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“Lady Gucci” Patrizia Reggiani, who had ex-husband and fashion heir murdered, could inherit a $23 million fortune

Rome — Patrizia Reggiani — better known as “Lady Gucci,” the infamous orchestrator of her ex-husband Maurizio Gucci’s assassination — could soon be handed a massive inheritance despite her murder conviction, following a court ruling that could give Reggiani control of her late mother’s 20 million euro (just shy of $23 million) fortune. Reggiani served…

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Judge denies Biden’s bid to block DOJ from releasing conversations with biographer

Washington — A federal judge on Friday cleared the way for the Justice Department to give a conservative think tank a redacted transcript and recordings of former President Joe Biden’s decade-old conversations with his biographer, Mark Zwonitzer. In a 26-page decision, U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich denied Biden’s bid to stop the Justice Department from disclosing…

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Soccer art made from gum wrappers

Artist Lyndon J. Barrois Sr. painstakingly sculpts art depicting soccer players. His medium of choice? The humble chewing gum wrapper. Correspondent Luke Burbank talks with Barrois about his Los Angeles exhibit, “Fútbol Is Life: Animated Sportraits,” which captures iconic moments from nearly 100 years of the World Cup in tiny pieces of paper and foil….

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U.S. planning aggressive expansion of denaturalization push, aiming for 250 cases by fall

The Trump administration expects to try to revoke the U.S. citizenship of more than 250 foreign-born citizens by the end of the fiscal year in October, a Justice Department official told CBS News, outlining the unprecedented use of the federal government’s denaturalization powers. The Justice Department, which can revoke the citizenship of naturalized citizens accused…

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