• Sabrina Soto made her name transforming homes. Now she wants to transform lives.
• Our homes are closely linked to our mental health, well-being, and success.
• To set ourselves up, she believes our kitchens, offices, and bedrooms should be clutter-free.

Growing up as a "latchkey kid," home became incredibly important to Sabrina Soto.

"Home sort of became my best friend," she told Business Insider. "I had this unspoken agreement with the house: If I'm going to be home alone with you, I'll take care of you if you take care of me."

Soto believes our home environment profoundly impacts mental health and well-being and that little adjustments can make a big difference in our self-development.

She said we should ensure three clutter-free spaces in our homes to set us up for success: our kitchen, bedroom, and office.

"If you are overwhelmed, but you look around and there's constant visual clutter, just start there," Soto said. "The old junk papers, the junk mail, just the piles of stuff that are getting in the way — clearing your desk space up will free up your mind a lot."

Soto told BI it sounds "woo-woo," but homes hold energy.

"Our homes hold our lives and our memories. You should be proud of that space and look forward to being in that space. So whether that means a spring cleaning, decluttering, or moving furniture to refresh, it's a mutual relationship. Those small changes can go a long way."

Soto said cleaning windows and mirrors is another small but effective way of improving our environment.

"I notice in people's bathrooms, if they have a full-length mirror, there's toothpaste on there," Soto said. "When you're getting ready in the morning, having a clear vision of yourself is key."

Her secret, she said, is 70% rubbing alcohol in a spray bottle: "It's streak-free, every single time." It also works on windows, which we "look through every day."

"Natural light brings joy into your life," Soto said. "People who are in a dark mental space usually have their curtains closed, and it's darker in the house. But opening up your curtains, letting the sunlight in could bring a little bit more joy into your life."

Get rid of that stuff

The next thing you can tackle is getting rid of the stuff you don't need, such as clothes you've never worn, because it's all "holding space and holding dust, too," Soto said.

"The more stuff you have, the harder it is for your space to be clean," she said.

Soto built her career by helping people curate a home they loved on HGTV. She's now presenting "The Sabrina Soto Show" on The Design Network, where she digs deeper and helps people find new routines and habits.

On her new show, which premiered in March, Soto speaks with experts to merge home improvement and wellness.

She saw on her previous shows how people's lives and mental health would improve when she helped them transform their physical spaces, and wanted to go further than just fixing a room's aesthetics.

Light at end of the tunnel

Soto finds it ironic that she makes people's homes beautiful because her parents went through a tough financial time when she was younger and were evicted from their house.

"It just goes to show that even when you think you're in a rut or a breakup or loss of a job or whatever the case may be, there's always a light at the end of the tunnel," she said.

Soto, 48, is also divorced and now in what she describes as her first "really healthy relationship."

"Because of my background and having gone through a lot of different changes in my life, I wanted to hold people's hands who are going through the same," she said. "And realize that no matter where you are in your life, the smallest little shifts can impact the much bigger picture."

• United, Delta, American, and Southwest operate the world's largest airline fleets.
• Business Insider compared the age, size, and makeup of the Big Four's planes.
• United and Southwest prefer Boeing planes, while the other two have an even split with Airbus.

US airlines dominate the world's rankings, operating the four largest fleets.

Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, and American Airlines also lead the world in revenue, while Southwest isn't far behind, either.

The last of those is a budget airline, and this is evident in its fleet, which consists entirely of Boeing 737s.

While the big three mainline carriers may seem pretty similar, there are some key differences. For example, United Airlines heavily favors Boeing planes, while only Delta operates wide-body Airbus jets.

United also operates the world's largest fleet with more than 1,000 planes. However, it is also has the oldest in the US on average.

Delta, meanwhile, operates the oldest jet that's still flying.

Business Insider has compiled charts and data to show how the Big Four airlines' fleets compare.

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• TikTok is laying off staff and instituting cost-saving measures as part of an efficiency push.
• Many of the cuts have focused on its US e-commerce team.
• TikTok Shop sales have slumped in the US this year amid tariffs and other uncertainty.

Belt-tightening is underway at TikTok.

After spending big over the last two years to get its e-commerce business off the ground, TikTok is taking new steps to squeeze out a return.

