The Los Angeles Times

The dream run of the San Diego Chargers began five weeks ago, when they crawled out of a 4-8 hole to somehow make the NFL playoffs. That set up the...

The Cardinals were skipping like giddy children released from school, practically bouncing down the tunnel on the way to their locker room, buffeted by the uncommon wall of sound at...

Two days after he was pulled unconscious from the rubble of a bombed Al Qaeda compound in southern Afghanistan, 15-year-old Omar Khadr lay strapped to a gurney, his left eye...

Israel's week-old assault on the Gaza Strip has widened the rift between Palestinians who back moderate leaders' search for a peace accord with the Jewish state and those drawn to...

Walk into any housewares store and you'll probably see cool, colorful trash baskets in dozens of shapes and sizes. What their tags don't reveal is how these once-homely utilitarian objects...

The Sunni and Shiite tribesmen had come from across Iraq to turn the page on the fratricidal violence that tore the country apart in the years after the 2003 U.S.-led...

Israeli airstrikes killed at least eight Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Friday amid mounting speculation that a long-threatened land invasion of the coastal territory would begin soon. Hamas and...

A group of private investors agreed Friday to buy IndyMac Bank, the Pasadena, Calif., specialist in exotic home loans that collapsed in July and became the third-largest bank to fail...

Although you might not believe it from looking at their programming now, premium cable networks once took an active interest in young people. Nowadays, of course, premium channels are more...

Hit any multiplex these days, and you'll know when the latest showing of "Marley & Me" has just ended -- simply observe the stream of tears pouring out of the...