Former state lawmaker and logger Troy Jackson has secured the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Maine on Saturday. He will face longtime GOP Sen. Susan Collins in November in a race that could decide which party controls the Senate.

State Sen. Nick Collins is back for another round in his fight over Boston tax policy with Mayor Michelle Wu. The South Boston lawmaker’s move comes as he faces a Wu-backed challenger on the campaign trail.

The jury was selected this week for the murder trial. Lindsay Clancy is charged with murdering her three children at their home in Duxbury in 2023.

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller wants to shut down immigration because he believes many immigrants refuse to "assimilate". But what does assimilation mean to immigrants themselves?

The Andrea Doria sank just south of Nantucket on July 26, 1956. While 51 people were killed in the collision, more than 1,600 were saved in one of the largest maritime rescue operations in history.

The mid-July death of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero is still reverberating in Biddeford, Maine.

In Michigan, two races are getting national attention. One is for governor, and the other is for U.S. Senate.

A father who lost his son to addiction found healing through fly fishing's meditative nature, and now he shares it with people recovering from addiction.

The DOJ wanted to force them to reveal their anonymous sources in a story about President Trump’s new Air Force One. The Times accused the White House of trying to intimidate its journalists.

A new, eight-part documentary podcast tells the story of Fania Records, the scrappy record company that brought salsa to the world.

Neo-Nazis visit Adolf Hitler's birthplace as a pilgrimage site.

A new solution is being held up by states fighting over the Colorado River.

Take an audiobook with you on a road trip, to the beach, on a summer stroll, or anywhere else.

Reflect Orbital received permission from the Federal Communications Commission to launch a satellite designed to bounce sunlight back to dark parts of the Earth.

President Trump is placing new tariffs on more than 60 countries that his administration says are importing goods made with forced labor.

The latest wave of grants announced by the National Endowment for the Humanities — worth more than $40 million — illustrates the Trump administration's focus on topics as the United States’ founding.

This weekend, delegates are expected to formally nominate Troy Jackson, a former president of Maine's state senate, to face incumbent Sen. Susan Collins in a pivotal race that could determine control of the U.S. Senate.

President Trump’s trade wars continue as he imposes new tariffs against 60 countries on the grounds that the nations are using forced labor.

Wu released a letter pledging the city will install more permanent “cast-in-place” concrete barriers along bike lanes, consult with outside advisors, develop truck safety legislation and evaluate the intersection where cycling advocate Louisa Gag was killed.

The Massachusetts Senate passed a bill that would at least temporarily ban ATM-like cryptocurrency kiosks, amid concerns about rampant scams.

Pack a basket — here are our staffers' favorite locations for setting up a picnic in Greater Boston.

For two decades, "Mortified" has brought deeply embarrassing, but also hilarious teenage memories to the stage. On Friday night, the Boston chapter has a show at WBUR CitySpace. Co-producers Sara Faith Alterman and Jackie Arko previewed the show for WBUR's Morning Edition.

Troy Jackson has political experience but lacks the charisma Platner brought to the race. Still, Democratic Party delegates are expected to formally nominate Jackson this weekend to challenge Sen. Susan Collins, in a pivotal race that could determine control of the Senate.

Kurt Gödel was a genius mathematician and logician, considered by many scholars to be as influential as Aristotle. He was also buddies with fellow geniuses Albert Einstein and Oskar Morgenstern, the co-creator of Game Theory. In 1947, Gödel told Morgenstern and Einstein he ...

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The legal status of Haitians in the country with TPS is set to lapse by next week after a Supreme Court decision in June allowed the Trump administration to terminate the program for Haitians and Syrians.

Noah Kahan, the Dropkick Murphys and Aimee Mann are among the dozens of musicians and bands supporting the crusade to reform resale practices in the concert ticketing industry.

Other bills already in conference committee deal with energy affordability, child welfare, environmental borrowing, data privacy, cellphone use in schools and social media regulations, immigration protections and higher education infrastructure borrowing.

When his mother fell for an online romance scam, Carlos Barragán flew to Nigeria to track down the con artist. What he uncovered was so much bigger.