Judge: Britney Spears Can Choose Her Own Lawyer In Conservatorship Case A Superior Court judge has cleared Britney Spears to hire her own lawyer in the battle over her conservatorship. She picked a prominent Hollywood lawyer and ex-federal prosecutor to take up her case. Andrew Limbong
A Toylike Gun Covered In Legos Sparks An Uproar Utah gun maker Culper Precision has stopped sales of a kit that would have let owners cover their Glock 19 pistols with colorful Lego blocks, after complaints from the Danish toymaker and others. Bill Chappell
U.S. Prosecutors Say They've Charged 4 Iranians With Plotting To Kidnap A Journalist The Department of Justice say Iranian intelligence officials were planning to lure an Iranian-American author, activist and journalist from New York to another country. An indictment came out Tuesday. Sacha Pfeiffer
Iranian Agents Are Facing Charges For Their Role In A Plot To Kidnap A U.S. Journalist Federal prosecutors charged five foreign agents working for the Iranian government for their roles in a plot to kidnap U.S. citizen and journalist Masih Alinejad. Jaclyn Diaz
Britney Spears' Conservatorship Is Back In Court: Who's Who, And What They Want On Wednesday, the parties involved in the pop icon's conservatorship head back to court for the first time since Britney Spears spoke to the judge last month. Here's who the main players are. Anastasia Tsioulcas
Spears' Case Goes Back To Court — Here's What Could Be Next For Her Conservatorship While a flurry of petitions and requests were made after the popstar's testimony, no one has filed a petition to end the conservatorship. Andrew Limbong
How Occupational Licensing Rules Affect Military Families NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben speaks to Marinelle Reynolds, a licensed social worker, about President Biden's executive order regarding occupational licensing and how it may affect military families.
Confederate Monument That Sparked Deadly Charlottesville Rally To Be Removed Saturday Statues of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson will be removed in the Virginia city almost four years after the deadly Unite the Right rally. Deepa Shivaram
The Supreme Court's Term Appeared To Be Cautious. The Numbers Tell A Different Story According to statistics compiled through NPR number crunching and the SCOTUSblog Stat Pack, the justices swerved to the right, even by the standards of the traditionally conservative Roberts court. Eric Singerman
Veteran Affairs Secretary On Gender Confirmation Surgery For Transgender Veterans NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Veteran Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough about the VA's recent decision to offer gender confirmation surgery to transgender veterans, lifting a longstanding ban. Elena Burnett