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News Wrap: Trump signs order aiming to keep TikTok available in U.S.

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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In our news wrap Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order aiming to keep TikTok available in the U.S., investigators revealed the identity and possible motive of the gunman who opened fire on an ICE facility in Dallas and former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was sentenced to five years in prison for criminal conspiracy. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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0:00.0

In the day's other headlines, President Trump signed an executive order today that aims

0:04.7

to keep TikTok available in the U.S.

0:08.2

With this executive order, you will be effectively bringing into effect the agreement that

0:13.7

will save TikTok.

0:15.0

At the White House this afternoon, Trump said a deal to bring TikTok under U.S. ownership

0:20.1

would meet America's national security

0:22.2

concerns. Trump added that China's President Xi Jinping had given the go-ahead for the agreement,

0:28.2

though few details are known about how it will actually work. Last year, Congress passed a law

0:33.5

requiring that TikTok's China-based parent company sell the app or face a U.S. ban.

0:39.7

President Trump has repeatedly extended the deadline for that ban.

0:43.9

We're learning more tonight about the identity and possible motive of the gunmen in yesterday's

0:48.9

attack on an ice field office in Dallas.

0:51.8

Law enforcement officials identified the suspect as 29-year-old U.S. citizen

0:55.9

Joshua Yan. Today, FBI director Cash Patel posted on social media that the alleged shooter

1:01.6

left behind handwritten notes, including one that read, quote, hopefully this will give ICE agents

1:07.7

real terror. Patel also said the evidence points to a, quote, high degree of

1:12.5

pre-attack planning. At a news conference today, officials called the shooting a targeted ambush-style

1:18.4

attack on law enforcement, adding that the actual victims were not the intended targets.

1:24.4

It's clear from these notes that he was targeting ice agents and ice personnel.

1:30.3

The tragic irony for his evil plot here is that it was a detainee who was killed and two other

1:38.3

detainees that were injured when he fired into the sally port. What he did is the very definition of terrorism.

1:48.8

Authorities also said the rifle used in the shooting was legally obtained and that the gunmen

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