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CHICAGO: The Border Patrol agent who led the Los Angeles immigration crackdown reached Chicago on Tuesday, potentially signaling a new, more aggressive phase to an enforcement surge announced last week in the third-largest U.S. city.

FEDERAL RESERVE: After a late-night vote and last-minute ruling, the Federal Reserve began a key meeting on interest rate policy Tuesday with both a new Trump administration appointee and an official the White House targeted for removal.

LAWSUIT: President Donald Trump announced early Tuesday that he filed a $15 billion defamation lawsuit targeting The New York Times and four of its journalists.

TESLA: Federal auto safety regulators opened an investigation Tuesday into possible defects in Tesla doors that reportedly left parents with children trapped in the back seat and forced to break windows to get them out.

DEATH: Police on Tuesday investigated the death of a Black college student found hanging from a tree on the campus of Delta State University in Mississippi; authorities said there was no initial evidence of a crime.

ELECTION PROBE: Georgia's highest court declined Tuesday to consider Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' appeal of her removal from the Georgia election interference case against President Donald Trump and others.

— Associated Press