Ben Carson

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson speaks at the 2018 Young Black Leadership Summit at the White House.

Secretary Ben Carson: Democrats are harming the needy by obstructing noncontroversial nominees

Secretary Ben Carson · January 17, 2019 9:55 pm

FILE - This Jan. 21, 2016 file photo shows the Flint River near downtown Flint, Mich. City leaders are floating a shockingly high price to replace the city's water infrastructure damaged after the stateâs disastrous decision in 2014 to use the Flint River as the cityâs drinking water source without adding a chemical to control corrosion, which caused high levels of chloride from the river to react with iron in the pipes, causing lead to leach into water for a year and a half and contributing to a spike in child lead poisoning before city and state officials fully acknowledged the problem.

Energy and Environment

Trump administration unveils strategy to protect children from lead poisoning

Josh Siegel · December 19, 2018 4:32 pm

It was moving day for some at the Hiawatha homeless encampment and a day of joy and emotion for some Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018, in Minneapolis, Minn. James Loerzel, 59, center rear, who has lived at the camp for about three months, is interviewed by a journalist while members of Natives Against Heroin move his belongings for the move to the new navigation center site.

Unsheltered homelessness increased in 2018

Colin Wilhelm · December 17, 2018 6:09 pm

President Trump looks to Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., as he attends a ceremony to sign an executive order establishing the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Wednesday Dec. 12, 2018, in Washington.

Trump creates council to boost ‘opportunity zones’ in depressed areas

Steven Nelson · December 12, 2018 9:58 pm

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson steps off Air Force One with President Donald Trump as they arrive Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017, in Reno, Nev.

Trump to create council to manage tax-break ‘opportunity zones’ and have Ben Carson lead it

Colin Wilhelm · December 12, 2018 3:21 pm

—œThere are two Donald Trumps," said Ben Carson, the one in public and the one "behind the scenes." (AP Photo/John Locher)

Ben Carson: Trump says to me all the time, ‘Aren’t you glad you didn’t win?’

Daniel Chaitin · November 10, 2018 3:01 am

Trump administration announces drop in veterans’ homelessness

Maria Biery · November 1, 2018 4:27 pm

Ben Carson is joining the ranks of the YIMBYs, whether they want him or not

Joseph Lawler · October 16, 2018 4:00 am

U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson addresses the media outside of The Village at Westerly Creek after touring the HUD funded property Monday, July 30, 2018, in Aurora, Colo.

Ben Carson floats ‘big picture’ conspiracy to explain Brett Kavanaugh sexual assault allegation

Daniel Chaitin · September 22, 2018 3:25 am

President Trump lashed out against the anonymous senior official who wrote an anonymous opinion piece in the New York Times, claiming to be part of a "resistance" working "from within" to thwart the commander in chief's most dangerous impulses.

Here are the Trump officials denying they wrote anonymous New York Times op-ed

Caitlin Yilek · September 6, 2018 2:57 pm

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson has denied there were any nefarious motives to an announced plan to alter HUD's mission statement. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Carson HUD will investigate Facebook for housing discrimination

Joseph Lawler · August 17, 2018 8:20 pm

U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson addresses the media outside of The Village at Westerly Creek after touring the HUD funded property Monday, July 30, 2018, in Aurora, Colo.

Ben Carson bets that Uncle Sam can lean on cities and towns to allow more housing

Joseph Lawler · August 15, 2018 12:00 pm