The U.S. Postal Service has stopped developing a controversial computer system tied to President Donald Trump’s effort to limit mail voting.

President Donald Trump's efforts to assert federal control over elections are marching on despite a recent loss in the Supreme Court.

Brazil’s Supreme Court is in the throes of an unprecedented crisis.

The Supreme Court has rejected President Donald Trump’s bid to restrict mail ballots ahead of the midterm elections.

A Brazilian Supreme Court justice has unsealed an investigation into a film about former President Jair Bolsonaro.

The Trump administration is proposing a dramatic overhaul around the once-a-decade U.S. Census head count that could leave out millions of immigrants based on status and key racial and ethnic data, jeopardizing the allocation of resources and the country’s voting map.

An appeals court has upheld a block on President Donald Trump’s order to limit mail voting.

The Trump administration is renewing its appeal to the Supreme Court to allow new restrictions on mail ballots in time for the midterms.

A federal judge is extending a legal block on President Donald Trump’s plan to regulate mail ballots during the midterm elections.

The Supreme Court is clearing a legal block to cheaper TV ad time before the midterm elections, granting an emergency appeal from Republicans in a dispute over campaign ad prices.

The Trump administration is again asking the Supreme Court to let it move ahead with restrictions on mail ballots before the midterm elections in November even as legal wrangling over President Donald Trump’s executive order continues in lower courts.

The Trump administration is appealing a judge’s decision that blocked an executive order limiting mail voting before the midterm elections.

In a story published Aug. 25, 2026, about a Michigan attorney general report on the Flint water crisis, The Associated Press erroneously reported that three state Supreme Court justices appointed by Gov. Rick Snyder joined a 2022 ruling that found one-person grand juries unconstitutional and threw out charges against him and other officials.

The Supreme Court is siding with the Trump administration in a case over President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting mail-in voting, though it remains unclear how much can be implemented before the fast-approaching midterm elections.

The U.S. Postal Service has unveiled new requirements for mail ballots less than two weeks before some states begin sending them.

A court in Russia has convicted a prominent opposition politician for speaking out against the war in Ukraine and sentenced him to 11 years and a month in prison in the latest crackdown on dissent ahead of next month’s parliamentary election.

Russia’s highest court has ordered the only party opposing the Kremlin’s military action in Ukraine to be removed from the ballot in next month’s parliamentary election.

The Trump administration has announced renewed efforts to limit birthright citizenship for children born to immigrant parents under specific circumstances and children who are the result of “birth tourism.”.

The Trump administration is moving ahead with its efforts to fire Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook, two months after the Supreme Court allowed her to retain her job while she fights the president’s effort to terminate her over mortgage fraud allegations that she has denied.

Twenty-five states sued the Trump administration Monday over its latest tariffs, calling them a pretext for replacing import taxes the Supreme Court struck down in February.

A Supreme Court decision allowing the Trump administration to end temporary protected status for hundreds of thousands of Haitians is rippling far beyond immigration courts.

President Donald Trump and his administration are asking the Supreme Court to dismiss an $83 million defamation verdict won by writer E.

The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to allow for now an executive order targeting mail-in voting.

U.S. Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett are making a rare appearance before Congress.

In rare congressional testimony, Supreme Court justices have shared chilling stories about the threats they increasingly face in public life.

Mark Sherman has covered the Supreme Court for The Associated Press for 20 years during some of the most momentous decisions in history.

The Supreme Court has tackled several key immigration issues this term, supporting President Donald Trump's administration in three cases.

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President Donald Trump didn’t get what he wanted in some of the biggest Supreme Court cases this year: tariffs, birthright citizenship and the attempted firing of Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook.

It’s been 123 days since the U.S. and Israel launched the Iran war, and the world again awaits another round of some sort of talks as President Donald Trump and Iranian officials disagree over what and even how they’ll communicate.

The Supreme Court has held that constitutional privacy protections extend to cellphone location information, ruling in the case of a bank robber whose identity was discovered through a geofence warrant.

It's been six decades since the Voting Rights Act was enacted.

