Sources identify man behind attack on Dallas ICE facility that left two dead
Sources familiar with the investigation into the Dallas immigration facility shooting identified Wednesday’s alleged attacker as Joshua Jahn, 29.
The gunman killed one person and injured two others after opening fire on a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility from a nearby building before taking his own life, police say. The agency earlier mistakenly said two detainees had been killed.
Jahn fired “indiscriminately” at the ICE building, as well as at a van in the sally port where the victims were shot, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said. The three detainees were in an unmarked transport van when they were shot, before Jahn took his own life around 7 a.m., according to the sources. He was found dead with a rifle on a nearby rooftop, authorities said.
A photo posted on X by FBI Director Kash Patel showed what appeared to be rifle-caliber ammunition affixed to a clip. The rounds were engraved with an “anti-ICE” message.
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Jahn may have been living in Durant, Oklahoma, at the time of the shooting, according to records.
“That’s what we are looking into,” Dallas Police Chief David Comeaux told FOX 4.
Wednesday’s shooting happened only miles from Alvarado, Texas, where just two months ago an individual ambushed a separate ICE facility targeting officers. In total, 16 people have been charged in the ambush-style shooting of an Alvarado police officer who was responding to reports of vandalism at the facility.
“These despicable, politically motivated attacks against law enforcement are not a one-off,” Patel wrote. “It has to end, and the FBI and our partners will lead these investigative efforts to ensure that those who target our law enforcement are pursued and brought to the fullest extent of justice,” he added.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Wednesday’s attack targeted law enforcement.
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“The attack on ICE in Dallas is yet another despicable assault on law and order,” he said. “The epidemic of leftist political violence must end. Democrats have fostered an environment of evil, emboldening radicals to kill, steal, and destroy. But we will never surrender.”
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said his state supports immigration enforcement officers and that the shooter’s actions “will NOT slow our arrest, detention, & deportation of illegal immigrants. We will work with ICE & the Dallas Police Department to get to the bottom of the assassin’s motive.”
Vice President JD Vance called for an end to “obsessive attacks” on law enforcement, particularly ICE.
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“These horrendous killings must serve as a wake-up call to the far left that their rhetoric about ICE has consequences,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wrote on X, while chiding elected officials who demonize immigration authorities.
“Comparing ICE day in and day out to the Nazi Gestapo, the Secret Police, and slave patrols has consequences,” she added. “The men and women of ICE are fathers and mothers, sons and daughters. They get up every morning to try and make our communities safer. Like everyone else, they just want to go home to their families at night.”
New twist months after infamous Coldplay kiss cam scandal
A Coldplay concert video took the internet by storm and triggered the resignation of two top executives at data company Astronomer. However, a source close to one of them is now speaking out that the controversy was misrepresented and that there was “no affair.”
Former CEO Andy Byron, 51, and then-Chief People Officer Kristin Cabot, 53, were shown embracing on a jumbotron in July. A viral video showed the duo ducking out of view, which prompted Coldplay frontman Chris Martin to joke about their reaction. However, according to a source close to Cabot, that viral moment was not entirely what it seemed, People magazine reported.
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“[Kristin Cabot] and [Andy Byron] had an excellent working relationship, a great friendship,” the source told People. “There was no affair.”
The source added, “It was inappropriate to be hugging your boss at a concert, and she accepts full responsibility for it. But the scandal, the downfall, the loss of the job — all of that is unfair.”
Kristin Cabot — married to head of Privateer Rum, Andrew Cabot — has been mislabeled as a “homewrecker” and she and Andy were at the concert with a group of friends, the source said.
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By the night of the event, Cabot and her husband had already been separated. She formally filed for divorce on Aug. 13, a little less than a month after the concert, with both parties agreeing to keep the proceedings private, People reported.
The controversy involves “real people and real families,” the source told People.
“The way people have taken a lot of enjoyment at their expense, it’s hard to see,” they said.
In the months since the video went viral, Cabot has largely been focusing on her family. In the days immediately after the video took over the internet, Cabot reportedly received nearly 900 death threats on her phone. People have also mocked her in public, the source told People.
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“Kristin had people standing outside her car while she was picking her son up from work, grown women laughing, taking pictures, pointing,” the source told People. “It’s been a tough thing to watch.”
On July 16, Byron and Cabot were spotted with their arms around each other when the concert jumbotron suddenly focused on them. Caught off guard, they quickly hid their faces and ducked out of view.
