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A man who was fatally shot by a friend as they both celebrated their 24th birthday on Monday warned the shooter the gun he was holding was cocked just before he pulled the trigger. According to an arrest warrant affidavit, Aaron Patrick Moore and Fischer Hoisington had been drinking and playing video games together in the 500 block of East Stassney Lane around 1 a.m. before Moore pulled a handgun out of a drawer by his kitchen sink and an placed a bullet in the chamber.

On the eve of his first trip to the US capital, the former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami warned that US military action in the Middle East had backfired, producing greater terrorism and damaging America's long-term interests. But the danger of even greater instability in the region would ultimately prevent the US from staging military strikes against Iran over disputes about its nuclear intentions, he predicted during an interview in New York, where he was attending a United Nations conference. Although an attack on Iran would create "great damage", Hojatoleslam Khatami said, "prudence and wisdom" were likely to prevail because of...