🗞️Dallas ICE facility shooting

September 24th, 2025

What happened today 🇺🇸,

• A gunman opened fire from a nearby rooftop on the Dallas Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office killing two detainees and critically wounding a third before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot wound…shell casings with anti-ICE messages were found at the scene and authorities are treating the shooting as a targeted act of violence against ICE

• President Trump is expected to sign a TikTok deal on Thursday which will allow the social media platform to remain operational in the U.S. by shifting its U.S. operations away from its Chinese parent company ByteDance to a new joint venture owned primarily by American investors

• Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary, Ben Carson, has been appointed as the chief adviser on nutrition, healthcare, and housing at the U.S. Department of Agriculture

• Former FBI Director, James Comey, is expected to be indicted soon in federal court, with charges likely relating to allegations of lying to Congress during his 2020 testimony about authorizing a leak of information

• A bronze statue of President Trump and Jeffrey Epstein holding hands and dancing, was installed on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. but was removed by U.S. Park Police early this morning…read more here 

• Semafor reported today that a group of Disney shareholders, including organizations like the American Federation of Teachers and Reporters Without Borders, is demanding that Disney disclose documents related to its brief suspension of Jimmy Kimmel's show, questioning if the company's leadership breached fiduciary duties by prioritizing political and affiliate pressures over shareholder interests

• The U.S. Census reported that sales of new single-family homes in the U.S. increased 20.5% in August compared with July to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 800,000 units, marking the fastest pace since early 2022 and surpassing all major economists' forecasts

• Tether, the issuer of the world’s largest stablecoin USDT, is seeking to raise up to $20 billion in funding that would value the company at around $500 billion, making it one of the most valuable private companies globally alongside OpenAI and SpaceX

• OpenAI plans to invest at least $1 trillion in building AI infrastructure across the U.S.

• DOW down .37% / S&P down .28%

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