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The U.S. has helped mount a historic effort to eliminate poverty and roll back diseases. Will Trump keep it going?

President Obama has announced the last group of people that he will honor with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, including Michael Jordan, Diana Ross, Frank Gehry and Vin Scully.

The history of New York's Bellevue hospital is also the history of medicine in the United States. From the days before doctors believed in germs through AIDS, the hospital led the way in innovation.

The agency says the so-called Wolfcamp shale in Texas contains 20 billion barrels of oil and 16 trillion cubic feet of natural gas that are recoverable by hydraulic fracturing and other means.

Homelessness fell overall, despite large increases in cities such as Los Angeles and Seattle, according to a new HUD report. There were declines among veterans, families and the chronically homeless.

In 2011, just 41 health care providers prescribed more than $5 million each in medicines under Medicare Part D. In 2015, that number was 514. The rise of expensive hepatitis C drugs is a factor.

New York State transportation officials want to modernize parkways on Long Island to make them safer and less congested.A public hearing was held…

Mikolai Stroinski's new music encourages players to lighten up as they "kick each other's butts" playing the soon-to-be-released tavern card game, Gwent,…

For the second time in six months, Connecticut’s State Bond Commission has approved a multi-million dollar tax incentive package to keep a hedge fund…

Adam Crapser, adopted by a U.S. couple as a child, has been deported to South Korea as an adult. The New York Times spoke with his birth mother, who says she always imagined he had a better life.