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Same-Sex Marriage Support At All-Time High, Even Among Groups That Opposed It

Nearly half of Republicans and more than half of African-Americans now express support for same-sex marriage, according to a new report from Pew. Here are six takeaways from the report.

In Texas, Opponents Rally Against Senate Republican Health Care Bill

Despite its politicians' positions, many people who live in Texas' rural hill country came out this weekend in support of the existing health care law. But some near the gathering support Obamacare repeal.

Supreme Court Sides With Religious School In Church-State Case

The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a Missouri church that had sought a state grant to resurface the playground at its preschool. The lower court had ruled that the funding violated the Constitutional separation of church and state. In Monday's decision, the court said that states can't deny public benefits to religious institutions that are otherwise qualified.

Google has announced it will no longer scan users' emails to target ads. Above, the company's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., in 2015.

Google Says It Will No Longer Read Users' Emails To Sell Targeted Ads

The company says it will make the change later this year, bringing Gmail in line with its business products. But Google has already gathered a lot of data on users since it launched Gmail in 2004.

Every Senior Applied To College At This Washington, D.C., High School

For the first time, every single Ballou High School senior applied and was accepted to college. NPR takes a look at what's next for the low-income high school in southeast Washington, D.C.

GOP Sen. Susan Collins Firmly Opposes Senate Health Care Bill

Sen. Collins says she wants to reform flaws in the Affordable Care Act. This comes after the Congressional Budget Office said the Senate bill would leave 22 million more people uninsured by 2026.

A picture taken on April 4 shows destruction at a hospital room in Khan Sheikhun, a rebel-held town in the northwestern Syrian Idlib province, following a chemical weapons attack.

White House Suspects Syria Is Preparing For Another Chemical Attack

A statement says the observed "activities" recall those before an April 4 strike that killed civilians, including children. It warns the Assad government that it would "pay a heavy price."

The view of downtown Los Angeles from Boyle Heights. As more neighborhoods in LA gentrify and see rents rise, many residents in this largely working class Latino neighborhood fear their neighborhood could be next. Art galleries have become the focus of concern.

In This LA Neighborhood, Protest Art Is A Verb

About a third of Boyle Heights' 90,000 residents live below the poverty line. But lower rents have attracted art galleries to the area, and that is drawing the ire of residents and activists.

Medicaid pays the costs for about 62 percent of seniors who are living in nursing homes, some of the priciest health care available.

From Birth To Death, Medicaid Affects The Lives Of Millions

Medicaid has become a prime target of Republicans in Congress who want to rein in the program's costs, which totaled $350 billion in 2015. We take a look at what all that money pays for.

Democrats Need To Manage Election Expectations Better, Rep. Bustos Says

David Greene talks to Democratic Rep. Cheri Bustos who won her Illinois district — which Trump also won — with a wide margin on an economic message, which she says her party should take a lesson from.

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