Since February, TikTok Shop has pushed out staffers based on performance, added stricter return-to-office rules, and had two rounds of layoffs, all while tacking on new measures to keep costs at bay, seven staffers told Business Insider. TikTok has also introduced cost-cutting measures to the broader company, including new budget caps for travel.

On Wednesday, the company began its latest layoffs, targeting e-commerce operations staff and some employees who work with global brands. In emails this week to laid-off workers, the company said it was reducing complexity "to create a more efficient operating model for the team's long-term growth."

TikTok's CEO Shou Chew hinted at a spending crackdown in the pursuit of efficiency in February. He told staff he wanted to review each of the company's teams and remove unnecessary layers, The Information reported.

Chew's directive mirrors similar efforts by executives at Meta, Microsoft, and Google, which have recently stripped away employee perks, trimmed head count, and shifted performance standards in pursuit of cost savings.

TikTok's cost cuts come at a tenuous moment for the company, which could face a US ban if it fails to reach an agreement with the Trump administration over a 2024 divestment law. The company has made broad changes to its US team in recent months, including consolidating control under Chinese leadership, employees previously told BI. And while TikTok videos are as popular as ever, the Shop business has failed to meet expectations. TikTok did not respond to a request for comment.

The workplace changes and broader uncertainty have weighed on some.

"For the past six months, it's been very up and down as far as morale and people's sense of security at work," a laid off staffer said.

How TikTok is cutting costs

In addition to cutting costs through layoffs, some teams have refocused performance goals this quarter around costs, profit, and revenue metrics like gross merchandise value, two staffers said.

The company also plans to stop subsidizing free shipping for TikTok Shop sellers later this month after previous reductions.

The move would bring TikTok's free shipping subsidies more in line with competitors like Amazon, but could irk some seller partners, one staffer said.

There have been signs of broader cost cutting, too. Last week, TikTok told staffers across the company it was instituting a stricter approval process for work travel. The company is asking for more information about travel arrangements to better understand the impact on the budget, and setting spend limits for hotels and airfare.

TikTok spent big on e-commerce in the US

TikTok's e-commerce division was an easy target for cost cutting. The company spent hundreds of millions of dollars getting the business off the ground.

The shopping platform is a big focus for owner ByteDance, which is trying to replicate the e-commerce success of its Chinese sister app, Douyin.

ByteDance's leadership has been disappointed with the progress of its US business, which failed to hit many of its goals in 2024. US sales on the platform have taken a hit this year, due partly to global tariffs. Weekly US order volume on TikTok Shop dropped by around 20% in mid-May compared to mid-April after tariffs went into effect, for example, according to internal data viewed by BI.

In an effort to turn things around, the company has shaken up its e-commerce leadership. The changes gave greater power to executives who have experience working on Douyin.

After several layoff rounds, a string of performance-related cuts and team reorgs, and other unrelated worker attrition, the US TikTok Shop is looking trimmer. BI was unable to determine the extent of the recent cuts, but the impacted teams were consolidated, per a memo sent on Wednesday evening and viewed by BI.

In the wake of organizational changes, the teams would "move faster, operate leaner, and be more efficient," e-commerce leader Mu Qing wrote.

Sitting at her sewing machine, Bernita Clark, 82, guides a piece of blue fabric as the needle bobs up and down. To her side sit scissors, measuring tape, thread, and a skull.

It's for a costume she's designing for a 12-foot-tall skeleton. The labor is painstaking, attaching the fabric such that the soon-to-be well-clad lawn fixture becomes the talk of the town.

But, she said, the work has been one of the most fulfilling parts of retirement.

In her late 40s, Clark didn't think she could ever retire. A divorce at 40 meant she would be on her own, raising her two daughters with little savings and no retirement plan.

At age 46, she said she "set about finding a job that offered good retirement above all else and supplemented it as much as I could."

Clark returned to school and worked as a computer systems analyst for a railroad company with a defined-benefit pension plan, rather than the increasingly common defined-contribution retirement plans offered by many employers.

After developing congestive heart failure, she retired at 64, pursuing travel to national parks, painting, and costume-making. She worked part-time, training railroad dispatchers and working in university admissions. Nowadays, she coordinates neighborhood meetups and maintains a strong social calendar.

"Financially, I'm not wealthy, but I'm not poor either," Clark said. "I own my home and don't have a mortgage. I have more expendable income now than I've ever had in my life, and I'm debt-free."

