To understand the West Bank, you have to start with a simple fact that often gets lost in the noise: this is a piece of land that has changed hands by force, and whose legal status has been argued over ever since.

For most of the nineteenth century, the United States had no permanent central bank, and it showed.

For most of American history, transgender people lived at the far edge of the law, and often on the wrong side of it.

The American debate over religion in public schools begins with sixteen words.

In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court held that the federal Election Day statutes set a deadline for casting a ballot but not for receiving it, so states may count mail ballots postmarked by Election Day even when they arrive days later.

The Court ruled 6-3 that grabbing broad cellphone location data through a geofence warrant is a Fourth Amendment search, requiring a warrant, but it left the hardest questions for a lower court to sort out.

Five days after a magnitude 7.2/7.5 doublet struck Venezuela's coast, the confirmed dead have climbed past 1,700, tens of thousands are listed as missing, and the disaster has become the first major test of the U.S.-backed government installed after January's intervention.

Trump bought up to $5 million in the maker of Tasers shortly before ICE sought a $220 million Taser deal, and his sons are tied to a $1.6 billion critical-minerals venture, conduct that sits inside a legal framework that exempts the president from the rules binding everyone else.

In two opinions issued the same day, the Supreme Court let President Trump fire the heads of independent agencies and overruled the 1935 Humphrey's Executor precedent, while carving out the Federal Reserve and refusing, for now, to let him remove Governor Lisa Cook.

A weekend of shipping attacks and a second day of U.S. strikes nearly shattered the two-week-old U.S.-Iran ceasefire before both sides agreed to stand down and talk in Doha, leaving the constitutional question of who can order American forces back into combat unresolved.