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California Gov. Gavin Newsom, pictured in January, must sign off on the latest state budget by June 15. The new $213 billion plan includes an expansion of the state's Medicaid program for low-income adults under the age of 26, regardless of immigration status.

California's Budget Proposal Would Expand Health Care To Some Undocumented Immigrants

The Democratic-controlled Legislature agreed to let low-income residents under 26 to receive Medi-Cal regardless of immigration status. It could cover up to 138,000 people — a cost of $98 million.

After she was detained, CIA officer Marti Peterson was taken to the KGB headquarters, Lubyanka, in central Moscow. She was held for four hours, and kicked out of the Soviet Union the next day. She went on to work another 26 years for the CIA.

'Moscow Rules': How The CIA Operated Under The Watchful Eye Of The KGB

When CIA officers walk out of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, they're shadowed by Russian security. The book, The Moscow Rules, examines how they have operated with this round-the-clock surveillance.

Many Germans say cash is quick and easy to use and keeps transactions more private.

For Many Germans, Cash Is Still King

Average citizens in Germany carry more than 100 euros on them, significantly more than most of their European neighbors, and they keep big stashes at home.

The mobile library travels on one of its routes on the Outer Hebrides island of Lewis and Harris. For isolated residents, seeing the mobile librarian is sometimes the only human contact they may have for days.

For Remote Communities In Scotland's Outer Hebrides, Mobile Libraries Are A Lifeline

Library vans ply lonely roads and deliver books, including works in Gaelic, to hundreds of isolated residents. Seeing the mobile librarian is sometimes the only human contact they will have for days.

For Remote Communities In Scotland's Outer Hebrides, Mobile Libraries Are A Lifeline

Library vans ply lonely roads and deliver books, including works in Gaelic, to hundreds of isolated residents. Seeing the mobile librarian is sometimes the only human contact they will have for days.

At StoryCorps in June 2015, Alexei Romanoff remembers an inspirational figure who helped him feel proud to be a gay man.

'I Will Never Lie About Being Gay Again': LGBT Activist Remembers Source Of Pride

At StoryCorps, Alexei Romanoff, an 82-year-old gay activist, recalls lessons he learned as a teenager from a proud gay elder — and which resonated as an adult.

Caregiver Fajriya Khaled holds a child at an orphanage in northeastern Syria, home to 41 children of Yazidi mothers and ISIS fathers. The Yazidi community in Iraq forces the women to leave their children behind if they want to return home.

In Syria, An Orphanage Cares For Children Born To Yazidi Mothers Enslaved By ISIS

Because their fathers were ISIS fighters, the Yazidi community rejects the children and forces their mothers to give them up. Some willingly do so, but others are desperate for news of their children.

Maria Martin points to where her mother's clothes were found when she was murdered in 1936 under Franco,

Spain's years of Forgetting: 'The Silence of Others'

A powerful new documentary about seeking justice for Franco's victims

In 'City Of Girls,' The Breezy, Bold Best Days Of Our Lives

Elizabeth Gilbert's new novel is set in the New York theater community of the 1940s — an effervescent golden age for the women who congregate at the offbeat Lily Playhouse.

Amber Scorah writes about exiting the Jehovah's Witnesses in <em>Leaving the Witness.</em>

'Leaving The Witness': The End Of The World As She Knew It, Upon Losing Her Religion

Amber Scorah was a Jehovah's Witness and a missionary in China when she began to harbor doubts about the apocalypse. Disavowed by nearly everyone she knew, her memoir is a tale of starting over.

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