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(SRN NEWS) – More major corporations are dropping Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs that critics say promote the LGBT agenda and racism.  Uber is one of the latest.  The ride-hailing service has removed the DEI section from its 2024 annual report filed last month.  Salesforce has done the same thing in its latest report.  The parent company of Jack Daniels says it will no longer participate in the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index.  That annual survey ranks companies according to how hard they pushed the LGBT agenda. 

The fate of a French impressionist painting once stolen by the Nazis from a Jewish woman is in question once again now that the U.S. Supreme Court has revived an old case.  The justices have decided that the case should be reconsidered under a California law passed last year.  It aims to strengthen the claims of Holocaust survivors and their families seeking to recover stolen art.  The descendants of the Jewish woman from whom the Nazis stole the painting now live in California.  The work of art is in the hands of a museum in Spain. 

An abortion advocacy group wants states to stop requiring clinics to file reports on every abortion.  The Guttmacher Institute claims that Republicans might use such information against both abortion doctors and patients.  Pro-life advocates reject that charge and accuse Guttmacher of seeking to hide what abortion doctors and clinics are doing.  Meanwhile, Michigan has halted required reporting on abortions. Minnesota has removed some required information, such as the marital status, race and ethnicity of women having abortions. 

St. Paul’s Lutheran church in Helsinki has held the first service in Finland created mostly by artificial intelligence.  The congregation watched a dialogue between Christ and Satan play out on a large screen in the sanctuary.  Also addressing the flock during the evening service were avatars of the church’s pastors and a former president of Finland who died in 1986.  The widely advertised experimental service drew over 120 people.  Worshippers said they enjoyed it but agreed it wouldn’t replace services led by humans anytime soon.