The Los Angeles Times

Barack Obama and John McCain offered more details Tuesday about what they would do to bail out the nation's struggling financial institutions, with both demanding remedies that provide greater oversight...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared Monday that the turmoil on Wall Street is rooted in part in U.S. military intervention abroad and voiced hope that the next administration would retreat...

Nancy Hicks Maynard, a pioneer in newsroom diversity who was a co-founder of the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education and later helped her husband run The Oakland Tribune for nearly...

China's product-quality chief resigned Monday as the government sought to contain a national crisis over tainted baby formula that has sickened 53,000 infants and implicated the country's biggest dairy producers....

The world's top arms-control authority harshly criticized Iran on Monday, saying it had failed to clear up questions about its nuclear past, while the Islamic republic accused the agency of...

A military judge Monday enlisted the help of self-described Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed in coaxing an accused co-conspirator out of his detention cell here so the trial into...

Earl Palmer, a New Orleans drummer who provided the distinctive backbeat for seminal rock 'n' roll songs by Fats Domino and Little Richard, then traveled west to become one of...

Chris Johnson squints at the jeans-clad mannequins lined up in fashion district storefronts in downtown Los Angeles, looking for something special: an upside-down horseshoe on the back pocket. He passes...

Small and midsize companies that depend on banks for money to help them grow are facing new challenges as the nation's credit crunch squeezes lenders and forces some to consolidate...

Virtual worlds, once a niche market within the video-game industry, are heading to the big leagues. Six Degrees Games Inc. of Marina del Rey, Calif., is planning to launch a...