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A shooter with a rifle opened fire from a nearby roof onto a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement location in Dallas on Wednesday, killing one detainee and wounding two others before taking his own life, authorities said.

The exact motivation of the attack was not immediately known. The FBI said at a morning news conference that ammunition found at the scene contained anti-ICE messaging. The head of the agency, Kash Patel, released a photo on social media that shows a bullet containing the words “ANTI-ICE” written in what appears to be marker.

“The shooter fired indiscriminately at the ICE building, including at a van in the sally port where the victims were shot,” the Department of Homeland Security said in a release.

The detainee who survived was in critical condition at a hospital, DHS said.

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A federal judge has refused to reinstate eight former inspectors general who sued after the Trump administration fired them with no warning and little explanation.

U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes said that while President Donal Trump likely violated federal law governing the process for removing the non-partisan watchdogs from office, the firings didn’t cause enough irreparable harm to justify reinstating them before the lawsuit is resolved.

The eight plaintiffs were among 17 inspectors general fired by Trump on Jan. 24. Each received identical two-sentence emails from the White House attributing their removal to unspecified “changing priorities.”

Plaintiffs’ attorneys said the administration didn’t give Congress the legally required 30-day notice or provide necessary “case-specific rationale” for removing them. Government attorneys said the president can remove them without any showing of cause and doesn’t have to wait 30 days after notifying Congress.

The president said on his social media site that he was the victim of “three very sinister events” at the United Nations on Tuesday.

First, the escalator came to a “screeching halt” with Trump and his entourage on it. Trump sait it was “absolutely sabotage” on Truth Social and added those responsible should be arrested.

Second, Trump said his teleprompter went “stone cold dark” during his address to the world body.

Third, Trump said, the sound was off as he spoke and only those who had interpreters speaking into earpieces could hear him.

“This wasn’t a coincidence, this was triple sabotage” said Trump, who’s seeking an investigation and added the Secret Service would be involved in it.

Of one of the incidents, U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said without elaborating, a videographer from the U.S. delegation who ran ahead of Trump triggered the stop mechanism at the top of the escalator.

The Mexican foreign affairs ministry said Wednesday afternoon that one of the detainees injured in the shooting at the ICE facility in Dallas is from Mexico.

The agency said the detainee is hospitalized with serious injuries and the consulate has reached out to the family to offer support and legal help. The ministry also sent a diplomatic note to be able to visit the Mexican detainee at the hospital.

U.S. authorities have not released the identities of any of the victims.

President Donald Trump said in a post on his social media site Wednesday that he’d been briefed on the ICE facility shooting in Dallas and that “the deranged shooter wrote “Anti-ICE” on his shell casings. This is despicable!”

Authorities said one detainee was killed and two were injured. Trump didn’t mention the victims, though, instead, “CALLING ON ALL DEMOCRATS TO STOP THIS RHETORIC AGAINST ICE AND AMERICA’S LAW ENFORCEMENT, RIGHT NOW!”

After conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed earlier this month at an event in Utah, Trump designated antifa — an umbrella term for far-left-leaning militant groups — as a terrorist organization.

In Wednesday's post, he promised more crackdowns to come, saying he would sign an executive order in coming days “to dismantle Domestic Terrorism Networks.”

ICE officials say the detainees who were shot were struck while they were inside a transport van at the Dallas facility.

In a statement, ICE officials said the shooter fired “indiscriminately” at the building and the van. One detainee was killed and two remain in critical condition. Officials say the shooter died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

FBI agents can be seen at a house in suburban Dallas that public records link to suspected gunman Joshua Jahn.

The home sits on a tree-lined cul-de-sac in a neighborhood dotted with one and two-story brick homes. The street was blocked by a Fairview police vehicle, but officials wearing FBI jackets could be seen in the front yard.

That executive order will declare that the terms of a deal to effectively save TikTok, the popular social media video platform, meets the security concerns laid out under law.

A White House official, granted anonymity to preview Trump’s plans, said the president will issue the executive order on Thursday.

