| Rescued chimpanzees and orangutans: This woman’s lifework is caring for them Posted: 13 Apr 2017 02:54 PM PDT ![Rescued chimpanzees and orangutans: This woman's lifework is caring for them]( "Rescued chimpanzees and orangutans: This woman's lifework is caring for them") Patti Ragan skillfully maneuvers a golf cart along narrow twisting paths through the heavily wooded Center for Great Apes. The center she founded nearly 25 years ago has become in part a rehabilitation facility and in part a nursing home for apes, which can live 60 years or more in captivity.
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| Next up in curbing corruption: South Africa Posted: 13 Apr 2017 02:02 PM PDT ![Next up in curbing corruption: South Africa]( "Next up in curbing corruption: South Africa") Just a decade ago, five of the world's largest emerging economies – Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa – began to meet and flex their collective muscle on the world stage. After all, their combined economies are nearly a quarter of global gross domestic product. In 2011, India saw mass anti-corruption protests.
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| To make life easier for German Turks, locals try sharing their personal histories Posted: 13 Apr 2017 01:08 PM PDT ![To make life easier for German Turks, locals try sharing their personal histories]( "To make life easier for German Turks, locals try sharing their personal histories") Berkant Bostan was born in Germany to Turkish parents. Many of his fellow German-born Turks define "home" as a place they only visit on summer vacations. By far Germany's largest minority group, Turks have a mixed integration story.
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| American isolationism? World signals it may no longer be possible Posted: 13 Apr 2017 12:48 PM PDT ![American isolationism? World signals it may no longer be possible]( "American isolationism? World signals it may no longer be possible") Donald Trump, presidential candidate, was going to buck seven decades of American leadership and imperial engagement with the world by turning inward and implementing an "America First" foreign policy. Donald Trump, president of the United States, appears to be finding that the world is not ready for a withdrawn and isolationist America. "Trump came in promising that America would stick to its own knitting, but he's realizing the US has a unique role to play in the world that in many ways neither the US nor the world can do without," says Robert Lieber, a professor of government and international affairs at Georgetown University in Washington.
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| Sessions announces revamp of immigration law system. Will it help? Posted: 13 Apr 2017 12:21 PM PDT ![Sessions announces revamp of immigration law system. Will it help?]( "Sessions announces revamp of immigration law system. Will it help?") While President Trump's promises to crackdown on illegal immigration have put his administration at odds with immigrants and their advocates, a new Justice Department policy could bring additional resources to an overtaxed legal system burdened with a backlog of cases. At a Tuesday visit to the US-Mexico border, Attorney General Jeff Sessions called for a revamping of the immigration law system, including an $80-million plan that would add 75 additional teams of judges to immigration court system. Today, the average detainee might wait 677 days for a hearing, leading officials to go around the court system in some cases, opting to expedite the deportation and send immigrants back to their countries of origin without a day in court.
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| To preserve Obamacare, liberal states plan to use Trump's words against him Posted: 13 Apr 2017 07:40 AM PDT ![To preserve Obamacare, liberal states plan to use Trump's words against him]( "To preserve Obamacare, liberal states plan to use Trump's words against him") To stop President Donald Trump from undermining Obamacare, Democratic Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey is considering an approach that has worked against the administration on immigration: using Mr. Trump's own words against him. Trump said he would let the Affordable Care Act "explode" after Republicans failed last month to pass their own repeal bill in Congress, and told the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday that he may withhold billions of dollars of payments to insurers to force Democrats to negotiate on healthcare. Public statements like that led to judges blocking Trump's proposed travel bans earlier this year, and could prove to be one line of attack in legal attempts to protect the healthcare bill, according to a handful of liberal US lawyers and state attorneys general.
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| How a gritty Midwestern city is emerging as a model for civility Posted: 12 Apr 2017 06:33 PM PDT ![How a gritty Midwestern city is emerging as a model for civility]( "How a gritty Midwestern city is emerging as a model for civility") Recommended: In Pictures Voices from across political party lines: What can be done to heal America? Over the past two years, that push has come in part from an unlikely source: a call for civility. Now, they hope to broaden Gary's initiative into a grass-roots movement to reclaim civility in society.
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| What Americans mean by ‘health’ Posted: 12 Apr 2017 01:40 PM PDT ![What Americans mean by 'health']( "What Americans mean by 'health'") The survey, released Wednesday, found that rapid scientific advances and other trends have expanded the understanding of health to the point that people now say it involves more than a medical perspective. The poll found nearly an equal number of Americans – more than 3 out of 4 – associate health as a mental condition as well as a physical one. Nearly half said being mindful is a form of health.
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