Over the past few months, hundreds of older Americans told Business Insider that they've struggled to figure out what they really wanted to do in retirement. Some new to retirement said they weren't sure how to spend their time, while others hinted at returning to work. To learn from those with more experience navigating retirement, Business Insider spoke to over a dozen older Americans who have been retired for 15 or more years to pinpoint some common practices that have made retirement fulfilling long-term.

Though not all have had smooth retirements, most agreed that what made retirement worthwhile included maintaining strong social ties, staying physically active, working side gigs, and staying positive amid twists and turns.

For those worried about recent stock market volatility, Rob Williams, a managing director at Charles Schwab, said these kinds of concerns will come and go throughout a lifetime. "Having a financial plan helps, and those who do are more confident than those who don't."

'I've stayed on top of things'

Some of the longtime retirees BI spoke with still do some work to stay active and supplement their finances.

Leslie Giles, 83, didn't expect to return to work in his 80s after retiring 24 years ago. Giles, who lives in Ohio, worked as a statistician and personnel testing specialist, investing and keeping expenses low. He retired in 2001 after his job of three decades was cut.

He and his wife traveled to national parks in the Southwest, and he lived off savings, a state pension, and the one-year buyout he got from his job. To pass the time, he volunteered part-time as a school library assistant. Once his wife was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, he became her primary caregiver before she entered a rehabilitation facility.

When she died in 2020, Giles said he was desperate to get back to work to give himself purpose, so he held shifts as a security guard until recently, sometimes working 10-hour shifts.

For Donald Kimmel, 78, retirement meant slowing down instead of stopping work entirely.

Kimmel, who lives in Florida, retired at 62 after taking a buyout from his full-time position in osteoporosis research. He stayed as a freelance consultant for the next five to six years, flying to conferences and working in areas with less-developed bone research facilities. The morning after he took his buyout, he said he got a call from an attorney asking him to do expert testimony about a patent challenge for a drug company.

"The moment I became a free agent, companies like them were happy to have me," Kimmel said.

Kimmel moved from Pennsylvania to Florida with his wife so they could retire in a calmer and warmer community, though he continued freelancing and managing vacation properties until 2017.

"More than 15 years after retirement, I've stayed on top of things," Kimmel said. "I like to pass down ideas on career moves that students should make. You don't get any pay for that, but you get the joy of helping people get themselves going."

'It's never over until it's over'

Most retirees BI spoke to said they knew retirement would eventually stop being the golden years and would take time to adjust.

When Richard Adelmann, 82, retired early at 52 after a career in accounting, he expected to spend much of his retirement with his wife of over three decades. Just a few years into retirement, she died suddenly at 55.

Adelmann returned to his post-retirement job building affordable housing and married an educator who lost her husband.

He and his second wife worked in their retirement with children at a residential treatment center for endangered youth, although neither had kids of their own. Adelmann navigated health issues, including cancer, over the last two decades, and his home faced severe damage from Hurricane Sandy. He's made the most of rough times, keeping his mind fresh by reading and still remaining active.

"It's never over until it's over," said Adelmann, who lives in New Jersey.

For Elayne Schulman, 82, some of the joys of retirement have evaporated, though there are still silver linings. Schulman retired at 62, a few years after her husband, after a decade supervising educational software development at IBM.

"My husband wanted to jump to retirement as fast as he could," Schulman said. "We didn't think we needed to be in the upper-middle class. We just wanted to do better than our fathers, who both died very young."

Schulman and her husband moved to a waterfront town in Florida, but while on a trip, her husband fell and became partly paralyzed. In January, her husband was diagnosed with terminal bone cancer. She had a stroke in February that temporarily hurt her vision. Their years of financial planning prepared them for emergencies like these, and Schulman said she's learned to cherish the small moments of peace and family times.

"I expect this to be better in a couple of months, but who knows?" Schulman said. "This is the tail end of a very long retirement that has had its ups and downs."

Staying fit, even amid health challenges

Rich Colorado, 87, used to be the youngest in his senior bowling league. Now, he's the second oldest.

Colorado, who was born in El Salvador and lives in California, held two long-term jobs his whole life: 17 years at a bowling alley and 27 years as a scale technician. He retired in 2002 on his 65th birthday despite never having a specific savings plan.

