On Tuesday, May 23, 2017, the United States’ Supreme Court ruled against the 2010 voter redistricting in North Carolina. This was the fifth time the case reached a court and the Supreme Court upheld earlier lower-court rulings. In a 5-3 ruling, Justice Clarence Thomas disagreed with his fellow conservative justices, […]
On May 17, 2017, Chelsea Manning took her first steps as a free woman after serving seven years in an all-male military prison in Kansas. Manning was charged in 2011 for leaking classified United States military information to Wikileaks, including a video of Apache helicopters killing 12 civilians in Bagdad. […]
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) issued a travel alert for Texas after Governor Greg Abbot signed into law legislation that targets sanctuary cities on May 7, 2017. The law, SB4, would let police officers ask for the immigration status of any person detained. SB4 also imposes large fines and […]
Ten months after the death of 37-year-old Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the two police officers involved in his death will face no federal charges. The announcement was first made Tuesday, May 2, 2017, and formally made on Wednesday, May 3, 2017. Both Blane Salamoni and Howie Lake II […]
Violence erupted as nationalist protesters stormed parliament in Macedonia late Thursday, April 27, 2017, after the election of a new Parliament Speaker. The Speaker, Talat Xhaferi, is part of the ethnic Albanian minority and his election comes after weeks of gridlock in Parliament that kept the country from having a […]
On Saturday, April 22, 2017, activists in Lebanon displayed their latest protest against the controversial Article 522, which allows rapists to escape punishment by marrying their victims. A proposal to revoke Article 522 will go before Parliament on May 15 and would increase the minimum prison sentence for rapists from […]
Starting Monday, April 17, Arkansas is set to execute seven prisoners in a ten-day span, which is almost a quarter of Arkansas’s death row inmates, before the drugs used in the lethal injections expires on April 30. The executions will mark the most concentrated mass execution in the United States […]
The death toll in the northern Idlib region in Syria is expected to rise after a chemical bombing on Tuesday morning that brutally injured over 300 civilians. Many members of the international community have condemned the bombing and blamed President Bashar al-Assad for his suspected role, though both the Syrian […]
On Sunday 26 March 2017, thousands of people across Russia marched to protest corruption in the Russian government. Hundreds of peaceful demonstrators were arrested, including Vladimir Putin’s political rival Alexei Navalov, who organized the rallies. Navolov faces fifteen days of jail time for resisting police officers, but encourages supporters to […]
Without warning on Tuesday, British Prime Minister Theresa May announced that England would follow the United States’ example and ban certain electronic devices from flights originating from six Middle East countries. The announcement followed an earlier policy from the US Department of Homeland Security that bans “devices larger than a […]
