Phoenix police said they received a call from a neighbor on the morning of May 14 to check on a woman who had recently given birth, but who had not been heard from for several days. Bodycam footage released by the Phoenix Police Department show officers looking through the apartment’s unlocked window, which is when the officers saw the woman lying on the floor, police said.

They forced the apartment door open and rescued the baby who was “laying on the bed visibly emaciated.” 

The bodycam video also showed one of the responding officers carefully placing the baby in a stroller before handing it over to another rescuer. Phoenix Fire Department personnel then took the child to a hospital to receive lifesaving care, and the baby is expected to make a full recovery, police said.

The Maricopa County medical examiner’s office is investigating the cause of the mother’s death. Her name was not released. No other information was immediately available.

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The measure failed in a 47-53 vote, with Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky voting with most Democrats in favor of the resolution, and Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania voting with most Republicans against it.

Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia introduced the war powers resolution days before the U.S. bombed three locations central to Iran’s nuclear program, seeking to force the president to get congressional authorization before entering the conflict between Israel and Iran. 

“The events of this week have demonstrated that war is too big to be consigned to the decisions of any one person,” Kaine said on the Senate floor ahead of the vote. 

Since the measure was introduced, Mr. Trump announced a ceasefire between the adversaries and declared that Iran’s nuclear sites were “obliterated” during the 12-day war. On Friday, Mr. Trump said he would “without question” consider bombing Iran again if Tehran was enriching uranium to a level that concerned the U.S. 

But anger from Democrats, including those who have said that Iran should never be able to obtain a nuclear weapon, has simmered as they say they have been left in the dark about U.S. military actions. 

It’s led some Democrats to question whether the Trump administration is misleading the public about the strikes, especially after an initial classified assessment found that they set back Tehran’s nuclear program by a matter of months. Mr. Trump, meanwhile, has said the nuclear program was set back “basically decades.” 

Top intelligence officials said Wednesday that new intelligence showed the nuclear program had been “severely damaged” and its facilities “destroyed.” It would take the Iranians “years” to rebuild the facilities, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth called it “an historically successful attack” in a contentious press briefing Thursday.

Classified briefings for the Senate and House were originally scheduled for Tuesday, the same day the initial assessment was leaked. Officials briefed senators on Thursday afternoon and House members on Friday. 

A White House official said Tuesday the Senate briefing was postponed because of “evolved circumstances as a result of recent positive developments in the Middle East.”

After the briefings, some Democrats cast doubt on the administration’s characterization of the strikes and questioned assertions regarding how much Iran’s nuclear program has been hindered. 

“I walk away from that briefing still under the belief that we have not obliterated the program,” Sen. Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat, told reporters. “The president was deliberately misleading the public when he said the program was obliterated. It is certain that there is still significant capability, significant equipment that remain.” 

Rep. Jason Crow, a Colorado Democrat who sits on the House Intelligence Committee, said the information disclosed in the briefing was “massively different than what has been told to Congress over the last year, up until a month ago, about both Iranian capabilities and Iranian intent.”

Crow said he was “not convinced of that whatsoever” when asked whether Iranian nuclear facilities had been obliterated. 

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, a New York Democrat, has railed against a lack of transparency and said earlier this week the administration had not presented Congress with any evidence that Iran posed an imminent threat requiring immediate military action. 

But Jeffries did not go as far as supporting a resolution to impeach Mr. Trump over the bombings. He and more than 120 Democrats voted with all Republicans to kill the measure, which was introduced by Democratic Rep. Al Green of Texas, on Tuesday. 

Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, also questioned the timing of the strikes. 

“It’s pretty clear that there was no imminent threat to the United States,” Himes said. “There’s always an Iranian threat to the world. But … I have not seen anything to suggest that the threat from the Iranians was radically different last Saturday than it was two Saturdays ago.”

Kaine’s resolution was one of a handful of similar efforts seeking to curtail further U.S. involvement in Iran, though it’s unclear whether any will be successful in a Congress controlled narrowly by Republicans. 

Some Republicans who were initially supportive of the resolutions, like Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, appear to be backing away from forcing a vote as long as the ceasefire holds and the U.S. does not conduct any further bombings. And House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, called the efforts irrelevant because Iran and Israel agreed to stop the fighting. 

“It’s kind of a moot point now, isn’t it?” Johnson said Monday. “It seems rather silly at this point and I hope they’ll acknowledge it as such and put it to bed because it has zero chance of passing anyway.”

