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By 6 to 3, the Court freed national party committees to spend without limit in coordination with their own candidates, months before the November midterms.

In a pair of consolidated cases, the Court held unanimously that Title IX permits sex-based teams and, by 6 to 3, that state bans do not violate the Equal Protection Clause.

The District of Columbia agreed to pay roughly $50,000 to settle claims that police wrongly detained a man for peacefully mocking the National Guard with a movie theme, while the case against the soldier who summoned them continues.

Eight people tied to a July 4, 2025 anti-ICE demonstration in Texas were sentenced to a combined 450 years, including 30 years for a man who was not there and was convicted only of moving a box of his own zines and poetry.

Kevin O'Leary proposed a roughly $100 billion, off-grid AI campus in Box Elder County, and Utahns filed nearly 4,000 protests over the water it would draw from a state already in drought.

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.

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.

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.

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.