SUPREME COURT

The Commonwealth Fund, a private health care reform advocacy group, surveyed more than 1,800 young adults between ages 19 to 29 and estimated that about 13.7 million young adults across the US joined or stayed on their parents' plans in 2011.

The health care overhaul allowed 6.6 million young adults to get insurance through their parents, but more than two-thirds of Americans disapprove of part or all of the law.

Sebelius said the administration remains confident and optimistic that the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will be upheld as constitutional -- but if the ruling proves unfavorable, she added that we'll be ready for court contingencies.

The Boy Scouts of America said on Thursday it has no plans to change its longstanding policy of not allowing gays and lesbians to openly serve in the organization. It's time to change this outdated rule

Israel plans to build hundreds of new homes in West Bank settlements. The announcement came as an effort foundered Wednesday in parliament to skirt an Israeli Supreme Court ruling ordering the demolition of apartment buildings in a settlement unauthorized by the state.

The question of whether gay marriage is legal or heralding the destruction of civilization, is not yet an issue ripe for the court?s final word.

Dorda plead not-guilty to charges of mobilizing security forces to fire bullets at the heads and chests of civilians and preventing, through the use of force and intimidation, the staging of peaceful protests.

A federal appeals court has declined to reconsider striking down California's prohibition on same-sex marriage, increasing the likelihood that the issue will reach the Supreme Court.

South Sudanese President Silva Kiir is pleading with 75 government officials to return $4 billion in stolen public money.

Peru's Supreme Court has approved the United States extradition request for Joran van der Sloot, the man suspected in Natalee Holloway's disappearance,. but the Dutchman must first serve out his 28-year prison sentence, according to the Associated Press.

Nebraska landowners challenging the constitutionality of state laws dealing with the Keystone XL Pipeline will have to pin their hopes on Nebraska's lower district court, as its Supreme Court decided it will not hear their case.

The president is reportedly telling donors that he may need to revisit the health-care law in a second term.

Scientists have finished sequencing the genomes of the domestic tomato and one of its wild relatives, paving the way for more precise breeding in tomatoes and other plants.

Sex ed is apparently taken very seriously at Brooklyn's James Madison High School, aka Horndog High, which is embroiled in yet another sex scandal, as allegations emerge that married English teacher Erin Sayar allegedly had a month-long sexual relationship with a 16-year-old student.

Only the Supreme Court can finally decide this unique case, wrote First Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Michael Boudin.

The American Civil Liberties Union and LGBT group Lambda Legal will file lawsuits to challenge Illinois' same-sex marriage ban.

The U.S. Supreme Court let an appeals court ruling stand that said police used excessive force when tasering two women, though the officers had immunity from lawsuits.

An atheist and agnostic group in North Dakota won the right to sue over a decades-old Ten Commandments display in Fargo.

Hustler's publisher, Larry Flynt, offered a second response in regard to a lewd photo of conservative commentator S.E. Cupp published in his raunchy men's magazine. But Flynt's defense of that's satire did not sit well with the ladies of The View, who took offense to the misogynistic and graphic digitally-altered photo.

Gore-Tex Heiress, Susan Gore, has been denied the right to adopt her 65-year-old ex-husband as a means to boost her family's inheritance fortune.

Mitt Romney continues to trail far behind President Obama among Latino voters, imperiling his prospects in a handful of swing states.