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Democrats are on the path to including an endorsement of same-sex marriage for the first time in their official party platform. The proposal has made it through an important Democratic committee meeting.

The pace of sales was up 5.7 percent in September vs. August, and was 27.1 percent higher than in September 2011. Today's news is further evidence that the housing sector is on the rebound.

In looking back on her favorite reads from 2015, NPR arts correspondent Lynn Neary realized that many of them were short story collections.

Five homes in North Adams have been without running water for more than a week as subzero temperatures froze a nearly 100-year-old pipe.Katherine Haig has…

Tune in to Food Friday, where food and agriculture writer and cooking instructor Deanna Fox talks about all the delicious things to cook with…

Richard Adler, who co-wrote the musicals The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees with his partner, Jerry Ross, died Thursday at his home in Southampton, N.Y. He was 90. Fresh Air remembers the composer and lyricist with excerpts from a 1990 interview.

The memories of those who survived Chernobyl were collected in the book Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of the Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich. We hear some of their stories.

International Atomic Energy Agency head Rafael Grossi said Iran's nuclear program is heavily damaged, "but the material will still be there and the enrichment capacities will be there."

Many states have no minimum age, but there's a push to raise it to a common international standard of 14. Experts say diversion programs should be provided without the criminalization of children.

David Stern was a giant in a game of giants. The former NBA commissioner has died at age 77, less than three weeks after undergoing emergency surgery for…