The US presidential race is tied going into the major parties’ national conventions and Democrat Hillary Clinton has been damaged by the FBI investigation into her email use while secretary of state, a new opinion poll showed.

With a presidential election looming in the US, Richard L Hasen believes the selfie poses a threat to the secret ballot and could lead to the re-emergence of vote buying

The US Supreme Court has upheld the use of a controversial drug in lethal-injection executions, even as two dissenting justices said for the first time they think it is “highly likely” that the death penalty itself is unconstitutional.

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 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.

A WOMAN convicted of two hired killings is scheduled to die by injection today and become the first woman put to death in Virginia in nearly a century, after the US Supreme Court refused to block her execution yesterday.

A woman convicted of two hired killings is scheduled to die by injection tomorrow and become the first woman put to death in Virginia in nearly a century, after the US Supreme Court refused to block her execution.

The US Supreme Court refused to block the execution of a woman convicted of two killings, clearing the way for the state’s first execution of a woman in nearly a century.

Chrysler’s five weeks of breakneck-speed bankruptcy proceedings came to a screeching – but possibly temporary – halt when a Supreme Court judge delayed the sale of assets to Italian carmaker Fiat.

US president Barack Obama chose federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor to become America’s first Hispanic Supreme Court justice yesterday, praising her as “an inspiring woman” with both the intellect and compassion to interpret the constitution wisely.

US President Barack Obama has picked the first Hispanic in history to sit in the country’s highest legal body, the Supreme Court.

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.

One of the most famous names in European politics is to address Dublin’s Trinity college today.

WITH an oil fortune on the line, former stripper Anna Nicole Smith encountered a sympathetic audience at the US Supreme Court yesterday.

With an oil fortune on the line, former stripper Anna Nicole Smith encountered a sympathetic audience at the US Supreme Court today.

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 nominated White House counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court yesterday, turning to a lawyer who has never been a judge to replace Sandra Day O’Connor and help reshape the nation’s judiciary.

President George Bush has chosen Harriet Miers, White House counsel and a loyal member of the president’s inner circle, to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on the US Supreme Court, a senior administration official said today.

JUSTICE Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court and a key swing vote on issues such as abortion and the death penalty, said yesterday she is retiring.

Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman appointed to the US Supreme Court and a key swing vote on issues such as abortion and the death penalty, said today she is retiring.

Condoleezza Rice, formally sworn in as US secretary of state on Wednesday, went through it again today for ceremony’s sake in the State Department’s majestic Benjamin Franklin dining room.

With a smile and a wave, Condoleezza Rice took over as America's 66th Secretary of State today to confront an agenda laden with difficult and potentially explosive foreign policy problems.

A DEEPLY divided Supreme Court last night wrestled over allowing states to execute teenage killers, with several justices raising concerns that the United States is out of step with the rest of the world.

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