Justice Department won't pursue contempt charges against Garland House Republicans held the attorney general in contempt for defying a subpoena, but prosecutors said he enjoys a legal shield because the president claimed executive privilege over tapes they sought. Carrie Johnson
Supreme Court strikes down Trump-era federal ban on bump stocks The Supreme Court has struck down the federal ban on bump stocks, declaring that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives exceeded its authority when it banned the devices. Nina Totenberg
Alex Jones faces day of reckoning over what he owes Sandy Hook families A judge is expected to tell Jones to sell off assets. But the families are likely to get only a tiny fraction of the nearly $1.5 billion in damages Jones owes for lies about the 2012 school shooting. Tovia Smith
Justice Thomas took more trips paid for my GOP donor than he disclosed, senator says The trips were revealed by a subpoena of Harlan Crow, the conservative mega donor. NPR Washington Desk
Abortion providers back to ‘business as usual’ after high court's mifepristone ruling The Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling upholds access to mifepristone, a drug used in more than 60% of abortions. The decision shocked some doctors and abortion rights advocates. Elissa Nadworny
UN says both Israel and Hamas have committed war crimes The UN investigation was conducted by independent human rights experts.
Supreme Court keeps access to mifepristone The Supreme Court threw out a challenge to the Food and Drug Administration's rules for prescribing and dispensing the abortion pill mifepristone, leaving the FDA's rules in place and preserving access to the abortion pill.
Supreme Court says marketer is not entitled to a trademark for 'Trump too small' T-shirts The decision was a loss for part-time Democratic activist Steve Elster, who contended that the living-person exception to the trademark law violated his right of free speech. Nina Totenberg
Supreme Court rejects challenge to FDA's approval of mifepristone The court said that the challengers, a group called the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, had no right to be in court at all since neither the organization nor its members could show they had suffered any concrete injury. Nina Totenberg
ACLU sues Biden administration over new executive action on the southern border President Biden is using new executive actions to block migrants from seeking asylum at the southern border. The ACLU says this goes against U.S. asylum laws. Franco Ordoñez