John Quackenbush, chair of the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health, joins WBUR's Morning Edition to discuss what the freeze means for his work.

Supporters of Boston City Council President Ruthzee Louijeune's proposal to bypass a potential special election for the District 7 seat say the summer contest would be costly, confusing and almost ...

The galleries will open to the public on Nov. 22 after more than a decade of planning, fundraising and construction. The newly designed, 5,000-square-foot space will display over 1,000 objects, ...

Immigration policy is not an abstract discussion happening far away from us, writes Bosnian native Ismar Volić, who came to the U.S. as a teenager. It is the difference between hope and despair, ...

In a letter to the campus community, Harvard President Alan Garber said lawyers for the school have informed the Trump ...

Charges have been dropped against two Rhode Island men in an altercation at a New England Patriots game in 2023. Justin Mitchell and John Vieira had pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor charges of ...

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People are getting taken off the street in the middle of their trial," said Shira Diner, president of the Massachusetts ...

The bill aims to protect health care professionals and lawyers who represent people who seek reproductive or gender-identity ...

The matter before Judge William K. Sessions III concerns the Vermont federal court’s jurisdiction in a legal challenge to ...

A commercial truck driver who was acquitted in the 2019 deaths of seven motorcyclists in New Hampshire pleaded guilty and was sentenced Monday for driving under the influence in Connecticut a month ...

Inskeep recently returned from a reporting trip there to see how the Trump administration's tariffs were affecting ...