Their awkward reaction led Coldplay’s Chris Martin to joke, “Woah, look at these two. They’re either having an affair or they’re just very shy.”
Byron resigned July 19, and Cabot resigned as head of HR just a few days later. Losing her job at Astronomer after just seven months was also difficult for Cabot, the source said.
“Kristin has a lot of family and friends around her that know who she really is and love her, and will all see her through this,” the source told People. “… It will take time.”
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Kristin Cabot, Andy Byron and Astronomer did not immediately respond to FOX Business’ request for comment.
VP Vance trolls ex-MSNBC host with goofy image after she slams ‘mediocre’ White men
Vice President JD Vance dismissed former MSNBC host Joy Reid’s fiery tirade against his credentials with a goofy meme on Wednesday.
Reid, who was fired from MSNBC in February, went viral for comments about Vance during an interview with former CNN anchor Don Lemon.
After saying that she mourns the way Charlie Kirk died, she went on to criticize his rhetoric about affirmative action and how it applies to women like Reid, former first lady Michelle Obama, former congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, and Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. Reid argued that affirmative action has been used to empower “mediocre” White men like Vance.
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Reid blasted the empowerment of “White people who are essentially mediocre in scale compared to a Black person,” suggesting, “maybe the way that JD Vance got into Yale is because they were tired of just letting in White men from New York, from all the elite schools, and they wanted an Appalachian White. That’s how that man got into Yale, I promise you.”
Reid has frequently gone on tirades against White people, White men in particular. She recently described American icon Elvis Presley as a mediocre White man.
Talking to Lemon, Reid argued diversity initiatives bring in people of all backgrounds, such as “disabled people, military veterans, people who come from Appalachia, White folks who come from Alaska and different places that they don’t normally come from.”
She cited herself as a beneficiary of affirmative action and suggested her right-wing critics should be thankful to God for the privilege of knowing who she is.
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“Right-wingers, you have the ability to know who I am when I don’t know who most of y’all are, but you know me because affirmative action brought me your way,” she said. “Tell the Lord, ‘Thank you.’ Be grateful for all that God has given you. God knows what God is doing. She a smart, smart lady.”
“She probably Black,” Lemon said.
“And she definitely Black,” Reid responded.
Vance responded to a post sharing the clip with an image of himself, appearing to mock Reid’s commentary. Many of his supporters joined in with memes of their own in their replies.
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Kamala Harris draws Democratic backlash over ‘107 Days’ book and promotion tour
Former Vice President Kamala Harris‘ book and promotion tour have been met with disdain and criticism from fellow Democrats and some members of the media.
“At a time when people are looking for a vision and leadership… and want to see leaders rise to the level of threat facing the country, it’s pretty crazy she chose to write a gossip book that prioritizes the pettiness of her politics,” an advisor to a possible 2028 candidate told Politico. “It’s embarrassing for her, and for all Democrats, considering she was the leader of the party less than a year ago.”
Harris sat down with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Monday, and ABC’s “Good Morning America” and “The View” on Tuesday to discuss her new book, “107 Days,” about her short, failed presidential campaign. She was pressed on why she thought she didn’t win and on a key interview she did in 2024 where she failed to differentiate herself from former President Joe Biden.
“Harris’ recent media tour to tout her memoir — ‘107 Days’ — has reminded me of something I think I have long known: She is simply not a very good politician. And she hasn’t gotten much better over her decades in the business,” former CNN journalist Chris Cillizza wrote in his Substack.
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In a post to X, Cillizza said Harris’ return to the political world reminded him that she’s not good on her feet, adding, “She speaks in word salads.”
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CNN’s Kasie Hunt and former Democratic Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel discussed Harris’ admission on “The View” that she didn’t fully appreciate voters wanted to see a difference between her and Biden.
“Didn‘t fully appreciate how much of an issue it was? Just the entire ballgame,” Hunt said Tuesday, asking Emanuel to react.
Emanuel said all great presidents have a deep appreciation for politics.
“To not appreciate that question, given that the people thought at that time that the country was headed — 70% thought it was headed in the wrong direction, they wanted to see a change — is to totally misread where the American people were. And that, I‘m a little shocked at, to be honest,” he said.
Harris told the co-hosts of “The View” she lost to President Donald Trump because she didn’t have enough time.
