Stephen Hubbard, a U.S. citizen who was jailed in Russia for more than four years after being accused of fighting for Ukraine, has been released from custody, U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff confirmed Wednesday during a meeting with President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg. Trump administration officials, including Witkoff, were in St. Petersburg Wednesday for talks…
Lawyers for a Texas man who fatally shot a convenience store clerk are asking a judge to stay his execution by lethal injection set for Wednesday, citing the failed execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee last week. This would be the first execution scheduled in the U.S. since Pike. Because the same drug used in…
CBS News has examined hundreds of pages of transcripts obtained by CBS News New York of the Title IX investigation conducted by Cornell University into the allegations made by a former student who claims she was drugged and gang-raped at a fraternity house in October 2024. The 565 pages of transcripts were obtained by CBS…
Arizona State University has placed its hockey coach, Greg Powers, on paid administrative leave after a player collapsed during a workout last month and remains hospitalized. ASU said assistant coach Mike Corbett will take over for now and that an interim coach would be named “soon.” The school did not say how long Powers was…
A dolphin rescued from the troubled theme park Marineland Canada has died weeks after it was taken to an aquarium in Spain. Several other animals from Marineland, including three beluga whales, have died at their new homes in recent weeks. Oceanogràfic València, Europe’s largest aquarium, said Thursday that the dolphin, known as Echo, arrived from Marineland with…
A bipartisan group of senators is urging Secretary of State Marco Rubio to make the release of an American journalist imprisoned in Iran an “urgent priority,” warning that his health has deteriorated and his life could be at risk. In a letter to Rubio obtained by CBS News, Sens. Brian Schatz, Democrat of Hawaii, Republican…
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz remained defiant on Sunday, vowing to press ahead with potentially painful reforms to Europe’s biggest economy, after suffering a bruising electoral setback in two state elections. Exit polls by public broadcaster ARD indicated that Merz’s center-right Christian Democratic Union, or CDU, came in with just 5% in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania – the…
Berlin — German leader Friedrich Merz’s position is under threat as the far-right surges in popularity and support for his own center-right party tanks. The situation is so serious that he canceled a planned trip to New York next week to represent his country at the United Nations General Assembly. Merz, a conservative, is facing tremendous…
The family of Tierra Walker, who died of preeclampsia at the age of 37 when she was 20 weeks pregnant, has filed a lawsuit in Texas, saying she was denied an abortion that could have saved her life as her health quickly deteriorated. Lawyers for Walker’s family filed the lawsuit Tuesday in Bexar County District…
33m ago Fighting intensifies in Yemen after Houthis expand control of key shipping lane The conflict in Yemen intensified on Sunday as government forces launched attacks against Iran-backed Houthi rebels along the Red Sea coast, and the Houthis fired into neighboring Saudi Arabia, which supports Yemen’s government. Yemen’s government vowed to send more forces…