The Supreme Court has granted tech giant Cisco’s bid to shut down a lawsuit claiming that the company’s technology was used to persecute members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement in China.

A new murder trial is scheduled for September for a former Oklahoma death row inmate who was released from nearly three decades of incarceration last year after being on the brink of execution three times over a 1997 killing.

Cambodia’s Supreme Court has upheld the incitement conviction of prominent opposition politician Rong Chhun but suspended the remainder of his prison sentence, allowing him to remain free while barring him from politics for years.

The Alabama Republican Party says U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville will remain the party’s gubernatorial nominee.

The Supreme Court has sided with the Trump administration in a case about the power of federal regulators over telecommunications companies.

A new Gallup poll finds support for same-sex marriage and relationships in the U.S. has stopped rising after two decades.

Alabama is asking the Supreme Court to allow it to use a congressional map favoring Republicans in this year’s elections, despite a lower court's ruling the map intentionally discriminates against Black people.

The Supreme Court has rejected Florida’s long shot attempt to sue California and Washington over the issuance of commercial driver licenses to truckers who don’t speak English and are not authorized to be in the United States.

The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of owners of Cuban property that was confiscated by Fidel Castro’s government more than 65 years ago.

A divided Supreme Court has dismissed Alabama’s bid to be allowed to execute a convicted murderer who was found by lower courts to be intellectually disabled.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said Monday that the Supreme Court risks being seen as political in the wake of a major voting rights decision.

The Supreme Court has rejected appeals from pharmaceutical companies that object to negotiating Medicare drug prices with the federal government.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas urged Americans to mark the nation’s 250th anniversary by defending deeply held beliefs and protecting free speech rather than relying on patriotic slogans or celebrations.

President Donald Trump's Religious Liberty Commission is preparing to make recommendations after more than a year of hearings.

A federal court has ruled against the new global tariffs that President Donald Trump imposed after a stinging loss at the Supreme Court.

In 2023, the Food and Drug Administration started allowing mifepristone to be delivered by mail. The federal courts are deciding whether to pull that permission.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is now the second longest-serving justice in history, overtaking someone who was nominated by President Abraham Lincoln.

President Donald Trump's lawyer, hoping for an eventual Supreme Court victory, is asking a federal appeals court in New York to temporarily block a longtime columnist from collecting an $83 million defamation award.

Recent court rulings on abortion pill access have reignited a contentious political issue in a midterm year.

The Supreme Court weakened Section 2, the linchpin of the 1965 civil rights legislation that prohibits diluting the electoral power of voters of color. But the statute’s fingerprints can be seen all over Texas’ maps.

The Trump administration has been found in violation of court rulings in an extraordinary number of lawsuits on a broad set of issues.

Louisiana’s congressional primaries are not going forward as scheduled in May as a result of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority has handed Republicans their biggest victory yet in the battle to control the House of Representatives and statehouses across the country.

Former FBI Director James Comey has appeared briefly in court, kick-starting a criminal case against him that legal experts say presents significant hurdles for the prosecution and will likely be a challenge for the Justice Department to win.

General Motors is expecting a $500 million tariff refund after the Supreme Court struck down some of President Donald Trump’s most sweeping levies.

When the Supreme Court killed his favorite tariffs in February, President Donald Trump rolled out temporary import taxes to replace them.

Virginia's Supreme Court is considering whether a voter-approved redistricting amendment complied with the state's constitutional requirements.

Okello Chatrie’s cellphone gave him away.

An aide to President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign who was the target of secret surveillance during the FBI’s Russia investigation has reached a settlement with the federal government.

Longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon has won a Supreme Court order that’s expected to lead to the dismissal of his criminal conviction for refusing to testify to Congress.

Wisconsin voters will choose a new state Supreme Court justice on Tuesday in an election that will either maintain or expand the court’s liberal majority.

The Supreme Court is once again hearing arguments on whether President Donald Trump can deny citizenship to children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily.

Some names will be familiar to the Supreme Court in the latest case involving a Black death row inmate from Mississippi.

The Trump administration is opening a new trade investigation into manufacturing in foreign countries.