Under the agreement, Oracle will lead U.S. oversight of the algorithm and security underlying TikTok’s popular video platform. The Trump administration will not have a stake in the joint venture nor be part of its board.

It’s unclear if Chinese officials have signed the framework deal.

During his remarks in North Carolina, Vance lamented the loss of life in the shooting at an ICE facility in Dallas.

The suspect has been identified by a law enforcement official as 29-year-old Joshua Jahn.

Authorities have not provided details on a specific motive. Vance referred to the shooting as “politically motivated,” saying there was additional information that investigators had collected that was not yet made public.

FBI Director Kash Patel released a photo on social media that shows a bullet found at the scene with the words “ANTI-ICE” written in what appears to be marker.

Speaking about the attack’s victims, Vance said, “It looks like some of the detainees, in other words, some of the potential illegal aliens were some of those who are affected.”

“Look,” he added, “Just because we don’t support illegal aliens, we don’t want them to be executed by violent assassins engaged in political violence.”

House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries says that any deal to win Democratic support for funding the government must include an “ironclad” agreement on protecting subsidies for health care.

Speaking at the Capitol, Jeffries, a New York Democrat, said there’s “no trust” right now between Democrats and Republicans in Congress and that he would not settle for a commitment to take up subsidies for American Care Act plans later in the year.

“Any agreement related to protecting the health care of the American people has to be ironclad and in legislation,” he said.

The Democratic leader repeated calls for President Donald Trump and congressional Republican leaders to sit down for talks. He said he had not spoken with House Speaker Mike Johnsons since last week. Congress is facing a government shutdown if a funding deal is not reached by Sept. 30.

A law enforcement official identified the suspect as 29-year-old Joshua Jahn.

The official could not publicly disclose details of the investigation and spoke to AP on condition of anonymity.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a statement calling the shooting “horrific” and “cowardly” and said that Texas will provide any resources needed to investigate.

Abbott, a Republican who has aggressively ramped up border security efforts over his decade as governor, said Texas will continue to work with federal officials to detain and deport anyone in the country illegally.

“We will not let this cowardly attack impede our efforts to secure the border, enforce immigration law, and ensure law and order,” Abbott said.

Top Trump officials are talking up the administration’s latest plan to end the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza despite there being no sign that either side will accept it.

At separate events on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Trump’s senior negotiator Steve Witkoff both offered optimistic views about what Witkoff called a “Trump 21-point plan for peace” that was presented to Arab leaders on Tuesday.

“We had a very productive session,” Witkoff said at a conference in New York. “I think it addresses Israeli concerns, as well as the concerns of all the neighbors in the region. And we’re hopeful, and I might say even confident, that in the coming days, we’ll be able to announce some sort of breakthrough.”

Speaking to senior officials from the Gulf Cooperation Council, Rubio said “some very important work is ongoing even as we speak, and we’re hoping to achieve this as soon as possible.”

Senate Majority Leader John Thune says he’s “very concerned” about President Donald Trump’s advice to pregnant women that they should not take Tylenol and his promotion of unproven claims about the drug’s tie to autism.

Thune said on CNN Wednesday that he’s interested in the subject as a father and grandfather, and “I think that science ought to guide these discussions as conversations and our decision-making around our health.”

The South Dakota Republican said that “there are an awful lot of people in the medical community who have come to a different conclusion about the use of Tylenol” and that his view is that “we should be very guarded about making broad assertions” that aren’t grounded in science.

During a White House news conference Monday, Trump repeatedly warned pregnant women not to take Tylenol because of the risk of autism in their children, even though the connection has not been proven. He also fueled debunked claims that ingredients in vaccines or timing shots close together could contribute to rising rates of autism.

The Republican president has hung framed portraits of every American president on the wall along a covered walkway that connects the White House residence and the West Wing, and overlooks the Rose Garden.

But for Joe Biden, Trump hung a portrait of an autopen signing the Democrat’s name on a piece of paper instead of a headshot.

Trump said in a recent interview that he would do this.

