Millions of Americans are on track to lose food assistance.

Kennedy Center ticket sales have plummeted.

And the time has come to embrace the darkness of winter.

That's some of what we'll get to on the 7 from the Washington Post.

I'm Hannah Jewell.

It's Friday, October 31st. Happy Halloween.

Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories.

Number one is a post-exclusive. A classified U.S. report found hundreds of possible human rights violations by Israel.

The Leahy laws are legislation that bars U.S. security assistance to foreign military units

that have been credibly accused of human rights abuses.

A State Department watchdog found that Israeli military units committed many hundreds of potential

violations of U.S. human rights law in Gaza. That's according to U.S. officials who shared

details of the report with the Post. The incidents in the report include the killing of

World Central Kitchen Workers and of aid seekers last year.

But former State Department officials who spoke to the Post are doubtful there will be accountability.

Part of the problem is the sheer scale of the incidents listed in the report.

It could take multiple years to review them all. Another is the nature of the

review process itself, which is deferential to the Israeli military. Israel is the largest

cumulative recipient of U.S. aid in the world. Some of the government shutdown's most dramatic effects are about to hit.

That's number two.

Starting tomorrow, SNAP and Head Start programs will start losing funding.

Snap is commonly known as food stamps. Head Start funds child care and health and

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