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Nick Dela Canal of member station WFAE reports that food assistance organizations are feeling the strain.

The Supreme Court has declined to revisit a landmark decision legalizing same-sex marriage.

From member station WKYU, Lisa Autry reports.

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A judge in West Virginia is allowing the continued deployment to Washington, D.C.

of more than 300 state National Guard troops.

The judge ruling Monday that Governor Patrick Morrissey was within his authority to deploy the Guard in response to President Trump's executive order declaring a crime emergency in the nation's capital.

The Justice Department, however, says violent crime in the district is at a 30-year low.

After nearly 30 years, Canada has lost its measles-free status.

International health experts say Canada is no longer free of the disease because of ongoing outbreaks.

Canada has logged more than 5,100 cases this year, and Canada says it will work to increase vaccinations.

The novel Flesh by David Solloy has won this year's Booker Prize, which goes to the best English language book published in the UK.

The judges said they'd never read anything quite like it, as NPR's Andrew Limbaugh reports.

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Giles Snyder.

Today is day 40 of the government shutdown.

House members remain out of town, but NPR's Amy Held reports the Senate is working to break the impasse and is due to reconvene this afternoon.

Flight delays and cancellations piling up for a third day, according to the flight tracking website FlightAware.

Cancellations so far today top 1,300, and there are more than 1,800 delays as the Federal Aviation Administration limits air traffic at major airports around the country due to safety concerns.

A new national survey shows that polarization in the country is taking an emotional toll on Americans.

A majority of those surveyed say societal divisions stressing them out.