The Los Angeles Times

About a quarter of the nation's teenage girls received the controversial cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil last year in its first full year of distribution, federal authorities said Thursday. "For a...

Ford Motor Co., never one to get left behind in the race to control every aspect of our driving lives, has a new innovation: an electronic baby-sitter for wayward youths....

Everyone complains about how hard it is to find an audience for quality films, but no one ever talks about the force wreaking the most havoc on high-end movies --...

Aristotle believed patience to be a virtue. Ryan Howard disagrees. And Aristotle might have, too, had he, like Howard, led the National League in intentional walks through his first three...

It's a bright, sunny morning after a gig, and Chrissie Hynde is doing what any good rock star would: hanging out in her hotel room, casually flipping the pages of...

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

Naqi Shakir sits on a sagging mattress pushed against a wall. His wife and two daughters perch on tattered sofas and chairs crowded into the one room of the house...

For the first time, a federal judge has ordered the Bush administration to release prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, ordering 17 Chinese Muslims to be brought to his courtroom Friday....

She's accused of being the "Mata Hari" of North Korea, a temptress-spy who for years seduced secrets from South Korean military officers. The method was potentially lethal: Won Jeong Hwa...

The chief executive of Lehman Brothers Holding Inc., whose bankruptcy filing last month dramatically escalated the Wall Street financial crisis, faced angry lawmakers Monday and defended his leadership and the...