Much of the federal government may be in shutdown mode, but the Supreme Court is still open for business. The Supreme Court opened its January session Monday morning with argument in Merck Sharp & ...

In oral argument on Monday in Abbott v. United States an d Gould v. United States, the eight Justices (Justice Elena Kagan was recused) were presented with substantially different interpretations of ...

Speak like an insider! Welcome to Snopes-tionary, where we’ll define a term or piece of fact-checking lingo that we use on the Snopes team. Have a term you want us to explain? Let us know. The "straw ...

The most important factor that drove me and my childhood friend Becca apart, politically, is that we went our separate ways, socially. I went to a liberal university in a city; she went to a ...