Derek Chauvin To Be Sentenced For George Floyd's Murder Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who was convicted two months ago for murdering George Floyd by kneeling on his neck during an arrest last spring, will be sentenced Friday. Adrian Florido
Read Britney Spears' Statement To The Court In Her Conservatorship Hearing Britney Spears asks a judge to end her conservatorship, saying she is being exploited, bullied and feeling "left out and alone." Read a transcript of the singer's remarks at Wednesday's hearing. NPR Staff
Violent Crime Rates Are Surging. What Can Be Done To Reverse The Trend? NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Ronald Wright, a criminal justice expert and law professor at Wake Forest University, about why so many cities across the U.S. are experiencing a surge in violent crime.
Britney Spears Tells A Judge That She Wants Her Life Back Addressing a Los Angeles Superior Court judge via a remote connection, pop star Britney Spears called for an end to her long-running conservatorship, which has controlled her life since 2008. Andrew Limbong
Prosecutors Get Their 1st Guilty Plea In The Jan. 6 Oath Keepers Conspiracy Case The case involving the Oath Keepers extremist group is one of the most closely watched of the cases related to the insurrection at the Capitol. Ryan Lucas
John McAfee, Software Pioneer, Found Dead In A Spanish Prison Cell Just hours earlier, a court in Spain had approved the extradition of McAfee to the U.S., where he was set to stand trial on federal tax evasion charges in New York. Bobby Allyn
SCOTUS: Union Organizers Cannot Access California Farms NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Aaron Tang about the U.S. Supreme Court ruling deciding that a California regulation allowing unions to engage with workers in their workplace is unconstitutional.
In A Narrow Ruling, Supreme Court Hands Farmworkers Union A Loss At issue in the case was a California law that allows union organizers to enter farms to speak to workers during nonworking hours for a set a number of days each year. Eric Singerman
Supreme Court Grants A Reprieve To Agency That Runs Fannie, Freddie But the court agreed that the FHFA has a design flaw that violates the Constitution: The president must be able to remove the agency's director without cause. Nina Totenberg
Supreme Court Restricts Police Powers To Enter A Home Without A Warrant The court has long held that police may do this when pursuing a fleeing felon. The question in this case was whether they can do the same thing when pursuing someone suspected of a minor offense. Nina Totenberg