The Los Angeles Times

William Claxton, the master photographer whose images of Chet Baker helped fuel the jazz trumpeter's stardom in the 1950s and whose fashion photographs of his wife modeling a topless swimsuit...

The stock market surged in dramatic fashion Monday amid hope that aggressive steps by central banks around the world would prop up the global banking system, but doubts lingered as...

Nearly 150 years after Russian Czar Alexander II bought a large plot of land in Jerusalem from the Ottoman Empire, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert arrived in Moscow bearing a...

If there were any question about Asia's exposure to the U.S. financial contagion, last week left no doubt. Japan's stock market crashed, South Korea's currency convulsed and Singapore reported that...

Taliban fighters made an unusual bid to capture a provincial capital, Afghan and Western officials said Sunday, a failed assault that nonetheless underscored their heightened ambition in recent months. Hundreds...

The pharmacy business is cutthroat. Just ask John Tilley, the owner of four small drugstores in the Los Angeles area. The pharmacist has seen chains such as Sav-on, Thrifty and...

The "Big 12" reasons the Big 12 is the best conference (so far) this season: 1. Quarterbacks from the conference could finish 1-2-3 in this year's Heisman Trophy balloting, which...

We're only four races into NASCAR's 10-race Chase for the Sprint Cup, and already half of the dozen drivers in the Chase are long shots to win the championship. Tony...

Ever since Sarah Palin burst onto the national scene, I've heard more than I ever wanted to hear about hockey moms. Are they that different from soccer moms? Do they...

I was bushwhacking through a tangle of shrub and trees, following the Gila River in southwestern New Mexico, when I came across fresh bear prints in the wet, sandy shores....