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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. Olin Security Secretary Christy Noam says there is. has been a shooting at an immigration and customs enforcement facility in Dallas. Writing online, Noam says there are fatalities and injuries. She also says the shooter is dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Ukrainian President Volodymy Zelenskyy is set to speak today at the UN General Assembly in New York. He's expected to discuss the issue of Ukrainian children illegally deported to Russia, and Pierre's Joanna Kakissis reports. Zelensky has said in the past week that he wants to talk about the thousands of

Ukrainian children that Russian forces have taken from occupied territories since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022. Speaking yesterday, alongside Trump, Zelensky also nudged European countries to stop trading with Russia. We support Mr. President your idea, and I want to discuss it, how to stop some countries from Europe, how to buy Russian oil and gas. Zelensky said that Russian President Vladimir Putin has no interest in ending. war on Ukraine. Joanna Kikisis and PR News Kyiv. Big Tech Company Amazon is in court this week in Seattle. The Federal Trade Commission is accusing Amazon of tricking people into signing up for its prime subscription, and the FTC alleges it trapped them with a confusing cancellation process.

From member station KUOW Joshua McNichols reports. The law Amazon's accused of violating is the Restore Online Shoppers Confidence Act. It requires clear and conspicuously displayed terms of service, like monthly charges. But Amazon lawyer Moez-Kaba says that law is vague. Imagine, he said, you're driving down the highway and you see a sign that doesn't tell you the exact speed limit, but instead tells you to drive reasonably. How would you know if you're violating the speed limit? The FTC's lawyers say Amazon definitely knew it was violating the law,

noting that it had lawyers in every key meeting. For NPR News, I'm Joshua McGee. Nichols in Seattle. Amazon is a financial supporter of NPR. Late night host Jimmy Kimmel has returned to the air. ABC suspended him for several days after members of the Trump administration got angry over his comments following the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Influential podcaster Joe Rogan often calls for free speech. And yesterday, Rogan warned conservatives against efforts to cut it off. The problem is the companies, if they're being pressured by the government, so if that's real, and if people on the right are like, yeah, go get them, oh my God, you're crazy. You're

crazy for supporting this, because this will be used on you. President Trump wrote online yesterday that the White House was told ABC canceled Kimmel's show. Trump is hinting he might take legal action against ABC. This is NPR. Treasury Secretary Scott Besson says the Trump administration is ready to financially support Argentina's government. He says the U.S. government is prepared to buy Argentinian bonds. Besson also says the U.S. is ready to conduct a swap line. This would let the U.S. Federal Reserve lend U.S. dollars to Argentina's central bank. That money is expected to be repaid by Argentina.

Typhoon Ragasa has made landfall in southern China. Top-sustained winds are 120. 20 miles per hour. The storm killed at least 17 people in Taiwan when it passed by earlier this week. Ashish Valentine reports from Taipei in one area of Taiwan, a natural dam collapsed flooding nearby areas. In this clip from Taiwanese news channel TVBS, a father in the township of Guangfu screams to his child who's stuck in floodwaters to swim slowly and not waste his energy. Elsewhere, nearly 2 million people have been evacuated from China's densely populated southern coast. Typhoon

Ragasa is breaking all-time windspeed records as it passes several coastal cities. Dozens are injured in Hong Kong as seawater rushed into coastal areas. The storm also left a deadly trail in the Philippines. It's expected to hit Laos and Vietnam on Thursday. For NPR News, I'm Ashish Valentine in Taipei. Famed Italian actress Claudia Cardinali has died in France at the age of 87, according to her agent. The glamorous actress starred in over 100 movies. She gained fame for appearing in the film's eight and a half and the leopard. I'm Corva Coleman, NPR News.