Colorado said the key to his retirement has been staying active. He bowls three times a week, teaches chess, and used to take guitar lessons. He said staying fit and having a routine, coupled with a healthy diet, have gotten him to this age with few health problems.

Staying fit has helped Bill Bengel, 84, endure health challenges. Bengel retired from General Motors over 24 years ago, spent two decades living at his lake house in northern Michigan, and took up woodworking. He put aside 10% of his salary increases toward his retirement and lived frugally without sacrificing travel.

Two years ago, a complication from his vascular disease led to a partial leg amputation. He couldn't spend his winters in Florida or enjoy his lake house, so he and his wife moved back to central Michigan, closer to family.

He walks with a cane and goes to the gym to improve his mobility, and he spends much of his time with his eight grandkids and 14 great-grandkids. While he can't run like he did before the amputation, he said he's still got plenty of years left to improve physically while keeping his mind fresh through reading.

"We still do pretty much what we want," Bengel said.

• Aerobavovna, a Ukrainian startup, is making helium-filled balloons to aid Ukraine's drone attacks.
• Its balloons help to keep drones on the grid when they're on the ground or flying low.
• Aerobavovna's CEO told BI that 50 aerostats are deployed along the frontline.

Against the backdrop of Ukraine's drone-packed skies, one startup is offering a surprisingly low-tech solution to a modern problem.

Aerobavovna, which was founded in 2023, is supplying Ukraine's military with tethered, helium-filled balloons equipped with airborne radio repeaters, extending the range and effectiveness of the country's drones.

The Russia-Ukraine conflict has been defined by drone warfare, but drone operators have faced a number of challenges, including line-of-sight obstacles, which can cause drones to lose contact if radio signals are disrupted, and electronic warfare systems, which can jam communications.

That's where Aerobavovna comes in.

The company's aerostats are designed for surveillance, communication, and first-person-view (FPV) drone signal transmission, and help establish stable communication signals in the battlefield's tricky conditions.

Fitted with antennas and radio repeaters, Aerobavovna's aerostats anchor high over the battlefield to help Ukrainian drones continue operating in spite of obstacles and to maintain comms over much greater distances.

You need "some kind of airborne radio repeater that allows drones to fly closer to the ground," Yuriy Vysoven, Aerobavovna's CEO, told Business Insider.

"For ground drones, it's crucial because their ground-to-ground signal would only reach the first hill; beyond that, you lose direct line of sight and, consequently, the connection," he said, adding that about 50 balloons were deployed "all around the front line" in Ukraine.

While aerostats aren't new technology, Aerobavovna's products have been designed to meet the demands of the modern battlefield, allowing for rapid deployment times.

Aerobavovna's balloons, which the firm says can be deployed in five to 25 minutes, are made with lightweight polymers and can remain airborne for up to seven days. They can lift repeater systems up to a height of 1 km (about 0.6 miles) and carry a payload of up to 25 kg (around 55 lbs), the company said.

The company, which says it produces around 10 to 20 balloons per month, recently announced that it had developed a new aerostat capable of carrying more advanced equipment.

In an interview with the Ukrainian outlet Militarnyi, engineers from the company said they had created a new model that can hold a payload of up to 66 lbs, enabling it to carry more powerful equipment such as electronic warfare systems.

While the company has found success supplying tethered aerostats to the Ukrainian military, it continues to grapple with technical and structural hurdles as it scales.

One persistent challenge is maintaining stability and precision in airborne conditions, especially critical for payloads like FPV drone radio repeaters, which require highly accurate antenna positioning.

"Stability is a big problem," Vysoven said. "For FPV drone radio repeaters, you need to position the antennas really, really precisely," but wind and turbulence make that very hard.

Funding also remains a major constraint.

Despite strong demand and a battlefield-proven product, capital is scarce for Ukrainian hardware startups.

Vysoven said the company has received investment offers in the range of $40 million, but considers that far below what's needed and called that figure "a shame."

"In California, you can raise that with just a pitch deck and a latte. I have a real product, 30 engineers building it, and it's already deployed," he said.

"And we still struggle to raise enough to scale," he added.

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• The US Army designated Bell's V-280 Valor as its next-generation air assault vehicle, the MV-75.
• The tiltrotor is part of the Army's plan to modernize its aging fleet of military helicopters.
• The Army plans to replace the Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk with the MV-75 by the 2030s.

