The Los Angeles Times

A few miles from the Vatican, Najat Hadi kept house with her husband, his other wife and their children, an unhappy home with a hateful woman 10 years her junior...

Bruce Ivins, the government biodefense scientist linked to the deadly anthrax mailings of 2001, stood to gain financially from the massive federal spending in the fear-filled aftermath of those killings,...

General Motors Corp., Toyota Motor Corp. and Ford Motor Co. all reported sharp declines in U.S. sales in July, as the continuing weakness of pickup trucks and sport-utility vehicles, coupled...

Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success By Christopher Davidson Columbia University Press, 376 pages, $32.50 Back in February, Related Cos., the developer working with architect Frank Gehry on a $3-billion mixed-use...

'BAGHEAD' *** 1/2 It would be best to simply recommend "Baghead" without any description so its surprises could remain intact. Nevertheless .... The characters are struggling actors with relationship complications...

The alcohol is flowing at La Cantina when Calor Nortena kicks out the accordion jams for an homage to gangster Arturo Villarreal, who rose from drug cartel protege to crime...

The Bush administration unveiled a long-awaited reorganization of the U.S. intelligence community Thursday, boosting the authority of the director of national intelligence but prompting sharp criticism from congressional leaders who...

One of the nation's top biodefense researchers has died in Maryland, apparently from a suicide, just as the U.S. Justice Department was to file criminal charges against him in the...

The government now says that the U.S. economy shrank at the end of last year, and although it resumed growing during the first half of this year -- expanding at...

Scientists have discovered what could be the ultimate workout for couch potatoes: exercise in a pill. In experiments on mice that did no exercise, the chemical compound, known as AICAR,...