Britney Spears expected to address court at conservatorship hearing in Los Angeles
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Britney Spears is scheduled to address a Los Angeles court Wednesday regarding her court-appointed conservatorship, breaking her recent silence on the arrangement that controls her career and finances. The conservatorship was implemented in 2008 when the singer experienced mental health struggles.
Fans have waited to hear from Britney on the matter and have questioned why the pop star has been forced to live under the arrangement for more than a decade. In April, a judge approved her court-appointed lawyer's request to allow her to speak to the court but did not disclose what she plans to say. Her comments on Wednesday come after her lawyer's attempts to remove her father, Jamie Spears, from the conservatorship. Last summer, her attorney told the court Britney "strongly opposed" her father's control of her estate and wanted him removed. But the judge denied the request, instead, appointing an independent financial group, Bessemer Trust, to serve as a co-conservator to managing her estate alongside her father.Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.
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