same problem,” Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., said after the floor huddle. “So I see that as progress, but it’s a long way from where we have to end up.”
Lessons from the past
Past shutdowns show that it’s hard to win major concessions by closing the government.
In 2018, the government shut down for three days as Democrats, led by Schumer, insisted that any budget measure come with protections for young immigrants known as “Dreamers” under the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. They voted to reopen after then-Majority Leader Mitch McConnell promised only a vote on the issue.
Later that year, Trump forced a shutdown over funding for his border wall and retreated after 35 days as intensifying delays at the nation’s airports and missed paydays for hundreds of thousands of federal workers.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and House Republicans triggered a shutdown in 2013 over Obama’s health care law. Bipartisan negotiations in the Senate finally ended the shutdown after 16 days, and Republicans did not win any major concessions on health care.
“I don’t think shutdowns benefit anybody, least of all the American people,” Thune said.
