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As an aid worker, Jessica Alexander worked in Rwanda, Sudan, Sierra Leone, and Haiti, but don't call her a hero or a saint. Alexander tells Michel Martin about why she wanted to challenge perceptions of aid workers in her new book, Chasing Chaos: My Decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid.

NCAA:Marist College men’s hoops has a new coach and he comes from Williams College. Mike Maker posted a record of 147-32 in his six years at the school.…

The Union men’s hockey team defeated Boston College last night 5-4 and will go on to face Minnesota in the NCAA National Championship Saturday at 7:30…

American medical schools have historically been disproportionately white, but they are starting to attract more diverse students. The change may be the result of a diversity policy with teeth.

The North Adams, Massachusetts city council has approved tax rates for fiscal year 2024.

Law enforcement in western Massachusetts say they’re seeing a rise in crypto-related scams – with one in particular costing victims thousands of dollars.

In his new book, Washington Post correspondent Dan Balz offers an insider's account of the forces that shaped the political strategies of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, and the flaws and misfires that led to Romney's defeat. He discusses the 2012 campaign and the future of the Republican Party.

A lobbying battle is being waged over a rule requiring financial advisers to act in their clients' best interest in retirement planning. It pits financial firms against consumer and retiree groups.

NPR's Michel Martin talks with former mayor of Philadelphia, W. Wilson Goode, Sr., about his recent op-ed calling for the city to apologize for the MOVE bombing, which took place 35 years ago.

The U.S. has new laws that could make it easier to prosecute war crimes in other countries — something spurred by the war in Ukraine.