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Every year, the NFL battles to protect its trademarks, copyrights and licenses. The league aggressively goes after people who produce counterfeit merchandise. It's a problem during the Super Bowl.

How about $350,000 within hours? The pitches flood small businesses: "No hidden fees, No BS." These financial lifelines are barely regulated and can turn into trip wires.

The Environmental Protection Agency is eliminating a Clean Air Act finding from 2009 that is the basis for much of the federal government's actions to rein in climate change.

While the recent bus shootings are an extreme example, many of Israel's Orthodox Jews are fervently against the government's plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip. Some say they might cut off ties with the state.

President George Bush strongly supports Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to keep control of some settlements as Israel pulls out of Gaza and parts of the West Bank, setting a new tone in U.S. Mideast policy. Previous U.S.-brokered peace deals have required the removal of all settlements. NPR's Michele Kelemen reports. Hear NPR's Robert Siegel and Samuel Lewis, former ambassador to Israel.

Israel masses tanks and troops on the border with the Gaza Strip and is threatening to invade if Palestinian militants continue rocket attacks on Israeli settlers. On Monday, militants launched more rocket and mortar fire, which Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has vowed to stop.

Israel's highest court has rejected a bid by Jewish settlers to halt Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to withdraw settlements from the Gaza Strip in August. The court challenge was the last legal obstacle to the pullout, which will affect 1,700 families.

The impending pullout from the Gaza Strip has roiled the political waters in Israel. Anti-withdrawal protestors have blocked traffic on main highways and threaten more acts of civil disobedience. Some Gaza settlers are vowing to resist the pullout by all means.

The Israeli cabinet approves the dismantling of 21 Jewish settlements in Gaza and four in the West Bank. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has said the Gaza pullout will begin in July and take 12 weeks.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Anders Fogh Rasmussen, former prime minister of Denmark and former head of NATO, ahead of the Munich Security Conference.

Charli xcx is on more screens this weekend while Pillion tells a sweet BDSM story.

Leprosy is one of the least contagious diseases around — and perhaps one of the most misunderstood. The colonies are relics of a not-too-distant past when those diagnosed with leprosy were exiled.