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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. Rice President J.D. Vance says Democrats need to help stop political violence in the country. Vance also weighed in on a shooting at an ICE facility that took place in Dallas today, which federal officials say killed one detainee and critically injured two others. NPR's Deepa Shivram reports the FBI is investigating. Vance was critical of the, quote, very top of the Democratic Party, who he says has been encouraging political violence. And he also spoke about the shooting at the ICE facility in Dallas.

As far as we know, it looks like some of the detainees. In other words, some of the potential illegal aliens were some of those who were affected. Look, just because we don't support illegal aliens, we don't want them to be executed by violent assassins engaged in political violence either. Vance went on to say that the issue of political violence is not a, quote, both sides problem and that Democrats need to, quote, look in the mirror. Deepa Shiverram, NPR News, the White House. Iran's president says his country has never sought and never will seek to build a nuclear weapon. His comments before the UN General Assembly come as some European nations threatened to reimpose sanctions on Iran for its nuclear program. NPR's Jackie Northam reports.

President Massoud Peschkian said an edict issued by the country's religious leaders prevents Tehran from seeking a nuclear weapon. Peschian and other senior Iranian officials have been meeting on the sideline. of the UN General Assembly with diplomats from Germany, France, and the U.K. The so-called E3 recently called for the re-imposition of nuclear sanctions on Iran for violating the terms of the 2015 nuclear deal. Those sanctions are likely to resume this weekend. Meanwhile, hours before Pasechkian took the podium, Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah al-Alamini dismissed any direct talks with the U.S. about a nuclear deal, saying they would be a dead end.

Jackie Northam in PR News. 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 the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. NPR's Netta Ullaby reports. On the late show, host Stephen Colbert acknowledged the return of his friend and rival. I'm glad Kimmel'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 10 million people had already watched Kimmel's monologue on YouTube. Millions more than the number who regularly tune in. Netta Ulippi, NPR News. U.S. stocks continued to drift lower from the all-time highs they said at the beginning of the week. The S&P 500 fell 0.3% today. the second day of modest losses.

From Washington, this is NPR News. Electric utility, Excel Energy, says it expects to pay about $640 million to settle lawsuits, alleging it was responsible for starting Colorado's most destructive wildfire in 2021. The blaze between Denver and Boulder killed two people and destroyed nearly a thousand homes. Investigators found that a sparking power line owned by Excel was one of the causes of the fire. A slew of firings and other departures in the U.S. Forest Service have left staffing holes throughout the Northwest, but agency leaders in North Idaho are still finding ways to get fire information out to the public. From Northwest Public Broadcasting, Lauren Patterson reports. Forest Service employees who are normally in the office jumped in to help get the word out about dangerous fires this summer.

We recruited lots of Forest Service employees into the fire information function, trying to train fire. folks that have the interest into public information officer roles. That's Jim Weimer, fire prevention officer for the Nesper's Clearwater National Forests. He says training up the office staff helped many of the understaffed forest ranger stations in North Idaho get the word out about fire danger. Workers even drove trucks with supplies on wildfires, says Weimer, often working overtime to help. He says he'll continue more training this winter and next fire season. For NPR News, I'm Lauren Patterson.

in Orofino, Idaho. Instagram now has three billion monthly active users, according to meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. That's a billion more than the last time Zuckerberg shared user figures in October 2022. I'm Rylan Barton. This is NPR News from Washington.