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Last Nuclear Arms Treaty Expires, Police Helicopter Crashes, and Other News
The last remaining nuclear arms control treaty between the United States and Russia expired Thursday, ending decades of agreements limiting the two countries' nuclear arsenals, according to CBS News. The New START Treaty, signed in 2010, capped deployed strategic nuclear weapons at 1,550 for each nation and included on-site inspections and notifications to ensure compliance. While Russia suspended notifications and inspections during the war in Ukraine, a State Department report last month estimated that Russia had not significantly exceeded the treaty's limits.
In other news, a police helicopter crashed Wednesday night near the scene of an officer-involved shooting investigation in Flagstaff, Arizona, according to police in Page, Arizona. The Arizona Department of Public Safety helicopter went down near the location where a suspect was apprehended. KPHO-TV, a CBS affiliate in Phoenix, reported that no officers were injured in the shooting. Amanda Brewer, an area resident, told KPHO-TV she heard three gunshots followed by two more around 8:40 p.m. local time and subsequently called 911. She then heard between 15 and 20 gunshots. The number of people on board the helicopter and their condition were not immediately known.
Also this week, President Trump planned to award the Medal of Honor to Navy Capt. E. Royce Williams, a retired pilot whose encounter with Soviet fighter jets was kept secret for 50 years, and posthumously to Army Staff Sgt. Michael Ollis, who died in Afghanistan. A White House official told CBS News that Mr. Trump called Williams and Ollis' family to inform them of the decision. Ollis was killed in Afghanistan after shielding Polish Army Lt. Karol Cierpica from a suicide bomber. The Medal of Honor is the U.S.'s highest military award, with approximately 3,500 people having received it since its inception during the Civil War.
In Indiana, a sixth person was arrested Wednesday in connection with the January shooting of Tippecanoe County Superior Court Judge Steven Meyer and his wife, Kim, in their Lafayette home, local officials said. The Lafayette Police Department reported that 23-year-old Nevaeh Bell was taken into custody and faces 12 preliminary felony charges, including two counts of attempted murder and a count of conspiracy to commit murder. Five others were arrested last month in what police described as "a coordinated, multi-state operation involving hundreds of investigative hours." Those arrested were identified as 38-year-old Raylen Ferguson and 61-year-old Zenada Greer of Kentucky, as well as individuals from Indiana and Illinois.
Finally, a federal judge in Oregon ruled Wednesday that federal immigration agents must obtain warrants before arresting people unless there is a risk of escape. U.S. District Judge Mustafa Kasubhai issued a preliminary injunction in a proposed class-action lawsuit targeting the Department of Homeland Security's practice of arresting immigrants encountered during enforcement operations. The lawsuit, brought by the Innovation Law Lab, described the practice as "arrest first, justify later." CBS News reported that similar actions have raised concerns from civil rights groups amid President Trump's mass deportation efforts. Oregon joins Colorado and Washington, D.C., as jurisdictions where the Trump administration is restricted from making warrantless arrests of immigrants.
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