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(AP) --- Police across Maine were alerted just last month to “veiled threats” by the U.S. Army reservist who would go on to carry out the worst mass shooting in the state’s history, one of a string of missed red flags that preceded the massacre.

27 October 2023; MEMO: Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian told the United Nations yesterday that for three weeks the world has witnessed war crimes and genocide being committed by the Israeli occupation in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

NEW YORK, October 27. /TASS/: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refused to sign the order on beginning of a wide-scale ground operation in the Gaza Strip out of fear of losing trust of the people, should the operation fail, the New York Times reported citing sources in the Israeli government.

UNITED NATIONS, Oct 27 (NNN-XINHUA) – Only 62 trucks passed through the Rafa crossing into Gaza in the last four days, when 500 trucks a day was the pre-war average, UN humanitarians said yesterday.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said, the latest payloads of water, food and medical supplies ferried by the trucks from Egypt already were distributed to medical sites and the displaced in besieged Gaza.

WASHINGTON, Oct 26 (Reuters) - An Israeli diplomat in Miami on Thursday pushed back against an assertion by the administration of Ron DeSantis that the Florida governor had coordinated with his office to facilitate the shipment of ammunition and weapons to Israel.

Earlier on Thursday, a DeSantis spokesperson said the governor's office had contracted cargo planes to send drones, body armor and helmets to Israel and worked to "get weapons and ammunition to Israel through private parties."

WASHINGTON, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Newly elected U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson said on Thursday that funding to support Ukraine and Israel should be handled separately, suggesting he will not back President Joe Biden's $106 billion aid package for both countries.

Johnson, speaking in an interview on Fox News, has concerns about Ukraine funding in general, and believes any money for Israel will need to be funded by cuts elsewhere.

He met Biden on Thursday and said he told White House staff "our consensus among House Republicans is we need to bifurcate those issues."

UNITED NATIONS, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Iran's Foreign Minster Hossein Amirabdollahian warned at the United Nations on Thursday that if Israel's retaliation against Palestinian militants Hamas in the Gaza Strip doesn't end then the United States will "not be spared from this fire."

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) -- U.S. personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price indexes, the Federal Reserve's preferred inflation measure, rose 3.4 percent in September over the past year, the Commerce Department reported on Friday.

The latest figure came after the measure in June slowed to 3.2 percent year-on-year from 4 percent in May, before accelerating to 3.4 percent in July and August, indicating continued inflation pressures.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden met Friday with China’s top diplomat, a conversation that’s viewed as the precursor to a potential sit-down with Chinese President Xi Jinping next month.

The encounter was the latest in a series of high-level contacts between the two countries as they explore the possibility of stabilizing an increasingly tense relationship at a time of conflict in Ukraine and Israel.

WASHINGTON (AP) — “Embarrassing,” “chaotic” and “irresponsible.” And those were just the words that House Republicans used to describe the past three weeks as they removed one speaker from office and splintered over three successive nominees before finally landing on Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La.

Now they hope voters won’t hold the GOP’s infighting against them as they seek to hold onto their exceedingly narrow House majority in next year’s election.