SUPREME COURT

The company slashed its investment plan for the five years through 2019 by about a fourth to offset falling crude oil prices.

Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, said he will be praying during President Barack Obama's last State of the Union address.

Citing disparities between state and federal law, the state's chief justice said gays and lesbians can be denied marriage licenses.

A California case coming before the Supreme Court on Jan. 11 could overturn the power of labor unions to charge mandatory dues.

Republican-leaning states want the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold an injunction against the president's executive order.

Ted Cruz told donors in a closed-door New York City meeting that banning same-sex marriage wouldn't be a top priority for his administration.

The U.S. solicitor general urged the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday against hearing Nebraska and Oklahoma's case against Colorado's pot laws.

The court said sharing a single name was a central aspect of the Japanese family unit, but it struck down a law prohibiting women from remarrying within six months of a divorce.

During Wednesday's Supreme Court hearing on affirmative action, Justice Antonin Scalia said he believes admissions polices that consider race harm minority students by sending them to schools that are too challenging.

Each day that President Barack Obama's immigration executive actions are delayed, New York City stands to lose $100,000, the Cities United for Immigration Action coalition says.

Laws that conflict with the Bible should be opposed peacefully, Marco Rubio said, in a TV interview.

The agriculture giant was listed as one of the interested parties in the Supreme Court ruling that applied an injunction against Mexico's agriculture ministry, which had permitted the use of genetically modified seeds.

Two Supreme Court justices have urged Chief Justice HL Dattu to launch a special bench to bring Muslim personal law in line with the constitution's gender discrimination laws.

A parliamentary commission report has exonerated the Brazilian president and her predecessor in the petroleum company's corruption scandal.

The National Judicial Appointment Commission act, introduced by the Narendra Modi-led government last year, sought to replace a two-decade old system for the appointment of judges to higher courts.

Activists in New Orleans accused an appeals court of stalling on executive actions that would provide deportation relief to 5 million undocumented immigrants. And the government could be running out of time.

Donald Trump will challenge a wind farm being built near his Scottish golf course in the UK's supreme court Thursday.

The U.S. Supreme Court in its new term will hear cases centered on divisive social matters, such as affirmative action, union powers and voting rights.

Alterations ordered by Kim Davis were done in violation of a Sept. 3 court order, the civil liberties group asserted.

The Kentucky county clerk wants her name removed from same-sex marriage licenses issued by her office.

Rwanda's Supreme Court dismissed the government’s arguments to throw out a case that seeks to block changing the constitution.