| 'Protection orders' get a closer look in fight against gun deaths Posted: 27 Feb 2018 02:06 PM PST !['Protection orders' get a closer look in fight against gun deaths]( "'Protection orders' get a closer look in fight against gun deaths") Fast-forward two years to June of 2016, when 22-year-old James Balcerak walked into the bedroom of his sleeping stepsister, 21-year-old Brianna, and pulled out a handgun. Mr. Balcerak was autistic, was occasionally violent, and would sometimes rage at his parents. On that June night in 2016, south of Seattle in the City of Kent, young Balcerak pointed his handgun at Brianna and shot her to death.
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| Kentucky tests how much to demand of Medicaid recipients Posted: 27 Feb 2018 01:32 PM PST ![Kentucky tests how much to demand of Medicaid recipients]( "Kentucky tests how much to demand of Medicaid recipients") Late last month, while recovering in hospital, Kayleeann Hummell had an unusual epiphany after emergency surgery: She was grateful her health problems had happened now. Growing up in a poor family in northern Kentucky she has been on Medicaid almost her entire life. July is when Kentucky will take the American health-care system into uncharted territory, becoming the first state in the country to enforce work and community engagement requirements for a portion of its Medicaid recipients.
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| What a pause in Syria’s war can mean Posted: 27 Feb 2018 12:36 PM PST ![What a pause in Syria's war can mean]( "What a pause in Syria's war can mean") Unlike in Las Vegas, what happens in Syria refuses to stay in Syria. The country's long war, sparked by pro-democracy protests in 2011 against a dictator, has created millions of refugees. Peace in Syria, when it comes, will be defined as much by shared values as by the peculiar interests of each nation.
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| For Indians rethinking college abroad, home has new degree of possibility Posted: 27 Feb 2018 10:42 AM PST ![For Indians rethinking college abroad, home has new degree of possibility]( "For Indians rethinking college abroad, home has new degree of possibility") The nationalistic and anti-foreigner undertones of then-candidate Donald Trump's presidential campaign had weakened the international draw of the Made-in-America college education, experts said. "We like to say that 'things are in the air,' and that's the situation here," says Sheikh Safwan, a sophomore at Ashoka University who thought seriously about heading to the United States himself. Recommended: How well do you know India?
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