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Emanuel also called out Harris for her reasoning in not picking Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg as her running mate.
The former vice president wrote that Buttigieg was too big of a “risk” as a gay man.
“We were already asking a lot of America: to accept a woman, a Black woman, a Black woman married to a Jewish man. Part of me wanted to say, ‘Screw it, let’s just do it.’ But knowing what was at stake, it was too big of a risk,” she wrote. “And I think Pete also knew that — to our mutual sadness.”
Maddow told Harris her rationale for not picking Buttigieg was “hard to hear,” forcing Harris to scramble to explain herself to the MSNBC audience.
One Democratic strategist told The Hill that Harris’ book couldn’t have come at a worse time.
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Gary South, a California Democratic strategist, told the outlet that excerpts of the book “show pretty clearly that she came out with arms flailing and guns blazing, blaming everyone but herself for her loss.”
“It is a curiously negative and ungracious tome for someone who reportedly thinks she can run again in 2028,” he added.
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“In an era where Democrats need all hands on deck in the fight to protect the country and the Constitution from the lawlessness of the Trump administration, she had a real opportunity to be a critical voice in the resistance,” Michael Hardaway, a former senior advisor to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., told Politico. “This book seems to be unhelpful and divisive in a way that makes it hard for her to be the face of the party as we look to the future.”
Former Obama advisor David Axelrod criticized the book last week in a statement to Politico.
“If there’s a political strategy here, it’s a bad one. There’s an awful lot of grievances and finger-pointing that really doesn’t serve a political agenda,” he said.
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Harris’ office did not immediately return a request for comment.
Violet Affleck calls for mask mandates as famous father battles nicotine addiction
Violet Affleck took the stage at the United Nations (U.N.) to demand clean air and as her father, Hollywood star Ben Affleck, wrestles with his smoking habit.
Wearing a KN95 mask, the 19-year-old Yale freshman addressed the “Healthy Indoor Air: A Global Call to Action” panel Tuesday in New York.
Over four minutes, Violet urged governments to bring back mask mandates, invest in clean-air infrastructure and recognize “filtered air as a human right as intuitively as we do filtered water.”
“We can create clean air infrastructure that is so ubiquitous and so obviously necessary so that tomorrow’s children don’t even know why we need it,” Violet warned delegates.
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But one expert with prior connections to Violet’s famous father suggested her clean-air push could be complicated by his smoking.
“Violet will never be happy with the air, and she’s a very sensitive girl,” Rocky Rosen, a Los Angeles smoking cessation trainer, told Fox News Digital. “She wants clean air but also wants dad to be healthy. Violet feels powerless over her father getting off cigarettes.”
Violet is the eldest daughter of Affleck, 53, and his ex-wife, actress Jennifer Garner, 53. The couple, who divorced in 2018 after more than a decade together, also share Seraphina, 15, and Samuel, 12.
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Affleck has reportedly wrestled with nicotine addiction for decades, even as Violet campaigns for healthier air.
He’s been photographed smoking in public, including one instance where he pulled down his mask at the height of the pandemic just to light up.
“Smokers like Ben are afraid of two things. He’s probably afraid he can’t stop. He’s probably afraid that he will stop,” Rosen said. “Ben’s very environmentally concerned but, as far as the cigarettes, they just have control over him.”
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Rosen emphasized the actor does try to be careful around others.
“Her dad doesn’t smoke near her. I’m sure, as in the pictures you’ll see of him smoking, he’s by himself. So he’s considerate about the air around him when he’s smoking and doesn’t want anybody exposed to his secondhand smoke,” he added.
Fox News Digital has reached out to the Affleck family for comment.
Tourist couple crushed between vehicles in Manhattan tragedy as driver speeds away
A hit-and-run in the heart of Midtown Manhattan Wednesday has left one person dead and another hospitalized, police have confirmed.
The tragic incident happened just before 2:40 p.m, police told Fox News Digital, when they responded to a 911 call for a vehicle collision at East 40th Street and 5th Avenue.
One vehicle, bearing a vanity plate that read “TIMES SQUARE,” was said to have struck a woman and her husband, both visiting from Hamburg, per the New York Post.
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Police confirmed one person was rushed to Bellevue Hospital and was listed in stable condition Wednesday evening.
Per the New York Post, eyewitnesses also described a chaotic scene in one of the city’s busiest corridors. A nearby Nuts4Nuts vendor said the van “sped away” after running over the couple.
