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Judge in Charlie Kirk murder case finds prosecutor in contempt for public comments, but won’t take death penalty off the table

A prosecutor has been found in civil contempt after making comments on the strength of the murder case against Tyler Robinson, the man accused of shooting and killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk.  Judge Tony Graf Jr. ruled in a virtual hearing on Friday that the prosecutor was in civil contempt for making comments to the…

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Paris halts alcohol sales to help hospitals amid deadly heat wave, as scientists blame human-caused climate change

Authorities in France’s capital have imposed restrictions on the sale and public consumption of alcohol, hoping to ease the burden on hospitals of people being brought in with dehydration as Paris bakes in a record-breaking heat wave. City officials announced that the consumption of alcohol in public spaces would be prohibited, with the exception of…

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Epstein’s longtime assistant grilled by U.S. lawmakers over Amex travel booked for women or girls

U.S. lawmakers recently grilled Jeffrey Epstein‘s longtime assistant Lesley Groff about Epstein’s use of American Express to book travel for multiple women or girls, according to a transcript of her hours-long testimony released this week by the House Oversight Committee.  CBS News was the first to report in February that the late convicted sex offender…

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“Regime Change” authors on Trump’s “information bubble,” Situation Room meetings on Epstein

President Trump has “a fundamentally different conception of the U.S. presidency” than his predecessors, New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan explain in their new book, “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump.” Haberman and Swan sat down with “CBS Mornings” Friday to talk about their book, which dives into the…

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4 people convicted over insecticide deaths of tourist family during reported bedbug infestation at Istanbul hotel

A Turkish court on Friday convicted three pest control company workers and a hotel owner over the deaths of a family of four from Germany who were poisoned by insecticide while on vacation in Istanbul, sentencing them to between 18 and 12 years in prison, state media reported. The Turkish-German Bocek family were staying at the…

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