FREEDOM

Michigan Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Andy Levin were arrested after a protest for abortion rights outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday.

Firefighters and Michigan DNR are working to contain a 2,500-acre wildfire burning up Montmorency and Cheboygan county.

Firefighters and Michigan DNR are working to contain a 2,300-acre wildfire burning up Montmorency and Cheboygan county.

SpaceX launched a group of astronauts for NASA early on Wednesday morning, with Elon Musk's company now having sent 26 people to orbit in less than two years.

See photos of Crew-4, the fourth operational astronaut mission that SpaceX is flying to the International Space Station for NASA.

Despite a night of good vibes and performances by some of the music industry's biggest stars, the Grammy Awards barely moved the needle in television ratings.

Alexei Navalny, already in a Russian penal colony, could now be transferred to a top security jail.

Frontman Kelly Jones says Forever was written about the time when his 18-month-old had cancer.

The murder of Noor Muqaddam by the son of one of Pakistan's richest families stunned the country.

The 35-year-old man left notes and cards at the British tennis ace's family home, a court is told.

The June 1963 march in Detroit was, at the time, the largest civil rights demonstration in U.S. history, with 125,000 marching down Woodward Avenue.

Thousands of people have marched through the Czech Republic’s capital to protest against compulsory COVID-19 vaccination for certain groups and professions.

The digital age enabled productivity but invited procrastination. Now writers are rebelling against their word processors.

The Celtics player is getting support for all the wrong reasons.

Entertainment Tonight's Kevin Frazier joins CBSN's Tanya Rivero with a look at the 2022 Grammy Awards nominees, including Jon Batiste. He is nominated for 11 awards, including an album of the year nod for "We Are" and for record of the year with "Freedom," a feel-good ode to the city of New Orleans. His nominations span several genres including R&B, jazz, American roots music, classical and music video. The 64th Annual Grammy Awards will take place on January 31, 2022, and will air on CBS and Paramount+, which are divisions of ViacomCBS.

A wayward roadrunner is on the mend in Maine after traveling across the country in a moving van.

Danny Fenster spoke briefly Tuesday morning at a news conference with the former U.S. diplomat who helped free him from detention in Myanmar.

Thousands of children fish in Ghana's Lake Volta. Some are just working in the family business, but many have been sold — for less than $100 — into dangerous forced labor.

'QAnon shaman' Jacob Chansley is among the most notorious supporters of then-President Trump charged with invading the Capitol to oppose Joe Biden's election.

Some began the day at a Mass, spoken in Spanish, at St. Ita Catholic Church in the Lakewood-Balmoral neighborhood.

Jacob Chansley's lawyer also raised concerns about his mental health, calling him "a man who needs some attention that he is not able to get."

The way the cause is now deployed drives a perception that conservative Christians, who are tightly linked to Republican politics, will be the beneficiaries of its expansion.

An activist holds a placard reading Freedom guides all people during a gathering in Paris, Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021. Activists rallied Sunday in Paris to demand that the French government abandon a bill aimed at rooting out Islamist extremism that the protesters say could trample on religious freedom and make all Muslims into potential suspects. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)PARIS – Activists rallied Sunday in Paris to demand that the French government abandon a bill aimed at rooting out Islamist extremism that the protesters say could trample on religious freedom and make all Muslims into potential suspects. French lawmakers hold a key vote Tuesday on the draft law, which is expected to win approval in both houses of parliament. 2 religion even though the majority of French Muslims do not espouse extremist views.

DETROIT – On this Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service, many will remember that Detroit was the rehearsal for the civil rights icon’s I Have a Dream speech. Not much is known about the two visits Dr. King made to Michigan State University in the 1960s. Dr. King spoke passionately about achieving a world brotherhood perspective, abolishing the notion of superior and inferior races, and ridding the world of segregation. Don’t let the bullies with the rifles and shotguns intimidate you,” said Dr. Green. And both Dr. Green who is now 87 and Washington, 76, more than 50 years later believe that much of what King spoke about in that speech is still being fought for today.

We will not allow the systematic abuse of federal healthcare programs through pricing schemes designed to enrich a few at the expense of federal taxpayers, said Assistant Attorney General Jody Hunt of the Department of Justices Civil Division. Freedom knew that compound prescription reimbursement under these federal programs was based in part on the AWPs it reported to various price listing agencies for its ingredients. Freedom knowingly inflated the AWPs for its ingredients in order to increase the reimbursement that its pharmacy customers received from federal healthcare programs for using Freedoms ingredients. Freedoms fraudulent pricing scheme for its ingredients enabled its pharmacy customers to bill federal healthcare programs thousands of dollars per prescription for some compound formulations. Under the False Claims Act, private parties may sue on behalf of the government for false claims for government funds and to receive a share of any recovery.

They were released from prisons and halfway houses across the country under the First Step Act signed into law by the president last year. For non-violent drug offenders like Norah Yahya, the new law is a new beginning, allowing some prisoners like her to be released early. "It was very challenging, and a lot of the programs at that time weren't geared toward release," Yahya said. The new law is also designed to help inmates transition back into society and the largest group of released inmates are drug offenders. After spending 18 years of her life in prison, Yahya said she was to do better.

The Kentucky clerk who repeatedly refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses is sitting in a jail cell. How legitimage is her religious freedom argument? Attorney Matthew Kaiser joins CBSN with more.

Sarah Warbelow, legal director for the Human Rights Campaign, says changes to controversial “religious freedom” laws in Indiana and Arkansas are welcome, but much more needs to be done to protect America’s LGBT community.