The U.S. flag code says American flags should not be displayed upside-down except as a signal of “dire distress,” but free speech protections prevent prosecution.

The popularity contest between Costco and Sam’s Club continues, with the latter Walmart-owned company apparently in the lead. In the last year, more and more shoppers have canceled their Costco memberships in favor of Sam’s Club’s high-tech improvements,

The Idaho House could soon vote on formally asking that the state once again be allowed to ban marriages between same-sex couples.The resolution, if passed by both chambers of the Legislature, would result in Idaho sending a letter to the U.

In 1968, the Supreme Court upheld a law that made it a crime to sell pornographic magazines to young people. But in 2004, the court struck down a federal law intended to protect kids from online pornography, ruling that it would unduly limit adults’ access to constitutionally protected speech.

Justice Samuel Alito wanted to know. It would have been a strange thing for him to ask, had he not posed the question at Wednesday’s hearing over a Texas law requiring age verification to access ...

And what the seemingly illegal mass firings could mean for the future of independent agencies in the federal government.

Altman and Musk were OpenAI’s founding co-chairs in 2015, but their relationship has devolved into name-calling and lawsuits.