The US Supreme Court ruled Monday in Cooper v. Harris that North Carolina’s redistricting was unconstitutional. North Carolina officials redrew two congressional districts after the 2010 census, neither of which had a majority black voting-age population, but “both consistently elected the candidates preferred by most African-American voters.” To comply with the one-person-one-vote standard, District 1 [...]

Swiss voters on Sunday backed the government’s plan to provide billions of dollars in subsidies for renewable energy. They also voted by a 58.2 percent majority to ban nuclear power plants and to help bail out struggling utilities, which overturns a November majority vote rejecting a referendum to phase out the nation’s nuclear power program. [...]

Human rights experts at the UN called on Indonesia Monday to review and repeal its criminalization of blasphemy . The UN experts decided to step in after the former governor of Jakarta, Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama , was sentenced earlier this month to two years in prison for blasphemy against Islam, a sentence that was [...]

Japan and other Asia-Pacific members of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreed Sunday to move forward with their deal despite the US’ withdrawal. Trade ministers from the 11 remaining countries met in Hanoi, Vietnam , to plan how to proceed without the US. A possible impediment to continuing the deal is keeping Vietnam and Malaysia on [...]

On Sunday President Trump called on the leaders of the Middle East to join in the fight against terrorism. During the speech given to the Arab Islamic American Summit , international leaders were urged to collectively solve the problems of terrorism by doing their fair share to combat growing violence in their borders. Every time [...]

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on Sunday launched a short range missile on Friday creating strain in the reunification efforts with North Korea. The missile launch was the second in a series of test the nation is doing to strengthen their arms capabilities. South Korean President Moon Jae-in remarked that the last missile test [...]

Governor of Texas Greg Abbott is expected in coming days to sign into law House Bill 100 which creates a statewide legislation for ride sharing companies, allowing them access back into all Texas markets. The new legislation will allow both Lyft and Uber to enter several markets within the state. The new legislation will allow [...]

A panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday ruled that the Arizona Department of Corrections‘ (ADC) outgoing mail policy calling for a “page-by-page content review” of inmates’ confidential outgoing legal mail violated the First and Sixth Amendments of the US Constitution. In reaching this conclusion, the panel applied Nordstrom [...]

The cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe approved a special bill on Friday allowing the reigning Emperor Akihito to abdicate his throne. This development comes after the 83-year-old emperor hinted at the negative impact the grueling schedule had on his health during a televised remark last year. The current laws preclude the emperor from retiring, [...]

The Human Rights Division of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) released a report on Friday that revealed the findings of a year-long investigation into human rights violations in the Yei Town, Central Equatoria area of South Sudan. The human rights violations stem from violence between the government and opposition forces led by [...]