All eyes are on the Supreme Court as it issues this term’s final flurry of opinions — some of which concern hot-button issues ...

Connecticut is involved with five pivotal pending cases before the Supreme Court of the United States, including lawsuits ...

After some two decades of stability, the nation’s fertility rate has plunged by almost a quarter since the start of the Great ...

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In the case before Settle, seven active-duty transgender troops, a transgender man seeking to enlist and a civil rights ...

When Donald Trump finished his first term, he left a radically reshaped federal judiciary in his wake. The president successfully appointed 234 judges to lifetime positions, including three Supreme ...

Donald Trump once again swore to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States” to the ‘best of his ...

As the Trump administration faces substantial pushback in the courts, including an unprecedented wave of nationwide ...

Half of U.S. adults say people born in the United States to parents who immigrated illegally should have U.S. citizenship, ...

It’s part of the promise of the New World, that the Western Hemisphere would be, as the American revolutionary Thomas Paine ...

What makes someone truly an American? Is it the paperwork they possess, the attitudes and beliefs they espouse or the soil on which they are born? These topics make for ...

A criminal case in Alaska involving nearly a dozen people born in American Samoa is highlighting concerns about birthright ...