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  • The Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down the federal Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, in a major victory for supporters of same-sex marriage, who cheered the ruling outside the court.
    Court Overturns DOMA, Sidesteps Broad Gay Marriage Ruling
    A pair of 5-4 Supreme Court rulings struck down as unconstitutional a federal law denying benefits to same-sex couples and cleared the way for gay marriages to resume in California.
  • Our class of newbies learns how to pick up that buttery taste in a glass of chardonnay.
    Fruity With A Hint Of Bologna: A Slacker's Guide To Wine Tasting
    Science is a beautiful thing — especially when it helps you impress your foodie friends. Here we present five easy party tricks — based on science, natch — that will make you look like a wine tasting pro. Do try this at home.
  • Dr. Horace Wells, who practiced dentistry in Hartford, Conn., in the 1840s, was an early booster for the use of nitrous oxide as an anesthetic.
    Laughing Gas Gets A Safety Check
    There have been nagging questions about whether nitrous oxide during surgery raises the risk of heart attacks and other problems. Now, there's some reassurance, though no definitive answer, from a study that looked at the widely used anesthetic.
  • Read The Rulings: Inside The Same-Sex Marriage Decisions
    The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down the Defense of Marriage Act, ruling that legally married same-sex couples are now entitled to the same federal benefits as married opposite-sex couples. They also weighed in on California's same-sex marriage ban. Read annotated versions of the rulings.
  • The Supreme Court's Landmark Decision On Same-Sex Marriage
    David Greene speaks with NPR's Nina Totenberg about the Supreme Court's landmark decision granting federal benefits to married same-sex couples.
  • SCOTUS: What Else Happened This Term?
    The Supreme Court handed down major decisions on voting rights, affirmative action, and gay marriage. But what about some of the lower-profile rulings this term? Host Michel Martin runs through those cases with Robert Barnes of the Washington Post.
  • American Chip Starnes, co-owner of Specialty Medical Supplies, spoke to the media Tuesday from a window at a factory on the outskirts of Beijing.
    U.S. Businessman Trapped By Chinese Workers Is Freed
    Chip Starnes had laid off some workers at his Chinese factory and paid them severance but remaining workers were afraid they'd lose their jobs, too. They were so angry they wouldn't let him leave the facility for six days.
  • Lake Ralph Hall plan clears hurdle
    The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality will be the next agency to review the plan for Lake Ralph Hall, which supporters say would be an…
  • After Samuel Taylor came out to his mother, Connie Casey, the pair had several very difficult years. But in time, Connie realized she had to re-examine her feelings about homosexuality.
    For A Mom, Learning To Accept A Gay Son Was 'Nonnegotiable'
    When Connie Casey learned her adolescent son was gay, she blamed herself and sent him to conversion therapy for several years. But when Samuel, now 22, went away to college, Connie says, she realized that "it was time to take a look at everything that I'd ever been taught to believe."
  • Economists Have A One-Page Solution To Climate Change
    Tax fossil fuels in proportion to the amount of carbon they release. That's it; that's the whole plan.
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