The spring holidays of Passover and Easter are here and with it, we celebrate new spring foods: asparagus, peas, chives, and ...

The lawsuit announced Wednesday by Attorney General Pam Bondi escalates a dispute over whether the state is abiding by a ...

A man who told police that he was held captive in a Connecticut home for 20 years says he wants people held responsible for ...

A little more than 3% of WBUR's annual budget comes from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. But that doesn't fully ...

Ukrainians in the U.S. are worried about their loved ones and the future of their homeland. Some try to help from here.

Students across Harvard University are responding to their university president standing up to President Trump and rejecting his demands that the school change its hiring and admissions policies. We ...

Former President Joe Biden will return to Chicago Tuesday night to speak before a national gathering of disability advocates focused on protecting and strengthening Social Security.

During a 5.2-magnitude earthquake on Monday, video footage shows a group of elephants forming what experts call an “alert circle," a protective formation to shield their young.

The plan was for a group led by the U.S. firm BlackRock to buy them. But Beijing is unhappy and is scrutinizing the deal.

Warehouses used to store medical devices across the country are leaking a toxic chemical, ethylene oxide. And the problem has gone mostly unmonitored and unregulated. We hear from Naveena Sadasivam, ...

Fighting between Sudan's armed forces and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has caused nearly 4,000,000 refugees to flee the country.

Changes in ecosystems have transformed the fishing industry, and that's bad news for whitefish in the Great Lakes. The fish is an important and popular commercial species, but its numbers in some of ...