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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. A federal grand jury in Virginia has indicted former F. FBI director James Comey. This comes after President Trump demanded Comey's prosecution. Trump also installed a new U.S. attorney who got the indictment only days after she took the job. And Pierre's Kerry Johnson says the charges against Comey are not very detailed. This is a very bare-bones indictment, not even two full pages long. It seems to relate to testimony Jim Comey gave to the Senate Judiciary Committee in September 2020. He was talking about the FBI probe of Russian interference in the election and about a media leak.

Comey testified he had not authorized a leak from the Bureau, the indictments as he did, and the statute of limitations on these charges was set to run out in a matter of days. Comey declared his innocence and said, let's go to trial. This morning, Trump insulted Comey saying Comey lied, and that, quote, a big price must be paid.

President Trump has signed an executive order. It gives his blessing to a deal involving the proposed takeover of video-sharing app TikTok. This would be led by a group of mostly U.S. investors. NPR's John Ruich reports. Trump says the deal will meet congressional requirements and protect national security. The executive order paves the way for a framework agreement

on the sale of TikTok to be finalized. It would see TikTok's Chinese parent company, BightDance, divest to less than 20% ownership while U.S. investors step in and take control. A law passed last year requires BightDance to divest or see the app go dark in the United States. The law arose out of the fear that under Chinese ownership, TikTok could be used by the Chinese government to collect data on Americans or

manipulate U.S. users with propaganda or disinformation. After Trump signed the executive order, Vice President J.D. Vance said the deal values TikTok at around $14 billion. He said the deal safeguards U.S. users' data and ensures that Americans are in control of TikTok's prized content recommendation algorithm. John Rewich, NPR News. Dozens of migrants gathered at a Dallas ICE facility yesterday after a shooting killed one detainee and injured two others there this week. The migrants were there for mandatory check-ins, and Pierre Sergio Martinez Beltran reports, if the people miss their check-ins, they could face detention and deportation. Fifty-three-year-old Nicaraguan migrant Benhamine Bejorin drove more than two hours to get

to his appointment with ICE in Dallas, but he found police officers outside telling him that the facility was closed, no appointments today. Bejorin expressed he was worried, saying, I just wanted them to see that I showed up, he says. He does not want to get in trouble. Bejurin did not know the appointments have been postponed. Authorities say the gunman who opened fire this week was targeting ICE agents, but the people he shot were all detainees. ICE has said this week's check-ins have been moved to next week.

Sergio Martinez Beltran, NPR News, Dallas. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to address the UN General Assembly this morning. He's expected to condemn Western countries that have recently announced they will recognize a Palestinian state. Meanwhile, the Israeli government has set up loudspeakers in Israeli territory that face Gaza. They'll blare Netanyahu's speech today into the besieged Palestinian territory. World leaders are putting forward a new plan at the General Assembly to combat non-communicable disease. diseases. And Pierre's Gabriela Emmanuel reports that for the first time, dementia is included

in the declaration. Dementia is a leading cause of death in many high-income countries. But Paola Barbarino, head of Alzheimer's Disease International, says it's often missing from global strategies for addressing non-communicable diseases. So seeing dementia twice in today's UN document represents a change. It's historical for us. It's a real watershed moment. Barbarino says this is especially significant for low-income countries where incidents of dementia is growing as life expectancy increases. And yet, a lot of low-income countries are still in denial about the fact that dementia is a big problem. dementia is expected to be the third leading cause of death globally in 2040. Gabriela Emmanuel NPR News.

Polish daredevil Andre Bargiel says he has become the first person to ski down the side of Mount Everest without you. using bottled oxygen. He summited Everest last Monday. Bargill has posted a video of his skiing feat online. I'm Corva Coleman, NPR News.