A judge ruled Monday that a California public school district can teach yoga. The ruling determined that although yoga is a religious practice, the Encinitas Union School District does not teach it that way at its nine campuses.

A Christian girl fled Pakistan with her family after a Muslim cleric falsely accused her of burning pages from the Quran. After spending months in hiding, Rimsha Masih and her family are now in Canada, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said over the weekend.

“Seems like not much has changed in the world of Chick-fil-A,” declared a Huffington Post article after Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy, perhaps predictably, tweeted his opinion about the Supreme Court’s ruling on DOMA and Proposition 8. The ruling will extend federal recognition to same-sex marriages in the states where they are legal.

President Barack Obama’s support of the Supreme Court rulings on same-sex marriage caused some friction with his African hosts this week.

Obama said from Senegal, his most recent stop on his African tour, that all states should recognize same-sex marriage. Senegal is one of the many African countries that outlaw homosexuality. Senegalese President Macky Sall resisted Obama’s call for Africans to give gays equal rights under the law.

UPDATE (7:14 p.m.): Gov. Rick Perry has ordered the Texas state Legislature to meet July 1 to begin 30 more days of work. Like the first special session, which ended in chaos last night, the second session will include on its agenda the Republican-backed abortion bill.

OUR EARLIER REPORT: The ending of the Texas Senate’s special session last night could have been pulled straight from a movie.

Last week, a federal district court in Michigan ruled in favor of a student disciplined for expressing views against homosexuality. Judge Patrick Duggan assessed damages at $1, according to the Detroit Free Press.

Federal authorities accused two upstate New York men on Wednesday of conspiring to provide support to terrorists. The strange part of the case? Scientists deemed the plot, “the stuff of comic books.”

Glendon Scott Crawford, 49, of Galway, and Eric J. Feight, 54, of Hudson, were trying to assemble an X-ray weapon to target opponents of Israel. Authorities say they wanted to attach a remote-control switch to a van-mounted, industrial X-ray machine and secretly radiate people who would sicken or die days later.