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All New York state buildings will fly their flags at half-staff for the next week in honor of the victims of the Pittsburgh and Kentucky shootings, Gov. Cuomo announced Sunday.

“The hate in this country has reached a fever pitch, and it is bubbling over into violence,’’ Cuomo said in a statement.

“This past week, the entire nation was shaken by targeted attempted political bombings, by the racist attack in Kentucky and by the anti-Semitic shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh.

“In New York, we mourn for the victims and their loved ones, and we stand together with the African American and Jewish communities and all communities that make up our diverse social fabric.”

Eleven Jewish congregants were killed by an anti-Semitic gunman in Pittsburgh on Saturday morning, and two black people gunned down by a white man at a Kroger supermarket in Jeffersontown, Ky., on Wednesday, officials said. Authorities have not yet said whether racism played a role in the Kentucky attack, but the suspect had allegedly spewed racist slurs and possibly a race-tinged threat in the past.

A Trump-loving man also recently mailed a slew of explosive packages to the president’s critics, authorities have said.

Cuomo said the state buildings’ flags will be flown at half-staff beginning Monday through Sunday, Nov. 4.

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