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TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) ? A new level of despair spread among tens of thousands of migrants waiting on the Mexican border to seek refuge in the U.S. as the Trump administration began enforcing radical new restrictions Thursday on who qualifies for asylum.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the Trump administration's plan to put a citizenship question on the 2020 Census. The justices made a decisive decision on another critical matter?partisan gerrymandering.

One of the U.S. Supreme Court's most consequential and controversial cases on racial discrimination and voting rights is playing out over drinks on stage at Project Y's Women in Theater Festival. "Argument Sessions: Disenfranchised" is the latest of several Supreme Court sessions Ilana Becker, the creator and director, has dramatized after first reading an argument transcript six years ago.

Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell said that the Republican-controlled Senate would likely confirm a nominee to the Supreme Court should a vacancy happen in an election year.

Alabama has passed an almost-total ban on abortions. The new law criminalizes performing an abortion. But the law is unenforceable, which the bill's sponsors knew going in. Their stated purpose is to get the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider Roe vs. Wade.

A bill in Alabama bans abortion from conception, except when necessary to prevent a serious health risk to the mother. and even then, access to the procedure would be hard to come by. If signed into law, it would join a string of measures in pro-life states that are clearly unconstitutional under Roe v. Wade. But the bills' backers are betting the U.S. Supreme Court's new five-justice conservative majority is ready to reverse the 46-year-old precedent.

In arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court, a Trump administration lawyer defended the government's plan to ask about citizenship on the 2020 census.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is missing arguments for the first time in more than 25 years as she recuperates from cancer surgery last month, the Supreme Court said. Ginsburg was not on the bench as the court met Monday to hear arguments. It was not clear when she would return to the court, which will hear more cases on Tuesday and Wednesday, and again next week.

In 1985, Everett Carr, 65, was murdered inside his home in New Milford, Connecticut. Someone stabbed him 27 times, slit his throat, and bashed in his head. The blood was everywhere. Police called it a burglary gone bad and zeroed in on Sean Henning, 17, and Ricky Birch, 18, who were eventually convicted of the murder. But for three decades, Henning and Birch have maintained their innocence.

Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was sworn in Monday night at a White House ceremony, but not before President Donald Trump slammed Kavanaugh's opponents for a "campaign of personal destruction." In a ceremony that could have been a unifying moment for the nation, Trump instead delivered remarks that even he acknowledged began "differently than perhaps any other event of such magnitude."

President Donald Trump ignited a crowd at a political rally in Mississippi by mocking Christine Blasey Ford, who has claimed she was sexually assaulted by Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh ? an allegation he has denied. People in the audience laughed Tuesday when Trump poked what he described as holes in her story about how the alleged assault occurred at a high school party.?

After a flurry of last-minute negotiations, the Senate Judiciary Committee advanced Brett Kavanaugh's nomination for the Supreme Court after agreeing to a late call from Republican Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona for a one-week investigation into sexual assault allegations against the high court nominee.

In a defiant and emotional bid to rescue his Supreme Court nomination, Brett Kavanaugh on Thursday denied allegations that he sexually assaulted Christine Blasey Ford when both were high school students and angrily told Congress that Democrats were engaged in 'a calculated and orchestrated political hit.'

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and the senators who will judge him confronted a third set of lurid allegations accusing him of sexual misconduct as a young man. Kavanaugh heatedly denied them all, while Democrats complained about a rush to approval and President Donald Trump said the accusations added up to no more than "a con job."

President Donald Trump challenged the woman accusing his Supreme Court nominee of sexual assault by name Friday, saying that if the alleged attack was that "bad" then she would have filed charges.

Christine Blasey Ford may testify against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh after all, her attorney said Thursday, breathing new life into the prospect of a dramatic Senate showdown next week over Ford's accusation that he assaulted her when both were in high school.

Senate judiciary chairman Chuck Grassley said Christine Ford can testify in a private session anywhere she wants about her allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Ford and her attorneys have said what would make her comfortable is for the FBI to investigate her sexual assault allegation before she would testify for the committee.

Christine Blasey Ford wants the FBI to investigate her allegation of sexual assault before a Senate committee holds a hearing on Monday. But Senate leaders said if she doesn't show up for that hearing they will move forward with Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation process.