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Dr. Bernard Rosenfeld, 74, has not been able to find a successor to lead his abortion practice in Houston, Texas. He says younger doctors don't want to deal with the politics and protesters.

Politics Makes Abortion Training In Texas Difficult

The hostile climate surrounding abortion in Texas has made it hard for doctors-in-training to learn to do abortions. Professors feel intimidated, and there are fewer clinics where residents can train.

President Trump speaks as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., looks on during a meeting with House and Senate leadership at the White House in June.

Trump's Fractured Relationship With Congress Causes GOP Dread

Republican leaders on Capitol Hill are trying to show unity, while Trump is sowing division that could doom the party's fall agenda.

(From bottom to top) Chemist Michael Gonsior, from the University of Maryland's Center for Environmental Science, works with researcher Melinda Forsyth and graduate student Katie Martin to gather and check water samples near the Chesapeake Bay, on Cocktown Creek. The team's checking for environmental indicators like salinity, dissolved oxygen, temperature and pH.

Trump's Budget Would Eliminate A Key Funder Of Research On Coastal Pollution

The Sea Grant program, which funds research on coastal environments, is slated by White House for elimination in 2018. If it goes, a project that finds leaking septic tanks goes down the drain, too.

Tommy Orange's debut novel features a wide cast of characters who are all Native American, with varying degrees of connection to the culture. He says, "I wanted to represent a range of human experience as a way to humanize Native people."

Native American Author Tommy Orange Feels A 'Burden To Set The Record Straight'

In his debut novel, There There, Orange explores what it means to be an urban Indian. He says, "Native people look like a lot of different things. ... And we just need a new story to build from."

Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google (third from left), and former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (second from right) watch as a North Korean student surfs the Internet. Schmidt and Richardson visited this computer lab during a tour of Kim Il Sung University in Pyongyang, North Korea, in January.

Google Execs Say 'The Power Of Information Is Underrated'

Is it naive to believe that improved Internet access can help open up truly autocratic regimes like North Korea? Google executives Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen, authors of The New Digital Age, say the power of information is underrated.

Salk neuroscientist Sreekanth Chalasani inspects a magnified image of the tiny C. elegans worm, Sept. 22, 2015.

Sound Waves Give San Diego Neuroscientists Control Over Brain Cells

The same kind of sound waves used in sonograms now allows researchers to change a worm's behavior.

Suffering From Nature Deficit Disorder? Try Forest Bathing

Positive scientific results aside, the idea of shinrin-yoku shouldn't be surprising: Who hasn't felt an inner sense of well-being when walking along a forest trail? asks commentator Marcelo Gleiser.

Dalya Zeno and her mother Rudayna Aksh hugging.

POV: Dalya's Other Country / 4.1 Miles

Airs Monday, June 26, 2017 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV

An armored personnel carrier seals off a main road to the presidential office in Harare, Zimbabwe, on Wednesday.

Zimbabwe's Army Seizes Control, Mugabe Apparently Sidelined

The military says that strongman Robert Mugabe and his family are "safe and sound" and that his ousted vice president has been installed as interim president.

Representatives of various religious congregations gathered Saturday in Oswiecim, Poland, to commemorate the victims killed at the Nazi extermination camp Auschwitz II-Birkenau.

Poland Passes Bill Criminalizing Claims Of Its Complicity In The Holocaust

The Nazis established some of the most notorious extermination camps of the Holocaust on Polish soil — including Auschwitz-Birkenau.

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