The Republican National Committee asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to step in and revive an Arizona law that requires officials to verify citizenship for some people registering to vote using a state form.

Supreme Court Justice Neil M. Gorsuch said Thursday that federal laws and regulations have exploded in the country in part due to distrust among Americans, arguing the country needs to work on civility.

More pro-life pregnancy centers have sued New York Attorney General Letitia James over her crackdown on the advertising of abortion-pill reversal treatments, accusing her of waging a "witch-hunt" to chill their constitutionally protected speech.

A moderate California Democratic state lawmaker announced Thursday that she is switching to the Republican Party while criticizing her former party's leadership and policies.

A legal challenge filed Thursday seeks to have third-party presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. kept off Pennsylvania's fall ballot, an effort with ramifications for the hotly contested swing-state battle between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris.

Special Counsel Jack Smith requested a delay Thursday in proceedings against former President Donald Trump in his election-fraud case.

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The pages of history fetishize great figures, but what we call “greatness” is often the correction of generational dereliction, when a few people, touched by genius or blessed with high character, heal the rifts in a society caused by the many. Leo Tolstoy best captured this common view of Abraham Lincoln in particular, calling him […]

It has been 18 years since elite gymnastics adopted its open-ended scoring system, an adaptation introduced not a moment too soon, as it would be rather boring to watch Simone Biles score repeated perfect 10s over nine years of international competitions across little more than a decade. At her third consecutive Olympic Summer Games, Biles […]

Psychologists and researchers say an optimistic outlook can lead to better physical and mental health. For instance, optimism is associated with lower levels of depression and anxiety. A study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found that optimists tend to have better coping mechanisms and are more resilient to stress compared to […]