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One detainee has been killed and two others injured in a shooting at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) field office in Dallas, according to officials.
Authorities have also confirmed that the suspected assailant died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. NBC News, citing senior law enforcement officials briefed on the investigation, reported that the suspect had been identified as 29-year-old Joshua Jahn.
What are the details of the shooting? The Dallas police department said officers responded to a call at approximately 6.40am on Wednesday. Police said the suspect “opened fire at a government building from an adjacent building. Two people were transported to the hospital with gunshot wounds. One victim died at the scene. The suspect is deceased.”
Do we know anything about a potential motive at this stage? Authorities said the FBI was investigating the incident as an act of targeted violence. The head of the FBI field office in Dallas said “rounds that were found near the suspected shooter contain messages that are anti-Ice in nature”. One of the unspent shell casings recovered had the phrase “ANTI-ICE” written on it, according to a post from the FBI director, Kash Patel.
World Health Organization rejects Trump’s claims of link between Tylenol and autism
The World Health Organization (WHO) has pushed back against contested claims by the Trump administration that acetaminophen use during pregnancy heightens the risk of autism, further underscoring that no scientific consensus supports such a connection. “Extensive research, including large-scale studies over the past decade, has found no consistent association,” the WHO said on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump faces a simmering Republican backlash, with some threatening to “break ranks” over the direction of the health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr.
What have Republican opponents said? Bill Cassidy, a Republican senator for Louisiana and the chair of the Senate health committee, has led a rebellion on the administration’s health policies. “You’re going to change a medical guideline without science?” Cassidy told the Hill. “I mean, you’re going to build a bridge without physics? You’re going to fly a plane without engineering?”
What about medical experts? From the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, doctors have endorsed the use of acetaminophen during pregnancy – after expressing alarm as Trump baselessly linked the painkiller with a rise in autism among children.
‘We are at our limit’: Gaza’s last hospitals overwhelmed as thousands flee south
The few remaining hospitals and clinics in central and southern Gaza are being overwhelmed by a “tsunami” of injured and sick patients fleeing a new Israeli offensive in the north of the devastated territory, medics say.
At Nasser medical complex, in the southern city of Khan Younis, and field hospitals in al-Muwasi, the coastal “humanitarian zone” designated by Israel, staff are struggling to cope with large numbers of new arrivals forced out of Gaza City.
How do things look from inside hospitals in Gaza? “We are seeing more people every day from the north with blast and bullet injuries, with old, dirty and infected wounds,” said Dr Martin Griffiths, a British volunteer consultant trauma surgeon. “Every one is hungry, malnourished, has lost their home and loved ones, and every one is scared.”
What about fleeing Gaza City? “We all say that we don’t want to leave, but we deeply know that we have no other choice,” says the journalist Malak A Tantesh, who tells Today In Focus about fleeing the Israeli ground offensive. It was her 11th displacement in 18 months.
In other news …
The London mayor, Sadiq Khan, hit back at Donald Trump, calling him “racist, sexist, misogynistic and Islamophobic”, after Trump called Khan “terrible” in his UN speech.
A delivery driver in Texas helped police foil a hostage situation, after reporting an order including zip ties, a hatchet and other suspicious items to a motel room.
At least 20 people were injured in the Israeli resort city of Eilat, after a drone launched from Yemen hit the city center.
An innocent man who spent 38 years behind bars in California was awarded $25m, in what his lawyers called the largest wrongful conviction settlement in state history.
Stat of the day: Fossil fuel burning poses threat to health of 1.6bn people
Fossil fuel burning is threatening the health of at least 1.6 billion people through the toxic pollutants it produces, according to Climate Trace, a coalition of academics and analysts that tracks pollution and greenhouse gases. The organization’s interactive map shows where PM2.5 and other toxins are being poured into the air.
Don’t miss this: The teenager from a tiny Scottish island fighting to end single-use plastics
The Isle of Jura, off the coast of Scotland, had 258 inhabitants in the latest census. That doesn’t stop plastic pollution impacting wildlife, from dead birds to red deer ingesting fishing nets. That’s put Tabby Fletcher, 17, on a mission to end single-use plastics in Scotland, and her petition now has more than 30,000 signatures.
Climate check: World’s oceans fail key health check as acidity crosses critical threshold for marine life
The world’s oceans have failed a key planetary health check for the first time, primarily due to the burning of fossil fuels, according to a report from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. Since the start of the industrial era, oceans’ surface pH has fallen by about 0.1 units, a 30-40% increase in acidity.
Last Thing: ‘I’ll admit it; I’ve become a late-in-life semicolon lover’
The semicolon has attracted passionate supporters and vitriolic haters since its origin, by an Italian printer in 1494. “I had a dalliance with a woman with a bizarre fetish for the things … it soured me on them,” explains Arwa Mahdawi, but “I’ve started to think that my ex and [Abraham] Lincoln were on to something.”
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