Trump has long alleged that Biden’s White House relied on an autopen to sign key documents and he has cast doubt on their validity.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told his Russian counterpart that Moscow must take “meaningful steps toward a durable resolution” of the war in Ukraine, the State Department says.

In a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly, Rubio also reiterated President Donald Trump’s “call for the killing to stop,” the department said in a statement.

Their closed-door sit-down came a day after Trump announced a major shift, saying he believed Ukraine could win the war and retake all of the territory that Russia has occupied.

Trump’s comments on social media Tuesday came after he met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

A shooter with a rifle opened fire from a nearby roof onto a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement location in Dallas on Wednesday, killing one detainee and wounding two others before taking his own life, authorities said.

The suspect has been identified by a law enforcement official as 29-year-old Joshua Jahn. The official could not publicly disclose details of the investigation and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

The exact motivation for the attack was not immediately known. The head of the FBI, Kash Patel, released a photo on social media that shows a bullet found at the scene with the words “ANTI-ICE” written in what appears to be marker.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov have sat down for closed-door talks on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly just a day after President Donald Trump’s surprising shift on the Russia-Ukraine war.

Rubio, Lavrov and their staffs sat silently and unsmiling on opposite sides of a large conference table as they posed for photographs Wednesday ahead of the meeting in a midtown Manhattan hotel.

The discussion followed Trump’s unusually blunt criticism of Russia’s military prowess in his General Assembly speech on Tuesday and then a social media post in which he said he believed Ukraine could win the war and retake all of the territory that Russia has occupied.

Trump had previously suggested that Ukraine would never be able to reclaim all the territory that Russia has occupied since 2014 and would have to make concessions for the war to end.

“Early evidence that we’ve seen from rounds that were found near the suspected shooter contain messages that were anti-ICE in nature,” said Joe Rothrock, special agent in charge of the Dallas field office.

SBA Pro-Life America and its Women Speak Out political action committee said Wednesday they plan to spend a total of $9 million backing anti-abortion candidates in next year’s U.S. Senate races in Georgia and Michigan.

Both seats are now held by Democrats. The one in Michigan will be open in the election and the group wants to oust Democratic Sen. Joe Osoff in Georgia.

SBA spokesperson Kelsey Pritchard said a similar announcement on spending on a third battleground state will come next week.

The organization spent a total of about $13 million on independent political expenditures combined in 2022 and 2024 federal elections.

Washington’s hottest new club has everything — Cabinet secretaries, a new stone patio, food from the White House kitchen and even a playlist curated by President Trump.

But good luck getting a spot on the guest list. So far, only some of the president’s political allies, business executives and administration officials have been invited.

In Trump’s remake of the White House, the Rose Garden is now the Rose Garden Club, with the iconic lawn outside the Oval Office transformed into a taxpayer-supported imitation of the patio at Mar-a-Lago, the president’s private Florida resort.

Trump debuted the name during his first formal dinner there this month and has included it on his official public schedule, too. He’s set to host another event Wednesday evening.

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Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told Fox News that no ICE agents were injured.

“We believe he was shooting at law enforcement and detainees from an apartment building,” McLaughlin said. ”Detainees were among the victims of the shooting.”

The shooter is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, federal authorities said.

Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons confirmed the shooting during an interview on CNN on Wednesday and said the shooter is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

“It could be employees, it could be civilians that were visiting the facility, it could be detainees,” Lyons said of those who were shot. “At this point, we’re still working through that.”

Two people were taken to a hospital with gunshot wounds, and a third person died at the scene after the shooting, Dallas police spokesperson Officer Jonathan E. Maner said in an email.

Officers responded to a call to assist an officer on North Stemmons Freeway around 6:40 a.m. Wednesday and the preliminary investigation determined that a person opened fire at a government building from an adjacent building, Maner said. The investigation is ongoing and a briefing was expected later in the day.

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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian’s comments Wednesday at the U.N. marked the first time he’s spoken in a global forum since the 12-day Israel-Iran war over the summer that saw the assassination of many of the Islamic Republic’s highest military and political leaders.

