What happened. Why it matters. Plainly.
Tennessee tried to execute Christa Pike, 50, on Sept. 30 and she was still alive. The day’s sequence, the protocol and what is unknown as of Thursday, Oct. 1.
The Supreme Court agreed to decide whether immigrants who entered without being admitted can be held without a bond hearing in Rhoney v. Barbosa da Cunha.
Louisiana, Arkansas and Alabama asked the Supreme Court to declare three states’ abortion shield laws unlawful and filed a suit in Louisiana federal court.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday, Sept. 29, paused a federal judgment limiting how DHS removes people to third countries and agreed to decide the case itself, with arguments set for December. The order does not decide whether the policy is lawful.
The U.S. Supreme Court stayed lower-court orders that required Missouri’s 2025 congressional map, leaving the 2022 map in place for November’s election.
Costco reported fiscal fourth-quarter net income of $2.998 billion, or $6.75 a diluted share, up from $2.610 billion a year earlier, boosted in part by a non-recurring tariff refund benefit. Net sales for the 16-week quarter rose 11.2% to $93.9 billion.
Trump says Supreme Court tariff and citizenship rulings cost trillions; the Court’s actual opinions don’t make that claim.
President Donald Trump told a Republican Party crowd at the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) midterm convention in Dallas, Texas, on the night of September 9
Sixty-three years to the day after Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech, thousands of people
The Supreme Court voted 6-3 on Monday, Aug. 24, 2026, to lift a lower-court injunction that had been blocking parts of President Trump’s executive order restricting
The White House ballroom project, for which the East Wing was demolished, is before the Supreme Court while the justices decide whether above-ground construction
A federal appeals court has upheld a ruling that Sigal Chattah is not lawfully serving as Nevada’s acting U.S. Attorney, finding that the Trump administration
The federal government has certified roughly $100 billion in refunds of the tariffs the Supreme Court struck down in February and moved the money to the U.S
Temporary Protected Status for Haitians is no longer in effect. On August 5, 2026, U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes — the same judge who blocked the termination
Twenty-five states asked a federal trade court on Monday, August 3, 2026, to throw out the Trump administration’s newest tariffs — duties of 10 or 12.5 percent