The U.S. Supreme Court announced Friday it would hear the case of a threatened World War I memorial in Bladensburg, Md., that could affect monuments across the country that incorporate religious symbols. The American Humanist Association sued Bladensburg, Md., for a cross memorial erected by an American Legion post in 1925 honoring local men who died in World War I. A U.S. district judge in Maryland ruled the memorial could stay in 2015, but a three-judge panel from the 4th U.S.

Tennessee used the electric chair for the first time since 2007, executing double-murderer Edmund Zagorski Thursday after the U.S. Supreme Court denied his request for a stay. Zagorski, 63, was pronounced dead at 7:26 p.m. at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, becoming only the second person in the state to be executed by electrocution since 1960. He was convicted for killing two men during a drug deal decades ago and had been on death row for 34 years.

Hundreds of Google employees around the world staged a walkout Thursday over perceived mishandling of sexual misconduct accusations, including lenient treatment for accused executives. The “Walkout for Real Change” comes a week after The New York Times reported on sexual misconduct accusations against Andy Rubin, the original developer behind Google’s Android software.

Irish voters chose to remove a blasphemy ban from the country’s constitution on Friday, reflecting a quick social shift in what has long been a conservative, Roman Catholic nation. Close to 65 percent voted in favor of the measure, with the strongest support among voters under the age of 35. Forty-four percent of eligible voters participated.

Angela Merkel announced Monday that this would be her final parliamentary term as Germany’s chancellor. At the same meeting with the leadership of the Christian Democratic Union, Merkel said she would also step down as leader of the party, which lost significant ground in a regional election Sunday, and would not try to influence who is chosen as her successor.

The suspect in Wednesday’s shooting at a supermarket in Kentucky that killed two people had a history of violence and mental illness and tried to enter a predominantly African-American church before his deadly attack, according to local police. Gregory Bush was arrested in the killing of two African-Americans, a man and a woman, at a Kroger near Louisville, Ky. An armed bystander engaged the suspect in the parking lot after the shooting, but Bush fled and police later apprehended him on a nearby road.

A ticket bought in South Carolina won the Mega Millions lottery on Tuesday with a final prize of $1.537 billion, lottery officials said. The total is lower than the original estimate of $1.6 billion and comes in just shy of the all-time record from 2016. The winning ticket is worth about $877.8 million in a lump-sum cash payment, which most winners take instead of collecting the full amount in annual payments over three decades. South Carolina is one of the eight states where winners can remain anonymous. Whoever bought the ticket hasn’t claimed the prize yet.