Last month’s FCC vote to restore net neutrality rules is a welcome example of forward-looking, innovation-friendly regulation. Rules aimed at ensuring an open internet are a model for the kind of regulation that champions innovation in the digital era and exemplifies core American values. Other regulators would do well to…

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Civil rights groups urged the US Supreme Court to step into Louisiana’s fraught and potentially far-reaching redistricting battle on Wednesday, asking the justices to rule against some White voters who claim the state legislature violated the Constitution when it drew a second majority-Black district in its congressional map. The emergency appeal has once again thrust race onto the high court’s docket – and yet again with a short fuse. Louisiana officials say they want a decision by May 15 to have time to administer this year’s elections. Because the case raises fundamental questions about how mapmakers consider race when they…

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Gold-backed exchange-traded funds (ETFs) suffered their 11th straight month of declines, according to the World Gold Council (WGC). This was due to further heavy liquidations in Europe, the organisation said. Total holdings in bullion-backed ETFs slipped by 33 tonnes, the WGC said, to 3,080 tonnes. This was the lowest amount…