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With cake-shop ruling, high court urges respect for both sides

The careful calibration of Monday's US Supreme Court ruling in the Masterpiece Cake Shop case resulted in no sweeping decision. Instead, it "invited us all to turn down the heat in the culture wars," says one legal scholar.

Amid drought in Texas Panhandle, farmers scratch crops from dust

Extensive drought has forced farmers in the Texas Panhandle to rely more heavily on water drawn from the Ogallala Aquifer, raising concerns that they may be mortgaging their grandchildren's futures.

For women in law, 'RBG' is their superhero movie

To be just the second woman appointed to the US Supreme Court is to blaze trails, which Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg did throughout her career 鈥� for decades before Millennials coined her the 'Notorious RBG.' For women, especially women judges and lawyers, she's an icon.

With dueling DACA cases, Supreme Court showdown seems inevitable

Texas and six other states sued this week to end DACA; New York plus 15 states and the District of Columbia are suing to keep it. The end result is likely to be the Supreme Court weighing in on the breadth of presidential power in immigration.

As Supreme Court hears travel ban, questions of presidential authority also on docket

The principal legal debates over the travel ban have focused on two questions: whether the Trump administration has exceeded its lawful authority; and whether, by excluding nationals from five Muslim-majority countries, the executive order violates the Establishment Clause of the Constitution.

Voter redistricting: US Supreme Court to hear third key case of term

In a year marked by several potentially landmark decisions, the most significant could be in the trio of gerrymandering cases the high court has reviewed 鈥� the last of which is being argued Tuesday.

As more Texans 'Give a Whoop,' hope for saving iconic cranes 鈥� and coast

Conservationists hope that the iconic birds can encourage a rare, ecologically-friendly approach to coastal development in a time of mounting human and environmental pressure on coastlines around the world.

Austin bomb saga shows law enforcement's deep new reach

Even as it became apparent that a bombmaker had exploited modern fondness for online shopping to invoke terror, US law enforcement used emerging social dynamics, including Americans' growing comfort with surveillance cameras, to protect the public.

In Kentucky, all sides agree on need for criminal justice reform. But how?

From lawyers and judges to legislators and the conservative governor, nobody wants to build more prisons. But getting all those stakeholders to agree on what to do instead is proving a challenge.

In Texas midterms, 'blue wave' may look more like a ripple

Tuesday's primaries brought a show of enthusiasm among Democrats in the Lone Star State not seen in years. But it still may not be enough for them to win a single statewide race.

Kentucky tests how much to demand of Medicaid recipients

In July, Kentucky will become the first state to enforce work and community engagement requirements for some Medicaid recipients. The debate centers on fundamental questions: Does work make you healthier, or do you need to be healthy to work? And is health care a benefit or a right?

Will Supreme Court case lead to a post-union America?

The US Supreme Court has played a significant role in eroding the power of unions, and Monday morning the court heard arguments in a case that union supporters and legal experts say could send public-sector unions into 'a death spiral.'

Texas's colonias: solution to housing crisis or moral blot on rich nation鈥檚 conscience?

'Arm the good guys'? Kentucky and other states weigh adding guns to schools.

Five school shootings so far in 2018 have resulted in serious physical injury or death 鈥� including the fatal shooting of 17 students and teachers in Florida.

'Calls From Home': How one Kentucky radio station connects inmates and families

Every week, WMMT broadcasts recorded messages from friends and family members of the more than 5,000 men incarcerated in the six federal and state prisons within range of Whitesburg, Ky.

Cliven Bundy case: How big a problem is prosecutorial misconduct?

Beyond high-profile examples, such as the dismissal 'with prejudice' this week of the Bundy case, the question of how often prosecutorial misconduct occurs now is open to debate 鈥� with a former state attorney calling it a 鈥渞are event鈥� and a former federal judge calling it an 鈥渆pidemic.鈥�

Remember the Alamo? Why some Texans embrace a broader history.

Three hundred years after the founding of a Spanish mission in San Antonio, Texans are grappling with post-statehood histories that put white male settlers front and center. A new generation of historians seeks a more diverse set of characters.  

For employers and communities, much at stake in decision on 'temporary' immigrants

The Department of Homeland Security is considering ending Temporary Protected Status designation for nearly 300,000 Hondurans and Salvadorans in the US. Many have lived and worked there for decades because of routine extensions.

After many days in court, travel ban nearing final resolution

Friday, a full panel of judges on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments in Virginia about the third version of the White House travel ban, just days after the US Supreme Court allowed the ban to take effect while it was making its way through the lower courts.

How Congress's inaction has left children's health program on life support

Last week, Colorado became the first state to send letters to CHIP families warning them that support might end in January. Texas has asked the federal government for $90 million to keep its program running through February.