NPR News: 09-25-2025 3AM EDT
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What happened in the shooting outside the ICE detention center in Dallas?
Investigators are seeking a motive for a shooting that left two people dead and two others injured outside an ICE detention center in Dallas. KERA's Priscilla Rice reports that community activists are concerned that Wednesday's attack will increase fear within the migrant community.
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 White House Budget Office says a government shutdown on October 1st would trigger mass firings in the federal workforce. Senate Majority Leader John Thune says Republicans remain open to discussions on maintaining current spending through November 21st, but Thune says Democrats are insisting that planned cuts to health care spending be reversed.
You shouldn't hijack a bill that will keep the government open in order to do a lot of extraneous things. And this is a program that costs $365 billion. And so if we're going to have that conversation, we should. But it ought to be in a place and time where we can work through some of these issues and look at some of the reforms that would come with that.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries says Democrats will not support any cuts to health care spending. President Trump canceled a meeting with Democrats that had been planned for Thursday, saying it would not be productive. The U.S. Postal Service says it will not raise stamp prices again this year. More from NPR's Hansi LeWong.
The price of a first-class Forever stamp has gone up seven times over the past four years.
How are Dallas migrant advocates reacting to the ICE-area shooting?
But the U.S. Postal Service, which is a financial support of NPR, says that until at least mid-2026, it's staying at 78 cents. That's among the world's lowest prices for mailing a letter domestically. But compared to decades ago, fewer people and businesses are using first-class mail to send bills, payments, and advertising. and that's destabilizing the U.S. Postal Service, which generally receives no tax dollars to keep it running. USPS relies instead on selling stamps and other service fees. The Postal Regulatory Commission recently approved temporary price hikes of close to 6 percent for certain USPS shipping services starting next month. Like those put in place by FedEx and UPS, those increases are set to last through the year-end holiday season.
China has announced plans to cut emissions by 7 to 10 percent by 2035. It currently produces nearly a third of the world's carbon dioxide emissions. The announcement came as world leaders at the UN General Assembly cited an urgent need to step up efforts to curb heat-trapping gases that cause climate change. It also comes three weeks before a major climate summit in Brazil. This is NPR. Hundreds of people gathered in Greenland's capital of Nuuk Wednesday to hear the Danish prime minister formally apologize for her country's role in a decades-long practice of placing invasive contraceptives in Greenlandic women and girls without their consent. Kavitha George has the story.
Appearing in Nuuk's downtown cultural center, Danish Prime Minister Meta Fredriksson apologized on behalf of Denmark for the harm health authorities caused, beginning in the 1960s and continuing into the 90s. The air was heavy with emotion as a few of the women recounted their experiences of being forcibly fitted with intrauterine devices as teenagers. Many women were left permanently sterile as a result of the campaign. Naya Lubberth says she hopes the apology sets a precedent and that it's followed by reparations.
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