The US Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear a case in which a branch of Planned Parenthood challenged an Arkansas abortion law. The law requires any doctor prescribing an abortion pill to have an agreement with another doctor who can admit the patient to the hospital in the case of an emergency. A federal [...]

The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the Fourth Amendment’s automobile exception does not permit a police officer to enter the area around a home to search a parked vehicle without an invitation or a search warrant. In Collins v. Virginia , the defendant was convicted of receiving a stolen motorcycle after a police officer [...]

Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) and Representative Joe Barton (R-TX) reintroduced a bill on Wednesday that would strengthen privacy protections for minors online. The bill, known as the Do Not Track Kids Act of 2018, would amend the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by allowing internet companies to collect personal data from children under 13 [...]

UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday revealed a new agenda for nuclear disarmament. Guterres’ agenda has three prongs. First, he urged the disarmament of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons. Part of the agenda reads, “he Secretary-General remains fully committed to working for the total elimination of nuclear weapons and he calls on Member States to [...]

Scotland’s government introduced a climate change bill in the Scottish Parliament on Wednesday that sets greenhouse gas emissions targets at a 90 percent reduction by 2050. This is currently the “limit of feasibility” set forth by the UK Committee on Climate Change . The eventual goal is a 100 percent reduction, also known as “net-zero [...]

Amnesty International reported on Tuesday that a Rohingya militant group known as the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) is behind at least one massacre against Hindus in the Rakhine State that took place last August, as well as other incidences of murders and abductions. Amnesty wrote that on August 25, 2017, ARSA murdered 53 Hindu [...]

The government of Palestine submitted a referral to the International Criminal Court , which was received by the ICC on Tuesday. Palestine urges the ICC to investigate what it deems “war crimes and crimes against humanity” carried out by Israel’s government in Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem. Palestine alleges in its referral that Israel’s government [...]

Burundi announced on Monday that voters had approved amending the nation’s constitution to extend presidential term limits from five years to seven. According to the election commission chief, 73 percent of voters supported changing the constitution. Nineteen percent voted against the amendment. The amendment gives Burundi’s president, Pierre Nkurunziza the ability to potentially stay in [...]

The UN Human Rights Council passed a resolution on Friday to send an independent investigation commission to examine alleged violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law that occurred in response to mass protests by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and surrounding territory. A press release stated: The Council condemned the disproportionate and [...]

The US Supreme Court ruled Monday in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis that arbitration clauses in employment contracts prohibiting class action lawsuits are legally enforceable. The plaintiff employees argued that the Federal Arbitration Act contains a provision that arbitration clauses cannot be enforced it they violate some other federal law, and this particular arbitration clause [...]