Senate Majority Leader John Thune told The Wall Street Journal this week he believes Mr. Trump acted “perfectly within his authority” by striking Iran.

“I don’t think there’s any question the president has the authority legally and constitutionally to do what he did,” the South Dakota Republican said. “There are always questions around these things, but past presidents and both political parties have similarly acted in circumstances where there’ve been airstrikes at various places around the world where our national security interests dictated it.”

The Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war, and most major military conflicts in recent history have been launched under an authorization for the use of military force passed by Congress. But presidents have periodically acted without explicit permission from lawmakers, including during President Bill Clinton’s 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia and President Barack Obama’s 2011 airstrikes on Libya, the Congressional Research Service notes.

In announcing his support for Kaine’s resolution, Paul said Congress was abdicating its constitutional responsibility by allowing a president to act unilaterally and warned that last week’s strikes could have unintended consequences. 

“Despite the tactical success of our strikes, they may end up proving to be a strategic failure. It is unclear if this intervention will fully curtail Iran’s nuclear aspirations, or, in fact, whether the Iranians may well conclude to double down on their efforts to obtain a nuclear weapon,” Paul said. 

Those opposed to the resolution argued that Mr. Trump acted within his constitutional authority and that the measure would constrain the president’s ability to respond quickly to a threat. 

In an interview last week with CBS News’ Major Garrett, Kaine acknowledged that his resolution could fail but said he wanted his colleagues to be on the record about U.S. involvement in another war. 

“Everyone in the Senate should agree that this is a matter of such gravity and importance that we shouldn’t allow war to begin without Congress having a debate in full view of the American public and members of the Senate and House having to go on the record about it,” he said. 

Alan He, Nikole Killion and Ellis Kim contributed to this report.

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The study found that the city’s concrete flood walls are sinking faster than sea levels are rising, reducing capacity to block storm surges in some neighborhoods.

“There is certainly a potential in the future, if these rates continue, to degrade our level of protection of the flood protection system,” Tulane professor Mead Allison, a co-author on the study, told CBS News.

This summer marks 20 years since Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast, leaving more than 1,300 people dead and displacing more than a million people across the region. 

Following the destructive storm, $15 billion was spent to reinforce a levy system designed to keep water out. New Orleans, much of which lies below sea level, relies on this elaborate system of levees, pumps and drainage canals. 

The study, published in the journal Science Advances, used satellite radar data to track shifts in ground elevation across the Greater New Orleans area between 2002 and 2020. It found that while most of the city remains stable, some neighborhoods, wetlands, and even sections of the region’s post-Katrina flood protection system are sinking by more than an inch per year — with some areas experiencing up to 47 millimeters, or nearly 2 inches, of elevation loss annually.

“In a city like New Orleans, where much of the land is already near sea level, even minor drops in elevation can increase flood risk,” said Simone Fiaschi — lead author of the study and a former researcher with Tulane’s Department of River-Coastal Science and Engineering, now employed at TRE-Altamira — in a statement. 

“These results are a wake-up call,” Allison said. “We need ongoing monitoring and maintenance to ensure that our flood defenses don’t lose their level of protection beneath us.”

If trends continue, and infrastructure is left unchecked, the study found wetlands east of the city could transform marshes into open water within the next 10 years if trends continue — effectively eliminating critical storm surge buffers to the Louisiana coast. 

The study also identified some potential causes of the sinking hotspots. It found pockets of land are sinking around industrial sites, the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, and newer residential developments — areas where soil compression and groundwater withdrawal are likely contributors.

Researchers said the findings also underscore a few potential solutions to better protect New Orleans and other coastal communities across the globe, including frequent upgrades to the flood protection system and satellite monitoring.

Some residents living in the Michoud neighborhood on the city’s east side — one of the areas identified in the study as sinking more rapidly than others — are concerned that maintenance won’t be prioritized. Michoud resident Synthia Viltus pointed out that potholes and other smaller infrastructure issues in her neighborhood have remained unresolved for months.    

“I have zero faith in state federal leaders to keep the levies updated,” Viltus said. 

The study did find a positive — some areas where industrial activities had been halted had actually caused the land to lift back up. 

The study’s authors also hope their work will help guide other coastal cities who may be facing similar challenges to New Orleans.   

