The Los Angeles Times

From her gossipy late-night perch on E! Entertainment Television, Chelsea Handler routinely mouths off about Tom Cruise, Angelina Jolie and almost everyone else in and around the gates of the...

The mess in the U.S. financial system is making some people nostalgic for the dot-com collapse of 2000-02. That, too, was the cataclysmic bursting of an insane market bubble. But,...

Less than two months after North Korea blew up the cooling tower of its main nuclear plant in a televised spectacle, the government announced Tuesday that it had suspended the...

Dave Freeman, an advertising agency executive who co-wrote "100 Things to Do Before You Die," an adventure-seeking and often unconventional travel guide that personified the way he lived his life,...

Last year, when a labor union for Colorado government workers needed help from Gov. Bill Ritter, he issued an executive order making it possible to organize state employees. Months later,...

Long before the mortgage crisis began rocking Main Street and Wall Street, a top FBI official made a chilling if little-noticed prediction: The mortgage business, fueled by low interest rates...

Many music industry executives who are trying to offset falling CD sales love the sound of "Guitar Hero" and "Rock Band." The video games have millions of followers who memorize...

A suicide bomber rushed into a neighborhood celebration for a man who had just been released from detention Sunday night, detonating his explosives and killing at least 25 other people,...

Andrew Cherng remembers pacing through his Chinese restaurant in Pasadena, Calif., wondering whether any customers would show. It was a difficult time. He had borrowed from family members and the...

Mustafa Arat knows how to sell. He did it for 27 years for Xerox Corp., Pitney-Bowes Inc. and other Fortune 500 companies. Now he's doing it for himself, peddling something...