Sen. Chuck Schumer, the No. 2 Democrat, brushed away concerns that the tough questioning of the health care law from the U.S. Supreme Court was a sign the justices would strike the law down.
He didn't mention them by name, but they seemed to be on his mind. President Barack Obama defended his healthcare reform effort on Friday without mentioning the Supreme Court justices who hold the law's fate in their hands.
International trade groups representing more than 250,000 companies have warned Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that new taxation proposals by his government have led foreign businesses to reconsider their investments.
The Supreme Court met Friday -- in a regular, private conference -- to vote on the health care reform law case, but their ruling won't be released until June. Here's a look at the concerns potential swing votes Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Anthony Kennedy expressed during oral arguments.
Arkansas' Supreme Court struck down a state law that bans teachers from having sex with students for being unconstitutional as it applies to sex between teachers and students who are 18 or older.
Justice Antonin Scalia lives up to his reputation as the funniest justice.
Human Rights Watch published a report Wednesday on approximately 400 Afghan women and girls imprisoned for moral crimes, calling upon the U.S. and coalition nations to pressure the Afghan government to end what it deems discriminatory laws against women.
Georgetown law student and women issues advocate Sandra Fluke said she hopes that President Barack Obama's signature health care law is upheld in the Supreme Court because it is critical for women.
The convicted sex offender and child killer was executed Wednesday for the murder of 10-month-old Karlos Borja, but Hernandez's death is really making headlines for his last words: a shout-out to his favorite football team. Read ten of the most unusual last words said by the condemned, from jokes about their impending execution to belligerent demands for different food and threats to return with the Rapture.
As a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court seemed ready to strike down President Barack Obama's health care law Wednesday, a new poll
found that Americans supports its goals by 2 to 1.
The U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday grilled attorneys about the federal government's power to pull Medicaid funds from states that refuse to accept new enrollees who will be eligible under the health care law.
In closing arguments, Solicitor General Donald Verrilli discussed the human toll of the 40 million Americans uninsured.
Supreme Court Justices seemed to bristle at the idea of figuring out what Congress intended for the Affordable Care Act if the insurance mandate was struck down.
With all the talk about the Supreme Court case challenging President Barack Obama's health care legislation and the tough beating it took over the past few days, it's hard to sort through the policy and the politics.
Conservative religious leaders rail against socialized medicine as others argue providing health care to all Americans is a faithful action.
The judge in charge of overseeing the trial of an off-duty police officer accused of raping a Manhattan teacher has declared a mistrial Wednesday as the jurors continued to disagree over two counts of rape charges.
On Wednesday, most of the justices seemed skeptical of the argument that the Affordable Care Act couldn't survive without its insurance-purchase mandate. Conservatives, however, leaned toward invalidating the entire law.
Answering critics who portrayed his audiotaped performance as bumbling, the administration called Donald Verrilli an extraordinarily talented advocate in whom it has every confidence to advocate for the health care overhaul.
At issue in Wednesday's morning session was whether the Affordable Care Act should be scrapped altogether if the court determines that the law's requirement that Americans get medical insurance violates the Constitution.
The government of President Hamid Karzai has failed in its duty to improve the rights of women in the country.
An Urban Institute analysis finds that the health care overhaul would compel only a fraction of the U.S. population to either buy new insurance or pay a fine. Most people would keep their current insurance, become eligible for a public insurance plan or be immune to any penalty.
On the third and final day of oral arguments over the Affordable Care Act, the Supreme Court justices are expected to ask whether the 2010 law could survive the abolition of its requirement that Americans get health insurance.
