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Britney Spears’ father has done nothing sinister to starve her lawyer of cash, sources told Page Six. After her father and conservator Jamie Spears slammed the #FreeBritney movement as a “joke” and “conspiracy theory,” the pop princess’ lawyers were back in court on Wednesday for another hearing over her conservatorship. According to legal documents, Britney’s …

The man accused of breaking into Eminem’s home said he was there to “kill him” when the rapper confronted him in his living room, a court heard Wednesday. Matthew David Hughes, 27, allegedly came face-to-face with the entertainer when he slipped past security April 5 at the home in Clinton Township, Michigan, the Detroit Free …

Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris spoke with Jacob Blake on Monday, telling the 29-year-old who was shot in the back by Kenosha, Wis. police that she was proud of him. Blake “told Sen. Harris that he was proud of her, and the senator told Jacob that she was also proud of him and how …

Britney Spears has requested her conservatorship battle be made public moving forward. On Wednesday, attorneys for the 38-year-old pop star filed court documents, obtained by Page Six, opposing her father Jamie Spears’ attempt to seal parts of her ongoing conservatorship case. The “Toxic” singer argued in the documents that her children have no medical or …

The lawyer representing Kyle Rittenhouse, the teen who shot and killed two protesters in Kenosha, Wis., said Monday that his client was carrying his gun legally and acted in self-defense against a mob of protesters who were threatening him. “This is 100 percent self-defense,” Rittenhouse’s lawyer John Pierce said on Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Tonight. …

A federal judge on Thursday rejected President Trump’s most recent effort to stop the Manhattan district attorney from obtaining his tax returns, despite the president’s argument that the prosecutor’s grand jury subpoena was “wildly overbroad” and issued in bad faith. The ruling by District Judge Victor Marrero follows a decision by the Supreme Court last …

Former Trump adviser Stephen Bannon and three other defendants were arrested on Thursday morning and charged with fraud by the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. Bannon, along with Brian Kolfage, Timothy Shea, and Andrew Badolato, were charged with defrauding hundreds of thousands of donors who contributed to “We Build the Wall,” …

Representative Anthony Brindisi (D., N.Y.), a trial lawyer by training whose family runs a personal injury firm, has backed Democratic efforts to end qualified immunity protections for police officers, which, if successful, would likely provide a financial boon to his major donors and his family. Qualified immunity is a legal doctrine that protects police officers …

The Senate Intelligence Committee released the fifth and final volume of its report on the Russia investigation on Tuesday, concluding that Russia attempted to influence the Trump team but also that the FBI gave “unjustified credence” to the Steele dossier. The committee found that Russia “took advantage” of the Trump team’s “relative inexperience in government, …

A federal judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a new rule that would have rolled back Obama-era sex discrimination protections for transgender people in health care. The rule, finalized in mid-June, was set to go into effect on Tuesday. The United States District Court in Brooklyn issued an injunction temporarily blocking the …