“This research shows that land movement isn’t uniform, and understanding these patterns is crucial for protecting lives and property in a city where inches truly matter,” Fiaschi said in the statement. “However, it’s crucial to remember that our results still require careful ground-truthing. This is especially true for critical areas like the floodwalls, where on-site verification was not possible during this project.” 

When reached by CBS News, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said the levies are designed to last for at least another 25 years. USACE added it is already in the process of upgrading the levies so they can last another 50 years. 

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Moyers died in a New York City hospital, according to longtime friend Tom Johnson, the former CEO of CNN and an assistant to Moyers during Lyndon B. Johnson’s administration. Moyers’ son, William Cope Moyers, said his father died at Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York after a long illness.

Moyers’ career ranged from youthful Baptist minister to deputy director of the Peace Corps, from Johnson’s press secretary to newspaper publisher, senior news analyst for “The CBS Evening News” and chief correspondent for “CBS Reports.”

But it was for public television that Moyers produced some of TV’s most cerebral and provocative series. In hundreds of hours of PBS programs, he proved at home with subjects ranging from government corruption to modern dance, from drug addiction to media consolidation, from religion to environmental abuse.

In 1988, Moyers produced “The Secret Government” about the Iran-Contra scandal during the Reagan administration and simultaneously published a book under the same name. Around that time, he galvanized viewers with “Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth,” a series of six one-hour interviews with the prominent religious scholar. The accompanying book became a best-seller.

His televised chats with poet Robert Bly almost single-handedly launched the 1990s Men’s Movement, and his 1993 series “Healing and the Mind” had a profound impact on the medical community and on medical education.

In a medium that supposedly abhors “talking heads” – shots of subject and interviewer talking – Moyers came to specialize in just that. He once explained why: “The question is, are the talking heads thinking minds and thinking people? Are they interesting to watch? I think the most fascinating production value is the human face.”

Demonstrating what someone called “a soft, probing style” in the native Texas accent he never lost, Moyers was a humanist who investigated the world with a calm, reasoned perspective, whatever the subject.

From some quarters, he was blasted as a liberal thanks to his links with Johnson and public television, as well as his no-holds-barred approach to investigative journalism. It was a label he didn’t necessarily deny.

“I’m an old-fashioned liberal when it comes to being open and being interested in other people’s ideas,” he said during a 2004 radio interview. But Moyers preferred to term himself a “citizen journalist” operating independently, outside the establishment.

Public television (and his self-financed production company) gave him free rein to throw “the conversation of democracy open to all comers,” he said in a 2007 interview with The Associated Press.

“I think my peers in commercial television are talented and devoted journalists,” he said another time, “but they’ve chosen to work in a corporate mainstream that trims their talent to fit the corporate nature of American life. And you do not get rewarded for telling the hard truths about America in a profit-seeking environment.”

Over the years, Moyers was showered with honors, including more than 30 Emmys, 11 George Foster Peabody awards, three George Polks and, twice, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Gold Baton Award for career excellence in broadcast journalism. In 1995, he was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame.

Born in Hugo, Oklahoma, on June 5, 1934, Billy Don Moyers was the son of a dirt farmer-truck driver who soon moved his family to Marshall, Texas. High school led him into journalism.

“I wanted to play football, but I was too small. But I found that by writing sports in the school newspaper, the players were always waiting around at the newsstand to see what I wrote,” he recalled.

He worked for the Marshall News Messenger at age 16. Deciding that Bill Moyers was a more appropriate byline for a sportswriter, he dropped the “y” from his name.

He graduated from the University of Texas and earned a master’s in divinity from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He was ordained and preached part time at two churches but later decided his call to the ministry “was a wrong number.”

His relationship with Johnson began when he was in college; he wrote the then-senator offering to work in his 1954 re-election campaign. Johnson was impressed and hired him for a summer job. He was back in Johnson’s employ as a personal assistant in the early 1960s and for two years, he worked at the Peace Corps, eventually becoming deputy director.

On the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Moyers was in Austin helping with the presidential trip. He flew back to Washington on Air Force One with newly sworn-in President Johnson, for whom he held various jobs over the ensuing years, including press secretary.

Moyers’ stint as presidential press secretary was marked by efforts to mend the deteriorating relationship between Johnson and the media. But the Vietnam war took its toll and Moyers resigned in December 1966.

Of his departure from the White House, he wrote later, “We had become a war government, not a reform government, and there was no creative role left for me under those circumstances.”

He conceded that he may have been “too zealous in my defense of our policies” and said he regretted criticizing journalists such as Pulitzer Prize-winner Peter Arnett, then a special correspondent with the AP, and CBS’s Morley Safer for their war coverage.

