A plan to put able-bodied Americans on Medicaid to work in the fields was tried once before and failed miserably.

Overall, the tax department estimates that the state is owed $3 billion in unpaid taxes including three different categories: ...

They talked of being sent to the remote woods in below-freezing weather with little gear as punishment for their attitude, of being forced to shovel snow or build a road instead of going to class, to ...

A judge sentenced a Chicago man to eight years in prison for threatening a "military precision" mass shooting at the Lake ...

Some laid off employees were seen carrying boxes out of the U.S. State Department as supporters bid them farewell with ...

Employees at the United States Institute of Peace were terminated for a second time by the Trump administration, after a ...

I do want to ask you both briefly as well about the mass firings at the State Department we reported on earlier. That follows ...

NPR's Scott Simon asks veteran career diplomat Nicholas Burns about the Trump administration's plans to downsize the State Department.

More than 1,300 State Department employees were fired Friday in a downsizing ordered by President Donald Trump and touted as ...

Drug overdose deaths in Massachusetts tied to opioids are at their lowest level in more than a decade, according the ...

Several dozen beaches were closed across Massachusetts on Saturday. There were 42 beaches closed in total, according to the ...

Videos show emotional scenes as tearful State Department employees emerge to applause from colleagues after being abruptly ...