(WASHINGTON) -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it will decide later this year whether state bans on the possession of AR-15 firearms and similar semi-automatic "assault style" guns violate the Second Amendment. Ten states plu...

(WASHINGTON) -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected President Donald Trump's attempt to end birthright citizenship in the U.S. by executive order, reaffirming more than a century of legal precedent and national tradition that babies born on Amer...

(WASHINGTON) -- Republican Rep. Tom Kean Jr. of New Jersey arrived back on Capitol Hill on Tuesday after a nearly four-month absence, and announced on the House floor that he received a depression diagnosis that led to an extended hospital stay....

(WASHINGTON) -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday rolled back longstanding limits on the amount of money politi...

(WASHINGTON) -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld state bans on transgender girls from participating in girls' and women's competitive sports, reversing a pair of lower court decisions that had blocked the bans as violations of Title IX and the...

(WASHINGTON) -- Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego is under federal investigation for suspected campaign finance violations, a person familiar with the matter confirmed to ABC News.According to multiple reports, Gallego, a Democrat, used campaign f...

(WASHINGTON) -- The United States and Iran are sharing conflicting messages about the prospects of a meeting between key negotiators in Qatar this week, injecting even more uncertainty into a peace process that is supposed to be focused on address...

(WASHINGTON) -- The Supreme Court on Monday limited law enforcement's use of sprawling "geofence warrants" that track a suspect using cellphone location data from a broad swath of users, including people with no connection to a crime.In a 6...

(WASHINGTON) -- In a ruling with direct bearing on the midterm elections, the Supreme Court on Monday narrowly upheld a Mississippi law allowing tabulation of late-arriving mail-in ballots so long as they were postmarked by Election Day.Jus...

(WASHINGTON) -- The Supreme Court has blocked for now President Donald Trump's unprecedented attempt to fire a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, ...

(WASHINGTON) -- In a landmark decision that could transform the federal government, the Supreme Court has voted to allow President Donald Trump to remove a Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission, Rebecca Slaughter, for policy reasons, r...

(CALIFORNIA) -- As he gears up for a possible presidential bid, California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday proposed a national "billionaires' tax," -- a day after the state wealth tax measure he opposes qualified for the November ballot. ...

(WASHINGTON) -- Next week, the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to weigh in on President Donald Trump's attempt to end birthright citizenship by executive order, a move which would upend more than a century of legal precedent and a national traditio...

(WASHINGTON) -- The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Trump administration can turn away asylum seekers who approach ports of entry along the U.S.-Mexico border, reversing a lower court decision that the policy likely violates feder...