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At a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the president said the United States has a responsibility to care for servicemen and -women who have been physically and psychologically wounded in combat.

Congress and the State of California are looking at ways to tax online sales. Amazon.com pays no sales tax in California. The brick and mortar stores do.

School-based health clinics are few and far between. But under the law overhauling health care, the federal government is awarding $95 million in grants to build, renovate or equip such clinics.

The word immigrant often brings to mind people from Mexico. But the Southwest’s immigrant communities come from countries across the globe, and includes a group of Congolese in Arizona.

Why is it important for children to have a connection to nature? How have changes in our culture and our built environment reduced our ability to access the natural world? We speak to Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies professor Stephen Kellert about the research he's done on the role of nature in the evolution of human biology and culture. We also discuss how "biolphilic design" can be used to change the way our cities are built to increase our connection to nature.

Airs Wednesday, May 16, 2012 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV

'Hanna' Director Talks About Making His First Action Film

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is about to unveil its newest installation — a 340-ton boulder that visitors will be able to walk right under. It's called Levitated Mass, and it's taken a custom hauling job, about $10 million and more than 40 years to get it where it is today.

One of the brightest supernovas in the last century is now visible. Discovered shortly after its light reached Earth in August, the supernova will last for more than a decade.

Most of the time, the nuclear world is a quiet, hidden-from-sight community of scientists and engineers. But when a disaster like Japan's happens, they are called on to explain what went wrong.