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The Supreme Court on Friday will hand down its final opinions of the term, including highly-anticipated decisions on student loans and LGBTQ+ protections. The Supreme Court on Friday will hand down its final opinions of the term, including highly-anticipated decisions on student loan forgiveness and free speech and LGBTQ+ protections. The justices will issue decisions at 10 a.m. ET to finish the term it began back in October. Three cases remain out of the 59 argued. Their rulings will decide the fate of tens of millions of Americans with federal student loans and have an impact on free speech rights and LGBTQ+ protections . Already this week, the court handed down blockbuster decisions on affirmative action and election law. MORE: Supreme Court effectively ends affirmative action at colleges in landmark ruling The court's conservative majority on Thursday struck down race-conscious admissions policies Harvard University and the University of North Carolina as unconstitutional, e...

The Supreme Court majority sided with a Colorado wedding website designer who wants to deny services to same-sex couples. Justice Sonia Sotomayor accused the U.S. Supreme Court of granting businesses the right "to refuse to serve members of a protected class" for the first time in its history. The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Friday in favor of a evangelical Christian website designer who argued that a Colorado anti- discrimination law violated her First Amendment right to refuse to create websites for same-sex weddings. Sotomayor noted a nationwide rise in anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination and called it "heartbreaking." "Sadly, it is also familiar," she wrote in her dissent. "When the civil rights and women's rights movements sought equality in public life, some public establishments refused. Some even claimed, based on sincere religious beliefs, constitutional rights to discriminate. The brave Justices who once sat on this Court decisively rejected th...

Congressional Democrats on Thursday unveiled a joint resolution urging the national archivist to finalize the Equal Rights Amendment as part of the Constitution. Congressional Democrats on Thursday unveiled a new push to make the Equal Rights Amendment part of the Constitution. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Rep. Cori Bush of Missouri introduced a joint resolution stating the gender-equality measure has met ratification requirements and should be finalized as the 28th Amendment immediately by the national archivist. MORE: Senate fails to extend deadline to ratify Equal Rights Amendment as most Republicans vote no "The ERA is the path that brings our entire country toward true gender equity, and all that is standing in the way of this necessary change is paperwork," Bush said in a news release. The measure is the latest tactic in the party's renewed effort to revive the amendment, which protects against sex discrimination, in the wake of the Supreme Court's ...

Democrats are salivating about the prospects of flipping the House next year -- but, party operatives admit, they're not quite home yet. Democrats are salivating at their prospects to flip the House next year -- but even as party operatives boast of having "the full recipe" for success, they acknowledge they're still gathering all the needed ingredients. "Republicans are, for one reason or another, holding some seats that are really tenuous, and the math is pretty favorable," said former Democratic Congressional Campaign Executive Director Tim Persico. "But there's a lot of work to be done between now and then." Conservatives won control of the House in 2022 but have only a five-seat majority. In next year's election, 18 Republicans will be defending seats in districts that President Joe Biden won in 2020, and recent court rulings on redistricting have given hope to Democrats of drawing more advantageous seats in states like Louisiana an...

The Michigan attorney general has announced charges against the state's 16 "fake electors" for their alleged role in the scheme after the 2020 presidential election. The Michigan attorney general has announced charges against the state's 16 "fake electors ," the office announced in a press release on Tuesday afternoon, for their alleged role in the scheme after the 2020 presidential election . Attorney General Dana Nessel charged each of the state's electors with felonies including conspiracy to commit forgery, forgery and other charges . The 16 electors allegedly met "covertly" in the basement of the Michigan Republican Party headquarters on Dec. 14 and signed their names to multiple certificates stating they were the duly elected electors. MORE: Jan. 6 committee subpoenas staffers, operatives who sought to send 'fake electors' to Congress Those false documents were then "transmitted to the United States Senate and National ...

Give a Mile has provided over 1,000 flights for those visiting loved ones with terminal conditions. When Ileen Paden's husband was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and began showing signs of dementia, she knew she couldn't give him the care he needed at home. After 36 years of marriage, Paden stayed in Indiana while Charles went to a nursing home in Dallas, Texas, aided by funding from the Veterans Administration. "It was very hard to let him go," Paden said of her husband, Charles. "But I knew I wasn't doing him any good keeping him here." Over Charles' three years in Texas, Paden visited as often as possible, but she didn't have much money and was receiving disability benefits herself. As her husband's condition began to deteriorate, she worried she might not get to see him again. Then on TikTok, a hospice nurse she followed mentioned the organization Give A Mile, which used donated frequent flyer miles to help arrange flights ...

Long-shot Republican candidate Larry Elder makes his case for the 2024 presidential election. Republican 2024 presidential candidate Larry Elder isn't placing in any national polls, but for him, his candidacy is very much alive and well. The 71-year-old Elder has garnered criticism from both Republicans and Democrats for his controversial views about topics like race and his attention-grabbing headlines. One of them involves his ex-fiancée filing a police report accusing him of brandishing a gun at her, which Elder has denied. A former Democrat, he's never held an elected position, instead earning his living as a lawyer before becoming a talk show host. He was a staple on KABC, calling himself "The Sage from South Central." Elder's popularity led him to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2015. His most recent show, "The Larry Elder Show," was nationally syndicated on the Salem Radio Network and drew 1.5 million listeners, according to 202...

In a meeting with House Republicans, Kevin McCarthy reiterated that an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden is on the table but suggested it is not imminent, sources said In a closed-door meeting with House Republicans on Wednesday morning, Speaker Kevin McCarthy reiterated to his conference that an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden is on the table but suggested it is not yet imminent, according to multiple sources in the room. McCarthy, who earlier this week floated the possibility of an impeachment probe of the president, took time at the conference meeting to explain how that inquiry would differ from an impeachment vote, describing the investigation as an escalated formal probe that would give Republicans more tools to examine the president and his family, sources said. This is the furthest the speaker has gone on this issue, but it is still extremely vague. As recently as last month, McCarthy suggested he didn't see value in impeachment -related proceedings becaus...

U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika scrutinized nearly every facet of Hunter Biden's plea deal, prompting shrugs, exhales, frantic glances and expressions of discontent A dramatic scene unfolded in federal court in Delaware on Wednesday as a plea deal struck between prosecutors and President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden fell apart -- for now -- amid the judge's concerns over the terms of the agreement. For the better part of three hours, U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika scrutinized nearly every facet of the plea deal -- prompting shrugs, audible exhales, frantic glances and other expressions of discontent from the government's attorneys and defense counsel alike. Noreika acknowledged that her probing threw "a little bit of a curveball" into the proceeding. Hunter Biden had originally agreed to acknowledge his failure to pay taxes on income he received in 2017 and 2018. In exchange, prosecutors would have recommended probation, meaning he would likel...