L. Rafael Reif, a 61-year-old electrical engineer, has been provost at MIT for seven years.
Former Sox pitcher Curt Schilling asked the state for additional help to save his company Wednesday, prompting state leaders to consider whether the firm is viable enough to justify further investment.
Budget-writers in the state Senate are proposing to spend more on local aid than the funding level approved by the House in April.
Rock station WFNX may soon have a new owner. Multiple reports say there have been layoffs, too.
Workers picketed the Plymouth plant after the plant’s owner sent home half of the employees.
The mayor's plan includes developing relationships with gang members and engaging young people.
What do French philosophy, Keith Richards' guitar, and science have to do with how we eat? Quite a bit, according to New Yorker staff writer Adam Gopnik.
As an elevator's doors closed, former President George W. Bush confirmed the obvious. But Romney's campaign doesn't see Bush playing an important role in the 2012 campaign.
Charged with 11 counts of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, he remains defiant.
The man who shot and killed Florida teenager Trayvon Martin has argued he acted in self defense. Evidence of his injuries may support his case.
Nyachieng Nguot Teng, 25, lost her left leg when a Sudanese bomb fell on her hut in Lalat, South Sudan, on May 5. (Ofeibea Quist-Arcton/NPR)
Sudan and South Sudan are still threatening one another along their borders. The U.N. is warning both Sudans that they could face sanctions if they can't reverse their escalating feud.
Now the fastest growing voting group, Latinos have never been so heavily courted in a presidential race. They could play a key role in battleground states in the 2012 elections.
A new briefing paper discusses way to get Massachusetts children, including the nation's most inactive high-schoolers, moving more.
Democrats charge Republicans with being prisoners of special interests. A young conservative turns that charge around.
Is fracking making people sick? The question has ignited a national debate. A proposed study in northern Pennsylvania could help resolve the issue.
Federal law bans payments for organs. But about 60 percent of Americans support health care credits as compensation for organ donors, the NPR-Thomson Reuters Health Poll finds.
Video of a paralyzed woman using her brain signals to control a robot arm that lets her serve herself coffee.
House Speaker Robert DeLeo has penned an open letter to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
June 14: Join Tom Ashbrook and environmentalist Bill McKibben for “On Point LIVE” at the Paramount Center, where they’ll talk about fracking, pipelines and the economics of climate change. Tickets on sale Friday.
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