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New York health officials reported the state’s first measles-associated death in more than 30 years, a child in rural Lewis County, as the statewide outbreak reached 178 cases this year.
Weil Gotshal & Manges, the New York firm of 1,200 lawyers, announced Wednesday it is shutting down after a wave of partner departures. Restructuring adviser AlixPartners will steer the dissolution of the 95-year-old practice.
Brad Lander, a Democratic candidate for Congress in New York, said Israeli forces detained him while he helped Palestinian farmers harvest olives, in what two Israeli lawyers told NPR was the largest mass detention of activists in the West Bank in at least a decade.
