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Supreme Court decision may affect city policy, but until it does, unhoused residents and advocates say they’re busy with day-to-day challenges

A leaked U.S. Supreme Court opinion seems to indicate that emergency room abortions will, at least temporarily, be allowed in Idaho.The opinion,…

(Runtime 0:52)The costs of support for abortion care nearly doubled between 2021 and 2022, according to data from the Northwest Abortion Access Fund…

Both liberal and conservative Supreme Court justices pressed the government's lawyer about why a detainee at Guantanamo Bay couldn't testify about his own torture at the hands of the CIA.

The court left in place a lower court decision declaring that local school boards may not require transgender high school students to use bathrooms that correspond to their sex listed at birth.

Faced with the prospect of reshaping college athletics, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a narrow but potentially transformative ruling Monday in a case that pitted college athletes against the NCAA.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that some crack cocaine offenders sentenced to harsh prison terms more than a decade ago cannot get their sentences reduced under a federal law adopted with the purpose of doing just that.

In an accompanying statement, Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Stephen Breyer and Brett Kavanaugh acknowledged that when the draft was originally enacted, women were not eligible for combat roles, a situation that has dramatically changed in modern times.

For more than three decades, California has banned certain types of semiautomatic rifles including the AR-15 under an "assault weapons" ban. On Friday, a federal judge threw out the ban, ruling that it violates the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

The state law bans most abortions after 15 weeks. The lower courts blocked its enforcement, finding it in conflict with Roe v. Wade and subsequent abortion decisions.