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Shawn Thew-Pool/Getty Images Donald Trump. A whole heck of a lot happened this week in President Donald Trump...

AP Photo/Cliff Owen Thomas Hardiman. President Donald Trump announced Monday morning that he had settled on a nominee for th...

AP Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Most Americans disagree with the Republican-controlled Senate's plan to temporari...

AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin Barack Obama. President Barack Obama told NPR that Republicans are "worried and scared" that their...

Arnd Wiegmann/REUTERS Credit Suisse CEO Brady Dougan The U.S. has filed a criminal case against Credit Suisse in federal cou...

"Game Of Thrones" In "Game Of Thrones," Tyrion Lannister won freedom through trial by combat, with the help of a champion. Americans have probably on...

Associated Press Clarence Thomas in his high school yearbook photo from 1959. The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday in a fight over Mich...

Jim Edwards This week marks the 12th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Penta...

AP Images When Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia spoke in Bozeman, Mont. earlier this week, he admitted his legal conclusions aren't always very n...

AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File The lethal injection chamber at Southern Ohio Corrections Facility in Lucasville, Ohio. Oklahoma, Ohio and Texas, are th...

Steve Marcus/Reuters Poker buffs have long argued that their game is one of skill, not luck. Even a district judge agreed la...

quinn.anya via Flickr A federal judge had ordered Nebraska police to return $1 million to an exotic dancer after state troopers confiscated it during...

Pew Research Center/Screenshot For the first time in nearly three decades, the Supreme Court's public favorability rating has dropped below 50%, a ne...

Pew Research Center/ScreenshotFor the first time in nearly three decades, the Supreme Court's public favorability rating has dropped below 50%, a new...

Justice Antonin Scalia surprised pretty much nobody when he wrote a bitter dissent arguing the court should have upheld the anti-gay Defense of Marri...

Justice Antonin Scalia surprised pretty much nobody when he wrote a bitter dissent arguing the court should have upheld the anti-gay Defense of Marri...

Reuters/Joshua Roberts Edie Windsor, plaintiff in the hearing against the Defense of Marriage Act, celebrates after arguments outside the Supreme Cou...

Reuters/Joshua Roberts Edie Windsor, plaintiff in the hearing against the Defense of Marriage Act, celebrates after arguments outside the Supreme Cou...

Getty Images/Bloomberg Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's pouty-face during his nomination hearings. On Monday, the Supreme Court decided to keep a...

Getty Images/Bloomberg Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's pouty-face during his nomination hearings. On Monday, the Supreme Court decided to keep a...

Getty Images/Richard EllisThe Supreme Court overturned a key provision of a 1965 law meant to protect minorit...

Getty Images/Richard Ellis The Supreme Court overturned a key provision of a 1965 law meant to protect minori...