Britain’s King Charles III continued his nine-day tour of the Caribbean Thursday under mounting pressure to issue a formal apology for the U.K. royal family’s historic role in the transatlantic slave trade and to support calls for reparations. Charles was to visit Guyana on Thursday before traveling to Antigua and Barbuda for a meeting of…
Washington — Lawyers for the Southern Poverty Law Center are asking a judge to allow them to subpoena a former informant who has provided material to the Justice Department, saying that investigators are treating the witness like he is “part of the prosecutorial team itself.” Defense attorneys for the civil rights nonprofit accused the government…
Alvin Hellerstein, a federal judge who for decades oversaw some of the country’s most high-profile cases, counting among his defendants presidents and CEOs, has died, a spokesperson for the Southern District of New York confirmed Wednesday. He was 92. At the time of his death, he was presiding over the criminal case of one former…
Washington — A federal appeals court on Monday dismissed the Justice Department’s effort to force California election officials to set aside thousands of ballots that the Trump administration claims may have been cast by alleged noncitizens. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit said in a 2-1 decision that it lacked jurisdiction over…
As greater scrutiny is falling on online sports betting companies for the way they offer extravagant perks to customers who are losing large sums of money, there is another question emerging about this fast-growing industry: how the companies treat their biggest winners. States and state lawmakers have raised questions about a practice called “limiting” —…
Washington — Democratic state Rep. Gina Hinojosa, the Democrat running for governor in Texas, said on Sunday that there’s “deep disappointment in both political parties” in the Lone Star State, prompting a new path forward that she argued is “post-partisan in some ways.” “Right now nobody wants politics as usual. Most of us see that…
The lake country straddling the Kentucky-Tennessee border has a quiet, majestic beauty. But in September 2022, that vast landscape seemed to have swallowed up Mike Harding, a California transplant who disappeared without a trace. JULIE HARDING (phone call): Hi Captain, this is Julie Harding with the California Highway Patrol … Mike’s wife Julie Harding, a…
It was Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022, and a small strip mall in Huntsville, Alabama, was teeming with police activity. The frantic scene was captured on police body cameras and dashcam video in the moments after police discovered 37-year-old Savannah Tolbert shot dead in the front seat of a red Tesla. Moments before police arrived, her…
A Mississippi police officer who shot into a moving car and killed a 1-year-old boy outside a Walmart in June has resigned, the mayor of Senatobia confirmed to CBS News on Friday. Mayor Greg Graves confirmed that Hunter Foster resigned. Foster’s resignation comes after the Mississippi attorney general’s office announced Monday that the use of…
The New York City Council passed a bill banning horse-drawn carriage rides in the city by 2028. Lawmakers voted Thursday afternoon on Romanch’s Law. The legislation is named after Romanch Mahajan, 18, who died during a carriage accident in June in Central Park. The bill is now headed to Mayor Zohran Mamdani to sign. “With…
