Federal immigration enforcement agents fanned out across the Chicago region on Monday, arresting at least 17 people in the city and suburbs and being spotted by immigrant advocates and others at a Chicago courthouse and in cities from Elgin to Aurora.

A first-of-its-kind $90 million deal to settle almost 200 lawsuits tied to a corrupt Chicago police sergeant unanimously advanced Monday in the City Council, setting it up to likely pass later this month.

A dead rat was left on the doorstep with a handwritten note at an alderman’s office Sunday night that contained “derogatory statements” about immigrants, according to officials.

As President Donald Trump has recently threatened to send federal troops to clean up Chicago’s violence, local officials have trumpeted a factor complicating his plans: Crime is down in the city.

President Donald Trump signed an order Monday sending the National Guard into Memphis to combat crime, offering another major test of the limits of presidential power by using military force in American cities.

President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to once again federalize Washington, D.C.’s police force, in what he suggested could come in response to the city’s mayor’s stated refusal to cooperate with immigration enforcement.

Jennifer-Ruth Green, who ran as a Republican for Indiana’s 1st Congressional District seat in 2022, resigned as Indiana’s Secretary of Public Safety on Sept. 5 amid fallout from a state ethics complaint, which alleged she asked employees to get her state-issued vehicle from Crown Point, edit her campaign Facebook page, and other tasks that run afoul of Indiana’s ethics code, then threatened the employment of the person who filed the complaint.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new vaccine advisory committee meets this week, with votes expected on whether to change recommendations on shots against COVID-19, hepatitis B and chickenpox.