Police records and witness accounts from a Chicago suburb where a man was fatally shot by a federal immigration enforcement agent earlier this month complicate the picture of the event presented by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which said the agent fired his weapon after the man drove his vehicle toward agents.

Silverio Villegas Gonzalez, 38, was pulled over and eventually shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Franklin Park, Illinois on September 12, just after dropping off his two children at Passow Elementary School and Small World Learning Center, a daycare located blocks away from the incident.

Bodycam footage, which Reuters obtained on Tuesday, captures an interview with the truck driver, named in police records as Josue Hernandez-Rodriguez.

“He was trying to escape from them,” Hernandez-Rodriguez said.

In multiple statements, DHS has said the agent, who has not been identified, responded with lethal force because he was "fearing for his own life." But in bodycam footage, the agent, in a bullet-resistant police vest and torn jeans, described his injuries as “nothing major.”

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/police-records-witness-accounts-complicate-dhs-narrative-fatal-chicago-area-ice-2025-09-24/

In 2004, political campaigns spent 9 cents of every dollar raised on fundraising operations. By 2024, that number had reached 30 cents. American political campaigns are raising more and more money less and less efficiently. I’ve analyzed data from FEC disbursement records, using an algorithm I developed to classify expenditures by spending category. It reveals that campaigns are now spending 38 cents of every dollar raised just to raise more money—a fourfold increase from the 9 cents spent in 2004. In raw terms, campaigns burned through $3 billion on fundraising operations in 2024 alone.

This represents a fundamental shift in how political money flows through our democracy. Twenty years ago, fundraising operations were a necessary but modest expense, like renting office space or printing yard signs. Today, it has metastasized into the primary activity of most campaigns. In 2022, 31% of total expenditures were for fundraising expenses. This came close to exceeding the 33% of total expenditures going towards advertising. If current trends hold in 2026, it’s likely that fundraising costs will for the first time exceed what is spent on advertising, thus becoming the biggest spending category.

The Fundraising-Industrial Complex Is Eating American Politics

New data reveals campaigns burn about a third of donations raised just asking for more donations

^{Adam Bonica (On Data and Democracy)}

The city office that oversees land use and zoning notified the owner of the building that Ice leases on 18 September that the federal agency had violated a conditional use permit approved in 2011. The permit limits the number of detainees Ice can hold at the facility each day to fewer than 15, and the duration for which they can be held, to less than 12 hours. The permit also bars the agency from “housing” anyone overnight.

But Ice data the city obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request, included in the official notice, shows 25 instances since January in which Ice held a person for more than 12 hours. On 26 January alone, agents held 16 people – listed as citizens of Venezuela, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico and other countries – for over 27 hours before transferring them, according to public records obtained by Street Roots and the Guardian.

The city’s notice also said the building was illegally altered when exterior windows were boarded up without proper approval. An Ice spokesperson did not respond to a question asking when the wood was installed, but photos and video taken at protests and posted on social media show the boarded up windows first appeared around 16 June.

Ice is illegally detaining immigrants in a Portland field office, mayor says

Records obtained by Street Roots and the Guardian back claim from Oregon city’s mayor that Ice violated a land use permit to detain people overnight

^{Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)}

Most of the tax dollars used to launch and implement the nation’s only Medicaid work requirement program have gone toward paying administrative costs rather than covering health care for Georgians, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office, the nonpartisan agency that monitors federal programs and spending.

The government report examined administrative expenses for Georgia Pathways to Coverage, the state’s experiment with work requirements. It follows previous reporting by The Current and ProPublica showing that the program has cost federal and state taxpayers more than $86.9 million while enrolling a tiny fraction of those eligible for free health care.

The GAO analysis, which does not include all the Pathways administrative expenses detailed by the news outlets, shows that as of April the Georgia program had spent $54.2 million on administrative costs since 2021, compared to $26.1 million spent on health care costs. Nearly 90% of administrative expenditures came from the federal budget, the report concluded, meaning that Georgia’s experiment is being funded by taxpayers around the country. Federal spending will likely increase given that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has approved $6 million more in administrative costs not reflected in this report because it was published before the state submitted invoices.

Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement Program Spent Twice as Much on Administrative Costs as on Health Care, GAO Says

Republican lawmakers cite Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage as a national model for federal Medicaid work requirements that are set to take effect in 2027. A new report shows the program has spent at least $54 million on administrative costs alone.

^ProPublica

https://www.orizzontescuola.it/quando-i-cartoni-degli-anni-90-cambiano-i-bambini-lesperimento-di-una-madre-che-fa-riflettere/

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Italia e Polonia si sfidano nella semifinale dei Mondiali di pallavolo maschile 2025. Ecco programma, orari e dove vederla in tv e streaming.

L’Italvolley torna a incrociare la sua rivale storica, la Polonia, nella semifinale dei Campionati del mondo di pallavolo maschile 2025. In palio, c’è la finale di Pasai City (Filippine) e la possibilità di difendere il titolo iridato vinto tre anni fa.

LEGGI L'ARTICOLO: Italia – Polonia: semifinale Mondiali 2025, programma, precedenti e diretta tv

Italia-Polonia Mondiali volley 2025: orari e dove vederla in TV e streaming

^{Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)}

L’NBA sbarca ufficialmente su Prime Video. A partire da ottobre 2025, il campionato di basket più importante del mondo entra nell’offerta sportiva del colosso streaming di Amazon, senza costi aggiuntivi per gli abbonati Prime. L’accordo, valido per 11 anni, rappresenta una delle più grandi operazioni globali sui diritti sportivi e promette di rivoluzionare l’esperienza di visione per i fan italiani, grazie al doppio commento in lingua italiana e inglese.

I DETTAGLI DELL'ACCORDO: NBA su Prime Video: accordo globale da 11 anni. Dal 25 ottobre inizia la stagione in streaming

NBA su Prime Video: accordo di 11 anni per le partite in diretta

Prime Video trasmetterà l’NBA per 11 anni. Dal 25 ottobre partite in esclusiva: Regular Season, Playoff e Finals. Scopri orari e dettagli.

^{Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)}

https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2025/09/22/argentinas-finances-just-got-even-more-surreal

https://www.economist.com/international/2025/09/23/a-made-in-china-plan-for-world-domination