Santiago, a 43-year-old Democrat from Boston’s South End, is an emergency room doctor and a major in the US Army Reserve. He ...

After a string of fiery failures, SpaceX’s biggest rocket faces another test flight with sky-high stakes for U.S. space ...

A federal appeals court in New York has rejected challenges to a ban on assault weapons that Connecticut put in place after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

(Reuters) -Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Friday dampened hopes for a mass release of prisoners that U.S.

A person was stabbed at Boston Logan International Airport on Friday, according to Mass State Police. Troopers at the airport responded to reports of a stabbing Friday morning.

Harvard research scientist Scott Delaney started website called Grant Witness that tracks all of this year's federal cuts. He joins WBUR's Morning Edition to talk about the back-and-forth over funding ...

Excavations have been underway since June, after workers found human remains while digging to build an electric crematorium.

An active shooter at Villanova University reported late afternoon Aug. 21 was a “cruel hoax,” a university official said less ...

Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer said the repainting of the crosswalk near the site of the Pulse mass shooting was done "without any ...

In the month after two mass overdoses in Baltimore’s Penn North, police have made more than 100 arrests. But drug activity ...

Philadelphia police have announced a third arrest in the deadly July mass shooting in the Grays Ferry section.

More beaches are closed on Friday than they were on Thursday, according to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.