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This year's Lasker Prize for public service goes to South African researchers Salim and Quarraisha Abdool-Karim. The married couple made a startling discovery about HIV — and did something about it.

Delegates from Puerto Rico referred to the island territory as "the commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the next state of the United States" before casting their votes for Kamala Harris during Tuesday night's roll call.

Haunted car washes have become a national phenomenon, with hundreds of Halloween-themed locations around the country.

One is a YouTuber-turned-boxer. The other hasn't been back in the ring in nearly two decades. Tonight they'll fight in Texas.

Florida has been a major access point for abortion in the South. Now its residents, along with thousands more in the region, will have to seek abortion care elsewhere after six weeks of pregnancy.

Gino DiGiovanni Jr., a former alderman who lost a mayoral race in Derby in November, was sentenced Wednesday for entering the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, as riots broke out to stop certification of the 2020 presidential election.

"Nobody really compares" to Alan Williams number-wise, a statistician says. But the starting center for University of California, Santa Barbara, isn't widely expected to be named Player of the Year.

It's Michigan vs. Alabama and Washington vs. Texas for the final season of the four-team college football playoff format, before the tournament grows to a field of 12 next year.

Dozens of Massachusetts school districts are being told, later than usual in the school budget process, more state funding is being put in the House budget due to a "data" issue that shows more low-income students in schools than initially counted.

From rock and jazz concept albums to hip-hop collaborations, WBUR music writer Noah Schaffer shares 14 albums he's looking forward to this season.