Pezeshkian is in New York as series of crippling U.N. sanctions loom over Tehran if it doesn’t make a deal with European leaders by Saturday. But before even landing in New York, any diplomatic efforts by Pezeshkian and Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi were overshadowed when the country’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei ,rejected any direct nuclear talks with the U.S.

The comments also come as satellite images analyzed by The Associated Press show Iran has begun rebuilding targeted missile-production sites. A key component is likely still missing — the large mixers needed to produce solid fuel for the weapons.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s comments to at the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday came a day after he met with President Trump, who expressed support for Ukraine’s efforts and criticized Russia.

Trump said Tuesday that he believed Ukraine could win back all territory lost to Russia, a dramatic shift from the U.S. leader’s repeated calls for Kyiv to make concessions to end the war.

Zelenskyy called on the international community to act against Russia now, asserting that Vladimir Putin wants to expand his war in Europe.

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Only about 7 in 10 Republicans approve of Trump’s approach to trade negotiations with other countries and health care — marking the lowest issue ratings among his base, according to the most recent poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

Americans overall aren’t thrilled about how he’s handling these issues, either. Only about one-third of U.S. adults approve of how Trump is handling either trade negotiations with other countries or health care. These have been steadily low in recent AP-NORC polls but roughly track with Trump’s overall approval. They were also similarly low in his first term.

About 6 in 10 U.S. adults say Trump has “gone too far” when it comes to imposing new tariffs on other countries. That includes about 9 in 10 Democrats but also roughly 6 in 10 independents and 3 in 10 Republicans. Very few Americans, including Republicans, want Trump to go further on imposing tariffs.

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The economy is often a fraught point for presidents, and there are indications that Americans continue to be concerned about the country’s economic state, according to the most recent poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

Just 37% of U.S. adults approve of Trump’s handling of the economy. That’s down slightly from August, when 43% approved, but broadly in line with his overall approval.

The economy is a particularly weak issue for Trump among independents. Only about 2 in 10 independents approve of how Trump is handling the economy, much lower than the share who approve of his handling of border security and crime.

In Trump’s first term, closer to half U.S. adults approved of his handling of the economy. This height of his success on this issue came at the beginning of 2020, right before the COVID-19 pandemic sparked an economic downturn.

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Trump has turned border security into a strength of his second term, a sharp reversal from his first term in office.

Most Americans approve of Trump’s approach to border security. He gets higher marks on that than on his handling of the presidency overall or other issues that had previously been top strengths, including immigration and crime. This has also emerged as a unique strength of his second term. Only about 4 in 10 U.S. adults approved of Trump’s approach to border security in 2019, during which time Trump was focused on securing funding for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

His approval on immigration is slightly lower than it was early in his second term, but it remains a bit higher than his overall job approval.

President Trump’s second-term strengths look different from his first, according to new polling.

Once strengthened by economic issues, Trump’s approval is now relatively low on the economy — and he’s leaning on his stronger issues of crime, border security and immigration. Concerns about the economy and immigration helped propel him to the White House, but polling over the past year shows Americans’ faith in the Republican president’s handling of the economy is low — particularly among independents — and his approval on immigration has fallen slightly.

Now, Trump’s strongest issues are border security and crime, but there were signs of potential weakness on crime in the most recent poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

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Ukrainians were cautious Wednesday in their response to a surprise pivot in U.S. President Donald Trump’s views on their prospects for defeating Russia’s invasion, after he said they could win the three-year war and retake land captured by Moscow.

Some Ukrainians expressed hope that Trump’s words would be backed up by concrete support for Ukraine in Washington, while others were wary about the American president’s unpredictability.

Russian officials, meanwhile, said developments on the battlefield showed Ukraine is unable to reclaim the occupied territory and dismissed Trump’s description of Russia as a “paper tiger.”

“Russia isn’t a tiger, it’s more associated with a bear,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. “There are no paper bears. Russia is a real bear.”

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