In 1967, Moyers became publisher of Long Island-based Newsday and concentrated on adding news analyses, investigative pieces and lively features. Within three years, the suburban daily had won two Pulitzers. He left the paper in 1970 after the ownership changed. That summer, he traveled 13,000 miles around the country and wrote a best-selling account of his odyssey: “Listening to America: a Traveler Rediscovers His Country.”

His next venture was in public television and he won critical acclaim for “Bill Moyers Journal,” a series in which interviews ranged from Gunnar Myrdal, the Swedish economist, to poet Maya Angelou. He was chief correspondent of “CBS Reports” from 1976 to 1978, went back to PBS for three years, and then was senior news analyst for CBS from 1981 to 1986.

When CBS cut back on documentaries, he returned to PBS for much less money. “If you have a skill that you can fold with your tent and go wherever you feel you have to go, you can follow your heart’s desire,” he once said.

Then in 1986, he and his wife, Judith Davidson Moyers, became their own bosses by forming Public Affairs Television, an independent shop that has not only produced programs such as the 10-hour “In Search of the Constitution,” but also paid for them through its own fundraising efforts.

His projects in the 21st century included “Now,” a weekly PBS public affairs program; a new edition of “Bill Moyers Journal” and a podcast covering racism, voting rights and the rise of Donald Trump, among other subjects.

Moyers married Judith Davidson, a college classmate, in 1954, and they raised three children. Judith eventually became her husband’s partner, creative collaborator and president of their production company.

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Richard Gerald Jordan, a 79-year-old Vietnam veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder whose final appeals were denied without comment by the U.S. Supreme Court, was sentenced to death in 1976 for killing and kidnapping Edwina Marter. He died by lethal injection at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman.

The execution began at 6 p.m., according to prison officials. Jordan lay on the gurney with his mouth slightly ajar and took several deep breaths before becoming still. The time of death was given as 6:16 p.m.

Jordan was one of several on the state’s death row who sued the state over its three-drug execution protocol, claiming it is inhumane.

When given an opportunity to make a final statement Wednesday, he said, “First I would like to thank everyone for a humane way of doing this. I want to apologize to the victim’s family.”

He also thanked his lawyers and his wife and asked for forgiveness. His last words were: “I will see you on the other side, all of you.”

Jordan’s wife, Marsha Jordan, witnessed the execution, along with his lawyer Krissy Nobile and a spiritual adviser, the Rev. Tim Murphy. His wife and lawyer dabbed their eyes several times.

Jordan’s execution was the third in the state in the last 10 years; previously, the most recent one was carried out in December 2022.

It came a day after a man was put to death in Florida, in what is shaping up to be a year with the most executions since 2015.

Jordan’s execution comes amid an overall uptick in the use of capital punishment in the U.S. since January. Four executions were carried out in Alabama, Florida, Oklahoma and South Carolina earlier this month.

The Trump administration seeks to resume death row executions at the federal level. President Trump signed an executive order on the first day of his second term stating, “capital punishment is an essential tool for deterring and punishing those who would commit the most heinous crimes.” 

Wednesday’s execution was Mississippi’s first in three years. Thomas Loden, who pleaded guilty to raping and killing a 16-year-old girl, was executed in December 2022. 

Mississippi Supreme Court records show that in January 1976, Jordan called the Gulf National Bank in Gulfport and asked to speak with a loan officer. After he was told that Charles Marter could speak to him, he hung up. He then looked up the Marters’ home address in a telephone book and kidnapped Edwina Marter.

According to court records, Jordan took her to a forest and fatally shot her before calling her husband, claiming she was safe and demanding $25,000.

Edwina Marter’s husband and two sons had not planned to attend the execution. Eric Marter, who was 11 when his mother was killed, said beforehand that other family members would attend.

“It should have happened a long time ago,” Eric Marter told The Associated Press before the execution. “I’m not really interested in giving him the benefit of the doubt.”

“He needs to be punished,” Marter said.

As of the beginning of the year, Jordan was one of 22 people sentenced in the 1970s who were still on death row, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

His execution ended a decadeslong court process that included four trials and numerous appeals. On Monday the Supreme Court rejected a petition that argued he was denied due process rights.

