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Four partners at Paul Weiss — including the high-profile Democratic attorney Karen Dunn — are departing the law firm, a spokesperson told CBS News, after Paul Weiss drew attention for striking a deal with President Trump to avoid targeting by the federal government.In addition to Dunn, Bill Isaacson, Jessica Phillips and Jeannie Rhee are leaving the 150-year-old firm.”On behalf of the firm, Paul Weiss is grateful to Bill, Jeannie, Jessica and Karen for their many contributions. We wish them well in all their future endeavors,” the spokesperson said.It’s not clear if the four attorneys’ departures from Paul Weiss are related…

Military air traffic controllers briefly lost contact with an Army helicopter as it neared the Pentagon on a flight that caused two commercial jets to abort their landings in early May at a Washington airport, the Army confirmed to CBS News Friday.An Army official confirmed that on May 1, the Pentagon tower lost contact with the Black Hawk helicopter for about 20 seconds as it was coming to land. FAA air traffic controllers at the airport aborted the landing of a Delta Air Lines Airbus A319 during the Black Hawk’s initial flight toward the Pentagon because they realized both aircraft would…

Ben Shapiro’s aspiring entertainment empire can’t stop trolling to its base. Ad Policy Mike Richards, The Daily Wire’s latest canceled rehabilitation project, accepting a 2016 Emmy Award for his work on The Price Is Right.(Joe Scarnici / WireImage) It’s been a banner week for toxic men on the comeback trail. Former New York governor Andrew Cuomo continues to lead the polls in the city’s mayoral race. At Cannes, Kevin Spacey accepted a lifetime achievement award from Better World Foundation and compared his #MeToo fall from grace to screenwriter Dalton Trumbo’s decade-plus exile on the HUAC blacklist. (Trumbo landed there for…

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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…