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The BBC's Shima Khalil in Tokyo.

More Americans are seeking help from food pantries as the government shutdown enters Day 28.

Federal food benefits under the SNAP program will not go out on November 1st.

And state food programs for low-income women and children runs out of money next week.

Hundreds of thousands of federal workers have been furloughed, and House Speaker Mike Johnson has suggested that private industry could be next.

Republicans are demanding the passage of a clean, continuing resolution to end the shutdown.

Democrats are insisting on an extension of health care subsidies that expire in two months.

Jamaica is bracing for catastrophic conditions from Hurricane Melissa, a Category 5 storm packing 175 mile-per-hour winds.

Strong winds storm surge up to 10 feet.

Landslides and flooding are expected.

Melissa is expected to pass over Jamaica overnight, becoming the first storm of that size to impact the island.

NPR's Rebecca Herscher.

Game three of baseball's World Series best of seven has gone into overtime after being tied at five in the seventh inning.

The Toronto Blue Jays and the Los Angeles Dodgers each have one win.

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Argentine stocks jumped over 20 percent Monday after President Javier Mele's party won Sunday's midterms.

The victory comes a week after the U.S.

promised a $40 billion bailout for Argentina contingent upon Mele's victory.

President Trump had threatened to withhold the money if Mele's party had lost.

Argentine investors and depositors were dumping pesos last week in order to hedge against possible defeat.