Pope Leo XIV has declared capital punishment "inadmissible.” He has penned a social media post for the World Day Against the Death Penalty, as his native United States announced plans to livestream an execution by firing squad.

So now, after more than a decade of pretending that he is not associated with Russia and that he would honor the U.S.

Sing and get out the vote in Roxbury, MA!

On October 7, 2016, in the run-up to the 2016 election, the Washington Post broke the story of the so-called Access Hollywood tape, a video from 2005 in which Donald Trump told television host Billy B...

Last night, on October 4, U.S.

On Saturday, October 3, the Power to the People festival, organized by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame guitarist Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, took over the stage at the Merriweathe...

The scene that unfolded today at a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee was a snapshot of politics in the U.S.

Yesterday, William Turton, Avi Asher-Schapiro, Molly Redden, and Kirsten Berg of ProPublica published a blockbuster story reporting that the anti-corruption group of the Federal Bureau of Investigatio...

As President Donald Trump puts pressure on reluctant Republican Congress members to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, known as the SAVE Act, Sen. Elizabeth Warren is pushing back with...

In 1945, still reeling from World War II, representatives from 50 nations reached back to the U.S.

The fall equinox, which arrives Tuesday in the U.S., brings shorter days, and chances to witness alignment between Earth and the sun. It's a modern version of ancient observances of a celestial shift.

On September 18, while White House chief of staff Susie Wiles was out of town, Trump suddenly announced he was banning CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House.

The free, outdoor activist street band festival returns October 9–11, spreading from Davis Square to Harvard Square — rain or shine.

More than 11,000 children have severe life-changing injuries, including thousands who have had limbs amputated---as a result of Israel's assault on Gaza.

On September 19, 1676, three hundred and fifty years ago today, Nathaniel Bacon and his followers burned Jamestown, the capital of the Virginia Colony.

A United Nations fact-finding mission focused on a pair of Feb. 28 strikes that reportedly killed about 180 people, many of them children.

According to the American Automobile Association, diesel hit its highest recorded average price today at just above $6.44 per gallon.