For the past three days, Massachusetts has played host to a handful of Texas Democratic lawmakers who left their state to ...

U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal and Rep. Bill Keating expressed outrage at the treatment of a former Afghan interpreter for U.S.

José Pineda's attorneys say there's no clear explanation as to why he was pulled over and held, despite having on his person ...

Members of Homes for All Mass, a coalition of housing groups across the state, plan to file an initiative petition with ...

Researchers and volunteers are surveying thousands of shorebirds as they migrate south, hoping the data -- on one of the most ...

Librarians in Watertown have been flooded with emails requesting they remove a picture book, "A Map for Falasteen," from a ...

Summers are getting hotter every year. When it comes to adapting to a hotter planet, in the United States, it's cities that ...

Boston is included in the Department of Justice's new list of so-called "sanctuary" jurisdictions. The release of the list ...

Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act 35 years ago, but this year they cut Medicaid, and my future is uncertain ...

U.N. officials say a quarter of the population in Gaza is experiencing "famine-like conditions." Health experts who have studied past famines warn that the fallout can reverberate across generations.

WBUR's Martha Bebinger lost her nephew, Austen Smith, to a drug overdose last year. In this essay, she describes the pain and questions that linger.

The Department of Transportation is raising concerns about airlines using artificial intelligence to set ticket prices based on customers' personal information. Airline ticket prices already fluctuate ...