- USA TODAY
CBS revives 'Hollywood Squares' with Drew Barrymore, plans new 'NCIS: Origins' Mondays
CBS announced its upcoming 2024-25 schedule at a press conference Thursday featuring homes for "NCIS: Origins" and the "Young Sheldon" spinoff.
- Associated Press
Mississippi high court declines to rule on questions of public funds going to private schools
The Mississippi Supreme Court has declined to rule on whether the state is violating its own constitution with a program that would spend $10 million of public money on infrastructure grants for private schools. The justices on Thursday ruled 7-2 that an advocacy group lacked legal standing to sue the state. Parents for Public Schools “failed to sufficiently demonstrate an adverse impact that it suffers differently from the general public,” the majority wrote.
- Associated Press
United Methodists remove anti-gay language from their official teachings on societal issues
United Methodist delegates on Thursday removed a 52-year-old declaration from their official social teachings that deemed “the practice of homosexuality ... incompatible with Christian teaching” — part of a wider series of historic reversals of the denomination’s longstanding disapproval of LGBTQ activity. The 523-161 vote to approve a section of the church's Revised Social Principles took place at the General Conference of the United Methodist Church in the penultimate day of their 11-day legislative gathering in Charlotte.
