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Joe Rothrock, special agent in charge of the Dallas FBI, said that the bureau was investigating the shooting at a Dallas ICE facility as an act of “targeted violence.” Rothrock also said that rounds found near the deceased shooter had anti-ICE messages.FBI investigating ICE facility shooting as act of ‘targeted violence’



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Savewith a NBCUniversal ProfileCreate your free profile or log in to save this articleSept. 24, 2025, 12:34 PM EDTBy Daniel ArkinOscar-winning actor Jessica Chastain said Wednesday she isn’t “aligned” with Apple on the company’s decision to postpone the debut of “The Savant,” a streaming series about an investigator who infiltrates online hate groups.”I want to say how much I value my partnership with Apple. They’ve been incredible collaborators and I deeply respect their team,” Chastain said in a post on her Instagram account. “That said, I wanted to reach out and let you know that we’re not aligned on the decision to pause the release of The Savant.”The first two episodes of “The Savant” were scheduled to premiere Friday. But in a brief statement to Variety this week, an Apple TV+ spokesperson said the platform decided to postpone the show’s rollout after “careful consideration,” adding: “We appreciate your understanding and look forward to releasing the series at a future date.”Apple TV+ did not identify an exact reason for the show’s delay or specify the considerations it weighed. The decision came two weeks after the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was fatally shot at an event in Utah. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, a Republican, has said the suspect in Kirk’s killing was influenced by what he characterized as “leftist ideology.””The Savant” was adapted from a 2019 article published in the magazine Cosmopolitan titled “Is It Possible to Stop a Mass Shooting Before It Happens?” The miniseries stars Chastain as a woman who “infiltrates online hate groups in an effort to stop domestic extremists before they act,” according to Apple’s press materials.”In the last five years since we’ve been making the show,” Chastain said in her Instagram post, “we’ve seen an unfortunate amount of violence in the United States.” She listed examples of such violence, including the attempted kidnapping of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer; the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol; the two assassination attempts on President Donald Trump; the assassination of a Democratic lawmaker in Minnesota; and the fatal shooting of Kirk.”These incidents, though far from encompassing the full range of violence witnessed in the United States, illustrate a broader mindset that crosses the political spectrum and must be confronted,” Chastain said. “I’ve never shied away from difficult subjects, and while I wish this show wasn’t so relevant, unfortunately it is.””While I respect Apple’s decision to pause the release for now, I remain hopeful the show will reach audiences soon,” Chastain added.Spokespeople for Apple TV+ did not immediately respond to an email requesting comment on Chastain’s post.Apple postponed “The Savant” at an especially tense moment for American media companies as they navigate political pressure, regulatory scrutiny and a polarized viewing public.Disney, for example, became embroiled in a national firestorm over its decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show following criticism from Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr. Kimmel returned to ABC’s lineup Tuesday night, but two companies that own affiliate stations are still refusing to air his show.Apple CEO Tim Cook is also attempting to walk a fine line with the Trump administration. Apple has pledged to invest $600 billion in the U.S. over the next four years as it works to avoid tariffs on items used in iPhones and other key products.Chastain is best known for the movies “The Help,” “Zero Dark Thirty” and “Interstellar.” She won an Academy Award for best actress in 2022 for her title role in the biopic “The Eyes of Tammy Faye.”Daniel ArkinDaniel Arkin is a national reporter at NBC News.
