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One person was killed and two others were left in critical condition after a gunman opened fire at a Dallas Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility yesterday morning. Officials described the shooting as a targeted attack and said the assailant died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound before police reached him.
The shooter was identified as 29-year-old Joshua Jahn. While a motive has not been publicly revealed, reports suggest an unused bullet with the words "ANTI-ICE" written in marker was found at the scene. The gunman opened fire from the rooftop of an adjacent building around 6:30 am ET local time, as detainees were being transferred into the facility. All three victims were detainees—no ICE officers were wounded—and were said to be sitting inside a transport van when the shooting began.
The attack appears to be the latest in an increasingly frequent string of politically or ideologically motivated violence, and comes two weeks after conservative activist Charlie Kirk was killed. See recent examples here. |
A SpaceX rocket successfully deployed a trio of scientific spacecraft yesterday, each with the goal of studying various aspects of the solar wind—the stream of energetic charged particles emanating from the sun.
The solar wind is created in the sun’s outer atmosphere (see overview), where charged particles reach extreme temperatures before ejecting into space. These particles also create a vast magnetic bubble, called the heliosphere, that deflects otherwise hazardous radiation coming into the solar system. The largest mission, run by NASA, will study both the solar wind and the heliosphere, while a second will observe how Earth’s exosphere interacts with solar storms.
The third, managed by NOAA, will provide real-time monitoring of such storms after its existing probe went offline in July. Solar storms—intense flare-ups of the charged particle streams—can severely impact telecommunications networks.
Learn more about space weather here. |
Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa became the first Syrian leader since 1967 to address world leaders at the UN General Assembly in New York yesterday. He previously led the Islamist rebel coalition Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which toppled the decadeslong dictatorship of his predecessor, Bashar al-Assad, in December.
Al-Sharaa's presidency ended nearly 14 years of civil war that displaced an estimated 14 million people—more than half of the country's prewar population—and killed around 1 million. In his remarks, al-Sharaa urged an end to sanctions, called for international investment to aid Syria’s recovery, and criticized Israeli policy, suggesting a return to disengagement arrangements along their shared border.
His speech came against the backdrop of continued unrest in Syria, including internal clashes as well as Israeli strikes targeting military positions and weapons shipments near the border. Israel says it intends to prevent hostile forces from gaining a foothold, while diplomatic talks between the nations continue. |
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