Social Security is speeding toward an economic cliff. But a Senate hearing Wednesday did not offer much encouragement about an off-ramp.

As losses in the war against Ukraine mount, Russian President Vladimir Putin faces fuel shortages at home and manpower shortages in the field.

A Senate panel voted along party lines Thursday to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress over his refusal to answer questions at a recent hearing before the Homeland Security Committee.

The shot, named mFlusiva, is intended for adults age 50 or older.

Maria was watching the Benito Bowl when an unexpected artist came on: the one and only Ricky Martin. He sang one of Bad Bunny’s most political, anti-colonial anthems. Maria knew this was a touchstone moment — the artist who most represented the 90’s Latin Boom wasn’t performing to a white audience for recognition or acceptance; he was singing a song of resistance, in Spanish. And then Maria’s 11-year-old son said, “Who’s that???”

Today, Maria revisits the importance of Ricky Martin’s career and life, and how he had to live “La vida loca” so that Bad Bunny could do “Lo que le da la gana.”

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Now in its sixth year, the annual festival celebrates heavy music from around the region, much of it metal and punk-adjacent.

The Boston Children's Museum is beginning work this August on a $15 million plan to protect itself from flooding and sea level rise associated with climate change. The first phase of the project is expected to take up to two years.

Gov. Healey nominated Kaitlyn O'Leary, a former prosecutor who now serves as the parole board's general counsel. Critics argued O'Leary lacks the necessary rehabilitation and reentry experience that a board member should have. She is the second former prosecutor Healey has tapped for the board — the council voted down that pick in May.

There are no firm numbers, but there could be a million or more Americans conceived with a donated egg or sperm. Jacqui Comstock is the product of both. She has a lot of genetic relatives — more than 30 half-siblings — not to mention their children, her aunts and uncles, a twin brother, cousins. The list goes on.

Does our increased use of AI amplify human imagination, or risk dulling our capacity for original thought? Cloe Axelson, senior editor of WBUR's Cognoscenti, explores the intersection of AI and creativity with poet and artist Sasha Stiles; the director of Harvard College Writing Center, Jane Rosenzweig; and Ann Handley, author of the forthcoming book "ASAP: As Slow As Possible."

The Scottish indie band is on a 30th anniversary tour for their two debut albums, and Claire Berman saw them in Boston. She writes, “As I danced in the audience, I was taken back to a period of my own young adulthood, marked by the same chronic illness that defined lead singer Stuart Murdoch’s early 20s.”

Both the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday they were investigating what happened when a commercial jet took off just as Marine One left the White House for Andrews Air Force Base with the president aboard for the first leg of a West Coast trip.

How can you wear an XS shirt in one fabric, brand or style -- but an XL in another?

The New England-based plaintiffs sued the Monterey Bay Aquarium for defamation after the aquarium's Seafood Watch conservation program placed American and Canadian lobster on its do-not-eat “red list” in 2022.

The governor signed legislation Wednesday that she and lawmakers say provides the strongest immigrant protections in the country. 

In February 2026, Baystate announced it was ending most of its gender affirming care for minors, other than counseling, saying it could not risk losing millions of dollars in federal reimbursement. Since then, the legal landscape has evolved. But Baystate has not restarted gender affirming care.

The federal government is interested in acquiring 249 parking spots in Boston. Local officials are already lining up against the move.

Jessie Colbert, who works for the statewide maternal mental health advocacy group Mind the Gap Coalition, is lobbying for a bill on Beacon Hill that would change how the criminal legal system treats new moms charged with crimes.

Dust storms pose myriad issues in the U.S.

China cutting imports is one reason there isn't a severe global energy crisis.

When Wilco keyboardist Mikael Jorgensen was a child, he visited his sound-engineer father Joe Jorgensen as he worked with jazz pianist and composer Bob James.

As U.S. troop deaths mount in the war with Iran, military families cope with anxiety about their loved ones deployed in the Middle East.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has expanded the cyclosporiasis outbreak to 15 states.

Abdul El-Sayed will face former Republican Rep. Mike Rogers in a race that could determine control of the Senate this November.

Ranchers along the U.S.-Mexico border are outraged that the federal government is drilling unpermitted wells to pump water from the region's drought-stricken aquifers.

Mine regulations passed in the 1970s had pushed those rates down, but they began rising again in the late 1990s, and now about a third of veteran miners are sick.

Keith Russell talks with Townsend about his career in conservation science and birding.

Paramount's chairman says the problem is really about politics, and whether he's fit to own CNN.

The family evacuated less than half an hour before their home caught fire.