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Supreme Court: Why a fight over US abortion law now looms

Anthony Kennedy was a swing vote on the US Supreme Court, albeit one that frequently tilted to the right. Replacing him with a solidly conservative justice, however, could have a significant impact on US jurisprudence - and politics - for decades to come.

June 27, 2018

Supreme Court: Why a fight over US abortion law now looms

Progressive challenger Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez celebrates with supporters at a victory party in the Bronx after upsetting incumbent Democratic Representative Joseph Crowly on June 26, 2018 in New York.

28-year-old who scored historic primary election victory seeks 'generational change'

June 27, 2018

President Trump says process to replace Kennedy on Supreme Court will 'begin immediately'

June 27, 2018

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June 27, 2018

Anthony Kennedy: US supreme court justice to retire

Kennedy, 81, has provided crucial swing votes on progressive issues and retirement gives Trump another judicial pick

June 27, 2018

Anthony Kennedy was nominated by Reagan and is the longest serving of the court’s nine justices. Photograph: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP

June 27, 2018

Judge orders US to reunite families separated at border within 30 days

Federal ruling also prevents officials splitting up families who crossed the US-Mexico border illegally

June 27, 2018

Marchers in San Diego protest against the separation of families detained at the US-Mexico border. Photograph: David Maung/EPA

June 26, 2018

Seventeen states sue Trump administration over family separations

States including New York, California and Washington filed lawsuits accusing government of denying people their rights

June 26, 2018

Undocumented immigrant families are released from detention at a bus depot in McAllen, Texas, on Monday. Photograph: Loren Elliott/Reuters

June 26, 2018

US supreme court upholds Trump's travel ban

Blow to anti-discrimination advocates as justices rule 5-4 in favor of Trump administration after months of legal battle

June 26, 2018

A protest against Trump’s travel ban in New York last year. Trump has issued three executive orders curbing travel from certain Muslim-majority countries. Photograph: Alba Vigaray/EPA

June 26, 2018

Supreme Court upholds President Trump's travel ban against majority-Muslim countries

Several judges went further, arguing that campaign promises should be off-limits, or at least dwarfed by government actions that are not overtly discriminatory.

June 26, 2018

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June 23, 2018

'They cannot find the children at all': Migrant parents face chaos and red tape trying to reunite with their kids

A Honduran child plays at the Catholic Charities Humanitarian Respite Center after recently crossing the U.S., Mexico border with his father on June 21, 2018 in McAllen, Texas. Getty Images/Spencer Platt

June 23, 2018

June 17, 2018

Separation at the border: children wait in cages at south Texas warehouse

US Border Patrol allows reporters to visit holding facility

June 17, 2018

A boy and father from Honduras are taken into custody by US Border Patrol agents near Mission, Texas. Photograph: John Moore/Getty Images

June 04, 2018

Justices Side With Colorado Baker on Same-Sex Wedding Cake

The couple at the heart of the case, Charlie Craig and Dave Mullins, were told by the baker that he would not create a cake for their wedding in 2012.

June 04, 2018

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/ Charlie Craig and Dave Mullin

June 04, 2018

Justices side with Colorado baker on same-sex wedding cake

The ruling was 7-2.

June 04, 2018

FILE - In this March 10, 2014, file photo, Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips decorates a cake inside his store in Lakewood, Colo. The Supreme Court is setting aside a Colorado court ruling against a baker who wouldn’t make a wedding cake for a same

May 31, 2018

US military renames Pacific Command

The US is renaming its largest military command to reflect the growing importance of the Indian Ocean in America's strategic thinking.

May 31, 2018

AFP / The command has about 375,000 military and civilian personnel

May 18, 2018

Santa Fe, Texas, school shooting: what we know

A gunman opened fire at the school in Santa Fe, Texas. Multiple people have reportedly been killed.

May 18, 2018

ABC13 Students were evacuated from Santa Fe High School Friday morning. The high school serves about 1,500 students, according to statistics reported to the U.S. Department of Education.

May 16, 2018

Stormy Daniels: Trump discloses payment to reimburse lawyer

US President Donald Trump has officially disclosed his reimbursement to his lawyer for a payment to a porn star to hush her claims of an affair.

May 16, 2018

STORMY DANIELS /Stormy Daniels says she had sex with Mr Trump at a Lake Tahoe hotel in 2006

May 14, 2018

Jeff Sessions is exerting unprecedented control over immigration courts — by ruling on cases himself

The attorney general is poised to issue decisions that could determine the fate of tens of thousands of immigrants.

May 14, 2018

May 08, 2018

Obama and Kerry blast Trump decision to withdraw from Iran deal

He added, “I believe that the decision to put the JCPOA at risk without any Iranian violation of the deal is a serious mistake.”

May 08, 2018

Former President Barack Obama and President Trump. (Photos: Stephane Cardinale—Corbis/Getty Images—Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

May 08, 2018

Eric Schneiderman, Accused by 4 Women, Quits as New York Attorney General

All the women in the article, who had been romantically involved with Mr. Schneiderman, said the violence was not consensua

May 08, 2018

Eric T. Schneiderman, the New York attorney general, had assumed a prominent role in the #MeToo movement. Credit Drew Angerer/Getty Images

May 04, 2018

Kilauea: Hawaii emergency declared over volcano eruption

Kilauea volcano has erupted near a residential area on Hawaii's largest island, prompting a local state of emergency and the mandatory evacuation of 1,700 residents.

May 04, 2018

AFP / The volcano's plume of smoke and ash is visible from a great distance

April 25, 2018

U.S. Supreme Court leans toward upholding Trump's travel ban

But conservative Justice Samuel Alito said during the argument that the text of Trump's proclamation announcing the ban "does not look at all like a Muslim ban."

April 25, 2018

REFILE - CORRECTING STYLE Protesters rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court, while the court justices consider case regarding presidential powers as it weighs the legality of President Donald Trump's latest travel ban targeting people from Musl