Officials in one Northern Virginia county moved last week to create a $50,000 aid fund for households whose main provider has been taken into custody by federal immigration authorities.

During a special meeting on Sept. 2, the Arlington County Board voted 4-0 to allocate the money. The funding will be administered by Arlington Thrive, a nonprofit that says it serves as a “key component of the social safety net” in coordination with county government.

The assistance program will offer qualifying families up to $2,000 after the loss of a primary wage earner. According to the board’s agenda, Arlington Thrive expects the funding to help roughly 25 to 30 families.

“We stand with our immigrant families, and we will not stop doing so,” Board Chair Matt de Ferranti said. “We are valuing the families of those that have been displaced and removed.”

The move was in response to the Trump administration’s illegal immigration enforcement efforts in the Washington, D.C., area in recent months.

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“Ensuring that we take care of our community and our residents and our people does mean making sure that we have emergency assistance available for what is probably one of the most challenging situations that you could possibly face,” Board Vice Chair Maureen Coffey said. “I’m very proud of us for doing this.”

The funds will be distributed to families in the form of debit cards and checks.

Elizabeth Matlock, a staff member in the county manager’s office who is coordinating the effort, said the organization is ready to begin issuing funds.

“Thrive is eager to get started with this project,” she said.

The vote came as officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) quietly made more than 1,300 arrests of illegal immigrants over 14 days in the Washington, D.C., suburbs last month.

Of those arrested, almost 400 illegal immigrants had criminal convictions or pending criminal charges, including a Salvadoran national wanted in Richmond, Virginia, on a murder warrant. Other crimes included rape, sexual assault, kidnapping, DUI, robbery and attempted murder.

A set of grainy Polaroid-style photos has offered the first glimpse of Lady Gaga in four months.

The uncaptioned film shots appeared on Instagram in late August, ending a stretch of near-total silence from the 40-year-old superstar, who had largely vanished from public view after closing out her blockbuster Mayhem Ball world tour in April.

The Daily Mail has learned that the Bad Romance hitmaker has been keeping a low profile in Marin County, California, where she is said to be settling into her new $10 million mansion with fiancé Michael Polansky.

Her retreat from the spotlight has been so tightly guarded, however, that even some people close to her reportedly do not know where she is. One source familiar with the singer’s circle claimed friends have gone weeks without hearing from her.

‘No one has seen her or heard from her in over a month,’ the insider said. ‘Everyone in her circle thinks she eloped with Michael and is on her honeymoon now, trying to make a baby.’

Such a move would hardly come as a shock to those who know Gaga (real name Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta), with the pop star having earned a reputation for fiercely protecting her privacy. And she’s also previously admitted to discussing the possibility of an elopement with Polansky, 42, telling late-night host Jimmy Kimmel that she has considered ‘just going to a courthouse just the two of us and ordering Chinese food.’ 

In March, she said she would ‘soon’ be tying the knot with the entrepreneur and venture capitalist.

‘This was her plan all along, to settle down in her forties,’ said another source.  

She has also previously divulged her desire to start a family, telling Rolling Stone last year: ‘What I want most is to be a mother and I am sure that he will also be a great father. We are so excited about this.’

And when it comes to children, the more the merrier.

‘She has only one sister, Natali, and always wanted more siblings. So she wants her children to have many siblings so they can all lean on each other,’ a source said.

Gaga and Polansky have been together for six years after meeting in 2019 at a star-studded 40th birthday party in Los Angeles for tech entrepreneur Sean Parker.

They were first seen out together as a couple on New Year’s Eve that year at the Park MGM in Las Vegas before being spotted stealing a kiss on a hotel balcony in February 2020. In the days that followed, they went to the Super Bowl in Miami, then confirmed their relationship on social media with a cozy picture of them cuddled up on a boat. 

By 2024, they were engaged. The couple made their red carpet debut that fall at the Venice Film Festival, with Gaga flashing her colossal diamond ring at the cameras.

Polansky, it would later be revealed, had proposed to her five months prior on April Fools’ Day when the couple were out rock climbing.

‘We were just walking back to the room and talking. He actually – it was very Michael – asked me if he could ask me. He wanted to know if it was OK to propose before he proposed. And I was like, “Yes, it’s so OK!”‘ she recalled.

‘He had the ring in his backpack, so it was so super cute. But you know what? I’m a modern lady. I like what he did.’

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Now, the couple have started to build a quieter life in the affluent town of Ross in Marin County, close to the home of California governor Gavin Newsom, according to sources.

‘There are tons of Lady Gaga sightings all over Marin and everyone loves her, she has become a local,’ one resident told us.

A native New Yorker, Gaga has been seen at all the Marin hot spots: sipping red wine and king salmon tartare at the Corner Bar in Mill Valley, shopping at Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop in Larkspur and working out at FitLab Strong in Fairfax.

‘I sat next to her at the Corner Bar in mid June,’ said one Mill Valley local. ‘She was at the back bar and drinking a red wine from France, she was very friendly and seemed to be in a great mood.

