April 8, 2012

Some recipients of aid under the Clinton-era Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program have taken desperate measures to make ends meet.

The friendship between Mitt Romney and Benjamin Netanyahu, little known to outsiders, is now rich with political intrigue.

An agreement on raids that are deeply unpopular in Afghanistan would give legal oversight to Afghan forces, putting American troops in a supporting role.

A reporter with the presence of a performer, Mr. Wallace went head-to-head with chiefs of state, celebrities and con artists for more than 50 years.

While bond purchases pushed down borrowing costs and helped Spain and Italy avoid a Greek-style bailout from the euro zone, they once again have enmeshed the banks in their debt woes.

Bank of America and Citigroup have plenty in common, and when bank earnings are revealed in the coming weeks, investors will be watching to see how the two match up.

Bubba Watson won his first major championship by making a tournament-saving par to top Louis Oosthuizen’s bogey on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff.

Now in its seventh season, the CBS sitcom “How I Met Your Mother” suddenly finds itself a hit.

Revealing new light has been cast on some American cultural figures now that the Ford Foundation has given decades’ worth of its documents to the Rockefeller Archive Center.

Carmelo Anthony delivered perhaps his biggest shot of the season, a 3-pointer that secured a thrilling overtime victory against Derrick Rose and Chicago.

The London 2012 Festival, an eight-week outpouring of cultural events before, during and after the Olympics, is part of an effort to include the arts alongside sports.

The biologist Edward O. Wilson has a new book, “The Social Conquest of Earth,” and it is already prompting sharp criticism from fellow scientists.