Sniper at ICE in Dallas, DOJ prepares indictment against Comey: Unbiased Updates, Sept. 25, 2025

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00:00A rooftop sniper opens fire outside an ICE facility in Dallas, one detainee dead, and a message left on the bullets.

00:08Plus, Trump's former FBI director now facing indictment. The charges that could land James Comey in court.

00:15And the deal's set to be signed today, keeping TikTok on American phones, cutting China out of the loop.

00:23The stories that matter, clear and credible, from across the country to around the world.

00:30These are your unbiased updates from Straight Arrow News.

00:35Good morning, I'm Craig DeGrelli.

00:37This morning, the fallout is growing from that shooting at a Dallas immigration facility,

00:41with Homeland Security now ordering tighter security nationwide, and questions mounting about the shooter's motive.

00:48Authorities say the gunman, 29-year-old Joshua John, fired from a rooftop at dawn,

00:53spraying bullets into vehicles outside the ICE field office in Dallas.

00:57One detainee was killed, two others critically hurt, before the suspect turned the gun on himself.

01:03Investigators recovered ammunition. One bullet had the message anti-ICE written on it.

01:08President Trump and J.D. Vance attempting to tie the shooting to Democrats.

01:12Vance describing John as, quote, a left-wing extremist.

01:15On Truth Social, Trump said the shooting is, quote, the result of the radical left Democrats constantly demonizing law enforcement,

01:23calling for ICE to be demolished, and comparing ICE officers to Nazis.

01:28In an interview with CBS News, ICE director Todd Lyons said it was pure luck.

01:33More people were not caught in the crossfire.

01:35The shooter fired indiscriminately into vehicles.

01:38The detainees were in the vehicle at the time.

01:41They weren't outside.

01:42There was no way you could have known detainees were in there.

01:44What's even scarier is the location where the field office is, there's businesses around there.

01:49Busy I-35, you know, 6.40 in the morning.

01:52People going to school, people going to work.

01:54He had a high-powered rifle.

01:56He could have, in his indiscriminate fire, hit people traveling to work, civilians on the ground.

02:01Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has now ordered additional security

02:06at ICE facilities across the country as the investigation continues.

02:10The White House is now warning federal agencies if the government shuts down next week,

02:15don't expect furloughs.

02:17Expect firings.

02:18In a memo obtained by NBC News, the Office of Management and Budget directed agencies

02:23to prepare for mass layoffs in programs that would lose funding

02:27and are, quote, not consistent with the president's priorities.

02:30That marks a major shift from past shutdowns when most federal workers were furloughed

02:35and eventually returned to their jobs once Congress cut a deal.

02:39The memo says agencies should revise their plans to retain only the bare minimum staff needed

02:44to carry out legally required functions.

02:47Lawmakers have until next Wednesday, October 1st, to pass a spending bill and avoid a shutdown.

02:52A dramatic legal turn for a longtime Trump foe.

02:57The Justice Department is preparing to seek an indictment against former FBI Director James Comey,

03:02accusing him of giving false testimony to Congress about the FBI's handling of the Russia investigation.

03:09The case centers on Comey's September 2020 testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee

03:13about the probe into possible links between Russia and Donald Trump's 2016 campaign.

03:18According to multiple reports, prosecutors in Virginia are expected to present the case to a grand jury

03:24as early as this week, just days before the five-year statute of limitations runs out.

03:30Trump has publicly demanded charges against Comey and other political opponents,

03:35and just last week, forced out the U.S. attorney who previously declined to prosecute the case.

03:40He installed a White House aide as interim U.S. attorney, and the case against Comey was quickly revived.

03:45Comey has long insisted his testimony was truthful.

03:49His attorney and Justice Department officials are not commenting.

03:52A major escalation in the Gaza flotilla crisis.

03:57Both Italy and now Spain dispatching naval ships to protect their citizens on board the aide mission

04:03after organizers say drones struck multiple vessels.

04:06The Global Samud Flotilla is a coalition of more than 50 boats that set sail from Europe earlier this month,

04:13loaded with food and supplies for Gaza.

04:15Organizers call it a humanitarian mission to break Israel's naval blockade.

04:20But the voyage has turned dangerous, with reports of at least a dozen drone strikes

04:24and damaged vessels in the Mediterranean.

04:27Spain's Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, says his country is sending a naval ship to, quote,

04:32ensure safe passage and, if needed, rescue our citizens.

04:36About 15 Spaniards are aboard.

04:38And today, Italy has deployed a second frigate in support of the flotilla.

04:42Prime Minister Georgia Maloney condemned the strikes but urged the activists to hand their aid to official channels,

04:49calling the mission dangerous and irresponsible.

04:52Israel insists the flotilla will not be allowed to reach Gaza, warning it violates a lawful blockade.

04:58The government says it's willing to transfer the aid through its ports, but organizers reject that as illegal.

05:04President Trump is expected to sign off today on a new deal to keep TikTok alive in the U.S.,

05:11ending months of deadlines and threats that the app could go dark.

05:15Under U.S. law, China-based ByteDance had until December 16th to sell or cut ties with TikTok,

05:22or else it would lose access to American app stores.

05:24CBS and NBC report the administration has struck a compromise.

05:29ByteDance's algorithm will be rebuilt, and U.S. tech giant Oracle will take control of Americans' data oversight

05:36designed to secure the app's code and prevent China from accessing personal information.

05:42Oracle will also take an ownership stake in ByteDance.

05:45Officials say the deal meets legal requirements,

05:47while critics warn China's influence over TikTok still poses a national security risk.

05:53Finally this morning, NASA is shooting for the sun.

05:57Three new spacecraft are now on their way to map the giant invisible bubble that surrounds our solar system.

06:04Follow me here.

06:05It's called the Heliosphere, a massive protective shield created by winds that wraps around our solar system.

06:12With help from NOAA and a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket,

06:15NASA launched its IMAP mission on Wednesday to figure out how that shield really works.

06:21Scientists hope IMAP will explain how the sun creates solar wind and how it interacts with interstellar space,

06:28which means occurring between stars, and leads to better prediction of solar storms.

06:33Because when those storms hit Earth, they can wreak havoc, knocking out GPS, radio signals, even power grids.

06:40And NASA says understanding the heliosphere is also key to one day putting humans back on the moon and eventually Mars.

06:49Got all that?

06:50When I read this script, it reminded me of the song from the 1980s,

06:54She Blinded Me With Science by Thomas Dolby.

06:57It's a true thing.

06:58Look it up.

06:58It was catchy.

07:00All right, before we head out, here's what we're tracking today.

07:02At 10, Sean Diddy Combs faces a post-conviction hearing in New York tied to a prostitution conviction.

07:08At 11, President Trump welcomes Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan to the White House.

07:13At 3, he signs executive orders, including what will likely be that TikTok deal.

07:18And later today, state lawmakers in Utah must unveil new congressional boundaries under a court order.

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07:30Those are your unbiased updates for this Thursday.

07:33We'll see you back here tomorrow, Friday.

07:34We love that.

07:35For all of us here at Straight Arrow News, I'm Craig DiGrelli.

07:37Have a great day.

Sniper at ICE in Dallas, DOJ prepares indictment against Comey: Unbiased Updates, Sept. 25, 2025

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