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Sept. 24, 2025, 3:40 PM EDTBy Julie Tsirkin, Monica Alba, Tara Prindiville and Alexandra MarquezPresident Donald Trump on Thursday is expected to sign a deal to facilitate the sale of TikTok from a Chinese-based company to a group of American investors, two senior White House officials told NBC News.Members of the Trump administration have for days signaled that a deal was being finalized between Chinese and U.S. officials.A senior White House official confirmed to NBC News on Wednesday that once the deal is implemented, TikTok’s U.S. operations would be run by a new joint-venture company. ByteDance, TikTok’s current China-based owner, will hold less than 20% of the stock of the new company, the official said.NBC News reached out to TikTok for comment.This structure will comply with a bipartisan law passed in 2024 that sought to ban TikTok if the platform wasn’t sold to U.S.-based owners this year. The app briefly shut down in the U.S. in January, just a day before Trump was inaugurated to his second term.The app came back online in the U.S. after Trump promised not to enforce the penalties against TikTok that were in the law and said he would seek to make a deal with China for the platform’s sale to the U.S.Trump has extended the deadline to avoid a TikTok ban several times this year. On Wednesday, a senior White House official said that he plans to extend the pause for another 120 days to allow time for the deal to go through.For years, technology experts and U.S. officials warned that TikTok, which has over 170 million U.S. users, was a national security risk and that ByteDance could give the Chinese government access to user data and to the app’s algorithm.During Trump’s first term, he signed an executive order in 2020 aimed at banning TikTok, but then-President Joe Biden reversed it the following year. Biden ultimately signed the bipartisan TikTok bill into law.On Wednesday, a senior White House official confirmed that as part of the deal, American users’ data will be stored in the U.S. and overseen by the software and cloud computing company Oracle. They added that the platform’s algorithm will be retrained and continuously monitored to ensure that U.S. content is free from any outside manipulation.On Saturday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News that the deal was almost over the finish line and that the “deal just needs to be signed.”She added that the deal would create a board to oversee TikTok with six seats reserved for American investors, but did not say who those American investors would be.On Sunday, Trump told Fox News in a separate interview that Oracle’s co-founder, Larry Ellison, would play a role in the deal. He also said that Michael Dell, CEO of Dell Technologies, and the Murdoch family, which owns a media empire that includes News Corp and Fox Corp, would also play a role.The president added that the other business leaders involved in the deal are “really great people, very prominent people.”“And they’re also American patriots, you know, they love this country, so I think they’re going to do a really good job,” he added.Julie TsirkinJulie Tsirkin is a correspondent covering Capitol Hill.Monica AlbaMonica Alba is a White House correspondent for NBC News.Tara PrindivilleTara Prindiville is a White House producer for NBC News.Alexandra MarquezAlexandra Marquez is a politics reporter for NBC News.
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Oct. 17, 2025, 5:00 AM EDTBy Frank Thorp V, Monica Alba, Julie Tsirkin and Carol E. LeeWASHINGTON — On Day 15 of the government shutdown, a U.S. senator hosted a well-attended birthday party for his bulldog.Dozens of Hill staffers lined up inside the Capitol on Wednesday to wish Republican Sen. Jim Justice’s pup a happy birthday as she sat under a balloon arch wearing a pink and white hat. They noshed on cakes and dozens of cake pops shaped in 6-year-old Babydog’s likeness.At the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, President Donald Trump gathered some of the richest people in the country for dinner at the White House. There were beef Wellington, butterscotch ice cream and gold-rimmed china but no mention of the government shutdown during Trump’s 37-minute-long remarks thanking his guests for their donations for a new White House ballroom.Judge blocks Trump administration layoffs, calling them illegal as government shutdown continues04:01“This is really a knockout crowd,” Trump said Wednesday evening, noting that their collective donations have exceeded the ballroom’s $250 million price tag.And so it has been for the power brokers in Washington during a government shutdown that appears to have no end in sight. While thousands of federal workers are furloughed — or fired — and trying to stay afloat without paychecks, the ones responsible for the shutdown are literally, and figuratively, eating cake.The business-as-usual nature for elected officials in Washington, and some of their aides, is in contrast to the experience of others in the nation’s capital, where federal offices, as well as many parks, landmarks and museums, are closed, and of many people across the country. It also solidifies what now seems to be a bygone era of government shutdowns — one when elected officials wouldn’t want to be caught anywhere near parties or other nonessential indulgences.