Federal Housing Act of 1949 establishes the urban renewal program and provides money for 800,000 new apartments. 1960 In budget message, President Eisenhower stresses spending for urban renewal.

Dr. Perri Klass on family health. The pediatric wisdom is that it’s often the mother who asks the question. But she usually says the question comes from the boy’s father. His dad is worried, she ...

Donald J. Trump, who has repeatedly dabbled in conspiracy theories during his time on the campaign trail, accused Senator Ted Cruz’s father of associating with Lee Harvey Oswald not long before Oswald ...

A four-decades-old study — recently discovered in a dusty basement — has raised new questions about longstanding dietary advice and the perils of saturated fat in the American diet. The research, ...

Sitting too much may increase the risk of dying prematurely, while replacing sitting time with just standing or moderate physical activity could counteract the effect. Researchers used survey data ...

When Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, she relied on Henry A. Kissinger’s counsel. He would send her “astute observations about foreign leaders” and “written reports on his travels.” She would ...

The exact origin of Donald J. Trump’s insistence that he saw live television images on Sept. 11, 2001, of “thousands and thousands” of Arabs in New Jersey “cheering” as “the World Trade Center came ...

Edwin Kantor, the onetime head of trading at Drexel Burnham Lambert, told The New York Times in 1995, “People used to be afraid to put Drexel on their résumé.” “Now they want it to be there.” Today, ...

The redbrick bank in Weir, Kan., in a building cater-corner from the mortuary on Main Street, does not look much like a candidate for the bank of the future. Inside, an Emerson boombox with a fully ...

As a follow-up to our post offering 50 ways to teach with current events, we asked Rory O’Connor, director of the Digital Resource Center at Stony Brook University’s Center for News Literacy, to share ...

As auto lenders reach out to those with poor credit, they are increasingly using starter interruption devices, technology that allows them to remotely disable a car, to spur timely payment. The ...

When people bemoan the alleged ill effects of reading online, they often hold up reading a good novel as the more wholesome alternative. But a few hundred years ago, novels were the suspect medium, ...