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In a landmark ruling, the court said same-sex couples are eligible to receive the same health insurance benefits as heterosexual couples. South Korea doesn't legally recognize same-sex marriages.

KPop Demon Hunters is still doing great on the Billboard charts. But another K-pop juggernaut debuts in the top spot for albums. That'd be the boy band Stray Kids, whose new album is titled Karma.

At two top-tier high schools in Palo Alto, Calif., the suicide rate is four times higher than the national average over the last 10 years. NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Hanna Rosin, who's reported for The Atlantic, on what might be behind the trend and how the schools are responding.

Gen. Qassem Soleimani was killed Friday in Baghdad. The U.S. secretary of defense said Soleimani "was actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members throughout the region."

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Moncef Slaoui, chief adviser for the coronavirus vaccine development program, Operation Warp Speed, about the status of vaccines in the U.S.

Julian Khater pleaded guilty to two felony counts of assaulting, resisting or impeding officers with a dangerous weapon in a D.C. court last September.

NPR's Adrian Florido talks with ambassador James B. Story, a former top diplomat to Venezuela, about the rising tensions between the U.S. and Venezuela, and what President Trump's goals might be.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to NATO Ambassador Julianne Smith about the alliance's annual summit, and how the U.S. plans to reassure allies that Ukraine funding will continue.

The intelligence community views four countries as posing the main security challenges over the next year: China, followed by Russia, Iran and North Korea.

Some 2,000 scientists, including dozens of Nobel Prize winners, have signed an open letter warning that the U.S. lead in science is being "decimated" by the Trump administration's cuts to research.