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A monitoring report says Cleveland police have made progress updating policies but face a backlog in investigations of complaints against officers. The six-month review was released Tuesday by the monitoring team overseeing the city’s consent decree with the Justice Department. The monitors wrote positively of the city’s new training guidelines for its use-of-force and crisis intervention policies. Both were submitted for a judge’s approval in recent weeks.

The president of the American Medical Association visited Cleveland today to launch a campaign lobbying Senate Republicans on healthcare. Joining the AMA in this effort are the AARP, the American Hospital Association and other health advocacy groups. They’ll also hold events in Nevada, Colorado and West Virginia. AMA president Dr. David Barbe said any healthcare plan should preserve the Affordable Care Act’s expansion of Medicaid and ensure that low and moderate-income patients can afford coverage.

Operating revenue at MetroHealth increased by $70 million dollars last year and a new Cleveland public high school for science and health opened inside the hospital system in the fall. But the focus of the annual meeting was the new Metro campus. The $855 million project will involve a new parking garage and building. Though President Trump’s proposed federal budget includes $800 billion cuts to Medicaid, MetroHealth officials say any potential changes in federal healthcare won’t impact the new hospital and transformation.

Online vandals yesterday defaced 11 state government websites with messages purporting to be supportive of the so-called Islamic State group. State officials have since restored the sites, and federal officials are investigating.

The World Economic Outlook released by the International Monetary Fund says the pace of economic growth in 2015 will tick up to 3.5 percent, helped along by lower energy costs and weaker currencies.

About 100 supporters of a Youngstown businessman who was deported to Jordan Monday rallied near Cleveland's West Side Market to protest President Trump's immigration policies. Though he was 6,000 miles away, 57-year-old Amer Adi addressed the crowd by way of his daughter’s cell phone, encouraging people to embrace the cause of young undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children. “For the people there I say keep the fight going. This fight is for a lot of people out there that are living fear," said Adi.

The Cleveland Metropolitan School District Board of Education is postponing a vote on new charter school partners after receiving its largest ever number of applicants. Ten already operating charter schools applied to partner with CMSD. The CMSD Board of Education was scheduled to vote on those partnerships at a Tuesday meeting, but pushed the vote to February. Defined in the Cleveland Plan, a partnership allows charters to receive a portion of the district’s local levy dollars in addition to the funding they receive from the state.

The deadline to enroll for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act marketplace is next Friday, December 15.

This week, President Trump announced he was shutting down his Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, a group he established last May.

Playhouse Square Executive Producer Gina Vernaci has seen some highly anticipated shows come to Cleveland’s theater district, including “Rent,” “Wicked,” “The Producers” and “The Book of Mormon.” However, when it comes to pre-show buzz, none compare to the excitement surrounding this summer’s arrival of Lin Manuel-Miranda’s multi Tony Award-winning musical “