It's Friday, May 23rd.
I'm Jane Koston.
This is What A Day,
the show that's excited to watch the new Mission Impossible movie tonight to confirm my personal hunch that Tom Cruise firmly believes he cannot die and is going to keep trying to prove it.
On today's show,
the Justice Department files murder charges against a man suspected of killing two staffers at the Israeli embassy in D.C.,
and the U.S.
Treasury gets ready to bid adieu to the penny.
But let's start with the Supreme Court, again.
On Thursday, the court did two very important things.
First, it deadlocked on a case involving the creation of a religious charter school in Oklahoma.
The justices' 4-4 split leaves in place the ruling of the Oklahoma Supreme Court,
which had blocked the school.
And yes, this was a very big deal.
When the school and the state's charter board went to the U.S.
Supreme Court in a bid to reverse the Oklahoma court's ruling,
it's clear that at least one of the court's conservatives seemed a little...
little concerned about the possible precedent a state creating and funding a religious school might set.
We don't know who.
The opinion didn't say how the justices voted.