“As he was reversing, the woman was under the van. The man was stuck under the tire. He got himself out,” the vendor said.
“EMS responded and pronounced a 50-year-old female deceased on the scene,” NYPD confirmed.
“A 55-year-old male was transported to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition. The vehicle did not remain on scene,” they stated.
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Rosa Paredes who was working at an ice cream truck nearby, also said she heard the crash from inside her car.
She recalled the vehicle attempted a sharp maneuver before moving backward into the couple. “I don’t think it knew it hit people,” Paredes added, speaking in Spanish through a translator.
Another witness, Houssaim Coly, said his coworker described the crash as “a terrible accident.”
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“There are no arrests and the investigation is ongoing by the NYPD Highway District’s Collision Investigation Squad. The identity of the deceased is pending family notification,” the NYPD said in a statement.
Key West Wing figure who ‘poured out his heart’ for MAGA movement leaving
Taylor Budowich, White House deputy chief of staff for communications and personnel, is set to leave the administration at the end of the month, Fox News has confirmed.
Budowich’s exit marks the most significant staff departure of President Trump’s current administration.
A longtime Trump advisor and one of his most trusted communicators, Budowich is returning to the private sector. The California native’s role gave him broad influence over messaging and personnel decisions inside the West Wing.
Senior Trump advisor Stephen Miller, in a statement provided to Fox News Digital by the White House, called Budowich “one of the true MAGA faithful who has poured out his heart for this movement and our President. He is universally admired and respected. No matter the issue or need, his insights and talents are sought after and valued deeply. He is and remains a cherished and loyal ally to us all.”
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Vice President JD Vance said Budowich is “an invaluable asset to this administration and someone I’ve personally relied on countless times during an amazing first year in office.”
“His oversight of the White House’s communications team has been an incredible success, where they’ve done an outstanding job touting the truly historic accomplishments of President Trump’s second term,” Vance continued in a statement provided to Fox News Digital. “In addition to all this, he’s played an integral role in coordinating this administration’s cabinet agencies and our Office of Public Liaison. He’ll be sorely missed, but I’m sure there are big things ahead for Taylor.”
Chief of staff Susie Wiles added that Budowich is “a dear friend, and I know that President Trump holds him in very high regard. I hate to see him go, personally and professionally, but obviously wish him well in whatever he decides is next.”
And longtime Trump aide Dan Scavino told Fox News Digital that Budowich is “an outstanding American patriot and an exceptional friend and colleague, both on the campaign trail previously and here at the White House. His unwavering dedication to advancing President Trump’s Make America Great Again agenda has made him a vital asset in Trump 2.0.
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“Taylor is the kind of person you want by your side in any type of challenge, on any day of the week,” Scavino added. “I am grateful for his service to President Trump and the American people and have complete confidence that he will excel in his future endeavors. I wish him the best of luck.”
Budowich previously served as communications director for Save America PAC and as executive director of MAGA Inc., a pro-Trump super PAC.
He was a spokesman for Trump during and after the 2020 campaign and testified in the classified documents investigation in 2023.
In November 2024, Trump announced Budowich’s appointment as deputy chief of staff, giving him oversight of both communications strategy and personnel.
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Budowich’s departure adds to speculation about who might fill his powerful West Wing role as the Trump White House continues shaping its agenda heading into the remainder of the term.
Budowich did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Mayor refuses to apologize for ‘not welcome’ message to Christian minister
At Dearborn, Michigan’s first city council meeting since his clash with a local Christian minister went viral after a heated exchange over a controversial honorary street sign naming, Mayor Abdullah Hammoud declined to apologize for his saying the minister was “not welcome here” and that he would “launch a parade” when he left town.
Ted Barham, the same Christian minister, opened his remarks at Tuesday’s meeting by repeating the words that went viral at the previous one on Sept. 9.
“The mayor, in a way, cursed me, as was seen around the world. And I would like to repeat what I said that day to you, Mr. Mayor: ‘God bless you,’” Barham said.
Barham said he had no plans to file a lawsuit despite pressure from supporters.
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“People have been saying I should do that all over the world. I have no intention of doing that,” Barham said.
Instead, he urged the council to consider his larger message: “Bless those who curse you… love your haters. And I would say that in regard to Hezbollah as well. I would [say] that in regard to Mr. Siblani and I would [say] to Israel, too. ‘Love your haters.’”
