Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, who told a Senate subcommittee last week that the social media company is putting profit over the safety of users, will meet with the Facebook Oversight Board in the “coming weeks,” the board said in a blog post. “In light of the serious claims made about …

Former presidential and New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang is leaving the Democratic Party, he announced this week.  Yang said in a Medium post that he changed his voting registration from “Democrat” to “Independent” on Monday after being a registered Democrat for 20 years.  “I have at this point dozens of …

Dream Hampton’s documentary “Surviving R. Kelly” is credited with helping lead to the criminal charges against the singer, whose real name is Robert Sylvester Kelly. Hampton told “CBS Mornings” Tuesday that she thought of many people when she heard that the 54-year-old was found guilty on all nine counts against …

The debate over the debt limit — often called the debt ceiling — is heating up again on Capitol Hill. But government officials, business leaders and economists are raising the alarms, saying not addressing it in a timely manner would be disastrous.  What is the debt limit, and why do …

Hours before a Friday deadline, the select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol said it received “thousands” of pages of documents.  The committee did not describe the documents further, but it had sent letters to multiple agencies seeking records related to the gathering and dissemination of intelligence before …

President Biden on Friday criticized the new Texas abortion law for creating “a sort of vigilante system” because its abortion ban is to be enforced by citizens who can sue anyone who may have aided an abortion. The president said the Justice Department is examining whether it can limit the …

R&B star R. Kelly masterminded a decades-long sex trafficking plot and used his fame to exploit girls, boys and young women, prosecutors alleged as his federal racketeering trial began in New York Wednesday. “This case is about a predator,” Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Maria Cruz …

Washington — President Biden on Wednesday pitched his $3.5 trillion tax and spending plan to boost social programs and fight climate change, dubbed the “Build Back Better” agenda, after the Senate passage of the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill.  But in remarks at the White House, the president started off …

Washington — The State Department is expanding opportunities for Afghans who are at-risk and their families to resettle in the United States, it announced Monday, amid a rise in violence by the Taliban as the U.S. troop withdrawal nears its conclusion at the end of the month. The State Department said …

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania — The aging 61-year-old South Bridge in central Pennsylvania is one of 12,000 in the state that needs repair. On several other bridges, CBS News discovered rust, cracks and some closed bridges waiting for fixes.  The American Society of Civil Engineers gave Pennsylvania a C- on its infrastructure …