Update: A Los Angeles judge has suspended Britney Spears’ father Jamie Spears from the conservatorship that’s controlled the singer’s life, career and finances for 13 years. Lawyers for Britney Spears and her father Jamie are back in court where a Los Angeles judge could decide whether to keep her father …

France’s ambassador to the United States will return to Washington, D.C., after having been recalled when Australia scuttled its submarine deal with France in order to buy submarines with U.S. and British technology instead. The news of Ambassador Philippe Étienne’s return was announced in a joint statement following a call between President …

The debt limit was part of a call between Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday, a person familiar with the conversation told CBS News. As the U.S. barrels closer toward running out the cash to pay its bills, Yellen has warned inaction would lead …

The House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol on Friday demanded records from 15 social media companies, including Facebook and Twitter. The requests are part of an effort to understand the role that misinformation and planning on the platforms played in the leadup to the assault …

It happened this past week … the death of a celebrated artist who faced both adversity and late-in-life controversy. Chuck Close died Thursday just outside New York City, of complications from a long illness. Born in Washington state in 1940, Close was an early adherent of photo-realism. Watch “Sunday Morning”‘s …

Washington — Five Republican senators negotiating the bipartisan infrastructure framework said Wednesday they have reached an agreement on the “major issues” of the bill with Senate Democrats and the White House, potentially capping weeks of talks that at times appeared on the brink of collapse. Senator Rob Portman of Ohio, …

A group of congressional Republicans is stepping up a push for records about a possible link between a U.S. medical research agency and a lab in Wuhan, China – a link that is still very much in dispute amid the ongoing investigation into the origins of COVID- 19. In an …

Bob Baffert on Monday sued the New York Racing Association over his suspension from entering horses in races in the state. The NYRA suspended the Hall of Fame trainer after his horse, Medina Spirit, failed a post-race drug test after winning the Kentucky Derby. Baffert argues in the lawsuit that …

Kevin Clark, a onetime child actor who played drums in the 2003 hit movie “School of Rock,” was struck and killed in a bicycle accident early Wednesday, CBS Chicago reports. Police said Clark, 32, was riding a bicycle at about 1:20 a.m. when he was hit by a Toyota sedan. …

It happened this past week, the death of ballet dancer and teacher Jacques d’Amboise. Put into dance class by his mother at the age of seven to keep him off the streets, d’Amboise was just 15 when George Balanchine recruited him for the New York City Ballet. He performed on …