Sgt. Joe Harris, believed to be the oldest surviving World War II paratrooper and a member of the U.S. Army’s first all-Black ...

Martin Steven Novotny and Dorothy Lux (aka Luks) left what is now northeast Slovakia for a new life in America and married in ...

President Roosevelt doesn’t know whether his remote ancestors in Holland were or were not Jews. In a letter to Philip Slomovitz, editor of the Detroit Jewish Chronicle and correspondent of the ...

The bride and groom were both surnamed Roosevelt and the marriage united two branches of the family, comfortably moneyed and settled in New York City and upstate at Oyster Bay and Hyde Park. The bride ...

IN A PREFACE to this monumental biography Conrad Black pays tribute to his publisher's editor, William Whitworth. Their dealings, he tells us, were often abrasive, and conducted entirely by e-mail. He ...

More than a year after a Long Island funeral home owner was brutally stabbed during a robbery outside his business, the man responsible has been convicted. Jason Funderburke, 38, of Hempstead, was ...

President Donald Trump’s speech before a joint session of Congress put the final nail in the coffin of the Democrats' recognition as the political party of compassion – which was first ...

However, one noted that Eleanor Roosevelt was fond of working to bring opposing viewpoints together to find common ground, while a volunteer said FDR’s political skills would have required ...

Late of Toowoomba, passed away peacefully on 28th February 2025, aged 80 years. Much loved Father of Rodney. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend a celebration of Peter's life ...

For those who came of age during the early days of MTV, Peter Wolf will forever be known as the frontman of the J. Geils Band, whose “Centerfold” and “Freeze Frame” videos were as much a ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On March 4, 1801, Thomas Jefferson became the first president to be inaugurated in Washington, D.C. One hundred ...

I am certain that my fellow Americans expect that on my induction into the Presidency I will address them with a candor and a decision which the present situation of our Nation impels. This is ...