Washington — President Biden is nominating Julie Su, the current deputy and a former California official, as his next labor secretary, replacing the departing incumbent, former Boston Mayor Marty Walsh. Su, a civil rights attorney and former head of California’s labor department, was central to negotiations between labor and freight …

Stubbornly high gas prices that have been crimping household budgets for months are starting to tumble. In some states like Texas, prices have fallen below $3 a gallon.  The national gas price average hit $3.33 a gallon on Monday, down more than 4 cents from a week ago, according to …

Theatergoers waiting to see the sold-out first preview of a classic Broadway musical Tuesday were interrupted by neo-Nazis chanting, holding banners and passing out false information about the show’s subject. The group was identified by the musical’s producers as the National Socialist Movement. The group is the largest membership-based neo-Nazi …

Authorities have positively identified the remains of an Auburn student whose car was found in an Alabama creek 45 years after he disappeared.  On Monday, the Troup County Coroner’s Office positively identified remains recovered from a creek in Chambers County as belonging to 22-year-old Kyle Clinkscales, the Troup County Sheriff’s …

A suspect sought in the shooting of two Maryland police officers was in custody Friday morning, authorities said. He’d been surrounded by law enforcement after fleeing from the vehicle he’d stolen from a detective he shot Thursday night, authorities said. Federal, state and local law enforcement agencies surrounded the suspect …

A man suspected of throwing a Molotov cocktail at the front door of a synagogue in northern New Jersey last weekend will remain in custody without bail following his arraignment Thursday, according to federal prosecutors. Nicholas Malindretos, 26, of Clifton is charged with attempted use of fire to damage and …

Chinese scientists said they have successfully cloned three “super cow” calves that, once fully grown, are capable of producing 50% more milk than the average American cow. The cloning experiment began last year at Northwest University of Agricultural and Forestry Science and Technology in Shaanxi, China. Scientists sampled tissue from …

Tom Verlaine, a guitarist and co-founder of the seminal proto-punk band Television, has died at the age of 73 following a brief illness, CBS News has learned. Verlaine’s death was confirmed in a statement Saturday to CBS News from Jesse Paris Smith, daughter of musician Patti Smith, a frequent collaborator …

The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge eased further in December, and consumer spending dipped — the latest evidence that the Fed’s series of interest rate hikes are successfully putting the brakes on the economy.  Friday’s report from the Commerce Department showed that prices rose 5% last month from a year …

The Department of Justice has arrested a 36-year-old Florida woman after she allegedly committed a “years-long scheme” to defraud an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor of his life savings. The department said that over the course of more than four years, Peaches Stergo took over $2.8 million from the survivor.  Stergo was …