‘No one really recognized her, no one asked for an autograph. It’s not that kind of town, people are too rich and powerful to do gawking fan stuff.’

Another resident said: ‘She is very sweet and seems to really like Marin. When I saw her at the dive bar 2AM Club in Mill Valley, she said she had relocated to Ross from Southern California this summer and was thrilled about it.’

Polansky – who bought a $4.5 million property in the area back in 2019, according to property records – introduced Gaga to the slow-paced town, which is near his job at the Parker Foundation in San Francisco.

In Marin, Gaga can let her hair down among locals who don’t fawn over global superstars. After all, celebrities are nothing new in a community that counts musicians Bonnie Raitt and Sammy Hagar among its residents, and was once home to singers Stevie Nicks and Janis Joplin.

That also means she is afforded the ultimate luxury: privacy. 

‘No way you can see the home from the road,’ a source said. ‘It is on a big plot of land with rolling lawns and mature trees all around it. If you drive by, all you can see is green.

‘It is gated all around, you would have to jump the fence to get onto the property. But there is no way you can do that as there are security cameras all over every property in Ross and there are cops everywhere. Everyone is super rich there, so there is a lot of privacy and security.’

The town is home to around 2,500 residents; most are over the age of 50. 

Gaga and Polansky are believed to have bought their new home ‘last year from some old rich guy,’ a local source said.

Hidden away, she is said to spend her time cooking Italian food, embarking on early morning hikes on Mount Tamalpais and enjoying low-key date nights in town.

‘She is a great cook, she loves to make pasta, which is her specialty,’ said an insider. Such skills were no doubt inherited from her parents, who own the Southern Italian restaurant Joanne Trattoria in Manhattan.

The Daily Mail has contacted representatives for Lady Gaga for comment. 

A Manhattan woman accused of fatally drugging three men with fentanyl so she could steal from them pleaded guilty Tuesday, closing a chilling case in which one victim was found dead with his pants around his knees.

Tabitha Bundrick, 39, admitted to what prosecutors described as the “calculated” killings of three men, robbing them of valuables before moving on across Upper Manhattan.

Bundrick is expected to receive a sentence of 27 years to life in prison after pleading guilty to three murder counts, along with a separate charge connected to drugging another victim who survived, Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Kathryn Paek said.

Her guilty plea in state court follows a federal sentence handed down last year on drug distribution charges tied to the same alleged scheme. The state and federal sentences will run at the same time.

Prosecutors said that from April 2023 through February 2024, Bundrick deliberately gave the men fentanyl-laced drugs to incapacitate them, then stole personal property including phones, cash, watches, clothing and sneakers.

Her deadly reign began April 30, 2023, when she convinced Mario Paullan, 42, and his pal to come back to an apartment where they’d trade cash for sex, according to the indictment.

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She then offered the men what she said was coke and encouraged both victims to “do it again” over and over, despite Paullan telling her that he had never done drugs before, Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Dafna Yoran said at the time.

Paullan died at the scene, and his friend woke up in an empty apartment next to his pal’s body, prosecutors have said.

Five months later, the escort met up with Miguel Navez, 39, and went back to his apartment and fed him the fentanyl-laced drugs.

Navez’s brother found his body — with his pants down around his knees — days after the encounter, and many personal items missing, according to prosecutors.

Bundrick followed the same scheme Feb, 25, 2024, killing Abrihan Fernandez inside his upper Manhattan apartment — where she was caught on surveillance footage coming and going out of the building, hauling out several “giant laundry bags” with sneakers, prosecutors said at the time.

“The defendant showed a shocking indifference to the lives of her victims and is now facing significant consequences for her conduct,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in a statement.

Bendrick remains remanded and will be sentenced Oct. 6.

A Frankfort, Illinois, woman accused of killing her 2-year-old son had reportedly been talking with friends about the widely followed Lindsay Clancy murder trial just hours before her child was discovered dead, according to court documents. The mother, 38-year-old Corie A. Walsh, has retained Andrea Lyon, a defense attorney who previously represented Casey Anthony.

Walsh later told police that she killed her son because she believed he was the “devil” and the “anti-Christ,” according to a petition obtained by Fox 32 Chicago that seeks to keep her detained ahead of trial.

Walsh is facing three counts of first-degree murder in connection with the death of her son, Barrett Walsh. While the court filing references her interest in the Clancy case, it does not claim that the case played a role in Barrett’s death.

Lyon has said Walsh was “psychotic” at the time and pushed back against any suggestion that her client’s attention to the Clancy trial was tied to the alleged killing.

“They are not correlated at all. It’s just accidental,” Lyon said, calling speculation that Walsh’s actions were a copycat crime “baseless and cruel.”

Court documents show Frankfort police officers were called to a home in the 22700 block of Brook Stone Court just after 4 p.m. Sept. 1 for a report of an injured child.

