The Supreme Court sided with two Catholic schools in a ruling Wednesday underscoring that certain employees of religious schools, hospitals and social service centers can't sue for employment discrimination.

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More employers who cite religious or moral grounds can decline to offer cost-free birth control coverage to their workers, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday, upholding Trump administration rules that could leave more than 70,000 women without free contraception.

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Chief Justice John Roberts spent a night in a hospital last month after he fell and injured his forehead, a Supreme Court spokeswoman said Tuesday night.

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The Supreme Court agreed Thursday to hear a case involving the descendants of a group of Jewish art dealers from Germany who say their ancestors were forced to sell a collection of religious art to the Nazi government in 1935.

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The Supreme Court will consider ending a lawsuit that claims Nestle and Cargill aided in the use of child-slave labor on cocoa farms in Ivory Coast, a case that could further limit access to U.S. courts by victims of human-rights abuses abroad.

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The Supreme Court on Thursday turned away pleas from anti-abortion activists to make it easier for them to protest outside clinics, declining to wade back into the abortion debate just days after striking down a Louisiana law regulating abortion clinics.

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The Supreme Court says travel website Booking.com can trademark its name, a ruling that also impacts other companies whose name is a generic word followed by ".com."

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The Supreme Court on Monday refused to block the execution of four federal prison inmates who are scheduled to be put to death in July and August.

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday made it easier for religious schools to obtain public money, upholding a Montana scholarship program that allows state tax credits for private schooling.

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The biggest cases of the Supreme Court term so far have a surprising common thread.

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The Supreme Court has upheld a provision of federal law that requires foreign affiliates of U.S.-based health organizations to denounce prostitution as a condition of receiving taxpayer money to fight AIDS around the world.

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A divided Supreme Court on Monday struck down a Louisiana law regulating abortion clinics, reasserting a commitment to abortion rights over fierce opposition from dissenting conservative justices in the first big abortion case of the Trump era.

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The Supreme Court on Monday preserved an important tool used by securities regulators to recoup ill-gotten gains in fraud cases.

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By ASTRID GALVAN The Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a policy that protects immigrants who were brought to the country as children and allows them to work. The court on Thursday ruled President Donald Trump ...

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Organizers of a Michigan ballot drive to prohibit discrimination against gay, lesbian and transgender people said Monday they are considering whether to continue following a big victory before the U.S. Supreme Court.

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The Supreme Court on Monday rejected the Trump administration's bid to throw out a California immigrant-sanctuary law that restricts local police cooperation with federal immigration authorities.

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The Supreme Court on Monday passed up several challenges to federal and state gun-control laws, over the dissent of two conservative justices.

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A federal judge in Wisconsin on Wednesday declined a request by Republicans to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Democrats seeking changes in the law to make it easier to vote in the August state primary and November presidential elections.

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The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to take up a lawsuit over the State Bar of Wisconsin's mandatory bar dues.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has held two weeks of arguments by telephone because of the coronavirus pandemic, hearing cases about President Donald Trump’s tax records, contraceptive care mandates and religious education disputes, with audio available live to audiences ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court is back for Day Three of arguments by telephone with the audio available live to audiences around the world.

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The Supreme Court is hearing a second day of arguments by telephone with the audio available live to audiences around the world.

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It's a morning of firsts for the Supreme Court, the first time audio of the court's arguments will be heard live by the world and the first arguments by telephone.

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The Supreme Court sidestepped a major decision on gun rights Monday in a dispute over New York City's former ban on transporting guns.

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The U.S. Postal Service and election officials searched for answers Thursday about why an untold number of absentee ballots never made it to voters in Wisconsin who didn't want to risk contracting the coronavirus by voting at the polls in the state's presidential primary.

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A decision from the U.S. Supreme Court about Wisconsin's April 7 election saw the justices split on the scope of the issue in question: whether absentee ballots could be postmarked after election day.

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Voters in Wisconsin will likely face a choice on Tuesday of participating in a presidential primary election or heeding warnings from public health officials to stay away from large crowds during the coronavirus pandemic.

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The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday that it is postponing arguments for the first time in more than 100 years because of the coronavirus, including fights over subpoenas for President Donald Trump's financial records.

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The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to put in place a policy connecting the use of public benefits with whether immigrants could become permanent residents.

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Nearly two-thirds of respondents to a new poll say U.S. Supreme Court justices base their decisions on the law rather than politics.

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