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U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and other female senators were excluded from the Senate leadership health task force this summer.

Often Missing From The Current Health Care Debate: Women's Voices

When leaders in Washington discuss the future of American health care, women are not always in the room. Here, eight women from around the country share their personal stories, fears and hopes.

Gail Starr of the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners, or SANE, in this undated photo.

Nurse On Untested Kits: It Absolutely Breaks My Heart

New Mexico has one of the worst sexual assault rates in the nation. And thousands of envelopes of DNA evidence that could help identify repeat sexual offenders are sitting untested. We're taking a look at what it takes for survivors to provide that evidence in the first place.

Consumers would be compensated for losses tied to defects and a related recall of Takata air bags, under a proposed settlement. Here, the airbag unit for the passenger seat of a Toyota Motor vehicle is seen in 2013.

4 Car Companies Settle Takata Airbag Lawsuit For $553 Million

The settlement does not cover claims of personal injury or property damage. But it would resolve a class-action suit against Toyota, Subaru, BMW and Mazda.

Friends, family and activists gathered for a vigil Sunday outside the apartment building where Charleena Lyles was killed earlier that day.

Seattle Shooting Raises Questions About Officers' De-Escalation Efforts

Two Seattle police officers shot and killed Charleena Lyles on Sunday. Her family is accusing the officers of not doing enough to de-escalate an encounter with a person known to have mental problems.

Demonstrators, many of them recent immigrants to America, protest the government shutdown and the lack of a deal on DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) outside of Federal Plaza in New York City on Monday.

What The Latest Immigration Polls Do (And Don't) Say

It can seem like there's a poll result that supports just about any position on any topic. Here's a look at what the latest immigration polls can and can't tell you.

Protesters take part in the March for Free Internet in Moscow in July. In addition to allegedly interfering with the U.S. election, Russia imposes limits on its own citizens' access to information, the Freedom of the Net report says.

How Disinformation And Distortions On Social Media Affected Elections Worldwide

Internet freedom declined again in the past year and "manipulation and disinformation tactics played an important role" in 18 countries' elections — including the U.S., according to an annual report.

Volunteers Sian Proctor and Will Watremez operate a telescope and lumens meter to detect changes in light frequency.

GENIUS BY STEPHEN HAWKING: Are We Alone?

Airs Wednesday, May 18 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV

Lorena Enebral Perez (left), who was shot and killed on Monday, had worked as a physiotherapist for the Red Cross since May 2016.

Red Cross Worker Slain In Afghanistan: 'All She Wanted To Do Was Help'

Lorena Perez was a physiotherapist. On Monday, a patient in a wheelchair shot and killed her. The motive is not yet known.

Surfers pass in front of the San Onofre nuclear power plant, June 7, 2013.

Parties In Challenge To Nuclear Waste Storage At San Onofre Headed Into Settlement Talks

Next week's trial to determine the legality of a plan to store 3.6 million pounds of deadly waste from the shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station near the sea has been postponed to enter settlement talks.

After the WannaCry cyberattack hit computer systems worldwide, Microsoft says governments should report software vulnerabilities instead of collecting them. Here, a ransom window announces the encryption of data on a transit display in eastern Germany on Friday.

WannaCry Ransomware: Microsoft Calls Out NSA For 'Stockpiling' Vulnerabilities

The NSA's losing control of the software behind the WannaCry cyberattack is like "the U.S. military having some of its Tomahawk missiles stolen," Microsoft President Brad Smith says.

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