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FILE - A sign at a BP petrol station in London, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

BP sued in Kenya over alleged toxic waste from 1980s oil exploration

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The justices heard oral arguments Tuesday over his state law that bans transgender athletes from competing in biological girls' sports. The case came before the court after a transgender girl challenged the state law, arguing it violated the constitutional Equal Protection Clause and Title IX.

WATCH: West Virginia AG on state’s transgender sports ban now before Supreme Court

FILE - Malaysian former Prime Minister Najib Razak, center, is escorted by prison officers on his arrival at the Kuala Lumpur High Court complex in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Oct. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian, File)

Former Malaysian leader Najib Razak sentenced to 15 years and hefty fine in 1MDB corruption trial

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FILE - People walk outside the High Court building in Canberra, Australia, on Nov. 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Rod McGuirk, File)

Australian High Court overturns law that forced scores of migrants to wear tracking bracelets

By Rod McGuirk - Associated Press

Britain's Prince Harry leaves the Royal Courts Of Justice in London, on March 30, 2023. Prince Harry's lawyer says the cover-up of unlawful information gathering at British tabloids owned by Rupert Murdoch went all the way to the top. Attorney David Sherborne said Wednesday, March 20, 2024 in the High Court that Murdoch was among the executives at News Group Newspapers aware of skullduggery carried out by journalists and private investigators working for the now-defunct News of the World, and The Sun. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

Prince Harry’s lawyer implicates Rupert Murdoch in cover-up of unlawful snooping by his tabloids

By Brian Melley - Associated Press

Australian Minister for Home Affairs Clare O'Neil gestures during question time in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023. The Australian government on Wednesday proposed new laws that would place behind bars some of the 141 migrants who have been set free in the three weeks since the High Court ruled their indefinite detention was unconstitutional. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP)

Australia proposes new laws to detain potentially dangerous migrants who can’t be deported

By Rod McGuirk - Associated Press

Minister for Immigration Andrew Giles during Question Time in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra on Sept. 12, 2023. Australia's immigration minister said Monday, Nov. 13, 2023, that 80 people including convicted criminals who are considered dangerous have been released from Australian migrant detention centers since the High Court ruled last week that their indefinite detention was unconstitutional. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP)

3 murderers freed in Australia after court ruled out holding migrants indefinitely, minister says

By Rod McGuirk - Associated Press

A fence surrounds a seemingly unoccupied building on the grounds of a proposed new Russian Embassy near the Australian Parliament in Canberra, Feb. 28, 2023. A suspected lone Russian diplomat was on Friday, June 23, 2023, apparently squatting on the site of the proposed embassy that the Australian government has vetoed. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese dismissed the Russian act of defiance saying a "bloke standing in the cold on a bit of grass in Canberra is not a threat to our national security." (AP Photo/Rod McGuirk)

Australia’s High Court dismisses Russia’s bid for injunction to halt its embassy’s eviction

By Rod McGuirk - Associated Press

This artist sketch depicts Center for Reproductive Rights Litigation Director Julie Rikelman speaking to the Supreme Court, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021, in Washington. Seated to Rikelman's right is Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar. Justices seated from left are Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Associate Justice Elena Kagan, Associate Justice Samuel Alito, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John Roberts, Associate Justice Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch and Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett. (Dana Verkouteren via AP)

Roe on death watch

By Charles Hurt - The Washington Times

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, Duke and Duchess of Sussex, arrive at the Intrepid Sea, Air &amp; Space Museum for the Salute to Freedom Gala Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021, in New York. The Duke of Sussex will also present the inaugural Intrepid Valor Award to five service members, veterans and their military families. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

U.K. court backs Meghan in dispute over privacy with publisher

By Sylvia Hui and Jill Lawless

In this Nov. 7, 2005, file photo, former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam holds up the original copy of his dismissal letter he received from then Governor-General Sir John Kerr on Nov. 11, 1975, at a book launch in Sydney, Australia. The High Court's majority decision in historian Jenny Hocking’s appeal on Friday, May 29, 2020, overturned lower court rulings that more than 200 letters between the monarch of Britain and Australia and Governor-General Sir John Kerr before he dismissed Prime Minister Gough Whitlam’s government were personal and might never be made public. (AP Photo/Mark Baker, File)

