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#1 Who Is Joshua Jahn? Dallas Ice Shooting Suspect Identified - Tracy DeLatte and David Sentendrey for FOX 4, Eric Daugherty, Brett Meiselas/New York Post, Metatron, JD Vance/Jon Favreau (community notes), Stephen Miller/America (community note), Jesse Watters, Fred Wellman/FBI Director Kash Patel (community note), and Gavin Newsom on X
A 29-year-old man, Joshua Jahn, with ties to North Texas and Oklahoma, has been identified as the suspect in a shooting at a Dallas ICE detention center. One person was killed in the shooting, and two others were critically injured. The suspect is also deceased. The investigation is ongoing, and police have not yet released a motive for the shooting. According to FOX News and FOX 4 sources, the sniper who killed at least one person at the Dallas ICE facility early Wednesday morning was 29-year-old Joshua Jahn. Records show he has family in the Collin County city of Fairview. Dallas police confirmed that Fairview police are assisting with their investigation. SKY 4 captured images of FBI agents outside that home on Wednesday afternoon, and FOX 4 reporters saw what appeared to be frantic family members. Federal investigators were seen removing a box of possible evidence from the home...#2 White House Budget Office Threatens Mass Firings if Government Shuts Down - Adam Cancryn and Tami Luhby for CNN, RA224, Hugh Hewitt, The Common Voice, Steve Scalise, Wall Street Mav,
The White House budget office is telling federal agencies to prepare plans for mass firings in the event of a government shutdown, with instructions to target programs they are not legally required to continue. The directive, outlined in an Office of Management and Budget memo to agencies and obtained by CNN, represents a sharp break from the government’s handling of past shutdown scenarios — and an escalation by the Trump administration amid a standoff with congressional Democrats over federal funding...
#3 Trump Hangs Autopen Image Instead of Biden Portrait in Presidential Photo Gallery - Lalee Ibssa and Michelle Stoddart for ABC News, The White House, Benny Johnson, James Woods, Protect Kamala Harris, Canada Hates Trump, and Sandy on X
President Donald Trump is once again making decorative changes to the White House -- disparaging former President Joe Biden in the process. The White House has installed a new presidential portrait gallery along the West Wing Colonnade, unveiling the wall of photos on Wednesday. While the new "Presidential Walk of Fame" features portraits of all the presidents in gilded frames, Biden's portrait is replaced with a picture of an autopen. The White House called attention to the change on its social media...
#4 China Leads Nations With New Climate Plans, Defying US Climate Denial - Valerie Volcovici and Yukun Zhang for Reuters, Japan Times, Rumiana Hvostova, Wisdom Saves us from extinction, Charles R. Smith, Wendy, and Modern Diplomacy on X
China led several countries in announcing new climate plans on Wednesday and offered a veiled rebuke of the U.S. president's anti-climate rhetoric a day earlier at the U.N. General Assembly. Addressing a climate leaders’ summit hosted by U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Chinese President Xi Jinping said in a live video message from Beijing that by 2035 his country would cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 7%-10% from its peak... Senate Majority Leader John Thune voiced his reservations Wednesday with the Trump administration linking Tylenol use in pregnancy to autism in children, indicating he was “very concerned” about the impact the warning could have on women. Thune (R-SD), during an appearance on CNN’s “Inside Politics,” appeared skeptical that recent claims about the popular pain reliever and autism, made by President Trump and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., are conclusively backed by scientific evidence. “Well, I’m obviously very concerned about that,” the Senate Republican leader responded, when asked by CNN host Dana Bash if he worries Monday’s announcement could adversely affect the health of women and their babies... Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been sentenced to five years in jail after being found guilty of criminal conspiracy in a case related to millions of euros of illicit funds from the late Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi. The Paris criminal court acquitted him of all other charges, including passive corruption and illegal campaign financing. Sarkozy, who claims the case is politically motivated, was accused of using the funds from Gaddafi to finance his 2007 election campaign. In exchange, the prosecution alleged Sarkozy promised to help Gaddafi combat his reputation as a pariah with Western countries. Sarkozy, 70, was the president of France from 2007 to 2012... The National Park Service, before dawn on Wednesday, removed a statue titled “Best Friends Forever” of President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein holding hands – only a day after it was erected on the National Mall.Patrick, an organizer from “The Secret