The Japanese MV Wakashio, owned by the Nagashiki Shipping Company and operated by Mitsui OSK Line, has spilled oil off the Mauritius coast after hitting a reef near the Blue…

After being arrested and imprisoned in December 1943 by the Nazis for the “crime” of being Jewish, Daniele Israel secretly sent more than 250 letters to his wife, Anna, and children Vittorio and Dario, who were in…

NEW YORK – The U.S. Department of State has submitted its first report on European countries’ restitution to Holocaust survivors and heirs for assets seized during the Nazi Germany and post-war communist…

A version of this article originally appeared in The Brink. Twenty-five years ago, 59,000 African American women signed up to join the Black Women’s Health Study launched by the Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston…

Health disparities, structural racism, and Boston’s progress and shortcomings on tackling these systemic issues were the center of discussion on July 30 during “Black Boston: Building Healthy Cities”—the first of a four-part,…

The politicization of COVID-19 is the most extreme of any health problem that Dr. Anthony Fauci has experienced in his career, the infectious disease expert revealed in his latest review of the coronavirus pandemic.…

The 1965 Vatican Council, and subsequent efforts by the Church to reconcile with Judaism, did not win over Orthodox Jews, who believe that their reading of the Scriptures is correct…

Desperate families face risky job offers, dubious loans, and online predators. The COVID-19 pandemic is making the world worse in lots of ways. One of the more unexpected ways is…

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged never to "repeat the tragedy of war" as commemorations marking VJ Day — the 75th anniversary of the end of World War Two in Asia —…

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's Supreme Court is deciding whether three sheriff's deputies should be immune from prosecution in the 2017 death of a Black man who authorities repeatedly shot with…