Education Aug 25 DC school year starts with parents on edge over Trump’s armed patrols As schools opened across the capital city, parental social media groups and listservs were buzzing with reports and rumors of checkpoints and arrests.
Nation Aug 14 Supreme Court allows Mississippi to enforce social media age verification law The Supreme Court has refused to block enforcement of a Mississippi law aimed at regulating the use of social media by children.
Nation Jul 11 Appeals court throws out plea deal for alleged mastermind behind 9/11 attacks The decision by a panel of the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., undoes an attempt to wrap up more than two decades of military prosecution beset by legal and logistical troubles.
Politics Jul 08 Supreme Court clears way for Trump to downsize the federal workforce The justices overrode lower court orders that temporarily froze the cuts, which have been led by the Department of Government Efficiency.
Politics Jun 27 WATCH: Trump holds news conference after Supreme Court rules for limiting nationwide injunctions The outcome was a victory for the Republican president, who has complained about individual judges throwing up obstacles to his agenda.
Politics Jun 27 Supreme Court OKs fee that subsidizes phone, internet services in schools, libraries and rural areas The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the fee that is added to phone bills to provide billions of dollars a year in subsidized phone and internet services in schools, libraries and rural areas…
Politics Jun 26 Supreme Court sides with Texas man on death row who’s seeking DNA testing The 6-3 decision in favor of Ruben Gutierrez gives him a potential path to have evidence tested that his lawyers say would help prove he was not responsible for the fatal stabbing of an 85-year-old woman during a home robbery…
Politics Jun 18 Nuclear waste can be temporarily stored in Texas and New Mexico, Supreme Court rules The justices, by a 6-3 vote, reversed a federal appeals court ruling that invalidated the license granted by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to a private company for the facility in southwest Texas.
Politics Jun 18 Supreme Court delivers major blow to transgender rights, upholding Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for minors The justices' 6-3 decision in a case from Tennessee effectively protects from legal challenges many efforts by President Donald Trump's Republican administration and state governments to roll back protections for transgender people. Another 26 states have laws similar to the…
Nation May 27 Supreme Court rejects plea to block Arizona copper mine on land sacred to Apaches The group Apache Stronghold is vowing to carry on the fight against a massive copper mining project on land the Apaches hold sacred, after a Supreme Court decision that is expected to let the mine proceed.