Handshake” group that placed it, who would only provide his first name out of fear of reprisal, said the group’s security guards were present around 5:30 a.m. when the statue was dismantled. The Department of the Interior, which oversees NPS, confirmed the statue has been removed, saying in a statement that the statue violated its permit. On Tuesday, Patrick told CNN he expected it to be up for a week. The statue’s permit allowed it to be on the site until 8 p.m. Sunday. Patrick now believes the Park Service is using a dispute over the height of the statue to remove the provocative display... At the start of the month, Trump administration officials initiated national security investigations into imports of personal protective equipment, medical consumables, and medical devices, including certain medical equipment. The US has long relied on foreign suppliers for a wide range of medical devices and equipment, and the Trump administration aims to reduce that dependence by reshoring many of these supply chains. If snarled supply chains during the COVID-19 era taught officials anything, it's that producing medical supplies domestically will be crucial in the event of another pandemic or a major war. On Wednesday, the Department of Commerce confirmed that it had initiated a national security investigation into "Imports of Personal Protective Equipment, Medical Consumables, and Medical Equipment, Including Devices" under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act on September 2. The filing was published in the Federal Register... The Trump administration is reviewing the safety protocols surrounding the abortion pill Mifepristone as conservative states continue to restrict access, the Hill reported Wednesday. In a letter sent earlier in September but published this week, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and FDA Commissioner Marty Makary stated the agency may change the Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy requirements due to recent studies questioning mifepristone's safety. They added that HHS will conduct its own review of the drug...
#5 Senate GOP Leader John Thune ‘Very Concerned’ About Trump Admin’s Tylenol Warning - Victor Nava for New York Post, Cindi K, therealstateofamerica, Woodrow Williams, FLETCH, and The Beacon on X
#6 Nicolas Sarkozy Sentenced to Five Years in Libya Campaign Financing Case - George Wright and Hugh Schofield for BBC, Clash Report, LadyEleanorA, Sky News, John I, and Patricia on X
#7 Did the Cold War-Era Department of Defense Weaponize Ticks with Lyme Disease? - Tracy Beanz and Michelle Edwards for UnCoverDC, Shore News Network, Elena Haskins, Authentic American, healthbot/BunnyCrumbs, and Daughters of Liberty on X
For those of us aware of the massive amounts of money and attention directed by our government to study bioweapons-related defense (nearly $50 billion since 9/11), it is not that far-fetched to posit that Lyme disease might not be purely a consequence of nature but may also have roots in bio-weapons experimentation by our own US military. If true, the militarization of Lyme disease reframes it from a tragic natural epidemic impacting and debilitating roughly 476,000 Americans each year into a consequence of clandestine bioengineering. According to research into the topic, key military programs during the Cold War tested pathogens, like the Lyme bacterium, known as Borrelia burgdorferi, in tandem with parasitic vectors like ticks, often releasing them in fields, including at a high-contaminant biological warfare laboratory on Plum Island. If true, for those living with chronic Lyme disease, the weaponization theory is not just an origin theory—it may very well explain decades of institutional neglect...
#8 National Park Service Removes Trump-Epstein Statue, Raising Free Speech Concerns - Emily R. Condon for CNN, Alexander B. Howard, Brian Krassenstein, Kaylee McCarthy, Amber Speaks Up, and USA Today on X
#9 U.S. Expands National Security Probe To Medical Devices, Equipment Amid Urgent Push To Reshore - Tyler Durden Zerohedge, Watch Dog WA, 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑖𝑠, Spencer Hakimian, and CNBC on X
#10 Trump Admin to Review Safety Protocols of Abortion Pill - James Morley III for Newsmax, The Worldview in 5 Minutes, Newser, America has a sex trafficking crisis, SAVE AMERICA, Business-News-Today.com, We told you So, Iwan Egerström, and Gabe Avalos on X
And Now for Something Special
Dan Scavino-Erin M Elmore Love Affair: Did She Say Yes? Trump Aide Goes Down on His Knees to Propose to His Girlfriend - Divyadeep Singh for The Economic Times, Dan Scavino Jr.
Dan Scavino, White House Deputy Chief of Staff, left his girlfriend, Erin M. Elmore, shocked and surprised when he proposed to her on the White House grounds on Wednesday evening (September 24, 2025). He went down on his knees with a ring in his hands. The two shared the video of the proposal on their Instagram. In the clip, Scavino and Elmore could be seen walking in the White House grounds. The two stopped at a point. With her back facing him, Scavino seized the opportunity and went down on his knees to present a ring to her...
