Texas officials have sued a Houston area postpartum center as well as investigated Rio Grande Valley hospitals over allegations of soliciting foreigners to have babies on U.S. soil.

A judge has ruled that a Vermont man who was 17 when he and a friend killed a pair of married Dartmouth College professors 25 years ago will have a chance at parole in about 20 years, when he reaches the age of one of his victims.

A federal appeals court has upheld an Illinois ban on semiautomatic weapons.

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The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to block Texas from enforcing a state law that requires age verification and parental consent for users seeking to download apps or make in-app purchases on mobile phones.

The great-grandson of the Chinese American at the center of the U.S. Supreme Court case that first established the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship praises the latest ruling.

A Supreme Court that has expanded gun rights will consider whether bans on semiautomatic rifles, often called assault weapons, violate the Second Amendment.

The court’s ruling means children born to undocumented immigrants in the U.S. will continue to be citizens.

The Supreme Court has upheld a broad conception of birthright citizenship, rejecting President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring that children born to people in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens.

The Supreme Court has erased limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates for Congress and president, striking down a federal election law that's more than 50 years old.

The Supreme Court has upheld a broad conception of birthright citizenship, rejecting President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens.

President Donald Trump has won and lost some as the Supreme Court wraps its final week of a term focused on executive power.

The Supreme Court is wrapping up a term that has focused on President Donald Trump’s expansive claims of presidential power.

In a 6-3 decision, the justices green-lit the practice of limiting the number of people who can apply for asylum each day.

The Supreme Court is siding with the Trump administration in an immigration case dealing with the government’s power over green card holders accused of crimes.

The Supreme Court has rejected an effort to reshape tax foreclosure sales to allow the original owners to keep more money when homes are sold to recoup unpaid taxes.

The Supreme Court has barred a former Louisiana inmate from suing prison officials who cut his dreadlocks in violation of his Rastafari religious beliefs.

Ali Danial Hemani successfully challenged a federal law prohibiting people who illegally use drugs from owning guns. Justices said that ban is a Second Amendment violation.

Republican lawmakers in Georgia won’t redraw congressional and state legislative districts for the 2028 elections during a special session called by GOP Gov. Brian Kemp.

Charles Flores argued that his conviction was improperly based on testimony from a witness who changed her recollection after hypnosis by an investigator.

Alabama is seeking to execute a man with lethal injection hours after his nitrogen execution was prevented from going forward.

Charles Flores wants to use Texas’ “junk science” law to appeal his conviction, saying it was improperly based on testimony from a neighbor who was hypnotized by police.

A federal appeals court has ruled that Alabama’s use of nitrogen gas to put prisoners to death needs more study of whether it violates a constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

A national redistricting battle is about to enter a new phase.

The Supreme Court has upheld a broad reading of the authority of the Securities and Exchange Commission to recoup ill-gotten gains from people who engage in securities fraud.

Republicans have won a partisan redistricting battle for Congress.

A divided panel of appeals court judges has ruled that a Trump administration policy illegally banned transgender troops from military service.

Louisiana lawmakers have passed a new congressional map to pick up a Republican seat while leaving the state with one of its two majority-Black House districts.

A federal appeals court had allowed Texas to require app stores to verify users’ ages and seek parental consent before a minor can download apps while litigation continues.

The Supreme Court has ruled for a Black death row inmate from Mississippi who claims there was racial bias in the makeup of the jury that convicted him.

The South Carolina Senate has rejected President Donald Trump’s push to redraw the state’s congressional districts in hopes Republicans could gain an extra seat.

Federal judges have temporarily blocked Alabama’s plan to use new congressional districts that could help Republicans win an additional seat in the midterm elections.

The Congressional Black Caucus is calling on major corporations in the United States to oppose redistricting efforts by Republican-led states that seek to eliminate majority-Black U.S. House districts.

Former Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil's lawyers say they'll ask the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene after a federal appeals court declined to reconsider a decision that put the government a step closer to deporting him.

ProPublica and The Texas Tribune have identified at least 30 lawsuits filed by the attorney general over the past nine years that have a tenuous connection to the counties in which they were filed.

The Supreme Court has acted in a Voting Rights Act case brought by Native American tribes, saying a closely watched ruling needs to be reconsidered after the high court weakened the Civil Rights-era law.

The South Carolina House is debating legislation that could redraw congressional districts to help Republicans possibly win an additional seat in the November elections.

New U.S. House districts in Florida are facing their first test in court.

Edward Busby was executed by lethal injection Thursday, reinforcing Texas’ position as the nation's leader in capital punishment.

A man who experts said was intellectually disabled has become the 600th person executed in Texas since the state resumed carrying out the death penalty in 1982.

Busby’s execution, set for Thursday evening, had been halted by a federal appeals court less than a week ago.

Former death row inmate Richard Glossip has been granted bond by an Oklahoma judge who ruled Thursday that Glossip could be freed from jail while awaiting a new trial for a 1997 killing.

State senators in Louisiana have passed a new congressional map after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the previous one.

The Supreme Court says man can sue a major logistics company after he lost part of his leg in a semi tractor-trailer crash.

A Houston proposal to eliminate campaign loan repayment caps sparked debate over ethics, wealthy candidates, and constitutional law before being referred to the council’s Ethics Committee.

José Contreras Díaz was one of hundreds of DACA recipients the Trump administration targeted for deportation. He’s one of a few the federal government has allowed to return.

President Donald Trump's efforts to reshape U.S. House districts have seen mixed outcomes.

The U.S. Supreme Court has set the stage for Alabama to get rid of one of two largely Black congressional districts before this year’s midterm elections.

Democrats have filed an emergency appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to halt a redistricting rule by Virginia’s top court.

