Author: Richard Wolf, USA TODAY

More than 17 years after the U.S. went to war in Afghanistan, the Supreme Court refused a prisoner’s challenge to his continued detention.

The court’s liberals show irritation at its more conservative majority –once in the middle of the night. Some conservatives chafe for faster change.

The Justice Department told Furman the latest challenge is an eleventh-hour campaign to derail the Supreme Court decision, which is expected in June.

The Supreme Court is digging into a dispute over a sunken pirate ship captained three centuries ago by the legendary pirate Blackbeard.

Challengers to the Trump administration plan to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census hope new evidence turns the tide at the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court action, with no noted dissents, represented a victory for the transgender rights movement and a defeat for religious conservatives.

The Supreme Court upheld an Indiana law Tuesday that required the burial or cremation of fetal remains following an abortion.

The Supreme Court agreed to consider for the second time whether a U.S. Border Patrol agent is liable for the cross-border shooting of a Mexican boy.

Same-sex wedding cakes are on the menu at the Supreme Court again. So are partisan election maps. And risquétrademarks. And abortion restrictions.

Red-state governors and legislators rush to enacttough anti-abortion laws in hopes that the Supreme Court is ready to rule favorably.