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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday disappointed gun rights advocates who were hoping for a major decision on Second Amendment freedoms when it declined to rule on the merits of a New York City gun restriction that is no longer on the books.By a 6-3 vote, the justices said the case was moot…

The Supreme Court on Monday asked for additional briefings in two cases concerning President Donald Trump's bid to shield his financial documents from Congress.

The high court agreed with insurers that the congressional spending restrictions didn’t release the government from its original promise to fund the Obamacare program. The court said Congress had created "a rare money-mandating obligation" that later appropriations language couldn't repeal. "These holdings reflect a principle as old as the Nation itself: The Government should honor…

The Supreme Court ruled in an 8-1 decision Monday that the federal government must pay out $12 billion to insurers who had enrolled in the Affordable Care Act's "risk corridor" program, reversing a lower court's decision that had left Washington off the hook.The program limited both profits and losses for insurance companies that offered plans…

The Supreme Court bolstered the nation’s clean-water protections for oceans and beaches on Thursday, ruling that environmentalists can sue to block discharges of sewage into the ground if those pollutants flow in significant amounts from there into the ocean.In a 6-3 ruling, the high court said the Clean Water Act forbids not only direct discharges…