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US-Russia Arms Control Treaty Expires, Police Helicopter Crashes in Arizona, and Other News
The last remaining arms control treaty between the United States and Russia, limiting the number of deployable nuclear weapons, expired Thursday, ending decades of arms control agreements between the two nations with the largest nuclear arsenals, according to CBS News. The New START Treaty, signed in 2010, capped deployed strategic nuclear weapons at 1,550 for each side and included on-site inspections and notifications to ensure compliance.
Russia had suspended notifications and inspections during the war in Ukraine, but the State Department's latest report, released last month, estimated that Russia had not significantly exceeded the treaty's limits. Former President Joe Biden extended the treaty for five years in 2021.
In other news, a police helicopter crashed Wednesday night near the scene of an "active officer-involved shooting investigation" in Flagstaff, Arizona, according to police in Page, Arizona. The suspect was apprehended. KPHO-TV, a CBS affiliate in Phoenix, reported that no officers were injured in the shooting. The condition of those aboard the helicopter, identified as belonging to the Arizona Department of Public Safety, was not immediately known. Area resident Amanda Brewer told KPHO-TV she heard three gunshots followed by two more around 8:40 p.m. local time and called 911. She then heard between 15 and 20 gunshots and the helicopter overhead.
Also this week, President Trump planned to award the Medal of Honor to retired Navy Capt. E. Royce Williams and the family of deceased Army Staff Sgt. Michael Ollis, a White House official told CBS News. Williams' daring encounter with Soviet fighter jets had remained secret for 50 years. 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 individuals were identified as 38-year-old Raylen Ferguson and 61-year-old Zenada Greer of Kentucky, as well as individuals from Indiana.
Finally, a federal judge in Oregon ruled Wednesday that federal immigration agents must cease making warrantless arrests 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 enforcement operations, which critics have called "arrest first, justify later." The lawsuit was brought by the nonprofit law firm Innovation Law Lab. According to CBS News, the ruling places Oregon alongside Colorado and Washington, D.C., as jurisdictions where the Trump administration is restricted from such arrests. Similar actions have raised concerns from civil rights groups amid President Trump's mass deportation efforts.
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