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Joel Charny, who's been a humanitarian aid worker for 40 years, talks to students at a camp for internally displaced people in northern Sri Lanka in 2005. It's one of his favorite photos, he says, "because this is what I did hundreds of times: interview people about what they were going through and what they needed for their lives to improve."

A Retiring Aid Worker Reflects On How To Repair The World — Without Wearing A Halo

Joel Charny, who worked in humanitarian aid for 40 years, speaks candidly about how humanitarianism has changed — and why people shouldn't treat aid workers as if they wear haloes.

Conservation groups can challenge zoning decision on Saugatuck dune development

The Michigan Supreme Court ruled last week a conservation group had standing to challenge a local zoning permit issued for the proposed development.

Rural communities with struggling hospitals often turn to outside investors willing to take over their health care centers. Some are willing to sell the hospitals for next to nothing to companies that promise to keep them running.

Buy a rural hospital for $100? Investors pick up struggling institutions for pennies

Some rural hospitals are in such bad shape, they're selling for next to nothing. One company is snapping several distressed or closed hospitals in rural Tennessee, hoping to turn a profit.

Amir Hekmati: One year later

A year ago, a Flint man walked free from an Iranian prison cell after being held for four years on spying charges.Amir Hekmati continues to move on with…

Keri Russell plays a career foreign service officer in <em>The Diplomat.</em>

After 'Felicity' and a stint as a spy, Keri Russell embraces her new 'Diplomat' role

Russell played a fictional Soviet spy in The Americans. Now she stars as a career foreign service officer who reluctantly becomes the U.S. ambassador in London in the Netflix series The Diplomat.

Saginaw doctor launches campaign for Michigan governor

Believe it or not, Michigan’s 2018 race for governor is underway.Jim Hines has been an obstetrician-gynecologist for 30 years. Now, he’s also a Republican…

Lawsuit alleges unsanitary conditions at two DMC hospitals; blames focus on profits, not patients

Two former housecleaning staff say they were fired for calling out chronic problems with sanitation at Hutzel and Harper hospitals, and that they were denied adequate cleaning supplies due to profit-driven cuts.

A member of Black September appears on the balcony of the apartment where gunmen held members of the Israeli Olympic team hostage on Sept. 5, 1972. It was the first time a terrorist attack had been broadcast live to a global audience.

50 years ago, the Munich Olympics massacre changed how we think about terrorism

Gunmen held members of the Israeli team hostage, eventually killing them, during the 1972 Munich Olympics. The attack was the first time a global audience had witnessed terrorism as it happened.

Trump's voters are more excited than Biden's. But Trump could lose a lot if convicted

The latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds Trump and Biden in a dead heat — but a conviction could change that, as independent voters aren't interested in supporting Trump if he's convicted.

State commission would help guide infrastucture spending

A new commission would help decide how to spend $165 million Gov. Rick Snyder has proposed for infrastructure fixes in Michigan.On Thursday Snyder signed…

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