San Francisco's archbishop breaking with Vatican over same-sex couple blessings...hundreds of false bomb threats made to Jewish facilities likely came from outside the U.S....and Britain’s Supreme Court has denied machines the same status as humans.

Late U-S Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor has been memorialized...Oklahoma Supreme Court staying out of lawsuit trying to prevent opening of the nation's first religious charter school...and it's a toned-downed Christmas in Bethlehem.

Pope Francis formally approves allowing priests to bless same-sex couples...a once-prominent cardinal has been sentenced to five-and-a-half-years in Vatican jail...and the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem said two Christian women at a church compound in Gaza have been killed by Israeli sniper fire.

U-S Supreme Court will hear appeals on limits on abortion pill...New Mexico's Supreme Court isweighing whether to strike down local abortion restrictions...and attorneys representing an Oregon mother of five who wishes to adopt siblings from foster care appeals being denied due to her beliefs.

President Biden vows to continue to stand with Israel in its war with Hamas...Harvard's President will keep her job...and University of Minnesota may become target of federal investigation over antisemitism.

U-S Supreme Court declines to take up achallenge to Washington State's ban on conversion therapy for minors..police investigating death of Nebraska priest...and attorney's for pregnant Texas women says she will travel out of state for abortion.

U-S Supreme Court is deciding whether to take up legal fight over drug most commonly used for medication abortion...Texas Attorney General threatens to prosecute any doctors who perform abortion on woman who just won a court order...and a man is facing federal charges after firing shots outside an Albany, New York synagogue.

Texas mother challenging state's near total abortion ban gets temporary restraining order...Wisconsin District Attorney promising quick appeal of abortion ban ruling...and Eastern Washington city council passes ordinance giving them more control over the city's library.

Wisconsin judge says state's abortion ban doesn't really ban abortions...Texas woman sues to allow her an abortion...and debate and testimony on Capitol Hill over antisemitism.