MIT Names Provost Reif Its New President

The mayor's plan includes developing relationships with gang members and engaging young people.

• Mass. creates fake websites to warn consumers

There was a 2.6 percent increase in housing starts in April from March, the Census Bureau and Department of Housing and Urban Development say.

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.

In her new book, Florence Williams offers her take on why tumors seem to gravitate towards the breast and how toxins from the environment may be affecting hormones and breast development.

Congressional candidates are increasingly raising money from supporters and groups who are outside their district.

• "Joe The Plumber" race a "microcosm" of 2012 politics

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.

• Ron Paul "unlikely" to ever endorse Romney

As Greece grapples with the task of trying to form a new government, the state is pressing ahead with the harsh austerity measures it promised to enact in return for bailout funds.

The significance of Warren claiming to be 1/32 Cherokee is that it raised as many questions about her Senate campaign as about her personally.

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.

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.

In the late 1980s, woodworker Gregory Bover decided to build a pretty incredible gift for his wife. Twenty-five years later, it will be played in public for the first time in Rockport.

• WBUR Slideshow: View the custom-made harpsichord

Aly Raisman started gymnastics like millions of other kids — in a toddler tumbling class. Now 17, the Massachusetts athlete is considered one of the best tumblers in the world. And she's on track to make the 2012 U.S. Olympic gymnastics team.