Health Aug 06 Students ask Supreme Court to block college vaccine mandate It's the first time the high court has been asked to weigh in on a vaccine mandate and comes as some corporations, states and cities are also weighing vaccine requirements for workers or even to dine indoors.
Politics Jul 02 Unusually agreeable justices end term with conservative wins An unusually agreeable Supreme Court term has ended with conservative-driven decisions on voting rights and charitable-donor disclosures. They offer a glimpse of what the coming years of the right's dominance could look like for the nation's highest court.
Nation Jun 25 Supreme Court sides with Alaska Natives in COVID-19 relief money case The question for the court was whether Alaska Native corporations, which are for-profit companies that provide benefits and social services to more than 100,000 Alaska Natives, count as "Indian tribes." The high court answered yes.
Politics Jun 23 High court limits when police can enter home without warrant The high court ruled that when officers are pursuing someone suspected of a misdemeanor, a less serious crime, they cannot always enter a home without a warrant if a suspect enters.
Education Jun 21 High court sides with ex-athletes in NCAA compensation case The Supreme Court has decided unanimously that the NCAA cannot enforce rules limiting education-related benefits that colleges offer to student athletes.
Politics Jun 17 Supreme Court backs Nestle, Cargill in child slave labor suit The companies had been sued by a group of six adult citizens of Mali that claimed they were taken from their country as children and forced to work on cocoa farms in neighboring Ivory Coast.
Politics Jun 17 High court sides with Catholic agency in same sex family foster care dispute The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the city of Philadelphia violated the Constitution by limiting its relationship with a Catholic foster care agency over the group's refusal to certify same-sex couples as foster parents.
Science Apr 28 Astronaut Michael Collins, Apollo 11 pilot, dies of cancer While Collins traveled some 238,000 miles to the moon and came within 69 miles, he never set foot on the surface. Collins spent the eight-day mission piloting the command module, Columbia.
Politics Apr 22 High court moves away from leniency for minors who murder The Supreme Court made it easier Thursday to sentence minors convicted of murder to life in prison without the possibility of parole, a ruling that reflects a change in course driven by a more conservative group of justices.
Politics Apr 09 Group to study more justices, term limits for Supreme Court President Joe Biden has ordered a study of adding seats to the Supreme Court, creating a commission that will spend the next 180 days examining the incendiary political issues of expanding the court and instituting term limits for its justices.