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The mayor says the Star of David was removed from the city's holiday lights display to comply with legal requirements.

The mayor says the Star of David was removed from the city's holiday lights display to comply with legal requirements.

The first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, Sandra Day O’Connor, will be remembered for her history-making career, her efforts to broker legal compromises and her many memorable religion-related rulings. OK, I admit the religion rulings are pretty far down the list of what comes to the average American’s mind when you talk about O’Connor. During her nearly quarter century on the Supreme Court bench, she refined faith-related funding rules, changed how the court assessed religious displays on public property and helped prompt Congress to pass one of the most impor...

The first female justice on the Supreme Court was also the last justice to have served as an elected official. And her contributions to the court reflected her political experience and pragmatism.

Officials at a Department of Veterans Affairs facility in Lexington, Kentucky, reportedly removed a Bible from a memorial table for fallen service members and prisoners of war following a complaint from a nonprofit civil rights organization.