MOONVES TO BE KEPT BY CBS AMID INVESTIGATION

YORK» CBS will keep CEO NEW

Les Moonves in place during an investigation of sexual misconduct charges against him, the company said. It will hire an outside counsel to conduct the probe.

On Friday, a New Yorker article quoted six women who accused Moonves of sexual misconduct over a span of three decades. The alleged behavior included forced kissing, unwanted sexual advances and career retaliation against women who rebuffed him. CBS issued a statement even before the article was published saying it took the allegations seriously and would begin an investigation.

The CBS board on Monday also voted to postpone the shareholder meeting that had been scheduled for Aug. 10 to a later date yet to be determined. It reports its quarterly earnings on Thursday. Shares closed down 5 percent at $51.28, and were largely unchanged in after hours trading.

Judge: U.S. must seek consent to medicate immigrant kids.

A federal judge ruled Monday that the U.S. government must seek consent before administering psychotropic drugs to immigrant children held at a Texas facility.

U.S. District Judge Dolly M. Gee in Los Angeles issued a ruling that the federal government violated portions of a longstanding settlement governing the treatment of immigrant children caught crossing the border.

Also, Democratic Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the bipartisan leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee, asked federal investigators to examine allegations of sexual, physical and emotional abuse of immigrants held at government detention facilities.

Counting starts after Zimbabweans vote in pivotal election.

ZIMBABWE» With HARARE, hope and pride, millions of Zimbabweans voted peacefully Monday in an election that many believe is their best chance to escape the toxic politics and deadend economics of the era of Robert Mugabe, who wasn’t on the ballot for the first time in the nation’s nearly four-decade history.

But opposition activists used to the violence, intimidation and vote-tampering that marred elections under Mugabe called for vigilance against the same kind of skullduggery this time around. Western monitors noted some problems at polling stations.

“They may be peaceful, but we don’t know how credible they are,” said 51-year-old Classified Chivese, a voter who, like many Zimbabweans, is unemployed.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she has “at least 5 more years” on the Supreme Court.

“Ruth Bader Ginsburg” was trending on Twitter Sunday night, and liberals across the internet panicked.

However, he Supreme Court justice simply announced that she does not plan on stepping down anytime soon.

“I’m now 85,” Ginsburg said, according to CNN. “My senior colleague, Justice John Paul Stevens, he stepped down when he was 90, so think I have about at least five more years.”

Rand Paul says he’ll back Kavanaugh for Supreme Court.

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said Monday he’ll vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s second nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, after previously withholding his support over privacy concerns.

Lawsuit filed in fatal duck boat sinking seeks $100 million.

MO.» The owners KANSAS CITY, and operators of a tourist boat that sank this month in Missouri, killing 17 people, put profits over people’s safety when they decided to put the Ride the Ducks boat on a lake despite design problems and warnings of severe weather, a lawsuit alleges.

The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Kansas City seeks $100 million in damages on behalf of two of nine members of an Indiana family who died when the tourist boat sank July 19 at Table Rock Lake near Branson. — Denver Post wire services