The Los Angeles Times

You know what bothers me about Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl" -- now officially the song of the summer, after spending five weeks at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot...

A suicide bomber detonated her explosives Sunday in eastern Iraq amid U.S. and Iraqi troops who were investigating an earlier attack. The blast killed one U.S. soldier and at least...

Republican Party officials have developed a well-deserved reputation for planning ever more extravagant national conventions, each built on the party's ability to secure abundant cash. But just six weeks before...

With surprising speed, the rapprochement between the Koreas has unraveled over the past month since the shooting of a South Korean tourist at a North Korean resort. The North on...

"How To Build a House" (Random House, 240 pages, $15.99) isn't really about how to build a house, although a house does get built over the course of this new,...

The slowing economy is starting to hurt an unexpected segment of the advertising world: the Web, which has been growing fast for a half-decade. Once thought to be immune from...

Anthony Russo, a Rand researcher in the late 1960s who encouraged Daniel Ellsberg to leak the Pentagon Papers and stood trial with him in the Vietnam War-era case that triggered...

Wall Street's most drastic upheaval in decades has become the opportunity of a lifetime for Ken Moelis. Although he has kept a relatively low public profile, Moelis is one of...

If you're yawning, chances are your dog is about to do the same thing. A study published in the journal Biology Letters this week found that human yawns are contagious...

Good things also come in threes: Nicole Kidman has a beautiful new baby girl, a cool new place she bought in Beverly Hills, and she will be starring in the...