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(Ty Wright | The New York Times) Lena Williams and Crystal Zimmer hold hands outside the Hamilton County Courthouse after being married in Cincinnati, Ohio, on June 26, 2015. State efforts to urge the Supreme Court to reconsider same-sex marriage have not advanced, but they have reopened the issue.

Same-sex marriage is the law of the land. Some states are debating it anyway.

By Amy Harmon | The New York Times | April 29, 2025, 12:00 p.m.

(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) Snow covers vegetation in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023.

Sweating to shivering: Study finds rapid swings in temperature have increased

By Christina Kelso | The New York Times | April 26, 2025, 12:00 p.m.

(Matthew Hamon | The New York Times) Downtown Couer D'Alene, Idaho, on Nov. 1, 2019.

Six men are charged after woman was dragged from Idaho town hall

By Christine Hauser | The New York Times | April 23, 2025, 4:12 p.m.

(Ross D. Franklin | AP) Maricopa County Superior Court building shown, Monday, April 21, 2025, in Phoenix, where the Arizona murder trial of Lori Vallow Daybell who's charged with conspiring to murder her estranged husband, is being held.

‘Doomsday Mom’: What to know about Lori Vallow Daybell’s convictions

By Lauren McCarthy and Christine Hauser | The New York Times | April 23, 2025, 3:33 p.m.

(Mustafa Hussain | The New York Times) Aerial views of Timberline Knolls in Lemont, Ill., March 28, 2025. Timberline Knolls, a mental health center owned by Acadia Healthcare, skimped on staff, then came a series of tragedies.

Suicides and rape at a Illinois mental health center owned by company with similar problems in Utah

By Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Katie Thomas | The New York Times | April 22, 2025, 4:32 p.m.

(Sakchai Lalit | AP) Newborn babies at the Synphaet hospital in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2019. With America’s fertility rate at a historic low, a “pronatalist” community has emerged, calling for bigger families and policies that encourage childbearing.

The women who think the world needs more babies

By Emma Goldberg | The New York Times | April 22, 2025, 7:30 p.m.

(Eric Thayer | The New York Times) Pope Francis is greeted by well-wishers upon his arrival to Our Lady Queen of Angels School in the East Harlem neighborhood of New York on Sept. 25, 2015. Pope Francis, who rose from modest means in Argentina to become the first Jesuit and Latin American pontiff, died at the Vatican on Monday, April 21, 2025. He was 88.

Pope Francis, the first Latin American pontiff, dies at 88

By Jason Horowitz, Jim Yardley |The New York Times | April 21, 2025, 2:45 p.m.

(Benjamin Cleeton | The New York Times) Members of the South Jefferson Volunteer Rescue respond to an emergency call in Henderson, N.Y., July 7, 2024. The Trump administration is eyeing about $40 billion in cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services's budget next year.

Trump administration proposes sharp budget cuts for HHS

By Karoun Demirjian and Apoorva Mandavilli | The New York Times | April 18, 2025, 12:37 a.m.

(Javier Jaén | The New York Times) A growing body of evidence now shows that cannabis is destructive to male fertility.

Your weed habit may be messing with your sperm

By Alexander Nazaryan | The New York Times | April 13, 2025, 12:00 p.m.