“He was never given what for a long time the law has entitled him to, which is a mental health professional that is independent of the prosecution and can assist his defense,” said lawyer Krissy Nobile, director of Mississippi’s Office of Capital Post-Conviction Counsel, who represented Jordan. “Because of that his jury never got to hear about his Vietnam experiences.”

A recent petition asking Gov. Tate Reeves for clemency echoed Nobile’s claim. It said Jordan suffered severe PTSD after serving three back-to-back tours, which could have been a factor in his crime.

“His war service, his war trauma, was considered not relevant in his murder trial,” said Franklin Rosenblatt, president of the National Institute of Military Justice, who wrote the petition on Jordan’s behalf. “We just know so much more than we did 10 years ago, and certainly during Vietnam, about the effect of war trauma on the brain and how that affects ongoing behaviors.”

Marter said he does not buy that argument: “I know what he did. He wanted money, and he couldn’t take her with him. And he — so he did what he did.”

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Richard Gerald Jordan, a 79-year-old Vietnam veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder whose final appeals were denied without comment by the U.S. Supreme Court, was sentenced to death in 1976 for killing and kidnapping Edwina Marter. He died by lethal injection at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman.

The execution began at 6 p.m., according to prison officials. Jordan lay on the gurney with his mouth slightly ajar and took several deep breaths before becoming still. The time of death was given as 6:16 p.m.

Jordan was one of several on the state’s death row who sued the state over its three-drug execution protocol, claiming it is inhumane.

When given an opportunity to make a final statement Wednesday, he said, “First I would like to thank everyone for a humane way of doing this. I want to apologize to the victim’s family.”

He also thanked his lawyers and his wife and asked for forgiveness. His last words were: “I will see you on the other side, all of you.”

Jordan’s wife, Marsha Jordan, witnessed the execution, along with his lawyer Krissy Nobile and a spiritual adviser, the Rev. Tim Murphy. His wife and lawyer dabbed their eyes several times.

Jordan’s execution was the third in the state in the last 10 years; previously, the most recent one was carried out in December 2022.

It came a day after a man was put to death in Florida, in what is shaping up to be a year with the most executions since 2015.

Jordan’s execution comes amid an overall uptick in the use of capital punishment in the U.S. since January. Four executions were carried out in Alabama, Florida, Oklahoma and South Carolina earlier this month.

The Trump administration seeks to resume death row executions at the federal level. President Trump signed an executive order on the first day of his second term stating, “capital punishment is an essential tool for deterring and punishing those who would commit the most heinous crimes.” 

Wednesday’s execution was Mississippi’s first in three years. Thomas Loden, who pleaded guilty to raping and killing a 16-year-old girl, was executed in December 2022. 

Mississippi Supreme Court records show that in January 1976, Jordan called the Gulf National Bank in Gulfport and asked to speak with a loan officer. After he was told that Charles Marter could speak to him, he hung up. He then looked up the Marters’ home address in a telephone book and kidnapped Edwina Marter.

According to court records, Jordan took her to a forest and fatally shot her before calling her husband, claiming she was safe and demanding $25,000.

Edwina Marter’s husband and two sons had not planned to attend the execution. Eric Marter, who was 11 when his mother was killed, said beforehand that other family members would attend.

“It should have happened a long time ago,” Eric Marter told The Associated Press before the execution. “I’m not really interested in giving him the benefit of the doubt.”

“He needs to be punished,” Marter said.

As of the beginning of the year, Jordan was one of 22 people sentenced in the 1970s who were still on death row, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

His execution ended a decadeslong court process that included four trials and numerous appeals. On Monday the Supreme Court rejected a petition that argued he was denied due process rights.

“He was never given what for a long time the law has entitled him to, which is a mental health professional that is independent of the prosecution and can assist his defense,” said lawyer Krissy Nobile, director of Mississippi’s Office of Capital Post-Conviction Counsel, who represented Jordan. “Because of that his jury never got to hear about his Vietnam experiences.”

A recent petition asking Gov. Tate Reeves for clemency echoed Nobile’s claim. It said Jordan suffered severe PTSD after serving three back-to-back tours, which could have been a factor in his crime.

“His war service, his war trauma, was considered not relevant in his murder trial,” said Franklin Rosenblatt, president of the National Institute of Military Justice, who wrote the petition on Jordan’s behalf. “We just know so much more than we did 10 years ago, and certainly during Vietnam, about the effect of war trauma on the brain and how that affects ongoing behaviors.”

Marter said he does not buy that argument: “I know what he did. He wanted money, and he couldn’t take her with him. And he — so he did what he did.”

