U.S. Supreme Court

When Republican state lawmakers in Kentucky passed a sweeping bill restricting abortion last month, providers halted surgical and medicine-induced abortions completely for more than a week.

The justices noted that Congress is actively considering the question of including women in selective service registration and that women have been able to serve in combat roles for years.

The death row inmate, who had brain surgery, claims that death by lethal injection would cause severe and painful seizures. The court refused to hear his plea over dissent from the liberal justices.

The New York attorney general's office has expanded its probe of former President Donald Trump's business. Here's what that means — and what could come next for the criminal inquiry.

At the center of the case was a man whose guns were confiscated from his home. Justice Clarence Thomas noted the recognition that officers perform many civic tasks but they're not open-ended.

The state law bans most abortions after 15 weeks. The lower courts blocked its enforcement, finding it in conflict with Roe v. Wade and subsequent abortion decisions.

Democratic lawmakers and activists are urging the justice to step down in time to allow a narrow Democratic majority in the Senate to confirm a replacement.

Their filing is the culmination of more than a decade of litigation. The justices must now decide whether to grant review in the case.

Friday's announcement comes amid a debate over the composition of the nine-member court that now has a 6-3 conservative majority.

By a 6-to-2 vote, the justices said Google's use of Oracle code did not infringe copyright laws.