Novaya Gazeta, Russia’s last independent newspaper, announced Friday that it will cease operations from Nov. 9, marking a major milestone for President Vladimir Putin’s years-long effort to silence the country’s free press. Novaya Gazeta said it was being forced to close under pressure from Russian authorities and security services. “The newspaper no longer exists,” editor…
It’s perhaps the most consequential map in American history. And it could be yours. The hand-drawn chart of the Mason-Dixon Line that eventually divided the free from the slave states is going up for auction. Remounted on backing made of Japanese rice paper, the document will go on sale Thursday in a livestreamed event. “It’s…
London — From the upper floors of Millbank Tower, a skyscraper overlooking the River Thames in London, the U.K. Houses of Parliament are just a few hundred yards away. For decades, the building housed the headquarters of Britain’s Conservative Party, one of the world’s oldest political parties. Today, it is home to Reform UK, the…
A California realtor charged with working as a Chinese agent has connections to an alleged Cambodian criminal organization accused of using forced labor to run multibillion-dollar scams targeting Americans, a CBS News investigation reveals. Last week, the FBI charged Irvine realtor Wanying “Heather” Zhang, 34, with operating as an unregistered foreign agent after they allegedly…
Washington — The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to take up a dispute involving a government watchdog group’s attempt to get information from the Department of Government Efficiency as part of a fight over whether the controversial cost-cutting entity is subject to public records law. Arguments in the case, U.S. DOGE Service v. U.S. District…
Emergency help for Christa Pike was delayed by confusion among first responders and Tennessee prison officials following her failed lethal injection last month, according to 911 dispatch recordings released Monday. The recordings, first obtained by The Associated Press, show that precious minutes elapsed as officials and responders tried to figure out whether a request for…
Christa Pike, the woman whose execution by lethal injection was botched last month in Tennessee, has been released from the hospital and is now back in prison, according to her lawyers. She has been transferred back to Deborah K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center in Nashville, where she had been held before her planned execution on Sept….
A 105-year-old man is being investigated for possible crimes committed at a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, German prosecutors said on Thursday. “The 105-year-old suspect is thought to have been a guard at the prisoner-of-war camp Stalag 326 VI K” in the Senne region of western Germany, prosecutors told AFP in a statement….
Kansas City, Missouri — Vice President JD Vance announced Monday the Trump administration will suspend roughly 870,000 people suspected of defrauding pandemic-era small business programs from receiving future federal loans. The vice president contended that borrowers who stole taxpayer money should no longer be eligible to receive loans from government-backed programs. “If you screwed the…
The little girl stared up at Norma Gómez from the doorway of her neighbor’s apartment, her sad, brown eyes suddenly flashing with hope. “Are you the person who’s going to bring my mom back?” she asked. Gómez struggled to find an answer. It was a December morning, and she’d brought food, diapers, baby wipes, and…