It flies like a helicopter, cruises like a plane, and could redefine how the US Army fights wars within the next decade.

The Army chose the Bell V-280 Valor as its next-generation assault aircraft, designed to fly longer and faster than current rotorcraft. Officially designated the MV-75, the Army is betting on the Bell tiltrotor to modernize its aging fleet of military helicopters.

For nearly 50 years, the UH-60 Black Hawk has been the Army's airborne workhorse. The Army plans to continue flying the Black Hawk for the next several years as it fast-tracks the rollout of the new tiltrotor replacement fleet in the 2030s.

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• The first woman officially ran the Boston Marathon in 1967, despite an official trying to stop her.
• Kathrine Switzer has dedicated her life to making running more accessible to women.
• She thinks anyone can get fit at any age and shared her tips for doing just that.

Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to run the Boston Marathon as an official competitor, despite a race official trying to physically stop her. Since that day in 1967, she has dedicated her life to other women experiencing the same feeling of empowerment from running, regardless of their age or ability.

In the run-up to the race, Switzer, at the time a 20-year-old journalism student at Syracuse University, trained with her college's cross-country team for a year (it was against collegiate rules for a woman to compete in the sport). She couldn't keep up with most of the men on the team, so the assistant coach, Arnie Briggs, began training with her separately as he recovered from a knee injury.

"We got better and stronger," Switzer told Business Insider. "We got up to five miles and then seven and then 11. The guys on the cross country team wouldn't come out with us after 20 kilometers, but that's when I could keep up with them because they didn't have the endurance I had."

On their runs, Switzer and Briggs discussed marathons — Briggs had run the Boston Marathon 15 times but didn't believe that a woman could run that far.

"But then he said, 'Look, if any woman could, I would believe it was you. But you would have to prove it to me, and then I'd take you to Boston.' I said, 'Hot damn, you're on,'" Switzer said.

They did a trial marathon and ended up running an extra five miles at the end because Switzer suspected the course was shorter than the required 26.2 miles and still had energy.

She and Briggs paid the $2 entry fee and signed up for the 1967 Boston Marathon. (The entry fee was $250 for the 2025 race.)

About two miles into the race, things went awry.

The race manager pulled up in a bus and ran after Switzer. "He grabbed me by the shoulders and threw me back. He tried to pull off my number bib and screamed, 'Get the hell out of my race and give me those numbers,'" she said.

When the official grabbed Switzer by the shirt, her boyfriend at the time, who was training to compete in hammer throw at the Olympics, charged at him and sent him flying off to the side of the road, she said.

As she kept running, the press hounded her, asking if she was a suffragette and what she was trying to prove.

"I wasn't trying to prove anything, I was just trying to run," she said. "But they stayed with me a long time and really hassled me, asking me, 'When are you going to quit?' Finally, I said, 'I'm going to finish this race on my hands and my knees if I have to.'"

She did finish (and stayed upright).

She said she felt empowered, and in 1972 organized the first women-only road race, which was 10-kilometer-long, and lobbied for the inclusion of a women's marathon event in the Olympics, which eventually happened in 1984.

In 2024, she worked with Every Woman's Marathon to hold a women's-only marathon, which had 7,000 participants.

Now 78, Switzer still runs six times a week, including one day where she focuses on 800-meter sprints and a day for a longer run that takes at least 1.5 hours. She ramps up her training when she's approaching a marathon.

Switzer set her personal best at the 1975 Boston Marathon with a time of two hours and fifty-one minutes. It now takes her four to five hours, but it isn't about the time, she said. She's happy that she can run a marathon alongside other women, of every age, size, ethnicity, and religion, thanks to her efforts and those of other women who paved the way.

"I believe you can start a fitness program at any age," she said, giving the example of a woman she knows who took up running at 72 and ran her first marathon at 81.

Switzer shared her tips for getting fit, whether you can run for one minute or three hours.

Start slow, but be consistent

"Consistency is everything. You just need to keep running every day and build it up," she said.

She started by running a mile a day around her garden at age 12 and gradually increased the number of laps over time. But it wasn't easy, she said.

"I struggled through that summer, running that mile every single day. Pretty soon, this amazing sense of empowerment came over me," she said. "For some people, this process is going to be faster; for other people, it's going to be slower."

Have a goal

Having a goal provides focus and will motivate you to "put the work in," Switzer said.

