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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

Trump administration efforts to defund Planned Parenthood will also cut Medicaid payments to a network of clinics that serve ...

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.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is cutting nearly $500 million in funding for the development of mRNA vaccines that are used to fight COVID-19 and the flu.