Upon arrival, officers found a neighbor performing CPR on Barrett after she reportedly discovered the toddler hanging from a basement rafter with his feet off the ground.

The neighbor brought Barrett down, laid him on the floor and attempted CPR while calling 911, later telling police the boy was cold and had no pulse. Barrett was pronounced dead at the scene, and a preliminary autopsy determined he died of asphyxia caused by strangulation, according to the filing.

Walsh’s three other children were unharmed, including an infant who was in the house at the time and two school-aged children who returned home around the time Barrett was found. Her husband was traveling out of state when the incident occurred and flew home that evening.

While officers were at the house, they were directed to an upstairs master bathroom where Walsh was reportedly trying to harm herself.

The petition states Walsh was lying fully dressed in a bathtub surrounded by bloody water while a neighbor held a towel against her left inner thigh. The neighbor told investigators she had disarmed Walsh of a knife and thrown it into a sink.

Police recovered the knife into evidence while documenting cuts on Walsh’s wrists and thighs, court documents state.

The neighbor told investigators that Walsh asked why she had taken the knife from her because she was trying to kill herself. Walsh then said “Bear” was in the basement – referencing a known nickname for Barrett, the petition notes.

While hospitalized, Walsh made additional statements to investigators describing how she killed the toddler, which prosecutors noted were consistent with the physical evidence.

Witnesses told investigators Walsh had recently become “very invested” in the Clancy murder trial, which involved a Massachusetts mother accused of killing her three children.

Walsh allegedly discussed the Clancy case in a group text message with friends as recently as 12:30 p.m. Sept. 1 – roughly three and a half hours before Barrett was found. Her cellphone was recovered from the bathroom, and forensic analysis of the device was ongoing as of Sept. 3.

Prosecutors are asking a judge to deny Walsh pretrial release, arguing that she poses a real and present threat to her husband and her three surviving children.

Walsh faces three counts of first-degree murder, with prosecutors outlining different legal theories regarding her intent. Because Barrett was 2 years old, a conviction carries a mandatory sentence of 60 to 100 years in prison without the possibility of early release.

Walsh remains hospitalized at Silver Cross Hospital and is expected to be transferred to the Will County Adult Detention Facility once medically released.

Walsh’s defense team includes attorney Lyon, who previously represented Anthony. In 2011, Anthony was acquitted in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, whose death remains unsolved. 

A jury found Anthony guilty of lying to law enforcement but not guilty of first-degree murder, aggravated manslaughter or aggravated child abuse.

The Will County State’s Attorney’s Office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

At a detention hearing Tuesday, a judge denied Walsh’s request for pretrial release to a locked hospital setting. Lyon said the defense was disappointed but would continue investigating the case while Walsh recovers from her wounds.

Lyon said the defense will argue that Walsh was psychotic and that the charges do not amount to first-degree murder.

“She was psychotic. And this is not a first-degree murder,” she told reporters.

The defense may seek pretrial release again, Lyon said.

The case remains pending in Will County Circuit Court.

Matt Suhey, the former NFL fullback who was part of the Chicago Bears’ iconic 1985 championship team, died over the weekend of natural causes, officials told the California Post.

Suhey, 68, was found dead Sunday at his home in Deerfield, Ill. A spokesperson for the Lake County Coroner’s Office told The Post on Tuesday that an initial police investigation “revealed that there were no suspicious circumstances” connected to his death.

“Our preliminary investigation indicated that Mr. Suhey had a significant medical history and was being treated by a primary care physician (PCP),” Lake County Coroner’s Office chief deputy Steve Newton said. “Therefore, our investigation was limited, and the PCP will be completing the death certificate for him, as it will be Natural Causes.”

Suhey entered the NFL with the Bears in 1980 and spent his entire 10-year professional career in Chicago.

During much of his tenure, Suhey served as a lead blocker for Walter Payton, and in the 1985-86 season, he helped the Bears capture the Super Bowl title.

In the team’s blowout championship victory over the Patriots, Suhey rushed for 52 yards and a touchdown.

As news of his death spread on Sunday, many of his ex teammates offered fond memories of him.

“I kind of remember Matt as a level-headed guy,” former safety Gary Fencik said to the Daily Herald. “You could almost interpret how the offense felt by going through Matt. Just a real valuable teammate and one that, gosh, this was a real shock to all of us.”

Payton’s son, Jarrett, also wrote a touching tribute to Suhey in the wake of his passing, calling the former tailback his “dad’s closest friend.”

“After we lost my dad in 1999, Matt became the biggest father figure I had,” Jarrett wrote on his X page. “When everything felt uncertain, he was there. My dad left him in charge and Matt never let that responsibility sit lightly. He protected our family. He looked after us. He made sure we were okay, year after year, without ever making it about himself. That is who he was.”

Suhey started a total of 100 games in his NFL career and rushed for 2,946 yards and 20 touchdowns. He also recorded 2,113 receiving yards and five receiving scores.