The Los Angeles Times

Turning your clock back one hour Sunday for the end of daylight-saving time could do your own ticker some good. Researchers have found a 5 percent drop in heart attack...

Counting down to an Election Day expected to draw record-shattering turnout, voting-rights watchdogs are sounding the alarm that a repeat of the Florida fiasco of 2000 could occur in any...

Hospitalized patients who received blood that had been stored for more than four weeks were nearly three times as likely to develop infections as those who received fresher blood, researchers...

Unless the United States modernizes its inventory of nuclear weapons and develops a replacement warhead, the arsenal's long-term safety and reliability will deteriorate, Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned Tuesday. Gates...

Natalie Cole is sitting on the couch in her spacious condo, and before commenting on one of the songs on her new album, she takes a deep breath. It's something...

It's 9 p.m. Central time, and the networks don't know where their viewers are. For decades, this time slot was one of the prime spots for top network shows, from...

Stocks closed lower Monday after a burst of late selling erased earlier gains. The Dow Jones industrial average, coming off a week in which it fell 5.4 percent, slid 203.18...

Reports about the health of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have stirred speculation on whether the controversial populist will run again for the country's highest elected office in June. In an...

One of Mexico's most wanted drug trafficking suspects was captured Saturday night at his Tijuana home after a fierce shootout with authorities, providing some good news amid the border city's...

Rain pelted the windshield as I drove up the Vals Valley. Waterfalls coursed over cliff faces, and the peaks of the Alps were lost in fog. Not the kind of...