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.

ONCE, California Democrats led the way to a year of the women. Now, nearly two decades later, Republicans hope that it’s their turn.

A convicted American child murderer due to be executed tomorrow is expected to get a last-minute reprieve in a continuing legal row over the death sentence.

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.

THE US Supreme Court ruled yesterday that President George W Bush overstepped his authority in ordering military war crimes trials for Guantanamo Bay detainees.

The Supreme Court ruled today that President George Bush overstepped his authority in ordering military war crimes trials for Guantanamo Bay detainees.

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.

The US Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a 76-year-old convicted killer who argued that he was too old and feeble to be executed.

THE US Supreme Court, in an abortion case of relatively narrow scope, cleared the way yesterday for a Missouri prison inmate to terminate her pregnancy.

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 Supreme Court ruled yesterday that California atheist Michael Newdow lacked the right to bring a constitutional challenge to the words “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance, avoiding a decision on the key church-state issue.

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

The US Supreme Court has handed medical marijuana users a major defeat.