The Supreme Court said on Friday that it would take up a challenge to a part of the Affordable Care Act that requires insurance companies to cover some kinds of preventative care at no cost. The law, President Barack Obama’s signature legislative achievement, has survived three major earlier encounters with the court. The new challenge … Read more
Heath Clay, a city councilman in Summerfield, N.C., left the voting booth last fall feeling that this was the most secure election he had ever voted in, partly because of a North Carolina law that requires both in-person and mail-in voters to show proof of identity. Mr. Clay, a registered Republican, had done just that. … Read more
The Supreme Court’s rejection on Thursday of President-elect Donald J. Trump’s request to be spared from being sentenced for 34 felonies was just a few lines long, and it made modest and practical points. He remains free to appeal his conviction on charges of falsifying business records, the court’s unsigned order said, and appearing by … Read more
A federal appeals court on Thursday said that it would not block the Justice Department from releasing a report by the special counsel Jack Smith about the two now-closed investigations he conducted into President-elect Donald J. Trump. In a brief and unsigned order, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, in Atlanta, rejected … Read more
A federal appeals court on Thursday temporarily halted a guilty plea hearing for the man accused of masterminding the Sept. 11 attacks while it considers whether the deal he reached to avoid a death-penalty trial remains valid. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued the order on the eve of … Read more
A woman who stabbed her friend 19 times a decade ago to impress a shadowy fictional character named Slender Man when she was 12 will be released from a psychiatric center, a Wisconsin judge ruled on Thursday. The woman, Morgan Geyser, 22, requested early release from her 40-year commitment to the Winnebago Mental Health Institute … Read more
A federal judge in Kentucky on Thursday struck down President Biden’s effort to expand protections for transgender students and make other changes to the rules governing sex discrimination in schools, ruling that the Education Department had overstepped and violated teachers’ rights by requiring them to use students’ preferred pronouns. The ruling, which extends nationwide, came … Read more
The Pentagon’s detention operation at Guantánamo once held hundreds of men who were captured by U.S. forces and their allies in the war against terrorism. Now there are just 15 prisoners as the prison enters its 24th year. President George W. Bush opened and filled it. President Barack Obama tried to close it but couldn’t. … Read more
A South Korean marine colonel who faced insubordination and defamation charges after accusing President Yoon Suk Yeol of whitewashing his investigation into a marine’s death was acquitted by a court-martial on Thursday. A public uproar over the case of Col. Park Jung-hun rocked South Korea for months last year, prompting opposition lawmakers to put forward … Read more
Fani T. Willis asked the Georgia Supreme Court on Wednesday to put her back on the Trump election interference case. Ms. Willis, the district attorney of Fulton County, Ga., petitioned the state’s high court to review a recent decision disqualifying her from prosecuting President-elect Donald J. Trump and his allies over efforts to keep him … Read more