Australian court rules queen’s letters can be made public

By Rod McGuirk - Associated Press

A man wearing a mask for protection against the spread of the coronavirus holds a sign in front of a poster of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Benny Gantz, left, that reads: &quot;say no the a corrupt government, &quot; as another one holds and Israeli flag during a protest against the government and the corruption, at Rabin square in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, May 2, 2020. Several thousand Israelis took to the streets on Saturday night, demonstrating against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new coalition deal with his chief rival a day before the country's Supreme Court is to begin debating a series of legal challenges to the agreement.(AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israeli high court could determine Netanyahu’s future

By JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press

In this Feb. 26, 2019, photo, Cardinal George Pell leaves the County Court in Melbourne, Australia. Australia’s highest court on Tuesday, April 7, 2020 will judge Pell’s appeal against convictions for molesting two teenage choirboys more than two decades ago. But the legal battle over the world’s most senior Catholic convicted of sexually abusing children may not end there. (AP Photo/Andy Brownbill)

Cardinal George Pell sex abuse convictions dismissed

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Cardinal George Pell sits in the back seat of a car as he leaves prison in Geelong, Australia Tuesday, April 7, 2020. Pope Francis' former finance minister Pell had been the most senior Catholic found guilty of sexually abusing children and has spent 13 months in high-security prisons before seven High Court judges unanimously dismissed his convictions. (James Ross/AAP Image via AP)

Cardinal Pell welcomes court’s dismissal of abuse conviction

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

In this Feb. 26, 2019, photo, Cardinal George Pell leaves the County Court in Melbourne, Australia. Australia's highest court will deliver its ruling on April 7, 2020 on whether to overturn the convictions of Pell, the most senior Catholic convicted of child sex abuse. The 78-year-old Pell is one year into a six-year sentence for molesting two 13-year-old choirboys in Melbourne’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral while he was the city’s archbishop in the late 1990s. (AP Photo/Andy Brownbill)

Australia’s highest court to rule on Pell’s appeal next week

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2019, file photo, Cardinal George Pell arrives at the County Court in Melbourne, Australia. The most senior Catholic to be convicted of child sex abuse will take his appeal to Australia’s highest court on Wednesday, March 11, 2020, in potentially his last bid to clear his name. Cardinal George Pell was sentenced a year ago to six years in prison for molesting two 13-year-old choirboys in Melbourne’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral while he was the city’s archbishop in the late 1990s. (AP Photo/Andy Brownbill, File)

Australian highest court to rule on Cardinal’s appeal later

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2019, file photo, Cardinal George Pell arrives at the County Court in Melbourne, Australia. The most senior Catholic to be convicted of child sex abuse will take his appeal to Australia’s highest court on Wednesday, March 11, 2020, in potentially his last bid to clear his name. Cardinal George Pell was sentenced a year ago to six years in prison for molesting two 13-year-old choirboys in Melbourne’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral while he was the city’s archbishop in the late 1990s. (AP Photo/Andy Brownbill, File)

Australia’s High Court hears what may be Pell’s last appeal

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

Lawyer Claire Gibbs speaks to reporters outside the High Court in Canberra, Australia, on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020. Gibbs told that her two clients who identify as indigenous Australians will sue the government for wrongful detention. Australia's highest court has ruled that the government can't deport Aboriginal people even if they are not Australian citizens. (AP Photo/Rod McGuirk)

Australian court rules indigenous people can’t be deported

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

Bangladesh court orders 231 factories closed to save river

By JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2019, file photo, Cardinal George Pell arrives at the County Court in Melbourne, Australia. Pell’s appeal against his convictions for child molestation was largely a question of who should the jury have believed, his accuser or a senior priest whose church role was likened to Pell’s bodyguard. Pell’s accuser was a 13-year-old choirboy when he alleged he was abused by then Melbourne Archbishop Pell at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in December 1996 and February 1997. The appeal court will give their verdict on Aug. 21. (AP Photo/Andy Brownbill, File)

The Latest: Vatican to wait before investigating Pell

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