WASHINGTON — A divided Supreme Court led by Chief Justice John G. Roberts turned down an appeal from President Trump’s lawyers on Wednesday, keeping in place a judge’s order that requires the government to disburse nearly $2 billion in foreign funds.

The U.S. Supreme Court grappled on Wednesday over whether the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has the authority to license certain nuclear waste storage facilities amid objections brought by the state of Texas as well as oil industry interests.

Earlier, the chief justice temporarily let the Trump administration avoid paying out congressionally appropriated funds for now.

The court rarely sides with death row inmates, so this rebuke to dishonest prosecutors is a remarkable victory in the fight against unconstitutional executions. But the case has several unusual features that make it more of an outlier than the turn of a new leaf.

At least four Supreme Court justices attended President Donald Trump's first joint Congressional address Tuesday of his second term as president.

A divided Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the Trump administration’s request to keep billions of dollars in foreign aid approved by Congress frozen.

A divided Supreme Court declined to suspend a lower court’s order that directed the Trump administration to resume nearly $2 billion in foreign-aid funding.

The Supreme Court appears likely to block a historic $10 billion lawsuit against U.S. gun makers brought by the government of Mexico.

Justice Clarence Thomas, a George H.W. Bush appointee, wrote in the court’s opinion that when the veteran appeals court applies the long-standing “benefit of the doubt” rule, meant to give leeway to veterans challenging benefits decisions, it only needs to look for clear errors by the VA to comply with the rule.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the Trump administration to continue payments on $2 billion in foreign aid that had been frozen, overturning an administrative stay that Chief Justice John Roberts entered in late February.

Continuing the rout of the EPA's authority undertaken by the Trump Administration, the Supreme Court Tuesday overturned rules limiting the discharge of wastewater into harbors and coastal zones of America.