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  Tahawwur Rana, 26/11 accused, approaches US Court to halt extradition to India, says 'I will be..'

  World | March 06, 2025 15:32 IST

  Mumbai 26/11 terror attacks accused Tahawwur Rana has claimed that he will be tortured in India as he approached the US Supreme Court to halt his extradition.

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  US Supreme Court temporarily blocks order requiring Trump administration to release foreign aid

  World | February 27, 2025 8:54 IST

  The US Supreme Court temporarily blocked a lower court's order requiring the Trump administration to release billions in foreign aid. The legal battle over presidential authority on foreign assistance spending continues.

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  Mumbai terror attack case: US govt urges SC to reject Rana's petition for writ of certiorari

  World | December 19, 2024 8:07 IST

  In response to an extradition request from India, Rana was detained in the US for his involvement in the attacks, in which 10 Pakistani terrorists besieged Mumbai for more than 60 hours, killing more than 160 people, including six Americans.

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  Canadian national accused in Mumbai blast approaches US court against India's extradition plea

  World | November 22, 2024 12:14 IST

  India has requested Rana's extradition for his role in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. After losing legal battles in lower and federal courts, Rana appealed to the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco.

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  US: Trump's sentencing in hush money case delayed till September after SC verdict on immunity

  World | July 03, 2024 7:34 IST

  Trump was convicted of all 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal hush money payment to an adult film star, becoming the first president in US history to be convicted of a crime. His sentencing was postponed from July 11 to September 18, weeks before the November elections.

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  US Supreme Court rules Trump has 'some' immunity from criminal prosecution in landmark verdict

  World | July 02, 2024 7:12 IST

  Trump for months had denied any wrongdoing and claimed that he had immunity from prosecution from three 'politically-motivated' cases intended to keep him from a second White House term. The landmark verdict means that Trump is unlikely to face any trial before the November re-match with Joe Biden.

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  US Supreme Court unanimously rejects bid to restrict access to widely-used abortion poll

  World | June 14, 2024 14:46 IST

  The pro-life plaintiffs sought a restriction on the abortion pill mifepristone, which has been banned from use in 14 states since the overturning of the 1973 Roe v Wade precedent. The Supreme Court ruling is a brief victory for Joe Biden's administration, but future lawsuits are likely to follow.

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  US Supreme Court allows Texas to enforce controversial law on arresting, deporting illegal migrants

  World | March 20, 2024 6:53 IST

  Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed the law, known as Senate Bill 4, that allows police to arrest people suspected of entering the US illegally. Critics of the legislation say that it violates federal authority as immigration usually comes under the ambit of the federal government.

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  US: SC allows Biden to crackdown on 'ghost guns' to prevent people from making firearms at home

  World | August 09, 2023 10:54 IST

  The new rule was issued last year and changed the definition of a firearm under federal law to include unfinished parts, like the frame of a handgun or the receiver of a long gun so that they can be tracked more easily.

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  US: Biden reveals new strategy for students as court rejects his plan to wipe away $400 billion loan

  World | July 01, 2023 8:50 IST

  Notably, the White House efforts to forgive loans were an attempt to keep a Biden promise stretching back to his 2020 campaign to wipe out student loan debt — an idea that was especially popular with young voters and progressives.

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  Abortion pill ruling: US supreme court temporarily blocks ruling limiting feticide pill access

  World | April 15, 2023 6:41 IST

  The court finds itself immersed in a new fight involving abortion less than a year after conservative justices reversed Roe v. Wade and allowed more than a dozen states to effectively ban abortion outright.

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  US President Biden to sign order on abortion access after facing pressure from Democrats

  World | July 08, 2022 17:28 IST

  The White House said it will also convene volunteer lawyers to provide women and providers with pro bono legal assistance to help them navigate new state restrictions after the Supreme Court ruling.

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  'States can ban abortion': US Supreme Court rules

  World | June 25, 2022 6:50 IST

  The ruling came more than a month after the stunning leak of a draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito indicating the court was prepared to take this momentous step.

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  'Americans have a right to carry firearms in public for self-defense', rules US Supreme Court

  World | June 24, 2022 0:00 IST

  President Joe Biden said in a statement he was “deeply disappointed” by the Supreme Court ruling, which he said "contradicts both common sense and the Constitution, and should deeply trouble us all”.

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  Biden nominates Ketanji Brown Jackson as first African-American woman to US Supreme Court

  World | February 25, 2022 22:17 IST

  In Jackson, Biden delivers on a campaign promise to make the historic appointment and to further diversify a court that was made up entirely of white men for almost two centuries.

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  Texas Abortion Law: Women’s March targets Supreme Court

  World | October 03, 2021 12:39 IST

  The day before the march, the Biden administration urged a federal judge to block the nation’s most restrictive abortion law, which has banned most abortions in Texas since early September.

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  US Supreme Court rejects Trump's lawsuit to overturn presidential election results

  World | December 12, 2020 10:16 IST

  The ruling is widely seen as a death blow to Trump's efforts to reverse his Democrat rival and President-elect Joe Biden's projected Electoral College victory.

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  Trump’s nominee Amy Coney Barrett confirmed as Supreme Court justice in partisan vote

  World | October 27, 2020 7:21 IST

  Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed to the Supreme Court late Monday by a deeply divided Senate, with Republicans overpowering Democrats to install President Donald Trump’s nominee days before the election and secure a likely conservative court majority for years to come.

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  Donald Trump to nominate a woman for US Supreme Court as Ginsburg replacement

  World | September 20, 2020 8:53 IST

  President Donald Trump is likely to nominate a female candidate to the US Supreme Court to fill the vacancy created by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg.

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  US Supreme Court puts hold on Trump's financial records ruling

  World | November 19, 2019 7:11 IST

  The ruling was set to go into effect on Wednesday. The subpoena from the House Oversight and Reform Committee will be unenforceable while the Supreme Court decides whether to take up the case, Xinhua news agency reported.