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The justices said Trump may not revise the Constitution and change citizenship laws in an executive order.

In April, EPA Chief Lee Zeldin and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. held a news conference declaring their dedication to studying microplastics, in the human body and in drinking water. But a new EPA drinking water testing rule leaves them out.

Gov. Gavin Newsom extolled free school meals, universal transitional kindergarten and other accomplishments in his tenure in California, a period marked by over $100 billion in increased spending.

State agencies will be able to access Anthropic's AI assistant Claude at a discounted price along with free training as part of an effort to use technology to make government more efficient.

Unwary crime suspects could be tracked by investigators who had access to their phone location records.

California officials cheered a U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowing states to continue counting mail ballots postmarked by election day but received after, even as they work to find their own ways to speed vote counts.

Justice Clarence Thomas says the court should 'reconsider' past rulings that protect press from libel suits.

The court's conservatives said the president had the authority to remove all officials who wield executive authority, even if the agency officials had fixed terms set by law.

The 5-4 majority rejected Republicans' bid to restrict balloting by mail.

Trump says he was wrongly accused of a pattern of sexually abusing women based in part on his own words.