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Massachusetts lawmakers consider amending the state's constitution to ban same-sex marriages. Supporters of the proposed ban differ on how it should be enacted as opponents protest what they call an attack on civil rights. The debate has attracted thousands of demonstrators at Boston's old Statehouse. Hear NPR's Michele Norris and NPR's Tovia Smith.

At just about every event or campaign stop, there are young people holding up signs. Their mission: to get their candidate's name on television. High school senior Robert Mack, a volunteer for Sen. John Edwards' campaign, talks about why he signed up.

As China opens up its markets to foreign goods, it's starting to have increasingly more in common with South Korea than its supposed brother in the North. And as NPR's Rob Gifford reports, South Koreans are eager to trade with China. But some worry that South Korea's economic infatuation with its neighbor is blinding it to the possible dangers of an emergent China.

The Federal Election Commission imposed new limits on non-party political groups that want to use large donations to influence this fall's elections. NPR's Peter Overby reports Republican leaders and campaign reformists say all money raised by groups independent of party candidates should be off limits.

A U.N. envoy meets with Iraq's top Shiite Muslim cleric, seeking to resolve the dispute over the cleric's call to elect a transitional assembly. U.N. envoy Lakhdar Brahimi says he agrees with Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani's demand for elections but is unsure whether a vote could be held before a June 30 U.S. deadline for a power transfer. NPR's Deborah Amos reports.

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry awaits results of the Wisconsin primary, with 72 delegates at stake. Kerry faces a strong challenge from rival Sen. John Edwards. Hear NPR's Robert Siegel and NPR's Scott Horsley.

NPR's Andrea Seabrook reports on campaigning in Delaware, one of seven states to hold primaries or caucuses on Tuesday.

Fewer Americans are sitting down to the traditional home-cooked dinner these days, and that has renowned cookbook author Marion Cunningham worried. With her latest book, Lost Recipes: Meals to Share with Friends and Family, Cunningham offers simple recipes in hopes of luring more of us back to the kitchen. Read recipes for garlic-crumb-stuffed artichokes and Bess Truman's Ozark pudding.

President Bush's decision to create another panel to investigate pre-war intelligence on Iraq angers many in the intelligence community. Intelligence experts say much of the information provided on Iraq was accurate, and accuse the Bush administration of spinning data to support the case for war. Hear NPR's Mary Louise Kelly.

The writer and Spanish Civil War veteran William Herrick died over the weekend. Our book commentator Alan Cheuse describes Herrick's life and work and the modern relevance of the writer's greatest subject: politics and terror.