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Here are the new releases coming your way between now and Thanksgiving — we've got award contenders, goofy comedies, a smattering of romance, plenty of anti-heroes, and a musical documentary in LEGOs.

Photo Credit: stsimonselopements.wordpress.com UPDATE- The Kansas Supreme Court has told Johnson County not to issue any additional licenses to same sex couples. The original version of this story is posted at the bottom of the page. TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Supreme Court has blocked the state's most populous county from issuing marriage licenses to gay couples, hours after the first one was issued under an order from a lower-court judge.The Supreme Court issued a three-page order in response to a petition filed by Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt. The high court said it acted for "statewide consistency."The Supreme Court set a hearing for Nov. 6.Schmidt argued that the chief district court judge in Johnson County exceeded his authority in ordering clerks and other judges to approve marriage applications from gay couples, despite a ban on gay marriage in the state constitution.Judge Kevin Moriarty issued his order after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear appeals from five other states seeking to preserve their bans. ====================(ORIGINAL VERSION)Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt has filed court papers to block Johnson County officials from issuing marriage licenses to same sex couples. Earlier today (FRI), Johnson County issued what is thought to be the first same sex marriage license in Kansas. KPR’s Stephen Koranda reports.(SCRIPT)The chief judge in Johnson County made the decision to issue marriage licenses to same sex couples.Schmidt says that judge overstepped his bounds and he’s asking the Kansas Supreme Court to stop the practice.Schmidt has been expecting a lawsuit over the state’s ban on same sex marriage and says the issuing of licenses should stop until there’s an orderly, legal resolution to the dispute. Governor Sam Brownback agrees that the state should defend the constitutional ban on same sex marriage.LGBT rights advocates say same sex couples should be allowed to marry now, because they believe the state is all but guaranteed to lose a legal challenge.

Syracuse is the only college team that relies exclusively on a 2-3 zone defense. They've been unstoppable so far in the NCAA men's basketball tournament, but on Saturday night, Michigan will try to break through Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim's winning strategy.

The department tracks student achievement, manages college financial aid and sends K-12 schools money to support students with disabilities and lower-income communities, among other things.

Join the Ghosts of KPR Staff Past and Present as they read Charles Dickens' classic holiday tale, A Christmas Carol.

In a conversation with Morning Edition, Joe Kahn, executive editor of The New York Times, discussed the danger to free press under Trump and critiques of his newsroom from both the left and the right.

AT&T Park is the home of the San Francisco Giants, and the site of World Series Game 3. (Photo credit: The San Francisco Giants/Major League Baseball)UPDATE: Royals won Game Three, 3-2, and now lead series 2-1! Yay! The World Series is set to resume tonight (FRI) in San Francisco. Game Three between the Giants and the Kansas City Royals gets underway at 7:07 pm. Kansas Public Radio’s Greg Echlin reports that the rules of the game that Royals fans have come to expect in the American League will be a bit different as the series shifts to a National League ballpark.

A year after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, a new NPR/Ipsos poll finds that Americans are pessimistic about the future of democracy, as false claims about the 2020 election persist.

Reuters editor Chrystia Freeland traveled the world, interviewing multimillionaires and billionaires for her new book, Plutocrats. She says there's a startling disconnect between those at the very top and the rest of us — one that has the power to transform society in unfortunate ways.