A new telescope equipped with the world's largest digital camera will collect more astronomical data in a single year than all others combined.

Tuesday marks what would have been R&B singer Esther Phillips’ 90th birthday. Phillips was a hugely popular teenage R&B singer who, in 1962, recorded the top-10 hit “Release Me.” That success would ...

Travel writer and public television host Rick Steves has bought a neighborhood hygiene center to save it from shutting down. NPR’s Rebecca Rosman reports. This article was originally published on WBUR ...

In roughly 11 months, the Trump administration has successfully stripped more than 1.6 million immigrants of their legal status.

In Massachusetts, coastal real estate is becoming less attractive as climate change brings repeated flooding to those areas.

The Kennedy Center may be named after former President John F. Kennedy — and now President Trump — but it was first an idea originated by another president.

Forecasters with the National Weather Service are closely monitoring the windstorm but say it’s still too early to predict how strong those winds will be on Wednesday.

For more than 30 years, Puppetworks has delighted Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood with performances of The Tortoise and the Hare, Pinocchio, Aladdin and, during the holidays, retellings of stories ...

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Since Trump took office, officials have transferred ten of the 37 men Biden spared from execution to the "Alcatraz of the ...

About 5.5 million borrowers are currently in default. They haven't risked wage garnishment since the beginning of the pandemic, when policymakers paused the practice.

The Department of Justice has been publicly posting files related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation since Friday.