
NPR - 9 hours 15 min ago
The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the abortion pill mifepristone can continue to be prescribed online or over the phone and sent through the mail.

The Hill - 9 hours 15 min ago
The Department of Justice (DOJ) accused the Yale School of Medicine of race-based discrimination in its admissions, alleging on Thursday that the school favors Black and Hispanic students over white or Asian ones with the same test scores. The finding came after a year-long investigation that reviewed the school's internal data and policies to determine if it was acting in accordance with a 2023 Supreme Court decision...

New York Times - 10 hours 33 min ago
Harmeet K. Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for civil rights, said in a letter that since a Supreme Court ruling barring race-conscious admissions policies, Yale employed a holistic review process "to uncover and then use applicants' race through direct and indirect means."...

Daily Signal - 11 hours 3 min ago
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL A watchdog group is appealing after the New York Supreme Court declined to launch an ethics investigation into Gov. Mikie Sherrill, D-N.J., after Sherrill falsely accused her political opponent of mass killing and launched a campaign to oppose immigration enforcement. “The New York Attorney Grievance Committee declined to investigate Mikie Sherrill,...

Newser - 11 hours 43 min ago
The Supreme Court on Thursday left nationwide access to the abortion medication mifepristone in place while a legal challenge over the drug progresses. In an unsigned order, the court indefinitely extended a pause on new limits that had been imposed by the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals, which would...

ABC News - 11 hours 45 min ago
State senators in Louisiana are considering a new congressional map after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the previous one...

The Guardian - 12 hours 9 min ago
Groups say supreme court justice, who owns oil stocks, may be violating ethics codes by participating in certain cases Supreme court justice Samuel Alito, who owns stock in oil companies, may be violating court ethics codes by participating in certain cases that could benefit big oil, government watchdog groups say. In a Thursday letter , a coalition of watchdog organizations called on the Senate judiciary committee to investigate Alito, the sole supreme court justice with holdings in energy companies...

The Guardian - 12 hours 27 min ago
A judge set a $500,000 bond in the 1997 murder case headed for retrial after a supreme court decision Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email An Oklahoma judge on Thursday allowed Richard Glossip, a former death row prisoner, to be released on bond after almost 30 years behind bars, as he awaits a retrial over a 1997 killing that put him on the brink of execution three separate times. The decision clears the way for Glossip, 63, to leave prison for the first time since his arrest nearly...

New York Times - 12 hours 30 min ago
A Supreme Court decision in 1967 established that American citizenship procured lawfully cannot be involuntarily revoked.

The Guardian - 12 hours 47 min ago
Louisiana, Alabama, Tennessee and more are pushing to eliminate Democratic districts after supreme court ruling US southern states are rushing to redraw congressional maps to eliminate Democratic districts and dilute the influence of Black voters in electing candidates, a bare-knuckled blitz occurring even in some states where voting in congressional primaries has begun, and prompted by the US supreme court's decision gutting section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Tennessee Republicans have already...

Twitchy - 12 hours 48 min ago
Virginia AG Jay Jones falters on CNN defending gerrymandering amid Supreme Court scrutiny.

Newser - 12 hours 56 min ago
Two weeks after the US Supreme Court struck down Louisiana's congressional map, state senators passed a plan Thursday that would eliminate a majority-Black district while giving Republicans a chance to win an additional seat in this year's midterm elections. The new US House districts, which still need approval by the...

Fox News - 13 hours 17 min ago
President Trump met with Chinese President Xi Jinping for high-stakes trade talks as Supreme Court tariff setbacks cast a shadow over discussions.

Huffington Post - 13 hours 44 min ago
The entire Senate Democratic caucus is filing a resolution, shared exclusively with HuffPost, hours ahead of a much-anticipated Supreme Court ruling on mifepristone.

ABC News - 14 hours 2 min ago
The Supreme Court is allowing a man to sue a major logistics company after he lost part of his leg in a semi tractor-trailer crash, a decision that could have ripple effects across the trucking industry...

The Guardian - 14 hours 45 min ago
Shawn Montgomery, whose parked vehicle was hit by a speeding driver, says top US freight broker should be liable The supreme court on Thursday allowed a man to sue a major logistics company after he lost part of his leg in a semi tractor-trailer crash, a decision that could have ripple effects across the trucking industry. The US's highest court ruled unanimously in favor of Shawn Montgomery, whose parked vehicle was hit by a speeding truck driver on an Illinois highway in 2017. Continue reading...

The Independent - 16 hours 1 min ago
The South Carolina Supreme Court unanimously overturned Murdaugh's 2023 murder convictions and ordered a new trial, citing shocking jury interference' by a former clerk that denied him a fair trial...

The Guardian - 16 hours 45 min ago
South Carolina's state senate majority leader offered a nuanced case for rejecting Trump's redistricting demands How does a Republican leader say no to Donald Trump? How do they criticize the US president's policies without facing a social media riot, or losing their career ? As the party scrambles to redraw key congressional districts after the supreme court effectively gutted a major section of the Voting Rights Act that prevented racial discrimination, all eyes turned this week to...

The Conversation - 17 hours 33 min ago
Rebuffed by the Supreme Court, President Donald Trump is seeking to exploit a different tariff tool to regain leverage. Whether it succeeds remains in question.

NBC News - 17 hours 55 min ago
Alex Murdaugh is "thankful" to no longer be labeled the murderer of his wife and son after the South Carolina Supreme Court's decision to overturn the 2023 verdict and sentencing, his defense lawyers said in their first interview since the bombshell ruling.

NBC News - 18 hours 19 min ago
In a TODAY exclusive, Alex Murdaugh's attorneys Dick Harpootlian and Jim Griffin, join TODAY to discuss the South Carolina Supreme Court's ruling on Wednesday to overturn the double murder convictions and how Murdaugh reacted. "He was very gracious, thankful and he said 'Jim, I'm seeing it, I'm reading it, but it's still hard to believe,'" Griffin says of his conversation with Murduagh. The lawyers also talk about what they expect to be different in the next trial...

Newser - 18 hours 34 min ago
Alex Murdaugh woke up Thursday with a new legal reality and, his lawyers say, a sense of relief. Attorney Jim Griffin told NBC's Today that Murdaugh was "very gracious" and "thankful" after South Carolina's Supreme Court tossed his 2023 convictions in the murders of his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul,...

The Hill - 18 hours 48 min ago
When the government creates a broadly available state-funded benefit like Colorado's universal preschool program, it cannot disqualify families and schools based on their religion.

Fox News - 18 hours 56 min ago
Virginia Supreme Court invalidated a Democrat-backed gerrymandering referendum, and leftists responded with proposals to pack the state judiciary.