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Pat Friedman fought Donald Trump's efforts to build a big restaurant and banquet hall on a public beach on Long Island for six years.

President Obama issued a proclamation making April 12 "Equal Pay Day." NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Harvard economics professor Claudia Goldin about what's behind the pay gap between men and women.

The leaked documents tell the backstory of a groundbreaking Christie's auction, and the purchase of a painting one man claims was seized from his grandfather during World War II.

NPR's Robert Siegel interviews Kurdish Regional Government Deputy Prime Minister Qubad Talabani about how the drop in oil prices, the influx of refugees and the fight against ISIS is causing economic devastation for the Kurdish population in Iraq. Kurdish forces were holding the line across a 650-mile front against ISIS, but have not been paid for the last five months.

Caught up in the plight of Syrian refugees, Italian hipsters went to live in a refugee camp in Lebanon. With the help of church groups, they resettled a Syrian family in a remote Italian village.

The Ohio governor says there are "two paths" for the Republican Party — one of "darkness" and the one that he's on. That may resonate more with general election voters than primary voters, though.

House Speaker Paul Ryan says he's "going to rule himself out of the presidential race and put this to rest once and for all." The speaker has repeatedly, publicly denied any interest in the office or the possibility of a "dark horse" run at a contested GOP convention in Cleveland.

In 2008, Ecuadorean immigrant Marcelo Lucero was fatally stabbed in Patchogue, N.Y. NPR's Ari Shapiro checks in with Sister Margaret Smyth on how the village is doing, a few days before Donald Trump is set to speak at a Republican Party fundraiser there.

The Sewall-Belmont Equality House and Museum has long been a part of the fight for women's equality. On Tuesday, it became a national monument, the Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument, honoring the party's founder, Alice Paul, and it's benefactor, Alva Belmont.

It may be an expensive answer but experts say if Flint, Mich., residents used more tap water, it would help flush lead-contaminated water from the system.