US President Barack Obama said today that the US had lost "the greatest United States senator of our time".

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 threw out a $79.5 million (€60.5m) punitive damages award to a smoker’s widow yesterday, a boom to businesses seeking stricter limits on big-dollar jury verdicts.

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

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.

More than 200 Americans studying in Britain have signed an open letter accusing US President George W. Bush of endangering the security of American nationals abroad through his unpopular foreign policies.

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