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Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Two immigration detainees are dead and another is in critical condition after a shooter opened fire outside a Dallas immigration and customs enforcement field office this morning. Toluwani Osi Bamawao with member station KERA reports authorities say the suspect died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Dallas police say the suspect opened fire from an adjacent building before 7 a.m. local time. The FBI says bullet casings found near the gunmen had anti-ice messages written on them and that it's investigating the shooting as an act of targeted violence. During a press conference after the shooting, Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz said politically motivated violence needs to stop. To every politician demanding that ICE agents be docks and calling for people to go after their families, stop.

This has very real consequences. Federal officials confirmed no ICE officers or law enforcement. were injured in the shooting. For NPR news, I'm Toluani, Osi Bamo, in Dallas. In North Carolina today, Vice President J.D. Vance asserted that Democratic Party rhetoric foments violence against the Trump administration. What's going to happen is political violence and political violence has gotten out of control in this country. We've got to stop it. We've got to condemn it. And that starts, unfortunately, at the very top of the Democratic Party. Democratic Party leaders have issued similar warnings about President Trump and his allies.

citing violence against Democratic elected officials and their families in recent months and years. In the wake of conservative activist Charlie Kirk's assassination in Utah two weeks ago, many Democrats have joined Republicans, including youth political groups, in jointly denouncing any violence against or censorship of those who hold opposing views. Media celebrities applauded the return of late-night host Jimmy Kimmel to the airwaves last night. ABC had pulled his show following remarks he made about Charlie Kirk's death. on the late show host stephen colbert acknowledged the return of his friend and rival i'm glad kimball's back he is a wonderful fella to know him well is to admire him immensely even if he takes

the whole summer off even before kimmel went back on the air the immensely popular podcaster joe rogan weighed in he said he did not believe a government should be involved in dictating what comedians say on wednesday morning more than ten million people had already watched kimball's monologue on YouTube. Millions more than the number who regularly tune in. Netta Ulippi, NPR News. Doctors in Lenin say any treatment for the genetic disease known as Huntington's helps slow it by a significant amount. The disease kills brain cells and causes involuntary movements in the body. The treatment involved 12 to 18 hours of brain surgery, but the doctors say the results are spectacular and demonstrate a successful treatment for the disease for the first time.

From Washington, it's NPR News. Foundations and drug manufacturers are teaming up in an effort to make a new HIV prevention drug affordable. Two separate deals were announced today on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. NPR's Gabriella Emmanuel has more from New York. Lena Capavir is the name of the new medication that's been hailed as a game changer. Two injections a year provide almost complete protection. action against contracting HIV. But a big question is cost and whether those in lower income countries where the HIV AIDS epidemic is the worst can afford it. Now the Clinton Global Health

Initiative, the Gates Foundation and Unit Aid are teaming up with Indian manufacturers to develop a generic version. The cost they project of $40 a year is on par with the oral HIV prevention drug that's currently available. The hope is that the generic injectable will be available in 27. Gabriela Emmanuel NPR News, New York. The U.S. Park Police says it has removed a statue of President Trump and the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein from the

National Mall in Washington, D.C. The bronze-painted structure titled Best Friends Forever turned up unexpectedly yesterday, September is widely recognized as Friendship Month. Well, by this morning, the statue was down. A group called itself a secret handshake has claimed responsibility for the installation. U.S. stocks have

end of the day lower. The Dow closed down 171 points at 46,121. It's NPR News.