The Los Angeles Times

Most deaths in the 1918 influenza pandemic were caused not by the virus alone but by common bacterial infections that overwhelmed victims' weakened immune systems, according to two new studies...

Ben Stiller handed them out to cast and crew at the conclusion of a punishing 13-week location shoot as a gesture of thanks but also contrition: T-shirts that read "I...

Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain briefly shared a stage at Rev. Rick Warren's cavernous Saddleback Church on Saturday night as they discussed what their faith means to them and...

Osmel Sousa finally got his groove back. Famous in the 1980s and '90s for producing international beauty queens at his school for pageant contestants, Sousa ended a 12-year drought last...

Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain briefly shared a stage at Rev. Rick Warren's cavernous Saddleback Church on Saturday night as they discussed what their faith means to them and...

Are you eager to chatter away on your cell phone at 35,000 feet in the air or listen to your seatmate do the same? Not so fast. More Americans oppose...

L. Rust Hills, the former longtime fiction editor at Esquire who was known for publishing the work of the best American writers during his 30 years at the magazine, has...

Mortgage troubles continue to bedevil Ed McMahon, the former sidekick to comic Johnny Carson on the "Tonight Show," who has been battling foreclosure of his Beverly Hills home. A Huntington...

Michael Silberkleit, chairman and publisher of Archie Comics who joined the family business as a teenager and strove to keep the comic rooted in a clean-cut past while allowing it...

Intermediaries on Friday were negotiating terms for President Pervez Musharraf's resignation, according to politicians familiar with the talks, and there were reports that an accord is close. Musharraf's spokesman, retired...