The Los Angeles Times

A new report based on previously classified documents suggests that the Nixon and Ford administrations created conditions that helped destabilize Iran in the late 1970s and contributed to the country's...

The sell-off on Wall Street intensified Wednesday, sending the Dow Jones industrial average down more than 700 points after grim retail sales data stoked fears that a punishing recession may...

Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal, the onetime Chicago bookmaker who ran four Las Vegas casinos in the 1970s and whose turbulent life and near-death experience with a car bomb inspired the movie...

He'd had a rotten day at the office -- the boss had barked at him, ordering some project done within an impossible deadline. So he got aboard his pearl-white Harley-Davidson...

A funny thing happened on the way to the Third Plenary Session of the 17th Central Committee, where China's Communist Party leaders were expected to enact a bold land reform...

Vice presidential candidates Sarah Palin and Joe Biden grabbed center stage on the campaign trail during the day Wednesday, focusing on economic issues during tough-talking stops in battleground states. With...

It's still early in the TV season, but CBS is shaping up as the network to beat. For the second straight week, the network won the prime-time ratings race in...

The president of Syria ordered his government Tuesday to establish formal diplomatic relations with Lebanon, in a move that could pave the way for normalizing ties between the two countries...

Howard Stern, the self-proclaimed King of All Media, has lost his crown. The shock jock's syndicated morning radio show once drew a national audience of 12 million, but since he...

At Boeing Co.'s sprawling satellite-making complex in suburban El Segundo, Calif., engineers for decades pioneered space systems that altered the way we communicate by telephone and watch television. But in...