The Latest Breaking News from the US Supreme Court

A bid by Iowa Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds to reinstate the state’s strict ban on most abortions has failed

Snooping through emails, video, and photos isn’t the same as stumbling on containers full of cocaine.

Constitutional lawyer Michael Waldman says there's a growing divide between the electorate and the Court: "the country is moving in one direction ... the Court is moving fast in another direction."

The U.S. Supreme Court has yet to issue opinions in 27 cases that it heard this term, and has about four weeks left to release them. Here are the major cases NPR is watching.

A bipartisan majority in Congress passed the Clean Water Act in 1972 because rivers were on fire, fish were dying, and Lake Erie was labeled “functionally dead.” The Supreme Court should not be allowed to rewrite the Act and ignore 45 years of practices to protect the environment and public…

The federal trial over Oregon's voter-approved gun control measure is set to start Monday in Portland

The case Glacier Northwest Inc v Teamsters is seen as the latest test of union rights to go before the court.

A state law from 1910 threatens abortion providers with a felony punishable up to five years in prison, writes Alex Woodward

Argentina will no longer require a prescription to obtain emergency contraception, commonly known as the 'morning after pill', the government said on Wednesday, broadening reproductive rights in the traditionally conservative South American country.