ARKANSAS, USA — A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Revised Anatomical Gift Act from taking effect, an Arkansas law that would allow certain persons to revoke, modify, or amend organ donations after a donor's death.

A new Arkansas law requiring public classrooms to display the Ten Commandments cannot be enforced in a handful of the state’s largest school districts where parents brought challenges on the grounds that it violates the separation of church and state,

Judge sides with parents who challenged Arkansas Ten Commandments law, blocking it in several districts one day before it was set to take effect.