The city of Chicago impounded a “rogue bus” from Texas that was attempting to drop off 49 migrants at the city’s designated landing zone Wednesday night.

The impoundment occurred hours after the City Council approved an ordinance adding harsher penalties for bus owners whose vehicles violate restrictions governing unscheduled buses.

Under the revised rules, buses face “seizure and impoundment” for unloading passengers without a permit or outside of approved hours and locations. Violators will also be subject to $3,000 fines, plus towing and storage fees.

City officials hope the tougher penalties and enforcement efforts hold bus owners accountable to rules the city implemented in mid-November seeking to rein in chaotic bus arrivals from the southern border. The rules required drop-offs to occur on weekdays between 8 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. The city also limited bus arrivals to two per hour and designated the West Loop’s 800 S. Desplaines St. as the location to unload passengers.

Detroit: A stranger has been charged with the killing of local Jewish leader Samantha Woll, according to prosecutors.

Michael Jackson-Bolanos, 28, appears to be a random stranger, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said at a press conference Wednesday announcing the charges.

Worthy said investigators believe Bolanos killed Woll during a larceny or home invasion. Bolanos allegedly lied to police about committing larcenies or attempted larcenies from motor vehicles the day of Woll's death.

Woll, 40, was stabbed to death Oct. 21 inside her home in the Lafayette Park neighborhood on Detroit's east side, police said. After the attack, Woll stumbled out of her house and collapsed on her front lawn, according to investigators.

Hasbro had about 6,300 employees as of earlier this year, according to a company fact sheet.

“We anticipated the first three quarters to be challenging, particularly in Toys, where the market is coming off historic, pandemic-driven highs,” CEO Chris Cocks said in the memo. “While we have made some important progress across our organization, the headwinds we saw through the first nine months of the year have continued into Holiday and are likely to persist into 2024.

Hasbro, which already laid off hundreds of employees earlier this year, had warned in October that trouble was on the horizon. In the company’s most recent quarterly earnings report, Hasbro slashed its already-soft full-year outlook, projecting a 13% to 15% revenue decline for the year.

Popular toy brand sales had dropped significantly, Hasbro also said in the October quarterly report. Popular brands like My Little Pony, Nerf and Transformer had fallen 18% at the time, due to “softer category trends.”

Democrats are calling out their Republican colleagues after the House voted on Thursday to censure Congressman Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) for pulling a fire alarm while Congress was in session to vote on government funding.

Unsurprisingly, the vote ran along mostly party lines with a few exceptions, including Democratic Representatives Chris Pappas, Jahana Hays, and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, who voted to censure Bowman.

Representative Rashida Tlaib was quick to point out that it seemed as if Republicans were intentionally targeting people of color.“This censure of Representative Bowman is yet another attempt to silence a person of color in this chamber,” said Tlaib. “They are obsessed with attacking Black and brown members of Congress, but do nothing to help our families thrive. They need to get a grip.”

Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries also noted that the hypocrisy of the censure, saying Republicans were ignoring the rampant issues within their own caucus.

Whitmer signed a pair of bills into law that add acts of institutional desecration to the Michigan penal code, including acts of vandalism and threats targeting places of worship, cemeteries, community centers and other facilities.

If the amount of destruction or injury is $1,000 to $20,000 or the violator has one or more prior convictions for institutional desecration, they will be guilty of a felony punishable by up to five years' imprisonment, up to a $10,000 fine or three times the amount of destruction caused or both imprisonment and a fine.

If the amount of destruction or injury is more than $20,000 or the violator has two or more prior convictions for institutional desecration, they will be guilty of a felony punishable by up to ten years' imprisonment, up to a $15,000 fine or three times the amount of destruction caused or both imprisonment and a fine.

"Current law conflates attacks on houses of worship, cultural and community centers, minority-owned businesses, and other institutions with petty acts of vandalism—failing to recognize that attacks on our most sacred spaces terrorize and victimize entire communities,” said bill sponsor state Rep. Noah Arbit, D-West Bloomfield, in a statement. "The passage of the Institutional Desecration Act marks a historic, long-overdue stride in Michigan’s battle against hate crimes, and I could not be prouder to see this bipartisan legislation become law."

Officials said the woman tried to steal more than $720 worth of merchandise from a Genoa Township Walmart store on Saturday. At the time of the alleged theft, 75 law enforcement officers, including some Michigan State Police troopers, were at the store for a "Shop with a Cop" event.

During the event, store staff informed a trooper about a woman trying to steal $727.86 in merchandise. The trooper had another officer fill in for him in the shopping event and left to investigate, according to authorities.

They said the trooper tracked the suspect to the store's parking lot. It turned out the suspect parked her vehicle next to a row of police patrol cars, officials said.

The Maryland attorney general on Tuesday suspended a member of Maryland’s Commission on Hate Crime Response and Prevention for posting messages on social media that harshly criticized the actions of the Israeli government in the Palestinian territories.

Zainab Chaudry, director of the Maryland chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), is one of 20 members of the commission, which the state’s top law enforcement officials convened to combat escalating reports of hate crimes. In recent weeks, following a deadly terrorist attack on Israel by Hamas last month and Israel’s retaliatory attacks in Gaza, Chaudry’s scathing social media posts have drawn ire from state officials who see her opinions as extreme and divisive.

“It is profoundly disappointing to see a member of the Commission on Hate Crime Response and Prevention use their platform to advance inflammatory rhetorics and harmful policies that cause great pain to the Jewish community,” Del. Joe Vogel (D-Montgomery) said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.

In one post, Chaudry directly compared Israel to Nazi Germany — a juxtaposition widely seen as antisemitic — with the caption “That moment when you become what you hated most.” She said she could have included more context with that imagery, but she did not retract the sentiment.