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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.

The Dow plummeted more than 1,300 points after President Trump announced new emergency steps. The New York Stock Exchange said that to protect its employees, it will close its trading floor Monday.

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.

The astronauts returned from the International Space Station after their spacecraft, Resilience, set a new record for the longest spaceflight by a U.S. space capsule that carried a crew.

An increasing number of allegations of inappropriate sexual conduct are being leveled against New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. So far, six women have come forward.

The House Select Committee investigating the Capitol siege will focus on efforts by former President Donald Trump to pressure the Justice Department to pursue baseless claims of election fraud.

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.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Oscar Quintero, aka Kay Sedia, who sold Tupperware in drag and was once one of its top sellers, about how the company changed his life.

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.

Also: Disgraced Cardinal Bernard Law dies in Rome; Europe's highest court rules Uber is, in fact, a taxi service; and one of only three black women to play in the Negro Leagues has died.