A federal judge has temporarily halted the first federal execution in 16 years as a lawsuit on how the government intends to carry it out continues. He approved a new procedure for lethal injections that replaces the three-drug mixture previously used in federal executions with one drug, pentobarbital. The death penalty remains legal in 30 states, but only a handful regularly conduct executions.Texas has executed 108 prisoners since 2010, far more than any other state.

A Utah woman charged with a crime after her stepchildren saw her topless in her own home is fighting the case that could force her to register as a sex offender. Buchanan said she and her husband had taken off their shirts to keep their clothes from getting dusty while they hung drywall in their garage. A global movement advocating for the rights of women to go topless called the Free the Nipple campaign has seen mixed success fighting similar ordinances in other parts of the country.