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The Rocky River Police Department identified the driver as Feras Hamden, 36, from Westlake, Ohio. They obtained a warrant for his arrest after Miller signed a criminal complaint for aggravated menacing, and filed a motion for a criminal protection order against the driver.

Hamden turned himself in after the warrant was issued, police said. He is awaiting his first court appearance. The case remains under investigation, police said. State and federal authorities, including the U.S. Capitol Police, are also involved in the investigation.

“In less than 24 hours, the USCP received notification of a threat against a Member of Congress, had boots on the ground, collaborated with the local police department, and the suspect in the case was arrested that same evening,” acting Capitol Police Chief Sean Gallagher said in a statement. “This case is a prime example of the USCP’s stance towards threats against our elected officials. We will continue to have a zero-tolerance policy.”

Ohio Rep. Max Miller describes “unhinged” incident 

“Some unhinged, deranged man decided to lay on his horn and run me off the road when he couldn’t get my attention, to show me a Palestinian flag, not to mention death to Israel, death to me, that he wanted to kill me and my family,” Miller, a Republican, said in a video posted on X. 

The congressman, who is Jewish, called it “blatant antisemitic violence.”

Miller said on X he reported the issue to local authorities and the U.S. Capitol Police, adding, “We know who this person is.” The Rocky River Police Department in Ohio confirmed to CBS News that the incident was reported, but did not provide any further details. Capitol Police did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Rocky River is a suburb of Cleveland.

The congressman did not elaborate on the alleged threats. CBS News has reached out to Miller’s office for additional details.

Threats against lawmakers and other public officials, including judges and prosecutors, have risen in recent years, Capitol Police and the U.S. Marshals Service say. The U.S. Capitol Police says it investigated 9,474 “concerning statements and direct threats” against members of Congress and their families and staff last year, up from around 8,000 the year prior.

The concerns were amplified after Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were fatally shot over the weekend, and state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife were injured in a separate shooting. The suspect, Vance Boelter, was charged in the shootings, and authorities say they found a list of names and addresses for other public officials in the suspect’s SUV. 

In a post on X, House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, called the incident “yet another outrageous example of unhinged rhetoric inspiring unstable people to threaten and attack elected officials who are serving their communities.”

House Democratic leaders said in a statement, “We condemn in the strongest possible terms the attack on Congressman Max Miller and his family and are thankful they are safe. The rise in political violence in this country is unacceptable.”

Hunter Woodall contributed to this report.

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The Academy Award-nominated actor, known for comedic roles in films like “Wedding Crashers,” “Zoolander” and “Meet the Parents,” stars in the new Apple TV+ series “Stick” as Pryce Cahill, a washed-up professional golfer seeking redemption.

Speaking at Liberty National Golf Club in New Jersey, Wilson reflected on how his perspective on success has evolved over his decades-long Hollywood career.

“Those studies that say the happiest time in people’s lives are after 50 — as a kid, I really had a hard time believing that,” Wilson said. “But here, I do find myself feeling pretty happy and pretty content.”

Wilson said he’s moved past the pressure he felt earlier in his career, when poor performance felt catastrophic.

“Early on, you’d make something like, wow, this doesn’t do well. I don’t know what I’m gonna do,” he said. “It just felt like so much was riding on stuff, so much pressure to kind of do well and succeed.  I do kind of feel, yeah, a little bit more sort of peace, and …. taking time to smell the roses.”

The actor has also been open about his mental health struggles, a theme that resonates in “Stick.” The show explores what Wilson calls “a reckoning that most people have to kind of face in life.”

“That idea of rock bottom reminds me of times in my life when I’ve had struggles, how much I needed other people — family, friends,” Wilson said. “I think that’s reflected in this show.”

Wilson, who remains as active as ever in Hollywood, said he’s learned to appreciate setbacks as necessary stepping stones.

“We can all sort of look back at bad things that happen, where you’re like, yeah, without that bad thing, then I don’t get to this good thing,” he said.

The first season of “Stick” is now streaming on Apple TV+.

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The church’s pastor, Clementa Pinckney, was one of the people killed in the massacre. His daughter, Eliana Pinckney, graduated from Philadelphia’s Temple University in May.

“It gets a little easy to forget sometimes that I’m 21 and that my dad died when I was 11,” she told CBS News.

Then-President Barack Obama delivered Pinckney’s father’s eulogy.

