A baker in suburban Denver must make cakes for same-sex weddings or face fines, according to a judge’s ruling last week. 

Judge Robert N. Spencer denied the bakery owner’s claim that he was exercising his freedoms of religion and speech when he told a gay couple he would not make their wedding cake. Spencer instead ordered him to “cease and desist from discriminating” or face fines ranging from $50 to $500 per person per incident, according to the bakery owner’s attorney.

A celebrity custody battle over a 9-month-old baby has courts debating whether a fetus is a baby or a part of its mother’s body. The case in question asks whether a mother had the right to move across the country and away from the father while pregnant.

This week officials released an investigative report on the Dec. 14, 2012, Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, marking the troubling end to a case with no arrests or criminal prosecutions. The 48-page report, which details evidence, interviews, and a minute-by-minute timeline, was released after a yearlong investigation into the shootings.

Banning child labor in developing countries may increase the number of child laborers, especially in poor families, according to a National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) paper published last month. Three economists from the University of California, San Diego, the University of Toronto, and Michigan State University contributed to the report. 

Support for marijuana legalization is on the rise, even among Independents, the elderly, and Christians, according to recent surveys.  

Kids now spend more of their waking hours consuming media from their  smartphones, TVs, and computers than any other activity, including attending school. But parents are not as involved as they should be in limiting media use, according to a policy statement published this week by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). One reason: Parents don’t see how many hours their children spend in front of a screen.

More women are using donated eggs for in vitro fertilization (IVF) and more healthy babies are being born through the process, according to a study released last week. While this is good news, the process also creates more embryos than can be implanted, leaving hundreds of thousands of frozen embryos in fertility clinics.