Crime rates in America may be falling, but the appetite for true crime coverage? That’s never been bigger. And this fall, there’s plenty for fans of the topic to choose from, whether it’s streaming (like Netflix’s “Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story”), podcasts (“Crime Junkie”), popular broadcast series (CBS News’ own “48 Hours”), the big screen (“By…
Five cheetah cubs had to survive a weather scare and the illness of their mother after their birth at the Prague Zoo. But they are doing well now, the zoo said on Friday. The zoo said the quintuplets — four males and one female — that were born on June 18 had faced a tough time…
An English judge issued a scathing report Tuesday blaming dysfunctional management and a “complete failure at all levels” to protect babies at the hospital where neonatal nurse Lucy Letby was convicted of murdering seven newborns. The inquiry into baby deaths found the Countess of Chester Hospital, in northwestern England, could have saved some infants from…
Cruise the canals of Venice, amid the grand palazzos and Rialto Bridge, and it’s understandable why this iconic city is now home to one of fashion’s most iconic names: Diane von Furstenberg. She spends about five months of the year in Venice: “It’s my stage,” she said. “It’s where I think.” Correspondent Alina Cho and…
Ten years ago, Meghan Cliffel was a working mother in New York City. In December 2015, she was back at work, eight months after giving birth to her second girl: “I had taken on a lot of work stress, and not quite feeling like myself, but outwardly, I was functioning well,” she said. “And it…
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…
U.S. kindergarten vaccination rates inched down again last year and the share of children with exemptions rose to an all-time high, according to federal data posted Monday. The fraction of kids exempted from vaccine requirements rose to 4.2%, up from 3.6% the year before. That’s an estimated 155,000 children nationally during the 2025-26 school year….
When Christopher Kennedy went to have an X-ray before a routine surgery, he thought he would be in and out. Then a technician spotted scarring in his lungs. Kennedy, 68 at the time, had never noticed any warning signs. He was a retired Air Force technician who exercised regularly and spent his time landscaping his…
In a back room behind a colorful facade in northern Manhattan, drug users are smoking crack while nearby cubicles stand ready for heroin users to wrap tourniquets around their arms and inject themselves with new, sterilized needles. It’s all part of a 5-year-old experiment sanctioned by the city of New York, but not by the…
At least 5,700 more people than usual died in France last month, as the country endured a historic heat wave, French public health officials said. That figure represented a sharp increase in the estimated death toll nationwide from June and early July’s record temperatures. Public Health France said regions hit by the heat from June 17…
