The Los Angeles Times

Restaurants are being told to list calorie counts on their menus. Schools are banning bake sales, and cities are outlawing new fast-food restaurants in some neighborhoods. State and local governments,...

A recently divorced man dressed as Santa Claus opened fire at a Christmas Eve party and then set ablaze the house of his former in-laws, killing at least eight people,...

The political and military leaders of Israel issued dire warnings Thursday to Hamas that it would soon move against the Palestinian militant group that controls the Gaza Strip unless renewed...

So much of it arrived all at once, blurring the distinction between what actually had happened first -- the return of the Lakers' defense or the appearance of Pau Gasol's...

Growing up in the Chinese countryside with only an elementary school education, Yang Yanjun had never heard of Christmas until she landed a job painting pink-cheeked cherubs to decorate trees....

India's prime minister signaled Tuesday that his government would not act unilaterally against the extremist networks allegedly behind last month's Mumbai terror attacks, attempting to ease tensions over accusations that...

In the year following her audition in last season's "American Idol," Carly Smithson lived in one of pop culture's most public bubbles. The tattooed Irish rocker made it through Hollywood...

Foreign competitors and outdated equipment. Low-ball pricing by upstarts trying to muscle market share. Crushing energy costs and a tanking economy. The poinsettia game has never been tougher. "When I...

The federal regulator who oversaw the seizure of IndyMac Federal Bank has been demoted after a government inquiry found that he allowed the Pasadena, Calif.-based savings and loan to backdate...

Young women are often treated like the empty calories of American culture -- they're as hard to resist as a forbidden sweet, as guiltily denied and as easily forgotten. This...