Thursday’s execution was blocked by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals “pending further order” from the court.

The Virginia Supreme Court has struck down a Democratic congressional redistricting plan that had won voter approval.

Alabama lawmakers have approved a plan for new U.S. House primaries if courts allow the state to use different congressional districts in this year’s elections.

Chief Justice John Roberts says Supreme Court justices are not “political actors.”.

Republicans are rapidly pursuing redistricting efforts across the South following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that affects majority-Black congressional districts.

The Supreme Court weakened a key provision of the Voting Rights Act. What does that mean for Texas?

South Carolina is the latest state to enter a redistricting battle after the U.S. Supreme Court severely weakened the Voting Rights Act.

Republicans have gained an advantage in a national congressional redistricting battle among states ahead of the midterm elections.

Lawmakers in several southern states are meeting this week to consider redistricting plans in response to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that weakened the Voting Rights Act.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that mifepristone must be obtained in person, a decision the country’s highest court has temporarily blocked.

A federal appeals court has restricted access to one of the most common means of abortion in the U.S. by blocking the mailing of mifepristone.

A Supreme Court decision striking down a majority Black congressional district in Louisiana has amplified an already intense national redistricting battle.

Broadnax, who was convicted of killing two music producers in Garland in a 2008 robbery, is the third inmate executed by the state this year.

The Voting Rights Act over its six decades became one of the most consequential laws in the nation’s history, preventing discrimination against minorities at the ballot box and helping to elect thousands of Black and Hispanic representatives at all levels of government.

A North Texas man who claimed he wasn’t the shooter in a fatal robbery that killed two people nearly 18 years ago and who says prosecutors misused rap lyrics he wrote to secure his death sentence has been executed.

Republicans have scored another victory in the nationwide redistricting battle.

While the court did not strike down the provision entirely, Justice Elena Kagan said Wednesday’s ruling made Section 2 of the VRA “all but a dead letter.”

The Supreme Court has weakened a landmark Civil Rights-era law that has increased minority representation in Congress and elsewhere.

The Supreme Court is siding with a faith-based pregnancy center that raised First Amendment concerns about an investigation into whether it misled people to discourage abortions.

The death row inmate has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt his execution, pointing to a codefendant’s confession in the shooting death of two people.

A Houston rabbi is among 15 Texas families planning to take their lawsuit to the U.S. Supreme Court after a federal appeals court upheld the state’s Ten Commandments law.

The Supreme Court seems likely to grant 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.

The Supreme Court seems divided over whether to block thousands of lawsuits alleging the maker of the weedkiller Roundup failed to warn people it could cause cancer.

The Supreme Court seems inclined to rule that police could use geofence warrants that collect the location history of cellphone users to find people near crime scenes.

The high court had previously allowed the map to be used temporarily, but Monday’s ruling makes that permanent.

Democrats are celebrating an election win in Virginia that could put them slightly ahead in the national redistricting competition that President Donald Trump triggered in an attempt to preserve his party’s House majority in this year’s midterms.

The Supreme Court is clearing the way for a veteran wounded by a suicide bomb in Afghanistan to sue the government contractor for whom the attacker was working when he built the explosive.

A Pennsylvania court has ruled that the state's constitution guarantees a right to abortion.

The Supreme Court will hear from Catholic preschools that say it’s unconstitutional to exclude them from a state-funded program because they won’t admit kids from LGBTQ+ families.

A West Virginia transgender girl who competes on her high school girls' track team says she's focused on having fun with her friends.

The Supreme Court is handing a win to oil and gas companies fighting lawsuits over coastal land loss and environmental degradation in Louisiana.

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has delivered an attack on her conservative colleagues’ use of emergency orders to benefit the Trump administration.

A redistricting battle among states has reshaped voting districts for the U.S. House ahead of the November midterm elections.

Emboldened by overturning Roe v. Wade, conservative legal groups hope Ken Paxton’s successor will help them overturn gay marriage and public school access for undocumented students.

A federal judge has ruled that the abortion drug mifepristone can continue to be dispensed by mail to people with prescriptions, at least for now.

President Donald Trump has attended oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court, marking a first for a sitting president.

The U.S. Supreme Court has finished hearing arguments over the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s order to end birthright citizenship for children born in the United States to someone in the country illegally or temporarily.

Amsterdam is marking 25 years since the world's first gay marriages were celebrated in the Netherlands.

The Supreme Court seems poised to reject President Donald Trump’s restrictions on birthright citizenship in a consequential case that was magnified by his unparalleled presence in the courtroom.

An Argentine emigre in Florida quickly got her newborn son a U.S. passport last year.

The U.S. Supreme Court has heard arguments on whether states can continue to count late-arriving mail ballots — an election issue targeted by President Donald Trump.

Voting rights advocates in Alaska are worried that a case set to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court could end a long-standing practice of the state accepting ballots after Election Day.

Two dozen states, along with more than a dozen cities and counties, sued the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday, challenging the Trump administration’s repeal of a scientific finding that had been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change.

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is warning that personal criticism of federal judges is dangerous and “it’s got to stop.”.

In a story published March 16, 2026, about the Supreme Court agreeing to hear arguments over ending protections for migrants with temporary protected status, The Associated Press erroneously reported an attorney’s title.

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Cedric Ricks, who was found guilty in 2014 of the double murder, is the second inmate the state has executed in 2026.

Alabama marked the 61st anniversary of a key event in the Civil Rights Movement, when state troopers attacked voting rights marchers in Selma.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says pressure is building on President Donald Trump as courts and Congress push back on his tariff agenda.

President Donald Trump said Saturday that he was raising the global tariff he wants to impose to 15%, up from 10% he had announced a day earlier.

The order wiped out many of the Trump administration's tariffs, but Trump promised Friday to find other ways to restore them.