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Here's your midday brief for Wednesday, September 24th.

I'm Zoe Colkin for the Wall Street Journal.

One person died and two others were injured when a shooter opened fire at an immigration

and customs enforcement field office in Dallas.

It wasn't immediately clear if the people shot were ICE employees or detainees.

Homeland Security Secretary Christy Noem said in a post on X, the suspected shooter is now

deceased from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Tether, which operates the world's largest stable coin, is in early talks to raise up to

$20 billion in a funding round that would value the company at $500 billion.

That's according to Bloomberg and the Financial Times.

President Trump's public embrace of crypto has unleashed a flurry of dealmaking and initial public offerings in the industry.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the United States is in talks with Argentina to provide a $20 billion swap line to help the nation's economy.

The U.S. support is seen as a way to help President Javier Miele's free market overhaul ahead of a critical midterm election in October.

Israel has closed in the Allenby Bridge, a key border crossing between the Israeli-controlled

West Bank and Jordan, further isolating the territory. This comes in a week when multiple

Western governments recognized a Palestinian state to express concern about Israel's handling

of the war in Gaza. Israeli authorities didn't respond to requests for comment on why it was closed

or how long it would remain shut. Heads up, an artificial intelligence tool helped us make this

episode by creating summaries that were based on WSJ reporting and then reviewed and adapted by an editor.

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