Dana-Farber’s new 14-story hospital will be at the former site of the Joslin Diabetes Center and connect to Beth Israel Deaconess and Dana-Farber’s outpatient clinics in the Longwood Medical Area.

A new report found that nail salon workers in Massachusetts — most of which are Asian immigrant women — are facing income instability, health issues and racism.

A number of Senate races are too close to call -- defying expectations and upsetting established political affinities within certain states. What does this say about the midterms and the direction of American politics?

Boston is searching for operators to run a five free bus routes as part of a pilot program expected to launch next year, covering several Boston neighborhoods and some communities along the Mystic River.

Desmin Borges (You're The Worst, Utopia) plays a tiny bird with an ever-growing ego in this playful story with roots in Mexico and Puerto Rico.

This Circle Round episode originally was released on Sept. 15, 2020.

Against the backdrop of the Boston Harbor, Wu spoke to a ballroom filled with city and education leaders on UMass Boston’s Columbia Point campus for her second annual address on the state of the city’s school system.

Question 8 proposes to topple Massachusetts' multi-billion-dollar recreational marijuana industry, amid health concerns about cannabis use. Here's a look at the research, with a particular focus on kids and teens.

Coined in the 1980s, October surprises are scandals or newsmaking events that can influence voters just weeks before Election Day.

In the book, he explores a more plant-forward and global approach to food.

Every year, health insurance premiums spike.

Trillions of dollars of debt is fueling the artificial intelligence economy.

"Seize the Day"? "Let them eat cake"? Do we know where those phrases came from and what they mean?

Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts is out for the rest of the NFL season after doctors diagnosed him with deep vein thrombosis and blood clots in his lungs.

California officials say no evidence was provided.

President Trump won Michigan in a razor-thin margin in 2024.

Artificial intelligence models provided some of the most accurate predictions of the track of Hurricane Isaias.

LeBron James will turn 42 in December, and no NBA player has ever had a longer career.

Experts chalk up a lot of it to the One Big Beautiful Bill, which made the largest cuts to the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in its history.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is meeting with US negotiators in Oslo, Norway, on Tuesday, after recent Russian strikes killed 16 and injured 69 across Ukraine.

The Trump administration is moving forward with plans to overhaul the East Potomac Golf Links in Washington, D.C., despite being in the middle of dealing with legal challenges over the public golf course.

Low, 67, plans to stay on the job until the end of June 2027 and announced the decision in an email to staff Tuesday. She will join WBUR’s Board of Directors the following fall.

A new Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll released Tuesday found support and opposition for three of the nine ballot questions in a virtual tie.

Shawn Oliver appeared Monday in New Bedford District Court to answer to the charges, which stem from a Saturday night crash that involved an overturned car and damaged five vehicles. Oliver suspended his campaign for lieutenant governor on Sunday.

With just a few thousand members, the Sikh community in Massachusetts is small compared to other parts of the country. To preserve culture amid the forces of assimilation — and the pressures to conform within Sikh culture — can be a real challenge.

Popular chatbots like Claude and ChatGPT are powered by models trained on enormous amounts of information, which means spending billions on vast data centers that take more power and water than entire cities. Instead, roboticists like Matthias Scheutz are thinking small. They’re designing AI systems compact enough to fit on a single computer chip.

"Perhaps it’s unreasonable to expect everyone in the U.S. to push through relentless negative headlines and develop a nuanced view of a complex reality in Haiti," writes Wynn Walent. "It is reasonable, however, to expect our country, and our government in particular, to view Haitian people as human beings worthy of respect and dignity."

Physician Raj Panjabi joined WBUR's All Things Considered to discuss how meeting people where they are can help improve medical outcomes.

Three Massachusetts organizations and four staffers who prescribe and mail abortion pills to patients in states where the practice is restricted are facing their first legal challenge since the Supreme Court struck down the national right to an abortion in 2022. 

The Pentagon is rethinking America's nuclear weapons strategy – including lowering the barrier for their use in the battlefield. Why national security analyst Joe Cirincione says this could spark a new nuclear arms race.