The Los Angeles Times

As the deadline approached for her science project last spring, 5th grader Kiana Deane chose a familiar subject: herself. Since birth, she had been afflicted with an uncommon form of...

Bitter rivals in Zimbabwe reached a power-sharing deal Thursday that leaves Robert Mugabe president and in control of the armed forces but gives his opponents hope for enough power to...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned consumers Thursday to avoid buying all infant formula imported from China, citing reports of babies in that country who have kidney problems after...

A major initiative to help cut airline flight times, burn less fuel and reduce harmful carbon emissions is to be presented Friday by the Federal Aviation Administration at San Francisco...

There is no state-of-the-art media room, no marble spa bathrooms, nor some of the other luxuries one might expect at the home of "High School Musical" creator Bill Borden and...

Rep. Ron Paul, the Texas libertarian who developed a big following in his failed bid for the GOP presidential nomination, is urging his supporters to vote for one of several...

Federal investigators said Wednesday that an Interior Department group in charge of collecting billions of dollars in oil and natural gas royalties was compromised for years by a "culture of...

Arthroscopic knee surgery for arthritis -- a procedure performed hundreds of thousands of times a year -- does not reduce joint pain or improve knee function, according to research released...

School is here, which means I will get to sleep in while my 7-year-old daughter, Hannah, learns whatever you learn in 2nd grade nowadays (I believe it's how to build...

California's six most senior Episcopal bishops unanimously declared their opposition Wednesday to a state constitutional amendment on the November ballot that would ban same-sex marriage. The bishops argued that preserving...