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Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. The FBI is investigating today's shooting at an immigration and customs enforcement facility in Dallas as an act of targeted violence. Authorities say the shooters struck three people killing one of them before being found dead with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Caroline Love of Member Station KERA reports this is not the first ICE facility in Texas to see gun violence this year. There was a shooting late night on July 4th in Alvaredo at a detention facility there. And Alvaredo is about an hour from Dallas. And several people, at least 17 people so far, have been charged with some sort of involvement in the shooting. A local police officer was shot in the neck and went to the hospital and was recovered later that day.

And several people have been charged with attempted murder of federal agents because there were ICE detention. officers there. Caroline loves speaking with NPR's morning edition. Ukrainian president, Vladimir Zelensky, addressed the U.N. General Assembly this morning in New York. He said there are no security guarantees other than friends and weapons. Here's NPR's Michelle Kellerman. Vladimir Zelensky sounded frustrated that the U.N. hasn't been able to help end Russian attacks on Ukraine or resolve other big conflicts around the world. He says Ukraine has had to rely on its friends and on its weapons. Ukraine doesn't have the

big-fat missiles, dictators love to show off in parades. But we do have drone that can fly up to two, three thousand kilometers. We had no choice but to build them. Now he says Ukraine is ready to export its battle-tested drones. He says he had a good conversation on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly with President Trump, who later called Russia a paper tiger. Michelle Kellerman and PR News, the United Nations. The Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is making a big push into artificial intelligence. And Pierre Scott Horsley reports that news is getting a positive review from investors. Stock in Alibaba jumps sharply after the e-commerce company announced a new partnership with AI chipmaker in Vidia.

Alibaba says it plans to boost its spending on artificial intelligence to more than $50 billion as it expands data center operations in multiple countries around the world. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell says he and his colleagues will move cautiously on any additional cuts to interest rates. The central bank cut its benchmark rate last week for the first time all year. Powell told a business group in Rhode Island the Fed is trying to guard against a softening job market while also battling stubborn inflation. We'll get an update on inflation from the Commerce Department later this week. Scott Horsley and Pair News, Washington. At last check on Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 120 points at 46,173.

From Washington, this is NPR News. The family of one of the 67 people killed in a mid-air collision near Reagan National Airport outside Washington, D.C. earlier this year, is now suing the government and air carrier involved. The lawsuit filed today names the Federal Aviation Administration, the Army, American Airlines, and its regional partner, PSA Airlines. On the night of January 29th, the regional jet was about to land when an army helicopter collided into it. Federal investigators have said the helicopter was flying above the 200-foot threshold. Video platform YouTube says it will reinstate some accounts it once banned for spreading falsehoods about COVID-19 and elections. NPR's Bobby Allen reports it's the latest tech platform to loosen rules on misinformation since press. President Trump returned to office. A letter from a Google lawyer to the House Judiciary Committee

lays out the change. Those who were kicked off YouTube will soon have a way to come back. Google says it has retired a number of rules that had cracked down on YouTube channels that pushed COVID and election misinformation. Among the accounts that have been banned under those rules, former Trump advisor Steve Bannon, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who now runs Health and Human Services, and Dan Bongino, who is now the FBI's deputy director. Many social media companies are dismantling content rules that the Trump administration does not like. The Google lawyer wrote to the Judiciary Committee that YouTube values conservative voices on its platform. Bobby Allen, NPR News. I'm Lakshmi Singh, NPR News in Washington.