The Los Angeles Times

Is it Tuesday yet? Even the most patriotic among us might be feeling election fatigue this week. Campaigns generally are messy affairs, with stories that keep changing and endings that...

Shaun Stratton pulled on his wet suit, grabbed his inner tube and headed to the beach to take part in one of California's riskiest pastimes: hunting for abalone. It's not...

Sarah Palins of all ages came out of the woodwork at John McCain's Halloween evening rally in Columbus, Ohio. Most wore red suits and many toted baby Trig dolls. California...

The hippo and crocodiles were statues made of glass and cement. But the lions and tigers were real. It was one of those odd things drug traffickers do. Like decorating...

Jim Turner, co-founder and former creative director of Flaunt magazine, can't recall collecting anything as a kid growing up in Missouri. But today, far-ranging collections are on display throughout his...

Underscoring the deteriorating security situation in the Afghan capital, a suicide bomber managed Thursday to make his way into a heavily guarded government ministry in the city center and set...

In another wild day on Wall Street, stocks sold off sharply in the final minutes of trading Wednesday, wiping out a nearly 300-point gain in the Dow Jones industrial average...

Milton Katselas, a prominent acting teacher and director whose students included George Clooney, Alec Baldwin, Michelle Pfeiffer and hundreds of other actors, has died. He was 75. Mr. Katselas, who...

As part of an urgent review of U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, senior Pentagon officials are weighing new, controversial proposals to send additional teams of highly trained U.S. Special Operations Forces...

A string of suicide bombings that killed 22 people in northern Somalia on Wednesday heightened fears that Islamic insurgents are becoming more sophisticated and ambitious, perhaps with help from foreign...