The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to hear a claim from a Texas prison inmate that spending decades on death row amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.

The Supreme Court heads into the final month of its term with decisions yet to come on such divisive issues as immigration, abortion, and affirmative action.

A federal appeals court declined to re-hear a case involving a Virginia transgender student, a victory for the student and advocates of transgender rights.

Lawyers for Cheryl Mills, chief of staff for Hillary Clinton at the State Department, asked a judge to bar releasing a recording of her forthcoming deposition.

Less than two weeks after the Obama administration told schools that they must honor the choices of transgender students, 11 states filed a lawsuit to block it.

Romanian Marcel Lehel Lazar, who claims he broke into Hillary Clinton’s private e-mail server, appeared in U.S. court Friday.

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe says he knows nothing about a federal investigation of contributions to his 2013 campaign for governor.

The U.S. Constitution guarantees all criminal defendants the right to a jury trial — but it’s a right that can be waived.

The FBI is investigating whether Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s 2013 campaign accepted illegal contributions, federal officials confirmed to NBC News.

The Court cleared the way for a new trial for a man sentenced to death by an all-white jury, finding that prosecutors intentionally kept blacks off the jury.