U.S. Supreme Court

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the right of Westboro Baptist Church to protest at military funerals with its virulent anti-gay message, which has provoked outrage across the country and along the political spectrum.

SALT LAKE CITY -- A resolution supporting the use of crosses or other symbols along Utah roadsides to commemorate fallen Utah Highway Patrol troopers was passed unanimously by a House committee Thursday.

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- For the past six years, Santa Clara County, Calif., has led a quiet legal fight to force the drug industry to reimburse local governments across the country allegedly gouged by hundreds of millions of dollars per year on prescription drug prices at public hospitals and clinics devoted to serving the poor.

But the pharmaceutical companies have struck back with a vengeance, unleashing their lawyers to keep the courthouse doors slammed on the legal claims.

Wednesday, local governments and the drug industry will square off over the issue in the U.S.

SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal appeals court, reviewing Arizona's tough new immigration law while protestors outside shouted and waved signs, suggested during a hearing Monday that the state may be permitted to require police to investigate the immigration status of suspected criminals and yet be powerless to do anything about a person's illegal residency.

WASHINGTON  — Elena Kagan is facing the first vote on her nomination to the Supreme Court before a Senate panel dominated by Democrats who are all but certain to support her. The only real question is whether she will get any Republican votes.

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), a former chairman and current member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following statement today announcing his opposition to Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan: