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In California, two elderly women were one of the first same-sex couples to marry in the state. Their marriage begins a busy week for county registrars around the Golden State. The state's Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage took effect Monday.

Businesses such as book, clothing, toy and sporting goods stores, as well as music shops and florists, will be able to reopen with modifications as early as Friday.

Minimum wage workers cannot afford a one-bedroom apartment in 93% of U.S. counties, a new report finds.

NPR's Ina Jaffe reports the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has found NO link between the introduction of crack cocaine and CIA support of contra rebels in the 1980's. The Department was investigating charges first raised in a series of articles by the San Jose Mercury News, saying that the CIA had supported contras who were involved in the crack trade. The sheriffs spent 2 months investigating the charges.

Noah talks to people who have been affected by the cold weather gripping the Midwest. He talks to Jim Miller, who owns and operates a wind farm in Brit, Iowa; and to Antonio Manzanares (man-zuh-NAH-rays) in Rio Arriba (REE-oh ah-REE-bah) County, New Mexico. Miller says that the high winds and denser cold air are good for his farm's productivity. Manzanares describes working with sheep in bitterly cold weather.

In part three of our series on physicians and managed care, NPR's Patricia Neighmond examines how patients react to a system that tries to maintain low costs by keeping patients healthy and out of the hospital. The focus is on the Bristol Park Medical Group in Orange County, California, a new type of group practice where physicians have banded together to regain control over medical decision-making.

-- New York's Duchess County, where IBM made big cuts. He reports from on how entrepreneurial start-ups have helped revitalize parts of the area so badly affected.

Linda talks to Andrew Kohut, Director of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, about what the public opinion polls are showing about the Florida ballot recounts. The latest poll by the Pew Research Center show that voters siding with George W. Bush, even though they doubt the accuracy of the vote count. Most voters also are against a new election in Palm Beach County, Florida, regardless of the confusing ballots there.

Journalist Eric Lichtblau says President Trump's incendiary rhetoric has stoked a "new age of hate." His book centers on a murder committed by a young neo-Nazi in Orange County, Calif.

"This could be the greatest loss of human lives and property due to wildfires in our state's history," Oregon Gov. Kate Brown said. Fires are burning more than 900,000 acres across the state.