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Detroit — When the National Guard has to be called out for an ice storm, as was the case in Northern Michigan at the end of March, the situation is dire. At the time, meteorologists couldn’t forecast just how much of the region would be encased in ice.”While it [the forecast] showed devastating ice, it ended up still being worse than expected,” said Ahmad Bajjey, CBS News Detroit’s chief meteorologist. Up to 1.5 inches of ice accumulated across large portions of Northern Michigan, knocking down power lines, blocking roads, and damaging homes and businesses. Last month, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer requested…

President Trump walks to board Air Force One prior to departure from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Friday en route to New Jersey for the weekend. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images President Trump has ordered massive cuts to the White House National Security Council, sending dozens of policy experts packing on Friday, one of the officials who was let go told NPR. The official said that the dismissals were abrupt. Staffers were notified at 4:30 p.m. and asked to leave by 5 p.m. “We’re all talking among ourselves,” the official…

Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armorer who was working on the Western movie “Rust” when the film’s cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins, was killed in an on-set shooting in 2021, was released from prison Friday, 13 months after her involuntary manslaughter conviction, New Mexico officials said. In March 2024, Gutierrez-Reed was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in connection with Hutchins’ death, and sentenced to 18 months in prison the following month. At the time, she was acquitted of a second charge of evidence tampering. The Parole Board of the State of New Mexico granted Gutierrez-Reed parole Friday, according to a parole certificate provided to CBS News. That parole runs…

The dead hand of gerontocracy is also a symptom of ideological malaise. Ad Policy The late Representative Gerry Connolly—in a photograph from 2013.(Andrew Harrer / Bloomberg via Getty Images) In theory, the Democratic Party is a political organization aimed at gaining power and implementing an agenda. In practice, the Democrats more closely resemble a hospice, if not a funeral home. An inordinately large number of party leaders are so old and infirm they are at death’s door. This is most notoriously true of the party’s most recent standard-bearer, former president Joe Biden. A recent media controversy over a new book…

In his Oval Office meeting Wednesday with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, President Trump made allegations of persecution of White farmers in South Africa, which he used to justify granting refugee status to a group of Afrikaners earlier this month.Ramaphosa has denied there is a genocide, and some Afrikaners say Mr. Trump is being lied to about a “White genocide” in the country.In the last three months of 2024, 12 people were murdered on farms in South Africa, according to South African police. One was a White farmer, while the others were Black laborers or security workers, police said. Some estimates say…

Thomas Matthew Crooks had a lot on his mind in January 2024. The 20-year-old who, six months later, would open fire at President Trump at a Pennsylvania campaign rally — striking his ear and killing an audience member — was busy polishing his applications to transfer from community college to a four-year engineering program.Crooks was gathering transcripts and asking friends to review his personal statement. He was also designing a bomb.He ordered more than two gallons of nitromethane from an online speciality fuel retailer using an encrypted email account, documents obtained by CBS News show. Twelve days later Crooks’ purchase hadn’t shipped…

Shira Perlmutter, register of copyrights and director of the U.S. Copyright Office, was appointed to the position by the Librarian of Congress in 2020. Mariam Zuhaib/AP hide caption toggle caption Mariam Zuhaib/AP Shira Perlmutter, the fired head of the U.S. Copyright Office, has sued the Trump administration, claiming that her removal was “unlawful and ineffective.” The U.S Copyright Office registers copyright claims and helps inform Congress about copyright policies. In 2020, Carla Hayden, then Librarian of Congress, appointed Perlmutter to head the office. Earlier this month, President Trump fired Hayden, whose 10-year term was about to expire next year, via…

Harvard University is challenging the Trump administration’s decision to bar the Ivy League school from enrolling foreign students, calling it unconstitutional retaliation for defying the White House’s political demands. It is the school’s second suit against the Trump administration. In a lawsuit filed Friday in federal court in Boston, Harvard said the government’s action violates the First Amendment and will have an “immediate and devastating effect for Harvard and more than 7,000 visa holders.” “With the stroke of a pen, the government has sought to erase a quarter of Harvard’s student body, international students who contribute significantly to the University…

In a move that will have major impact in New York, California, and Texas, the two agencies recently agreed to work together in ways that threaten thousands of Americans. Ad Policy A low-income housing project sits behind roadwork being done on I-287 in the Bronx in 2022. (Robert Nickelsberg / Getty Images) On Tuesday, (May 20) housing justice groups including People’s Action, VOCAL-NY, Texas Organizing Project, Arkansas Community Organization and others rallied in DC—and in more than a dozen communities from Duluth to Akron to Tucson—in defense of federal housing assistance. At a time when close to 800,000 Americans are…

The Trump administration has launched an operation to terminate the immigration court cases of certain migrants, in order to arrest them and place them in a fast-tracked deportation process instead, government officials and attorneys told CBS News.Lawyers and advocates this week reported arrests of migrants outside of immigration courthouses across the U.S., saying teams of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers had detained individuals whose cases in front of immigration judges had just been terminated at the request of the government. Two Department of Homeland Security officials told CBS News that ICE is conducting an operation to expedite the deportation of migrants…