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Here are the headlines. You need to know. Let's begin with the latest from the Israel Hamas war. Egyptian security officials say the Rafah border crossing into the Gaza Strip will open for humanitarian aid tomorrow morning. A convoy of 20 trucks with humanitarian aid is expected to cross tomorrow. The World Health Organization says it has five truckloads of medical supplies ready to enter the territory. The European Union called for quote safe and unhindered humanitarian access to food, water and medicine in Gaza while aid should be crossing borders soon. Leaders of both Egypt and Jordan which borders the West Bank have said they do not want to accept additional Palestinian refugees into their country. According to Amnesty International, more than 2 million displaced Palestinians live in Jordan. Egypt's president said Wednesday that large scale migration could threaten the future establishment of a Palestinian state. Meanwhile, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Rishi Soak is in Israel today where he met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a press conference, Sunac shared his support for humanitarian aid for Palestinians. We also recognize that the Palestinian people are victims of Hamas too and that is why I welcome your decision yesterday that you took to ensure that routes into Gaza will be opened for humanitarian aid to enter. I'm glad that you made that decision back here in the US. President Joe Biden has returned from his trip to Israel tonight at eight pm eastern time, President Biden will deliver a foreign policy address from the oval office. Biden is also expected to request $100 billion in national security funding including $40 billion for Israel and $60 billion for Ukraine across the United States. People have organized demonstrations about the war in Washington yesterday. Protesters from Jewish voice for peace advocating for an immediate ceasefire took over the cannon building leading to about 300 arrests in New York City today at six pm nonprofit Israeli American Council is holding a rally to demand the release of the nearly 200 hostages being held by Hamas. Several 100 people including NYC mayor Eric Adams are expected to attend. Let's turn to Capitol Hill earlier this afternoon. The third round of voting for a house speaker was canceled according to multiple reports. Congressman Jim Jordan will now back interim Speaker Patrick mchenry until January while continuing to try securing the votes needed to become the house speaker Jordan received only 200 of the required 217 votes on the first ballot on Tuesday and only received 100 and 99 votes on the second ballot yesterday. Meantime, multiple House Republicans who voted against Jordan say they've received death threats. Jordan has condemned those threats saying, quote, it's just wrong and we don't want it to happen to anyone, any American anybody, any member of Congress, former Donald Trump attorney Sydney Powell pled guilty today to criminal charges for her involvement in Trump's Georgia election interference case. Powell pled guilty to six misdemeanor charges. She will receive a year of probation for each count and will have to pay a $6000 fine and issue an apology letter to the state of Georgia. The plea deal comes a day before Powell was scheduled to go to trial with co defendant Kenneth Chesbro. Powell is one of 19 co defendants including Trump who are accused of attempting to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia as part of the plea deal. Powell has to quote, testify truthfully about any co defendants involved in the case and provide all documents to the District Attorney's office that are relevant to the other co defendants. Another American Russian journalist was charged in Russia. Authorities are saying she failed to register as a foreign agent. Also, Kura is a dual American and Russian citizen. She is a journalist at radio free Europe. Now according to radio free Europe, her passports were confiscated. She was also temporarily detained in June. In a statement, the committee to protect journalists said quote, CPJ is deeply concerned by the detention of us Russian journalist Al Kya on spurious criminal charges and calls on Russian authorities to release her immediately and drop all charges against her American Wall Street journal reporter Evan Gershowitz was arrested in Russia in March of this year on espionage charges. Let's stay with Russia. That country's state media says Moscow's top officials are in favor of maintaining a dialogue between North Korea and China to discuss any threats from the US on the Korean Peninsula. The news comes as Russia's Foreign Minister completed a two day trip to North Korea. And days after Vladimir Putin visited China and met with that country's president just last month. Putin met with North Korea's Kim Jong Un. We told you about that on this show, North Korea has yet to comment on any agreements between the three nations but it was recently reported that they gave 1000 containers of military equipment and munitions to Russia for use in Ukraine. The arraignment hearing for the man accused of orchestrating rapper Tupac Shakur's killing was rescheduled once again, Dwayne Keith Davis was indicted and charged with murder with use of a deadly weapon in September in connection to Shakur's death. This is the second time davis' arraignment hearing has been moved. The hearing is now set for November 2nd, Davis's lawyer asked for the extension while appearing in court earlier. Davis is expected to plead not guilty to the charge against him. Shakur was in Las Vegas in September of 1996 to watch a boxing match organized by Davis and his nephew Orlando Anderson, who fired a gun at Shako in a drive by shooting the rapper later died at the hospital.