“I can distinctly remember at 11, knowing the magnitude President Obama held,” she said.

Two days later, at the shooter, Dylan Roof’s, bond hearing, some family members of his victims publicly expressed forgiveness.

Felicia Sanders survived the shooting by playing dead, shielding her granddaughter underneath her. But her son, Tywanza Sanders, was gunned down.

“By the time I hollered for everybody to get down, the first couple people had already been shot,” Sanders told CBS News. “…I saw my son got hit. My son died on one side of me and…my aunt died on the other side. He took the bullets that we ultimately was supposed to have.”

“May God have mercy on you,” Sanders told Roof in court back in 2015.

“I raised up, knowing that Jesus forgave us,” Sanders told CBS News of her decision to say that in court. “Forgiveness wasn’t for him. It was for me.”

Myra Thompson, who led the Bible study, was among those killed. Her husband, Rev. Anthony Thompson, told CBS News he did not initially intend to speak at that court hearing.

“I forgive you and my family forgives you,” Thompson said in the courtroom in 2015.  

“What I want people to understand is this was a divine intervention,” Thompson told CBS News. “OK, God called me to forgive this guy. That’s when I began to heal. And then, within a few minutes, I’m light as a feather. He gave me a peace, and that’s what that forgiveness did.”

Said Pinckney: “I think forgiveness is a really hard thing and a hard concept. Instead of having a sense of hatred or animosity towards him, I honestly wish for growth for him and anyone surrounded by him. I think that hatred is such a powerful disease that unfortunately, seems to dictate the way our country is run.”

Four years ago, Pinckney told CBS News as she was graduating from high school that she wanted to put more good into the world. Today, she’s a professional actress. At Philadelphia’s Arden Theatre, she’s part of the ensemble in its production of “Rent.”

“I’m really passionate about doing art that means things to people,” she said. “That isn’t the reason they came to the theater, but it’s the thing they leave the theater thinking about.”

With her social justice mindset, Pinckney hears her father’s voice. She’s giving life lessons in resilience and forgiveness, both on and off the stage.

“The fact that I still have a family that I can call and check in on … is such a blessing,” she said.

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The soldier killed was identified Friday by the 101st Airborne Division as Chief Warrant Officer 2 Dustin K. Wright.

In a post to social media earlier Friday, the 101st Airborne Division said the incident involving an AH-64 Apache helicopter had occurred in “preparation for the Army’s 250th birthday,” the festival and parade being held in Washington, D.C., to commemorate the Army’s 250th anniversary — that also coincides with President Trump’s 79th birthday.

However, in a follow-up post, the division said it wanted to “clarify” that the incident “occurred during a routine attack aviation training mission inside the Fort Campbell training area. The crew was not in direct support of Week of the Eagles or Army Birthday.”

A spokesperson for the 101st Airborne Division also told CBS News by phone Friday that the training exercise had “100% nothing to do with the birthday parade in D.C.” and was simply “happening while the Army prepares for the 250th birthday date.”

Week of the Eagles is an annual event that honors the heritage of the 101st Airborne Division.

The injured pilot was treated and released from Blanchfield Army Community Hospital for minor injuries, officials said.

No further details were provided. The incident is under investigation.

Wright joined the Army in 2010 and had served at Fort Campbell since May 2022. He was highly-decorated, having been awarded the Air Medal, the Army Commendation Medal, the Army Achievement Medal and the Army Parachutist Badge, among others, his division said.

“The entire 101st Combat Aviation Brigade grieves the loss of CW2 Dustin Wright,” Col. Tyler Partridge, commander of the 101st Combat Aviation Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, said in a statement Friday. “A former Infantryman, Dustin cherished every opportunity to be outside and support ground troops. He did so with strength and honor. We will forever cherish the memories of his service, and his legacy will live on in the hearts of all who knew him.”

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear was among those offering condolences to the family of the soldier who died.

“No matter how it happens, when we lose someone who has committed to serving our country, I know it hurts that family but it should hurt us all,” the Democratic governor said Thursday.

Kentucky state Sen. Craig Richardson, whose western Kentucky district includes the Fort Campbell area, said the soldier’s death was heartbreaking.

“This tragedy is a solemn reminder that the dangers our military faces are not limited to distant battlefields,” the Republican lawmaker said. “The call to serve brings risks at home, in training, preparation, and quiet readiness.”

The sprawling Fort Campbell post straddles the Kentucky-Tennessee line.

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