“Everything still seems to be the same, except it’s not. Except most of these people aren’t getting paid,” Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, told NBC News, noting that the Senate has continued its committee hearings, constituent meetings and normal voting schedules despite the shutdown. “I don’t think that’s right. I just don’t think that’s right. And so, yeah, it’s — and it just feels different than any other shutdown.”President Donald Trump boards Air Force One in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, to return to Washington on Monday.Evan Vucci / APThe federal government has been shut down since Oct. 1 after Democrats and Republicans in Congress, and the president, couldn’t agree on a spending bill to keep it funded.Lawmakers have since been working, to be sure. They’re delivering floor speeches blaming the opposing party for the shutdown and repeatedly casting votes on the same two resolutions to reopen the government that they know don’t have enough support. Some lawmakers have been having informal discussions about potential ways to break the logjam, but Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., told NBC News on Thursday that while those talks had been “productive … they’re done.” Members of Congress also continue to get paid, as their pay is protected under the Constitution.But members of their staffs and the many people who keep the Capitol operating aren’t. A congressional staffer, who asked not to be named to protect their privacy, said that while Congress doesn’t seem to be in a big hurry to reopen the government, the shutdown is urgent for them and their family.“My husband is a federal worker too, so for us, this is definitely urgent. We have a family to support,” the staffer told NBC News.Like Congress, Trump has been busy with government business, holding an average of nearly an event a day since the shutdown began. He has traveled to the Middle East to mark a deal aimed at ending the war in Gaza. He’s hosting foreign leaders. Later this month, he is scheduled to take a multiday trip to Asia for world leader summits and meetings.Trump also went forward this week with a previously scheduled Rose Garden ceremony honoring conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated last month, on what would have been Kirk’s 32nd birthday. On Friday, he’ll meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House to discuss the war with Russia before he hops on a flight to Florida to spend the weekend at his Mar-a-Lago estate.The White House has called several aides who were initially furloughed back to work in recent days. While those staffers are working without pay, military personnel who service the presidency, such as the pilots, flight attendants and other staff members on Air Force One, are expected to continue receiving paychecks. The Defense Department shifted funding from elsewhere in its budget to ensure members of the military are paid during the shutdown.The White House also said Thursday that federal law enforcement officers, including those from Customs and Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Secret Service and the Drug Enforcement Administration, will be paid during the shutdown.Trump, too, will continue getting his paycheck under federal law, though he has said he donates his salary.At the same time, the White House has used the shutdown as cover to fire some federal workers. The Trump administration has already issued layoff notices to more than 4,000 government employees, though a federal judge blocked the move for now. The White House has said it plans to appeal.If the firings are allowed to go forward, White House budget chief Russell Vought said, the total could “grow higher” and “probably end up being north of 10,000.”Millions of tourists visit the U.S. Capitol every year, but tours are closed to the public because of the shutdown. Private tour groups arranged by senators and House members, however, have continued in abundance. Unlike in past shutdowns, cafeterias in the Capitol are open, trash is being picked up, grandfather clocks are still being wound, and some lawmakers have yet to furlough a single staff member.A “Closed to all tours” sign in the Capitol rotunda on Oct. 9, the ninth day of the government shutdown.Allison Robbert / APPast shutdowns have led members of Congress to frantically work weekend legislative sessions and hold late-night working pizza dinners to try to end the impasses. But this time, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has kept his members out of Washington since the shutdown began, and senators have consistently taken three-day weekends.Asked about the Senate’s weekend breaks, Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., told NBC News he will continue to allow senators to go home at the end of the week until there’s actual movement in negotiations.“If it looks like there’s productive reason for doing it, of course I’ll do it,” Thune said of keeping members in session over a weekend. “But if, you know, if it’s just no, no, no, no, no and we’re not making any headway, then I’m not sure what the point would be. But you know, I’m open to any suggestion that would help get the government back open.”Once the government reopens, federal workers will receive back pay to cover the shutdown, whether they worked or not. But that wasn’t always the case. In 2019, Congress passed a law that guaranteed back pay to federal workers furloughed during shutdowns. That guarantee seems to have led lawmakers and the executive branch to furlough fewer staff members this time, senators said.