Musk feud worries Republicans and a federal judge blocks the president's effort to deny student visas at Harvard.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court cleared the way Friday for the Department of Government Efficiency to access Social Security systems containing personal data on millions of Americans. The justices sided with the Trump administration in its first Supreme Court appeal involving DOGE, the team once led by billionaire Elon Musk.

While the justices have released decisions in cases regarding the federal TikTok sell or ban law and rules tightening restrictions on so-called “ghost guns” earlier in the term, many of the top cases are still awaiting their fate or have been decided in the closing weeks of the term, which concludes at the end of June.

Decades ago, the Court said inmates who are intellectually disabled can't be executed. Now, it will weigh the use of intelligence tests in death penalty cases.

The Supreme Court on Friday mistakenly sent out email alerts to attorneys and others laying out which cases it would hear days before it was scheduled to do so, the latest major technical glitch to come from the high court during its busiest month of the year.

The Supreme Court passed up the chance to weigh in how much leeway state courts have to interpret federal election rules.

The dispute over whether a Catholic Charities office in Wisconsin must pay unemployment taxes was one of three complex religion cases before the court.