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Siding with security needs over privacy rights, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that jailers may subject people arrested for minor offenses to invasive strip searches.

The Supreme Court says a school's strip search of an Arizona teenage girl accused of having prescription-strength ibuprofen was illegal.

An important case at the Supreme Court sometimes informs as much about the justices as the issue at hand, and yesterday's animated hearing on whether school officials have the right to strip-search a 13-year-old female student seemed ...