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People protest against a funding freeze of federal grants and loans following a push from President Donald Trump to pause federal funding near to the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Trump federal funding freeze temporarily blocked by federal judge

By Chris Megerian, Lindsay Whitehurst, and others

382724 01: Three RU-486 Mifeprex abortion pills are held in a hand December 1, 2000 in Granite City, Illinois. The Hope Center for Women is the first area abortion clinic to distribute the new pills that terminates a pregnancy. The RU-486 pill was approved in September and can be taken by women up to the seventh week of pregnancy. The drug blocks the hormone that sustains the embryo and then unhooks it from the uterine wall. (Photo by Bill Grenblatt/Liaison)

Texas judge says 3 states can again challenge abortion pill access nationwide

By Geoff Mulvihill, Lindsay Whitehurst, and others

FILE – Former President Donald Trump waits for the start of proceedings in Manhattan criminal court, April 23, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, Pool, File)

Trump asks the Supreme Court to call off sentencing in his New York hush money case

By Lindsay Whitehurst, Mark Sherman, and others

FILE – People stand on the steps of the Supreme Court at sunset in Washington, Feb. 13, 2016. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick, File)

Americans’ trust in judicial system and courts drops to a record low of 35%

By Lindsay Whitehurst and The Associated Press

Mark Meadows sits in front of a microphone, holding up his hand

Supreme Court rejects Mark Meadows’ plea to move his election-interference case to federal court, where he could argue he’s immune from prosecution

By Lindsay Whitehurst and The Associated Press

The Supreme Court is seen on Monday, Oct. 7, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Supreme Court allows an EPA rule limiting pollution from coal power plants to remain in effect—for now

By Lindsay Whitehurst and The Associated Press

Martin Shkreli holds his head, as if he knows how much of a headache it's going to be to convince the Supreme Court to overturn his case

Martin Shkreli gets snubbed by the Supreme Court and must return millions he reaped from jacking up the price of a lifesaving drug

By Lindsay Whitehurst and The Associated Press

Elon Musk is seen wearing a black Make America Great Again hat.

Supreme Court refuses to hear appeal from X tied to Trump election-interference case

By Lindsay Whitehurst and The Associated Press

Cannabis shop sign is seen in Gdynia, Poland

Marijuana ruling delayed until after election, putting Harris and Trump’s pot stances in the spotlight

By Lindsay Whitehurst, Jennifer Peltz, and others

FILE – This July 4, 2013, file photo shows a U.S. flag, in the shape of the country, in the outfield before a baseball game between the Washington Nationals and the Milwaukee Brewers at Nationals Park in Washington. The attorney general for Washington, D.C. has sued StubHub, accusing the ticket resale platform of advertising deceptively low prices and then ramping up prices with extra fees. Attorney General Brian Schwalb said Wednesday the practice known as drip pricing violates consumer protection laws in the nation’s capital. The lawsuit says StubHub has sold nearly 5 million tickets in Washington since implementing the practice in 2015 and reaped about $118 million in fees. (AP Photo/Mark Tenally, File)

StubHub sued by Washington, D.C., over claims it inflated ticket prices with deceptive fees

By Lindsay Whitehurst and The Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks at an event commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, Monday, July 29, 2024, at the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

How Biden’s enforceable ethics code for the Supreme Court would work

By Lindsay Whitehurst and The Associated Press

Pro-abortion activists rally for "reproductive rights and emergency abortion care," outside the US Supreme Court as it hears arguments in the Moyle v. United States case, in Washington, DC, on April 24, 2024.

Doctors in Idaho can now provide emergency abortions, SCOTUS rules, after pregnant women were airlifted out of the state for emergency care

By Lindsay Whitehurst and The Associated Press

Sonia Sotomayor

Supreme Court allows the NRA to go after the New York official who tried to blacklist the organization

By Lindsay Whitehurst and The Associated Press

FILE – Cannabis clones are displayed for customers at Home Grown Apothecary, April 19, 2024, in Portland, Ore. The Justice Department has formally moved to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug in a historic shift to generations of drug policy in the United States. A proposed rule sent Thursday to the federal register recognizes the medical uses of cannabis and acknowledge it has less potential for abuse than some of the nation’s most dangerous drugs. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

Justice Department formally moves to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug in historic shift

By The Associated Press and Lindsay Whitehurst

Michael Cohen testifies on the witness stand with a National Enquirer cover story about Donald Trump displayed on a screen in Manhattan criminal court, Monday, May 13, 2024, in New York. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)

Trump fixer-turned-foe Michael Cohen’s testimony in hush money trial was pivotal. Here’s what he said

By Michael R. Sisak, Jill Colvin, and others