The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. might have captured the attention of the world with his March on Washington...

From his early days leading sit-in protests as a college student to his back-to-back presidential campaigns in 1980s, the Rev....

In Upper Manhattan, two units sit empty in two well-maintained, century-old mid-rise elevator buildings. One, a four- or five-bedroom unit...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, whose impassioned oratory and populist vision of a “rainbow coalition” of the poor and forgotten made...

President Trump repeatedly promised during his campaign that he would end the war in Ukraine in one day. But by...

New Orleans is having Mardi Gras regrets, and not just the kind that come from too many daiquiris. In recent...

This winter’s bitter cold spell has turned Lake Erie into a glacial landscape, with the entire body of water almost...

For the better part of a decade, motorists on the New York side of the Peace Bridge in Buffalo have...

Commuters from New Jersey prepared for a new challenge on Tuesday as NJ Transit warned passengers that it might be...

It should have been a triumphant moment for Nancy Hagans. A nurse at a Brooklyn hospital, she is the president...

officious əˈfɪʃəs adjective : intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner The word officious has appeared eight times on NYTimes.com...

officious əˈfɪʃəs adjective : intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner The word officious has appeared eight times on NYTimes.com...

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The square started filling well before dawn. Some revelers arrived clad in neon fishnets and doused in glitter. Others, who...

Aaron Trinh was 5-foot-6, and he was unhappy. His height was something he dwelled on constantly. In public, Mr. Trinh,...