The Supreme Court has declared that same-sex couples have a right to marry anywhere in the US.

The US Supreme Court handed a significant victory to gay rights advocates by recognising that married gay men and women are eligible for state benefits and paving the way for same-sex marriage in California.

The US Supreme Court has ruled in favour of gay marriage supporters in two crucial cases, saying same-sex couples should get the same federal benefits as heterosexuals and clearing the way for the resumption of same-sex marriages in California.

The US Supreme Court upheld the centrepiece of President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare overhaul law requiring that most Americans get insurance by 2014 or pay a financial penalty, a ruling that gave the White House a big win ahead of Obama’s re-election bid in November.

The US Supreme Court today upheld the heart of President Barack Obama’s health care reforms, handing him a huge election-year political victory.

THE US Supreme Court appears ready to block a massive sex discrimination lawsuit against Walmart on behalf of up to 1.6 million women, and that could make it harder for other workers nationwide to bring class-action claims against large employers.

THE man who swore in Barack Obama as United States president – twice – earlier this year has become the latest major American figure to spend time at the National University of Ireland Galway.

The US Supreme Court threw out death sentences for three killers in the state of Texas today because of problems with instructions given to jurors who were deciding between life in prison and death.

Presidential hopeful Barack Obama campaigned in the key state of South Carolina, telling thousands of cheering supporters that seeing such a racially diverse crowd would have surprised people a generation ago.

The US Supreme Court upheld Oregon’s one-of-a-kind physician-assisted suicide law today, rejecting a Bush administration attempt to punish doctors who help terminally ill patients die.

US President George W Bush, stung by the collapse of his previous choice, nominated veteran judge Samuel Alito yesterday in a bid to reshape the Supreme Court and mollify his conservative allies.

US Chief Justice William H Rehnquist has died from cancer, ending a 33-year Supreme Court career during which he oversaw the court’s conservative shift, presided over an impeachment trial and helped decide a presidential election.

US PRESIDENT George W Bush is gearing up for a battle to get his conservative nominee into the Supreme Court.

The US Constitution forbids the execution of killers who were under 18 when they committed their crimes the Supreme Cort ruled today , ending a practice used in 19 states.

The United States has created a ”lawless enclave” at a military base in Cuba where more than 600 men from 44 countries are being held without access to American courts, a lawyer for the men told the Supreme Court today.

UNITED States Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia yesterday refused to remove himself from a case about Vice-President Dick Cheney’s energy task force and insisted that his impartiality could not be questioned, despite their recent duck-hunting trip.

The US Supreme Court halted the execution of a condemned man after a lawsuit challenged one of the drugs used to carry out the death sentence.

THE US Supreme Court struck down a ban on gay sex yesterday, ruling that the law was an unconstitutional violation of privacy.