The Los Angeles Times

They call themselves the forgotten victims of Al Qaeda's deadliest terrorist strike against U.S. interests abroad. Survivors of the Aug. 7, 1998, U.S. Embassy bombing in Nairobi will gather Thursday...

Robert Maheu, who worked for the FBI and the CIA before he became billionaire Howard Hughes' confidant and right-hand man, shielding the eccentric industrialist from the public he feared, has...

Just over a year ago, Cpl. Garrett Jones was one of thousands of Marines slogging through a tour of duty in Iraq. Today, he is deployed with the same unit...

The high-profile arrest of a Pakistani woman suspected of links to Al Qaeda casts a spotlight on an issue her nation's fledgling civilian government has been slow to confront: years...

Luther Davis, a writer for stage, film and television who won a Tony award for "Kismet," the Broadway musical and whose screen credits include, "Lady in a Cage," a thriller...

Michael Eisner is taking a road trip back to TV family land with a gung-ho dentist and some new pals at Nickelodeon. Through his private investment company, Tornante Co., Eisner...

Lou Teicher, half of the popular Ferrante & Teicher piano duo that had Top 10 hits in the 1960s with their lushly orchestrated movie-theme singles, has died. He was 83....

Suddenly, the economic forecast is looking a little brighter. Oil prices dropped again Tuesday, to their lowest level in three months. That should help consumers buy more than just gasoline,...

So much for off-Broadway, or as they say here, off-Tiananmen Square. The U.S. Olympic team has had enough of the provinces. Showing the Americans are ready for prime time ......

By the time the sun began to rise one recent Friday over his Mira Mesa neighborhood, Mitch Hood had been up for about 18 hours. He punched a caffeine tablet...