He then made a new appeal.
“Would it be possible for you, Mayor Hammoud, in front of the world and council members to join me in saying we would like to put out a Christian call to prayer and a Christian call to faith in all the countries around the world where an Islamic call to prayer goes out?”
Others took the microphone to press the council more directly.
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Anthony Deegan told the chamber, “We love you with the love of Christ. We want the blessings of God to be in your life… it’s not a matter of us versus them.” But he then asked pointedly: “Do you definitively, unequivocally, by name, denounce Hamas and Hezbollah? Or do you support them?”
Shane Rife of Garden City said he was “shocked” to learn that Hammoud had appeared at a rally where Arab American News publisher Osama Siblani praised Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah as a “hero.”
“We have a mayor in the United States who is sharing a platform with somebody, with [a] terrorist!?” Rife asked. “Where is your allegiance? Is your allegiance to the United States or is your allegiance to Hezbollah?”
Pastor Jeff Davis of Dearborn Evangelical Covenant Church also voiced support for Barham, stressing his long service in the city.
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Nagi Almudhegi, a Yemeni-American engineer and candidate for mayor, also weighed in during an interview with Fox News Digital.
“The United States of America is built on the principles of freedom of speech and freedom of religion. These two principles are sacrosanct,” Almudhegi said. “If I were in Mayor Abdullah Hamoud’s spot at that time, I would have not said anything. The gentleman has a right, as an American citizen, to speak his mind. And he did it in a respectful, calm way. The mayor should have afforded him that opportunity instead of launching into that tirade.”
He warned that Hammoud’s “not welcome here” remark risked fueling a false impression that Christians are not accepted in Dearborn.
“People would get the impression, or it would feed into the paranoia that is very, very wrong, that Dearborn is a racist place, or there’s no place for Christians. And that is what I’m 100% against,” Almudhegi said.
Almudhegi had previously released an official statement condemning Hammoud’s remarks as “uncalled for, classless, unprofessional and just plain wrong,” and voiced support for Barham.
When Hammoud spoke later in the evening at the meeting, he did not answer the many calls for an apology or the demand for a specific denunciation. Instead, he said, Dearborn “represents the best of America” where “people of all backgrounds, of all faiths, and of all beliefs can live peacefully and respectfully as neighbors.”
“For decades, people have been intent on dividing and disparaging our city,” Hammoud said. “Dearborn has never fallen for these divisive attempts. Back then and still now, Dearborn residents from every corner of this city have come together to shun hatred and to root it out of the place that we’re all proud to call home.”
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The controversy continues to loom over Dearborn’s November mayoral election, where Hammoud faces Almudhegi.
With only two names on the ballot, the clash over religious freedom and free speech sparked by Barham’s remarks and the mayor’s response may become the defining issue for voters.
Hammoud’s office did not immediately return Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
NBA star’s dramatic body transformation shocks fans after weight loss secret
New Orleans Pelicans star Zion Williamson showed off his weight loss at the team’s media day this week after an intense conditioning program over the summer.
“I really felt a shift in my body,” Williamson told reporters. “I haven’t felt like this since college, high school, just where I can walk into a gym, and I feel good.”
He added that the team’s executive vice president of basketball operations, Joe Dumars, who was hired in April, would hold the star accountable.
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“He’s going to hold me accountable, and as he holds me accountable, he’s going to give me a lot of responsibility as well, which I’m excited for,” Williamson said of Dumar. “I know he’s going to hold me to a really high standard, and if I slip up or anything, I know he’s going to be right there to make sure I get right back on the path.”
Williamson, entering his seventh season with the Pelicans, has maintained a reputation of being one of the NBA’s more overweight players since coming into the league as the No. 1 overall pick out of Duke in 2019. He has also been one of the more injured players, missing 268 NBA games due to injury or other reasons over his career from 2019-20 to 2024-25.
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The 6-foot-6 power forward’s trainer, Pelicans director of performance Daniel Bove, aimed to address his fluctuating weight and consistent injuries with the conditioning program this summer.
The program included boxing workouts and drills run on football fields.
“I really felt a shift in my body,” Williamson said of Bove’s program. “It feels good to feel good.”
Pelicans coach Willie Green said the team has been encouraged by the regularity of Williamson’s presence at team headquarters this offseason.
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“I saw his work this summer, his attention to his body, his conditioning,” Green said. “He wants to be available for his teammates.”