“I think the vibe is a little bit different this time because of the back pay guarantee,” Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., said in an interview this week.Some Republicans, who were around for the 16-day government shutdown in 2013, said they believe that then-President Barack Obama and then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., purposefully made the Capitol complex and federal agencies less hospitable during that funding crisis, hoping the pain would lead lawmakers to end that shutdown.“I think it was intentionally,” said Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., who told NBC News he hasn’t furloughed anyone on his staff for this shutdown. Obama, he said, was focused on shutting down “as many things you can, make it as hard on everybody as you can, and Harry Reid did the same thing here in the Senate.”A staff member brings Sen. Jim Justice’s bulldog, Babydog, to Justice’s office Wednesday for a birthday celebration.Anna Moneymaker / Getty ImagesAnd while lawmakers continue to be paid during the shutdown, Justice, R-W.Va., Babydog’s owner, said he is donating his paycheck to his state’s National Guard.“There are people out there depending on us, and right now, it’s a dog’s mess,” Justice said in an interview Wednesday. “A government shutdown is the most ridiculous thing on the planet, and really, truly, we need to be working together and get across the finish line.”Babydog had no better answer than the humans in the Capitol have had about when the shutdown might end.“Snort,” she replied when she was asked at her birthday party how Congress and the White House might reach a resolution to reopen the government.Frank Thorp VFrank Thorp V is a producer and off-air reporter covering Congress for NBC News, managing coverage of the Senate.Monica AlbaMonica Alba is a White House correspondent for NBC News.Julie TsirkinJulie Tsirkin is a correspondent covering Capitol Hill.Carol E. LeeCarol E. Lee is the Washington managing editor.Brennan Leach, Melanie Zanona and Caroline Kenny contributed.
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By Berkeley Lovelace Jr., Aria Bendix and Erika EdwardsPresident Donald Trump said Monday the Food and Drug Administration approved a chemotherapy drug called leucovorin as a treatment to alleviate symptoms of autism, despite little evidence that the medication works.Trump also said the administration is issuing a warning to doctors not to recommend acetaminophen — the active ingredient in Tylenol and other widely used medications — for pregnant women, claiming it may be linked to autism in children. Trump had been teasing the announcement for days, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other health officials have pledged to determine the cause of the developmental disorder by September.The administration had planned to release its long-awaited report on causes of autism around Sept. 29 or Sept. 30, a person familiar with the matter told NBC News. But Trump pre-empted the rollout over the weekend, and details soon appeared in The Washington Post.“We understood a lot more than a lot of people who studied it,” Trump said from the White House, referring to autism. He spoke alongside Kennedy, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary, National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya and Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. ”Taking Tylenol is not good,” Trump said. “I’ll say it. It’s not good.”Leucovorin is a drug approved by the FDA to counteract the side effects of certain chemotherapy drugs and sometimes used off-label to treat vitamin B9 deficiency. Leucovorin is a form of folinic acid, a B vitamin. It has shown promise in clinical trials with helping some children with autism improve their speech. But the Autism Science Foundation, which funds evidence-based autism research, does not recommend it as a treatment yet and says more studies are needed.Trump said the FDA updated the drug’s label Monday for the treatment of autism symptoms. Oz said Medicaid — in partnership with states — will cover it with a prescription.“We believe insurance companies will rapidly follow our lead,” he said.Kennedy also said the FDA will issue a letter advising health care providers that the over-the-counter medication should be used during pregnancy only in cases of high fever, when the fever itself may pose a health risk to the fetus. The FDA’s notice, sometimes called a “Dear Doctor” letter, is meant to alert physicians and other prescribers about urgent or clinically significant safety issues it has identified with a drug. Kennedy also said the FDA will begin the process to initiate a safety label change for the drug.Bhattacharya said at Monday’s briefing that the NIH will dedicate $50 million to 13 research projects focused on identifying root causes and treatments for autism, an effort known as the “autism data science initiative.” The research will focus on environmental and medical factors, nutrition, events during pregnancy, biology and genetics, he said.“Given this wide range of symptoms across the spectrum, it seems certain that there will be a wide range of biological contributors to explaining the cause,” he said.Researchers who’ve spent decades researching potential causes of autism say the administration hasn’t uncovered any new evidence — and the existing data still doesn’t support its claims.