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What happened in the Dallas ICE field office shooting and how are community activists responding?
The shooting at the Dallas Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office that killed at least one detainee and injured two others has community activists concerned that fear will escalate in the From member station KERA, Priscilla Rice reports.
Immigration advocate Susana Garcia says she was having her coffee when she began receiving texts about the deadly shooting. Garcia works with migrants in the northwest Dallas community of Bachman Lake and recently received legal status herself. She says ICE sightings and deportation threats have already taken an emotional toll. She and others now fear Latinos will be even further targeted. We are going to be more afraid about everything that's to come against us because of what just happened. Federal authorities are investigating the shooting as a targeted attack. For NPR News, I'm Priscilla Rice in Dallas.
The Justice Department is calling for the Supreme Court to end protections against racial discrimination in the redrawing of election maps. NPR's Hansi Lo Wong reports the court could soon determine the future of the landmark Voting Rights Act.
In a friend of the court brief for a lawsuit over Louisiana's map of congressional districts, the Justice Department argues the Voting Rights Act's longstanding legal protections against racial discrimination and redistricting are no longer constitutional. The DOJ's filing comes months after it started stepping away from multiple voting rights lawsuits that were first brought during former President Joe Biden's administration. A series of rulings by the Supreme Court's conservative majority have already weakened the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Now many of the law's advocates fear that the rare second round of oral arguments the court has ordered for this Louisiana case on October 15th could be setting up a decision that ends key remaining protections for minority voters.
Anzila Wong, NPR News.
Three men implicated in the September 11, 2001 attacks have asked a federal court to reinstate plea deals that were first reached with them last year and later canceled, as NPR's Sasha Pfeiffer reports.
Wednesday was the deadline for three of the 9-11 defendants to appeal the rejection of their plea deals. And all three of them did appeal, including the alleged ringleader, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. They want the full D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to hear their case. If it takes the case but doesn't rule in their favor, they can still appeal to the Supreme Court. The plea deals, if allowed, would let them plead guilty and spend life in prison rather than face the death penalty. prosecutors have said plea deals would be the best resolution since the case has still not gone to trial nearly a quarter century after the attacks. Sasha Pfeiffer, NPR News.
ABC says 6.3 million people tuned in to watch Jimmy Kimmel's return to broadcast last night. His late-night show typically gets about 1.8 million viewers each night on TV. Kimmel was suspended after comments he made that angered supporters of slain activist Charlie Kirk. Stations owned by Nexstar and Sinclair still kept him off the air. More than 26 million watched him on social media.
How are local immigrants describing fear and deportation threats after the Dallas shooting?
This is NPR News in Washington. Sexually transmitted disease rates fell for adults in the U.S. last year, but syphilis in newborns continued to rise, according to new government data. In 2012, there were about 300 cases of congenital syphilis, where moms passed the disease on to babies. Last year, there were nearly 4,000 cases. NPR's Student Podcast Challenge brings in thousands of student voices each year from grade four through college. This year, the high school winner comes to us from Houston, Texas, by way of Southern India. NPR's Sequoia Carrillo reports.
Ivani Yalto grew up in Houston.
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