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Warren Jeffs' trial began with him firing his defense lawyers and announcing he would represent himself. Jeffs has been playing musical chairs with his lawyers for months now hiring and firing them, then asking the court for more time so his new lawyers could get up to speed only to fire them again and ask for even more time. Jeffs faces 95 years in prison if convicted of two counts of sexual assault of a child.

Culture Lust contributor, Dave Walters, shares his discovery about the best time to watch long, mind-draining movies, Sunday morning.

The journalist Juan Williams is out with a new book this week. In it, he makes the case that his acrimonious termination last fall by NPR is part of a larger and ominous pattern of suppressing undesired voices.

President Obama's chief of staff told Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep that it's up to Congress — not the president — to deal with the debt and the extension of the deficit. He reiterated that Aug. 2 remains the deadline for a deal to raise the debt ceiling.

In an extraordinary measure, the judge decided Monday to hold the arraignment behind closed doors at the request of police.

At his arraignment, Anders Behring Breivik pleaded not guilty to one of the deadliest modern mass killings in peacetime. The judge ordered the 32-year-old man, who has confessed to killing dozens of people, to be held for eight weeks, half of that in complete isolation.

The concern is that a Friday night breakdown in talks between President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner on raising the debt ceiling may have negative repercussions when trading gets under way in Asia. Meetings continued Saturday, but Obama reiterated his opposition to a short-term extension.

Media professionals in Damascus who used to work on campaigns for breakfast cereals and home mortgages are now turning their talents toward a campaign they say promotes a peaceful, democratic way out of the ongoing clashes in Syria. The polarization in the country, they say, is profound.

People living with tinnitus — a ringing in the ears — have traditionally been counseled to drown the noise out. New research is testing the effectiveness of meditation — or mindfulness training — to help sufferers learn to accept the noise.

Just as the Tea Party rode a public backlash against government spending, the National Tequila Party Movement hopes the latest crackdown on illegal immigration can help mobilize Latino voters in 2012.