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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Federal authorities say the men who shot and killed a detainee and injured two others yesterday at an ICE facility in Dallas acted alone. Acting U.S. Attorney Nancy Larson of the Northern District of Texas identified the suspect as 29-year-old Joshua Yan, a resident of the Dallas suburb
We obtained and executed multiple search warrants yesterday for devices and locations associated with the sniper. FBI agents executed a search warrant at the sniper's residence yesterday and there found a collection of notes.
Larson says the notes indicate the gunman did not intend to harm detainees but was targeting ICE personnel. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has summoned hundreds of generals and admirals to Virginia next week. There's no word yet on why a highly unusual meeting has been called. NPR's Greg Myhre reports.
The meeting will take place next week at a military base in Quantico, Virginia, outside Washington. Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell confirmed the meeting but gave no details on what would be discussed. it's extremely rare to call in hundreds of military leaders from around the globe to one central location on short notice.
This presents challenges ranging from logistics to maintaining ongoing operations. Hegseth has already shaken up the top ranks of the military, dismissing many senior officers. Next week's meeting raises the possibility that more high-level changes could be in the offing. Greg Myhre, NPR News, Washington.
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Chapter 2: What incident occurred at the ICE facility in Dallas?
Amazon and the federal government have reached a historic settlement in a lawsuit over the company's Prime membership program two days after going to trial. That's according to U.S. regulators. From member station KUOW in Seattle, Monica Nicholsburg reports a $2.5 billion settlement is one of the largest consumer redresses in FTC history.
Amazon Prime members will get $1.5 billion in payments under the settlement. That'll look like a maximum payment of $51 automatically credited to customers who used Prime benefits during the period in which the government says Amazon broke the law. The other billion is in civil penalties.
The Federal Trade Commission says Amazon used manipulative web design to trick millions of people into signing up for Prime, and also claims Amazon made them jump through hoops to unsubscribe. A senior FTC official said after the testimony, Amazon's, quote, backs were against the wall.
Amazon admits no wrongdoing under the settlement, and in a statement says the settlement allows the company to move forward. For NPR News, I'm Monica Nicholsburg in Seattle.
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been sentenced in Paris to five years in prison for criminal conspiracy. He called today's ruling a scandal. The Dow's closed down 185 points. From Washington, this is NPR News. An unidentified woman, dead for 20 years, got her name back today. Interpol says her name is Lyudmila Savada, a 31-year-old from Russia.
Until now, she'd only been known as the woman in pink because of the color of her clothes when her body was found beside a road in Barcelona. Her death had been ruled as suspicious.
Interpol says she's the third suspected murder victim whose identity was uncovered since the 2023 launch of Operation Identify Me, in which information has been released to the public and police forces around the globe to help ID victims found in six European countries as far back as 40 years ago.
In the U.S., new economic data out today with home sales dipping last month, and Pierre Scott Horsley reports on the latest figures from the National Association of Realtors.
Sales of existing homes fell by two-tenths of a percent in August, extending a months-long slump. The number of homes on the market was also down, but the average selling price inched up to more than $422,000. Revised figures from the Commerce Department show the U.S. economy grew faster during the spring than had been reported in
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