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In the wake of the shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon, Democrats in Congress have launched a renewed push for gun control legislation like…

Doctors Without Borders, the international organization in charge of a hospital in Afghanistan bombed by an American airstrike this weekend, has called…

Thomas Hughes was a 29 year old investment banker at the prestige firm of Moelis & Company when he missed a family Easter brunch at the Yale Club in New…

Over the weekend, an American airstrike in the northern city of Kunduz, Afghanistan led 12 staff members and seven patients dead at a hospital run by the…

The former British Ambassador to Lebanon Tom Fletcher has achieved a rare distinction among those who have recently left their jobs: his resignation…

According to a recent piece in the Boston Globe, local Springfield man Joshua Washburn found his calling by traveling to Syria and taking up arms against…

Today on Boston Public Radio: We aired live audio from Tuesday's impeachment testimony and opened our lines to hear impressions from callers.

Today on Boston Public Radio: WGBH News Political Reporter Adam Reilly and Joanna Weiss of Experience Magazine joined us for a politics roundtable. They discussed the presidential campaign of former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, Friday’s impeachment testimony from Marie Yovanovitch, and the method behind President Trump’s use of humor. Charlie Sennott discussed Marie Yovanovitch’s Friday testimony, and the rise of populist nationalism around the globe. Sennott is a WGBH News Analyst and CEO of "The GroundTruth Project." We opened lines to callers to ask: is the Democratic primary moving too far to the left like President Obama has implied, or is big structural change the zeitgeist of the party? Medical ethicist Art Caplan discussed a new rule by the Trump administration that aims to increase transparency between hospitals and insurance companies. TV critic Bob Thompson discussed season 3 of Netflix's "The Crown,” and a disclaimer being shown for classic Disney films on Disney+ to denote what the company calls “outdated cultural references.” Tech writer Andy Ihnatko discussed new rules for drone owners, an ongoing lawsuit between Google and software company Oracle, and the state of Black Friday culture in 2019. Authors Tonya and Ben Mezrich spoke about their new children's book, “Charlie Numbers and the Wooly Mammoth."

Today on Boston Public Radio: We aired live audio from Friday's impeachment testimony, and opened our lines to hear impressions from callers.

Today on Boston Public Radio: MSNBC “Meet the Press” moderator Chuck Todd discussed Wednesday’s impeachment hearing, and the addition of Deval Patrick to the 2020 presidential race. We opened our lines to callers to hear your thoughts on Wednesday’s impeachment hearing. Former Suffolk County Sheriff and Secretary of Public Safety Andrea Cabral discussed efforts to save Rodney Reed, a Texas man currently facing the death penalty. Ali Noorani, Executive Director of the National Immigrant Forum, discussed the Supreme Court’s forthcoming decision on DACA, and its potential implications for the Trump presidency. Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick phoned in to discuss his newly announced campaign for president. Paul Reville, former Massachusetts Secretary of Education, spoke about gun violence in the shadow of Wednesday’s shooting at a Santa Clarita high school, as well as the looming $100,000 per year cost of college tuition. Harvard Business School historian Nancy Koehn discussed the failures of leadership at Boeing in the wake of a botched apology from the company’s CEO over malware that caused two plane crashes. Activist and folk singer Joan Baez, alongside Betsy Siggins, co-founder of Cambridge’s Club Passim, discussed the singer's career and the legacy of the famed folk venue on the eve of its 60th anniversary concert.

Today on Boston Public Radio: We aired live audio from Wednesday's public hearings in the House impeachment inquiry.