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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.

The 38-year-old journalist, who worked for the Reuters news agency, died in southern Afghanistan during a clash between Taliban militiamen and Afghan troops with whom he was embedded.

The court also turned away challenges to longstanding decisions on qualified immunity and defamation, prompting dissents from the court's conservatives.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Matt Ripa of the Catholic University of America about finding one of the dresses Judy Garland wore while filming The Wizard of Oz.

Reversing earlier guidance, the agency is encouraging indoor masking for fully vaccinated people under certain circumstances.

The latest COVID-19 surge is on track to worsen this summer, causing a significant increase in the number of hospitalizations and deaths, according to new research from advisers to the CDC.

The collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium has led officials across Florida to search for other buildings that could be structurally unsafe. On Friday, a 156-unit building was evacuated.

A ransomware attack that shut down several big beef plants is raising concerns about cybersecurity at food companies. Critics say industry consolidation makes the food supply chain more vulnerable.

The new rule is intended to decrease the use of greenhouse gases known as hydrofluorocarbons by 85% over the next 15 years. The gases that are thousands of times more powerful than carbon dioxide.

Two new films grapple with the complexity of moral courage. Wife of a Spy is set in Japan on the cusp of WWII. Azor follows a Swiss banker during the Argentine dictatorship of the 1980s.