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DuPage County prosecutors charged four Chicago men after a pre-dawn break-in at Maria’s Gaming Café in Addison, Illinois. Authorities say a group of five, four of them armed, used stolen vehicles, sledgehammers and a crowbar to smash into the business and steal $13,847 from gaming machines in about two minutes. The getaway led police on a chase exceeding 100 mph before occupants fled on foot near Bellwood, dropping three guns, including a handgun modified to fire automatically. Keonte Adams, Dajuan Johnson, Kyronte McCondichie and Daryl Nesbit face charges including armed violence, burglary and unlawful possession of a machine gun. A judge denied pretrial release; all four return to court November 23.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton toured the Youngstown Business Incubator and rallied in Liberty, stressing ties to Mahoning and Trumbull counties ahead of Election Day against Republican Vivek Ramaswamy. Acton has repeatedly addressed a Ramaswamy-backed ad featuring her estranged mother, calling her a liar and alleging mental health issues; Gov. Mike DeWine called it exploitative. Both candidates are closing with pitches on Ohio’s affordability crisis, with Ramaswamy touting his business background and property-tax executive orders, and Acton emphasizing public-service experience, a working families tax cut, and school funding.

Ramaswamy has self-funded and outspent Acton nearly $80 million to $34 million overall, though Acton has outraised him recently; both have shattered Ohio’s gubernatorial fundraising record, and neither has held elected office before. Democrats are banking on a late push, including a Cleveland rally with Barack Obama and expanded early voting, as prediction markets show Acton favored heading into Election Day.

Harris County, Texas, has settled a lawsuit filed by the state attorney general’s office over “Get Out the Vote” ads that used Meta ad-targeting tags tied to groups such as African-American literature, Latin music and Hispanic kitchen content. The office, led by Clerk Teneshia Hudspeth, spent roughly $43,000 on the ads over 30 days and has agreed to remove the demographic targeting and not reinstate it for the rest of the election. Hudspeth said the tags were dropped to avoid distraction while defending the outreach as lawful; the county attorney’s office called the suit a political distraction. The dispute comes as Harris County has already topped 1 million early votes ahead of the November 3 election.

Republican Rep. Ashley Hinson, who once pledged to be President Trump’s strongest Senate ally, is now striking a more independent tone as she faces a tougher-than-expected challenge from Democratic state Rep. Josh Turek in Iowa, a state Trump has carried three times. Hinson has continued to campaign alongside Trump and feature him in ads, but has also pledged to be “a thorn in his side” if he acts against Iowa’s interests, a notable break from other Republican Senate candidates in red states.

The shift reflects signs of eroding enthusiasm for Trump among some of his own supporters ahead of the midterm election, adding uncertainty to a race in a traditionally reliable Republican state.

The Trump administration’s May 2025 shutdown of the VA Servicing Purchase (VASP) program, which had let struggling veterans roll missed mortgage payments into a new loan at a low fixed rate, has left thousands facing sharply higher payments. An NPR investigation found more than 15,000 veterans who got loan modifications after VASP ended saw payments rise by at least $150 a month, with over 700 facing increases of $1,000 or more — far higher rates than for conventional Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac loans. Industry groups had warned the VA against ending VASP without a replacement ready. A new Partial Claim Program launched over a year later, but it does not help veterans already stuck in costlier modified loans, and foreclosures on VA loans have since hit a 10-year high.

Jessie Laurel Tepler Mujambere, 28, the adopted son of Maine state Sen. Denise Tepler, D-Topsham, was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement while leaving the country through New Hampshire this week. He had recently obtained Canadian citizenship and arrived in Canada on Friday, his family said, calling the outcome a “best-case scenario” given he could have faced deportation to Burundi instead.

Mujambere came to the U.S. in 2014 as a teenager fleeing violence in Burundi; the Teplers became his legal guardians. The Department of Homeland Security said his decade-long pending asylum application did not confer legal status, a position immigration attorneys dispute as a departure from past practice.