President Tinubu declared a state of emergency in Rivers State, to address the on-going political crisis there.

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett has a book coming out in September that her publisher is billing as an invitation for ...

About half the states allow citizens to place proposed laws or constitutional amendments on the ballot through initiative ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday aimed at dismantling the U.S. Department of Education.

Students reenacted throwing tea into the Boston Harbor with Professor of History David Stewart and Assistant Professor of ...

Arguments in the trial of the lawsuit to stop the White Stadium project concluded Thursday morning, leaving a Superior Court ...

Recent calls for the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn marriage equality could lead to a future ballot measure repealing Ohio’s dormant same-sex marriage bans.

The lawsuit filed late Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Washington describes the lengths that institute staff resorted to, ...

Women veterans from the Civil War, World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War are not exempt from Defense Department's ...

Freeman K. Johnson was expecting only a cake for his 105th birthday celebration Wednesday in Hyannis. But others had a different idea.

Secretary of State William F. Galvin unveiled a new exhibit on Monday at the Commonwealth Museum on Dorchester’s Columbia Point that focuses on the pivotal role the colonists of Massachusetts played ...

Peter Drummey, chief historian of the Massachusetts Historical Society, joins WBUR to talk about Evacuation Day.