In a defeat for the Trump administration, a federal judge in New York ruled Wednesday that companies that paid tariffs struck down last month by Supreme Court are due refunds.

A federal court on Monday rejected the Trump administration’s attempt to slow the process of refunding billions of dollars’ worth of tariffs the Supreme Court struck down as illegal last month.

Israel’s top court will allow international aid groups to keep operating in the Gaza Strip and other Palestinian territories.

The Trump administration wants the Supreme Court to allow the government to end legal protections for migrants from Syria for now.

More than a dozen states are suing the Trump administration over its changes to vaccine recommendations for children.

Brazil’s Supreme Court has started the high-profile trial of the suspects allegedly behind the killing of Rio de Janeiro councilwoman Marielle Franco and her driver in 2018.

FedEx is suing the U.S. government, requesting a full refund on what it paid for tariffs set by President Donald Trump last year after the Supreme Court ruled that the tariffs are illegal.

A Hong Kong-based company that has operated key ports at the ends of the Panama Canal for decades says the government has seized them.

Senate Democrats are unveiling a bill to have the government refund about $175 billion in Trump-era tariff money after the Supreme Court ruled that President Donald Trump's emergency tariffs were illegal.

U.S. stocks slumped after President Donald Trump ramped up his newest tariffs, while investors continued to punish companies that could be losers in the artificial-intelligence revolution.

Businesses face a new wave of uncertainty after the Supreme Court struck down tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump under an emergency powers law and Trump vowed to work around the ruling to keep his tariffs in place.

President Donald Trump’s vision of the Supreme Court, in which his three appointees are personally loyal to him, collided with the court’s view of itself when six justices voted to strike down Trump’s signature economic policy, global tariffs imposed under an emergency powers law.

After Friday’s Supreme Court ruling striking down certain tariffs, many families are asking a simple question, does this mean prices will finally go down?

The Supreme Court struck down much of President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs on Friday, a decision which could have ripple effects on economies around the globe.

The Supreme Court has dealt President Donald Trump a bruising loss on a cornerstone of his economic policy, striking down sweeping tariffs he imposed on nearly every country.

There’s little that Donald Trump has cherished more in his second term than tariffs, a symbol of his imperious approach to the presidency.

Wall Street kept calm after the Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs, and stocks ticked higher.

A trial is drawing to a close for the tax-evasion case against a prominent Supreme Court lawyer accused of failing to pay taxes on millions of dollars in winnings from ultra-high-stakes poker games.

The House has voted to slap back President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canada.

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons is recommending that surgeons delay gender-affirming surgeries until patients turn 19, including chest, genital and facial surgeries.

When the Supreme Court granted an unusually quick hearing over President Donald Trump’s tariffs, a similarly fast resolution seemed possible.

Vice President JD Vance is encouraging anti-abortion activists to celebrate progress in limiting abortion.

It has become common knowledge in immigrant communities across the U.S. to not open the door for federal immigration agents unless they show a warrant signed by a judge.

The Supreme Court for the past year has repeatedly allowed President Donald Trump to fire heads of independent agencies, but it appears to be drawing a line with the Federal Reserve.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will attend the Supreme Court’s oral arguments Wednesday in a case involving the attempted firing of Fed governor Lisa Cook, an unusual show of support by the central bank chair.

The next U.S. census is four years away, but two lawsuits playing out this year could affect how the head count will be done and who'll be counted.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has temporarily left a prison in Brasilia for medical examinations after hitting his head.

The Trump administration is suing the local government of Washington, D.C., over its gun laws, alleging that restrictions on certain semiautomatic weapons run afoul of Second Amendment rights.

The Supreme Court has heard arguments about how courts should decide borderline cases of whether convicted murderers are intellectually disabled and should be shielded from execution.

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The Supreme Court seems likely to expand presidential control over independent federal agencies, signaling support for President Donald Trump’s firing of board members.

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The Supreme Court is allowing the challenged Texas congressional redistricting plan to be used in next year’s election, despite a lower-court ruling that the map likely discriminates on the basis of race.

Costco is joining other companies that aren’t waiting to see whether the Supreme Court strikes down President Donald Trump’s most sweeping import taxes.