A 17th-century Italian painting looted by Nazis from a prominent Jewish Dutch art collector must be returned to the rightful owner’s heir, a judge in Argentina ruled on Friday. Judge Santiago Inchausti approved a deal in which the daughter of a fugitive Nazi official agreed to give up her claim to the painting rather than…
The country has been gripped by the horrific murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, a 35-year-old mother and former nurse accused of killing her three children before trying to kill herself. Her lawyers argue that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis, raising larger questions about maternal mental health and this lesser-known, but far more serious, perinatal…
WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert is retiring at the end of the year, ending a seven-plus-year tenure that included a lucrative collective bargaining agreement that resulted in the league’s first set of million-dollar player salaries. “Cathy has presided over the WNBA through the most significant period of growth in the league’s 30-year history,” NBA Commissioner Adam…
Serena and Venus Williams are playing together at the U.S. Open in New York for the first time in four years, taking to the court at Arthur Ashe Stadium for some highly anticipated prime-time tennis Friday night. The Williams sisters are facing the team of Maya Joint, who beat Serena Williams at Wimbledon this summer,…
A Florida company that was established in May won an unusual and potentially lucrative deal to be the only business permitted to stock the commissaries of the Bureau of Prisons’ 118 institutions with flavored nicotine pouches. Undated photo of mindSHFT nicotine pouches Sarah N. Lynch / CBS News The brand of 6-mg pouches being sold…
Kathmandu, Nepal — Rescuers in Nepal pulled two workers alive from a hydropower tunnel Friday as emergency teams continued an operation to reach others believed to be trapped inside, officials said. The two men were rescued from the Trishuli 3A tunnel nine days after floods, likely caused by a glacier collapse, devastated towns and swept…
Washington — Federal prosecutors have charged an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot a Venezuelan immigrant in Minnesota with making false statements to investigators about the incident, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell CBS News. The officer, Christian Castro, was charged in May by local prosecutors, but Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has refused…
Leon Black, an investor and former close associate of Jeffrey Epstein who was subpoenaed to appear before Congress on Thursday instead filed a lawsuit to contest the subpoenas compelling him to testify and provide documents to the House committee investigating the notorious sex abuser. Black was subpoenaed in June after he abruptly left a voluntary…
Gloria Steinem, a co-founder of Ms. Magazine and a trailblazing figure of the women’s liberation movement in the latter half of the 20th century, has died. She was 92. The Gloria Steinem Foundation said in a social media post Thursday that she “passed away peacefully at her home in New York City, surrounded by some…
A jury in Malta on Wednesday acquitted the Maltese businessman accused by prosecutors of being the mastermind behind the 2017 car bomb killing of crusading investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, sparking renewed calls for accountability in the Mediterranean island nation. Caruana Galizia’s killing shocked Europe, led to protests that toppled a prime minister and exposed…
