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Here is your morning brief for Tuesday, July 29th. I'm Kate Boulevent for the Wall Street Journal.

Famine is now unfolding in Gaza. That's the most dire assessment of the enclave's deepening hunger crisis since the start of the war.

An interim report released this morning by the integrated food security phase classification, or IPC, found at least

16 children under five have died of hunger-related causes since mid-July. Today's assessment is not

an official declaration of famine, which happens rarely and is very politically sensitive. It is now up to governments and senior

UN officials to declare a famine based on the IPC's assessment.

A lone shooter has killed four people, including a police officer and an executive from

financial firm Blackstone in a midtown New York building.

The gunman then turned the gun on himself.

Speaking last night, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said the shooter was 27-year-old Shane Tamura,

who had driven his black BMW across the country from Colorado,

double parked on Park Avenue during the evening rush, and began shooting as soon as he was inside the building lobby. The NYPD said the alleged shooter had a

documented mental health history and that his motives are still under investigation. A fifth person

remains in critical condition.

And we're exclusively reporting that premiums for Medicare drug plans are set to increase sharply next year.

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