The ruling could usher in a more professionalized round of layoffs, compared to the erratic rush of firings carried out by Elon Musk's U.S. DOGE Service.

Follow major cases facing the Supreme Court in 2025, including ghost guns, medical care for transgender minors, public funding for religious schools and more.

Federal and state data tell a far different story about migration to California than the political fury unfolding in Washington and on the streets of Los Angeles.

Federal judges ruled that the president had gone beyond his authority in imposing levies on goods imported from around the world.

The administration rounded up some of the Venezuelans two days before the flights took off, pressing forward even as Venezuela agreed to accept deportees.

US Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson denounced what she called “relentless attacks” on the federal judiciary, saying efforts to intimidate judges were threatening the Constitution and the ru...

With the Trump administration attacking judges and skirting some court orders, Judge John D. Bates emphasized the fragile nature of judicial independence.

FBI agents handcuffed Hilliard Toi Cliatt and pointed a gun at him and Curtrina Martin while her young son cowered in a bedroom. It was the wrong house.

In a remarkable scene, the justices applauded Edwin S. Kneedler, a government lawyer with a reputation for candor, care and integrity.

The inadvertent sharing of a Google Drive folder with the entire staff of the General Services Administration was the latest instance of sloppy handling of sensitive documents under both Biden and Tru...

The Supreme Court’s decision on whether Trump can remove the pair will test the boundaries of presidential power and have broad implications for at least two dozen other agencies.

President Donald Trump and his allies have set their sights on Judge James Boasberg, a veteran judge with a history of bipartisan support and friendships.

In a preliminary injunction, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ordered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to reinstate dismissed employees.

California man accused in Kavanaugh assassination plot to plead guilty, lawyers say. Nicholas Roske, 29, was scheduled to be tried in the case in June.

South Carolina was sued after it disqualified Planned Parenthood South Atlantic from getting Medicaid funding even for health services unrelated to abortion.

Attorney General Pam Bondi has curtailed Justice Department anti-corruption efforts, ratcheted up immigration enforcement and redirected the civil rights division.

Get the latest news on President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the new Congress.

The Trump administration was ordered to halt, at least temporarily, parts of its executive order punishing the law firm Perkins Coie.

The lawsuit seeks to hold U.S. firearms manufacturers accountable for gun violence in Mexico, saying the companies knowingly market to cartels.

Solicitor general nominee D. John Sauer, who was Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee for his confirmation hearing.

We’re tracking fast-moving developments in key cases covering President Donald Trump’s actions on immigration, transgender care and the federal workforce.

The Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider whether the state of Oklahoma may fund a proposed religious charter school, the first of its kind in the country

Public health experts say the United States’ departure could cripple the WHO’s operations or leave an opening for China to assume greater control over the agency.

Students or graduates from Harvard, Duke, Georgetown, Stanford and other top law schools lost job offers from the Attorney General’s Honors Program.

Parents in Montgomery Count, Maryland, want to be able to opt out of instruction on gender and sexuality that they say goes against their religious convictions.

Donald Trump had asked the Supreme Court to delay TikTok’s ban-or-sale law to give him an opportunity to act once he returns to the White House.

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"[T]here is significant uncertainty about whether the use of pentobarbital as a single-drug lethal injection for execution treats individuals humanely," Garland wrote.

Trump is exploring unconventional ways to rescue TikTok from a nationwide ban, arguing it will help him reach an adoring audience throughout his second term.

Justices did not issue a ruling in the closely watched case over a potential ban, dialing up intrigue over the app’s fate.

The Supreme Court will hear TikTok’s challenge to the ban-or-sale law to consider whether it violates the First Amendment rights of of users and platform owners.

The justices will review a law that would effectively shut down TikTok in the United States this month unless the company divests from Chinese ownership.

The justices will review a law that would effectively shut down TikTok in the United States this month unless the company divests from Chinese ownership.

More than 2,000 structures have burned and at least five people are dead in wildfires burning across L.A. County. Red flag warnings remained in effect for Los Angeles County and much of Ventura County...

Some experts and Democratic lawmakers say a phone call between the president-elect and Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. was ethically problematic.

Go behind the scenes as “Sesame Street” takes on the emotional health of children — and, with an HBO deal ending, the health of the show itself.

Biden wrote a 1994 bill that designated dozens of new capital offenses. Inmates sentenced under that law hope he will commute their sentences.

TikTok video by Drew Harwell

The justices will quickly take up the constitutionality of a federal law that would shutter TikTok next month unless the company divests from Chinese ownership.

“Are you guys down for that? Trump ’28?” Stephen K. Bannon asked the crowd, suggesting a third term as president that would violate the 22nd Amendment.

The company wants the Supreme Court to intervene before Jan. 19, the deadline Congress set for TikTok’s China-based owner to sell the video-sharing platform.

Instead of standing in line for hours, the public can apply for tickets for courtroom seating on days when the justices hear oral arguments and issue decisions.

Our weekly selection of book reviews and recommendations from Book World editor Ron Charles.

William J. Hennessy Jr., a veteran sketch artist who gave Americans striking views from inside courtrooms during some of the nation’s most important legal dramas, died on Monday.