Bloomberg Politics

Chicago Mayor Appoints 30-Year Police Veteran as Superintendent

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson chose a 30-year veteran of the city’s police department to serve as its next superintendent, one of the most critical decisions of his first year in office as crime rates remain stubbornly high in the third-largest US city.

Ukraine Recap: ‘Tactical Advances’; Russia Fires at Cargo Ship

Ukraine’s troops made “tactically significant advances” along the administrative border between Zaporizhia and Donetsk oblasts, according to the military analysts at the Institute for the Study of War. There were unconfirmed reports that Kyiv’s troops pushed Russian forces out of the strategically-located village of Urozhaine on the eastern edge of the southern front, potentially opening the door to further advances toward occupied Mariupol and Berdyansk on the Sea of Azov.