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Demonstrators gathered outside an Ice detention facility in the Broadview suburb west of Chicago on Friday to denounce the Trump administration’s increased crackdown on undocumented immigrants in Illinois. About six miles away, officials said a man was fatally shot during a vehicle stop on the outskirts of Chicago by Ice officers after attempting to flee the scene

• US immigration officers kill man trying to flee vehicle stop near Chicago

• Álvarez and Crawford both weigh in at 167½lb

• Canelo defends undisputed 168lb crown in Vegas

• Crawford moves up two divisions for title shot

• Canelo v Crawford: all of your questions, answered

Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez and Terence Crawford each weighed in at 167½lb behind closed doors on Friday morning, clearing the final hurdle before their historic showdown at Allegiant Stadium.

The weigh-in result confirmed what many had been waiting to see: Crawford, unbeaten in 41 professional fights, tipping the scale at a career-high mark as he climbs two weight classes into the super-middleweight division for the first time. Until last year he’d never fought above 147lb and in his most recent outing last August he weighed 153.4lb in edging Israil Madrimov. Now, after months of adding bulk, he stands one night away from challenging for all four of Álvarez’s belts at 168lb.

President tells Fox News ‘the radicals on the left are the problem’ and refuses to seek common way forward

• Charlie Kirk shooting – follow the latest updates

Donald Trump has declined to call for the US to come together as a way of fixing the country’s divisions in the wake of the assassination of his close associate, the rightwing activist Charlie Kirk, preferring to cast “vicious and horrible” radicals on the left of US politics as the sole problem.

In an interview on Fox & Friends on Friday morning, the US president was asked what he intended to do to heal the wounds of Kirk’s shooting in Utah. “How do we fix this country? How do we come back together?” he was asked by the show’s co-host Ainsley Earhardt, who commented that there were radicals operating on the left and right of US politics.

Measured yet impassioned, Spencer Cox spoke the words Americans needed to hear – and urged a rejection of hate

In a nation seemingly on the brink, they were words that Americans needed to hear – coming not from the president but a politician with civility, compassion and rhetorical grace notes.

“We can return violence with violence, we can return hate with hate, and that’s the problem with political violence – it metastasises because we can always point the figure at the other side,” said Spencer Cox, the governor of Utah. “At some point we have to find an offramp or else it’s going to get much, much worse.”

Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’

The University of California, Berkeley has given the Trump administration the names of 160 faculty members and students as part of an investigation into “alleged antisemitic incidents”, a move a targeted scholar likened to a “practice from the McCarthy era”.

UC Berkeley, a top-ranked public institution, sent a letter to affected members of campus last week disclosing that university lawyers had included their names in reports to the Department of Education’s office for civil rights (OCR). The education department has been targeting colleges across the country as part of Donald Trump’s aggressive crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism, international students and academic freedom.