Her motivation was to prove Briggs wrong and show that women could run marathons, but your goal doesn't have to be as big, she said.

"There's going to be plenty of days when you don't want to go out," she said.

She still has days when she doesn't want to run after almost 60 years of doing the sport. But having something to aim for means you're less likely to skip a workout.

Accountability is key

Switzer's final tip is to find a way to hold yourself accountable. You could get a training partner or keep a diary of your workouts, she said.

"People should write their workout down every day because when you write it down, it keeps you honest," she said.

"But a buddy is really a nice thing to have. I don't think I ever would have been a runner if it hadn't been for Arnie, my coach," she added.

"And for a lot of women, safety is a really big factor. So run with other women — it also creates a really good community."

The Indiana Pacers sent out a four-word social media post after beating the New York Knicks in Game 2.

The Journal's Editorial Board said that America has a competitive edge with its ability to attract the " world's best and brightest."

• Four top Paul Weiss partners announced Friday that they've resigned to start their own firm.
• Paul Weiss is one of the firms that made a deal with Trump to reverse an EO against the firm.
• The Big Law firms that have negotiated with Trump have faced criticism from others in the profession.

Four partners at Paul Weiss announced Friday that they are leaving the white-shoe firm, which two months ago struck a deal with the Trump administration.

Karen Dunn, a star litigator who has helped Democratic candidates prepare for presidential debates, her longtime partners Bill Isaacson and Jessica Phillips, and the former prosecutor Jeannie Rhee said in an email addressed to "partners and friends" that they are starting their own firm.

The high-profile departures underscore the ongoing turmoil at Big Law firms surrounding the firms' handling of punitive executive actions from President Donald Trump's administration. The departing lawyers did not give a reason for leaving in their statement.

Several major firms — including Perkins Coie and Jenner & Block — chose to challenge the legality of the orders in court, and have so far been successful after two judges declared two different orders unconstitutional. Other firms, including Paul Weiss, chose to make deals with the administration, prompting concern among associates and partners over their willingness to cooperate rather than fight.

The new firm's name isn't clear. Since April, several domain names containing Dunn's name and those of other lawyers have been registered anonymously. None of the websites contains any details, and it's not clear who registered them.

The lawyers have represented prominent clients like Google, Amazon, and Apple over the years. Isaacson is one of the country's top antitrust litigators. Antitrust issues have been a focus for both former President Joe Biden and Trump, who have criticized the power of large tech companies. Rhee managed the firm's Washington, DC, office, and Dunn co-chaired its litigation department.

"It has been an honor to work alongside such talented lawyers and to call so many of you our friends," their departing email said. "We hope to continue to collaborate with all of you in the years to come and are incredibly grateful for your warm and generous partnership."

Paul Weiss's chair, Brad Karp, said in a statement, "We are grateful to Bill, Jeannie, Jessica, and Karen for their many contributions to the firm. We wish them well in their future endeavors."

The departures come several months after the Trump administration began targeting Big Law firms with punitive executive actions. Among them was Paul Weiss, which faced an executive order that revoked the security clearances of the firm's attorneys and ordered a review of its government contracts.

On March 20, Trump announced on Truth Social that he would drop the executive order against Paul Weiss after negotiating a deal that would require the firm to end any diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in its hiring practices and contribute $40 million of pro bono legal services to causes aligned with the administration's priorities, such as veterans affairs issues and the administration's antisemitism task force.

Business Insider previously reported that the copy of the deal shared internally among Paul Weiss partners omitted language regarding DEI that was present in the president's announcement.

Other firms that chose to negotiate with Trump also saw high-profile departures from partners and associates concerned with their firms' decisions not to challenge the administration.

Wilkie Farr lost its longest-serving lawyer in April after Joseph Baio, a partner who'd worked there for 47 years, resigned over the firm's preemptive deal with Trump, The New York Times reported.

Another firm, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, made a preemptive deal with the Trump administration in late March to avoid a similar executive order against it. The decision led to a series of public resignations from several Skadden associates, including Rachel Cohen and Brenna Frey.

Cohen told Business Insider she had not been in touch with the attorneys who had resigned from Paul Weiss on Friday.

A top Democratic lawyer, a former Mueller prosecutor, a well-known antitrust attorney and a former Alito clerk have left Paul Weiss.

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