According to Chicago police, a repeat offender who was awaiting trial for an unrelated attack and was not being held in jail set a woman on fire aboard a train.

The incoming New York City mayor’s plan relies on higher density in places where some neighbors oppose it. He is scheduled to meet Friday with the president.

Homicides are down nearly 20 percent this year in 52 of America’s largest cities, a decline that spans both red states and blue states.

The incoming democratic socialist mayor will retain the popular police commissioner from the Adams administration.