Monthly Archives: April, 2020

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.

A shooting in Louisiana's capital city left one police officer dead and his wounded colleague fighting for his life Sunday, authorities said, adding a suspect was later taken into custody after an hourslong standoff in which shots were exchanged with a SWAT team. Baton Rouge Police Chief Murphy Paul told The Advocate the two officers…

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…

LONDON — Boris Johnson, perhaps the world's most famous coronavirus patient, was back at work Monday — after spending the worst of Britain's epidemic sidelined, first in self-isolation, then struggling to breathe in the hospital, and later in recovery in the countryside.Johnson’s weeks of illness and recovery rattled and then bolstered the country. The hashtag…

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…