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Detainees killed and injured in shooting at ICE facility in Dallas. One detainee was killed and two were left in critical condition after a shooter fired on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas from a nearby rooftop, the Department of Homeland Security said yesterday. DHS said the shooter fired “indiscriminately” at the building, and the FBI said it was investigating the shooting as “an act of targeted violence.” No law enforcement personnel were injured in the shooting. The shooter was also found dead of a self-inflicted wound, officials said. Although the investigation is ongoing, FBI Director Kash Patel posted an image on X of unused ammunition that he said belonged to the shooter with “ANTI-ICE” written on it. Local officials cautioned against drawing conclusions about the shooter’s motivation until more is known.
Prosecutors said to be about to try to bring charges against James Comey. Federal prosecutors will seek a criminal indictment of James Comey, who led the FBI during President Trump’s first term but has since become a critic of the president, multiple news outlets reported yesterday. The deadline for the Justice Department to ask a grand jury to allow charges based on allegations that Comey lied during testimony to Congress in 2020 about about a possible connection between the Trump campaign and Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election (which Trump has called a hoax) is next week. Grand juries side with prosecutors more often than not, but there are reportedly some within the DOJ who do not believe the case is strong enough to meet the standard. The push for an indictment comes after Trump publicly questioned why the department had not swiftly brought cases against several people he considers foes.
New home sales spiked 20% in August. Sales of newly built homes in the US unexpectedly jumped last month to the highest level since January 2022, with sales up 20.5% compared to July and up 15.4% compared to last August. That was before mortgage rates started falling, so it could be a sign that price cuts and other incentives used by homebuilders to lure buyers amid an oversupply of new homes had their desired effect. But the surprising uptick could also be a quirk of the data: “Always important to remember the margin of error for new home sales is large,” the chief economist for the National Association of Home Builders told CNBC. The National Association of Realtors will report numbers for previously owned homes today.—AR
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