
The Independent - 57 min 4 sec ago
Justices block nationwide ban on mail-order and telehealth access to widely used abortion pill while high-profile legal challenge continues...

The Guardian - 57 min 5 sec ago
Louisiana had sued the FDA in a bid to curtail the regulatory agency's rules on prescribing mifepristone remotely Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email The US supreme court upheld nationwide access to mail-order mifepristone, an abortion medication, in a shadow-docket decision on Thursday. Louisiana sued the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in October in a bid to curtail the regulatory agency's rules on prescribing mifepristone remotely, arguing that it interfered with the...

The Hill - 58 min 2 sec ago
Abortion pills can remain available through the mail for the immediate future after the Supreme Court on Thursday paused a lower court ruling that would have blocked access while a lawsuit proceeds. The justices halted a May 1 order from the conservative U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit that reinstated a requirement that women must visit a...

NBC News - 1 hour 5 min ago
The Supreme Court ensured that the abortion pill, mifepristone, can continue to be available by mail without an in-person meeting with a clinician.

BBC - 1 hour 16 min ago
The South Carolina Supreme Court has ordered a new trial for the man accused of killing his wife and son in a case that fascinated the US.

The Guardian - 1 hour 20 min ago
If state's house passes bill, redrawn map could could give state Republicans a 5-1 congressional majority Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email On Thursday, the Louisiana state senate voted 27-10 to pass a new congressional map that would eliminate one of the state's two majority-Black House districts. The resulting map could give Louisiana Republicans a 5-1 congressional majority. The supreme court's recent decision in Louisiana v Callais, a case that centered on the state's...

The Hill - 1 hour 33 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 - 2 hours 50 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 - 3 hours 20 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,...

ABC News - 4 hours 2 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 - 4 hours 27 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 - 4 hours 44 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 - 4 hours 47 min ago
A Supreme Court decision in 1967 established that American citizenship procured lawfully cannot be involuntarily revoked.

The Guardian - 5 hours 5 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 - 5 hours 5 min ago
Virginia AG Jay Jones falters on CNN defending gerrymandering amid Supreme Court scrutiny.

Fox News - 5 hours 34 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 - 6 hours 2 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 - 6 hours 20 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 - 7 hours 3 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 - 8 hours 18 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 - 9 hours 2 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 - 9 hours 51 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 - 10 hours 12 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 - 10 hours 36 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...