“This is not new,” Dr. Allison Bryant, a high-risk obstetrician at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, said in an earlier interview. “It has bubbled up every now and again with studies that show maybe some kind of association but not clearly showing any cause and effect.”Experts say autism spectrum disorder, which is characterized by challenges with social and speech skills and by repetitive behaviors, most likely stems from multiple factors rather than a single cause. It affects 1 in 31 children in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.The bulk of scientific research hasn’t identified a link between acetaminophen and autism.“The science hasn’t changed regardless of what comes out from the report,” said Brian K. Lee, a professor of epidemiology at Drexel University in Philadelphia, referring to the Trump administration’s finding. “I’m not sure what the administration is doing, but it looks like they’re just going back and reviewing the evidence and they’re coming to a different conclusion than many scientists would.”Acetaminophen was introduced in the United States in the 1950s as a prescription alternative to aspirin. By the 1970s, it had been made available over the counter and became one of the most commonly used pain and fever medications in the country. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and other major medical groups say acetaminophen is one of the only safe pain relievers for women during pregnancy, and studies have shown no clear evidence that use during pregnancy leads to developmental issues in kids. The drug is also found in name brands like Theraflu and Excedrin.Forty percent to 65% of women use acetaminophen at some point during pregnancy, according to a 2014 study published in the American Family Physician.Earlier Monday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt touted a “major announcement” from Trump, telling reporters at a briefing to go into the autism announcement with “some critical thinking skills and with some open ears.”“They are paying attention to studies, and the gold standard of science and research, that many in this city for far too long have turned a blind eye to,” she said.Trump administration officials are citing previous research, including a literature review Mount Sinai and Harvard researchers published last month in the journal BMC Environmental Health. The review concluded there was most likely an association between autism and acetaminophen exposure during pregnancy. Outside autism researchers, however, said that the review wasn’t rigorously conducted and that it cherry-picked studies that supported its conclusion. The review’s senior author, Andrea Baccarelli, served in 2023 as a paid expert in a class action lawsuit against acetaminophen manufacturers, in which he testified that there was a link between the medication and autism. A judge ultimately excluded his testimony for being scientifically unsound and last year dismissed the case, which is being appealed.Baccarelli said in a statement that he and his colleagues conducted a rigorous review and that the association with neurodevelopmental disorders was strongest when acetaminophen was taken for four weeks or longer. He said he discussed his findings with Kennedy and Bhattacharya in recent weeks.“Further research is needed to confirm the association and determine causality, but based on existing evidence, I believe that caution about acetaminophen use during pregnancy — especially heavy or prolonged use — is warranted,” Baccarelli said.However, other autism researchers have pointed to a large study last year published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, which found no link between acetaminophen use in pregnancy and autism, ADHD or intellectual disability. The study, from Lee and his colleagues in Sweden, analyzed data from more than 2.4 million children. When the researchers looked solely at children with autism, there was a small increased risk possibly associated with acetaminophen. But when the researchers compared siblings within the same families — one exposed during pregnancy, the other not — the link disappeared. The comparison allowed them to control for variables that past studies couldn’t. Siblings share a large part of their genetic background and often have similar environmental exposures in utero and at home.“The biggest elephant in the room here is genetics,” Lee said. “We know that autism, ADHD and other neurodevelopmental disorders are highly heritable.”In an emailed statement, a spokesperson for Kenvue, the maker of Tylenol, said the drug is the safest pain reliever option for pregnant women.“Without it, women face dangerous choices: suffer through conditions like fever that are potentially harmful to both mom and baby or use riskier alternatives,” the spokesperson said. “We believe independent, sound science clearly shows that taking acetaminophen does not cause autism.”Bryant, of Massachusetts General Hospital, said, “The best science that we have available would still suggest that acetaminophen is a safe pain reliever and fever reducer in pregnancy.”Berkeley Lovelace Jr.Berkeley Lovelace Jr. is a health and medical reporter for NBC News. He covers the Food and Drug Administration, with a special focus on Covid vaccines, prescription drug pricing and health care. He previously covered the biotech and pharmaceutical industry with CNBC.Aria BendixAria Bendix is the breaking health reporter for NBC News Digital.Erika EdwardsErika Edwards is a health and medical news writer and reporter for NBC News and “TODAY.”
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