The Executive Office of Public Safety hasn't issued required reports analyzing racial profiling in traffic stops since 2024. Public Safety Secretary Gina Kwon said in a Senate committee hearing that the cost of commissioning reports are to blame.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement data points to a dramatic spike in arrests so far this year. But ICE didn't make many of those arrests, a Vermont Public analysis found.

John Deaton knows he faces an uphill fight in a state that hasn't sent a Republican to the U.S. Senate since Scott Brown won in 2010. But the Republican thinks embracing good ideas, rather than sticking with party lines, is the ticket to unseating incumbent Ed Markey come November.

The roughly 3.2 million Americans who live in Puerto Rico cannot vote for president, and the island has no senators and no voting representative in the House. “Citizenship without equal political voice is an uncomfortable concept,” write José Massó III and Imari Paris Jeffries. “It should be.”

Marine archaeologist Sean Kingsley has explored more than 350 shipwrecks -- from pirate ships in the Bahamas to British India Steam Navigation ships off the coast of Ireland. We ask him what discoveries he’s made so far and what else he hopes to find.

They can be nutty and buttery, crisp or crunchy. You can eat them whole, pureed, or chopped. Think hummus, falafel, salads, soups, stews, curries and more.

In the book, Kiran Desai explores themes of alienation, class and cultural hierarchy, and the lives we inherit versus those we make for ourselves.

Their research could help answer big questions about how humans first arrived in the Americas, and how they dealt with historical changes in the climate.

Birds are the only dinosaurs that survived the devastating asteroid impact 66 million years ago.

Nonprofits fighting HIV used get direct funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Trump administration says it is imposing “a critical national security obligation” on artificial intelligence companies.

President Trump says he has cut a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin to import Russian diesel to the United States.

Maple syrup making is an ancient tradition that started with Indigenous communities in the Northeastern part of what is now North America.

Protesters in the Indian capital have again defied authorities to demonstrate against a controversial revision of the country’s voter rolls that has seen 130 million people removed or threatened with removal.

What do influencing, AI and health sciences have in common? They’re all degree programs that colleges have launched in the last few years.

With midterm elections looming, what are the chances of a political reckoning for President Trump?

Open enrollment for Medicare begins this week.

Saudi Arabia has suspended flights and operations at Riyadh airport after multiple attacks by the Yemeni Houthis.

The lobstermen sued three years ago, after Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch program stripped the U.S. and Canadian lobster fisheries of their sustainability certifications and urged consumers not to buy lobster.

The five new LINK lines, paid for with $11.5 million in federal funds, would be deployed by 2027. Two of the lines would be in Mattapan and Roxbury and would likely connect neighborhoods to Blue Hill Avenue and Mattapan Square station — though the routes have not yet been finalized.

Robert E. Hall, who was born in Chicopee, Massachusetts, and Michael Woodford are sharing the prize. Their work provides a stable foundation for models used by central banks and governments worldwide.

Jennifer Smith, senior reporter for the CommonWealth Beacon, sat down with WBUR's Tiziana Dearing to discuss her reporting on the SJC case.

YouthConnect started more than 30 years ago to help address rising youth violence in Boston.

The Trial Court, which oversees Massachusetts courthouses, is considering a plan where attorneys would have to pass through the same courthouse security as the public. A group of attorneys is objecting to the proposal, and why the new rules appear to apply only to private attorneys, and not courthouse staff, prosecutors, judges or law enforcement.

The state Transportation Department announced late last week it will fund millions of dollars to expand rail service in and around Pittsfield. Lindsay Schmid, with the regional tourism council 1Berkshire, told WBUR's Fausto Menard she thinks it could be a big economic driver for the area.

On Point news analyst Jack Beatty on why Democrats need to embrace the "sticky symbolism" of billionaire private jets.

Peter Preble's 11th great-grandfather was Richard Warren, a passenger on the Mayflower and one of the 41 men to sign the Mayflower Compact. The more Preble learned about Warren, the more complicated his family's history became.

Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the union representing 4,000 of its nurses have postponed a planned strike after the negotiating nurses agreed to bring the latest hospital offer to all their members.

The Vatican says Pope Leo XIV will undergo surgery this week for a nodular lesion in his lung, with the recovery time expected to be a week. A statement Sunday from the Vatican spokesman, Matteo Bruni, didn’t say when the pope would be hospitalized, but that it would be in the “first days” of the week.

"American mahjong is played with 152 tiles," writes Cog editor Cloe Axelson. "Along the way, there is a Charleston (or two), winds, dragons, flowers and the curious phrase, “Pause, want!,” which I now say all the time, even when I’m not playing."