South Carolina lawmakers on Monday edged closer to taking down the Confederate battle flag from statehouse grounds, with senators voting by an overwhelming 37-3 to remove the flag after a long debate about whether such symbols glorify racism or represent heritage.
Demi Lovato is owning a slippery tumble she took over the holiday weekend. The former "X Factor" judge shared a slow-motion Instagram video of her pooslide slip at KIIS FM's summer pool party, which took place at the WaterMarke Tower in downtown L.A. on Sunday. She also managed to promote her newly...
There's a joke out there somewhere - quite a few of them actually - with the bustling, beautiful and sometimes weather-cursed city of Buffalo as the punchline.
The Lakers added a veteran point guard to complement their backcourt youth, agreeing to terms with Lou Williams on a three-year contract worth about $21 million.
A conversation doesn't often meander from the life of ants to the Iranian nuclear negotiations, but Michael Douglas, newspapers scattered at his side, is busy these days selling a new Disney film and acting as an ambassador of sorts to promote Jewish identity at a time when Israel is facing increasing...
The Obama administration began its nuclear negotiations with Iran by insisting that Tehran halt production of all nuclear fuel, dismantle its nuclear infrastructure and roll back its missile program. In two years of bargaining, each of those demands has been dropped.
When the nation's largest Spanish-language television network cut ties just over a week ago with Donald Trump, Univision executives said they were acting out of "a responsibility to speak up for the community we serve."
Nearly 10 years ago, this county by the bay known for its progressive political leaps became one of the first in the nation to offer residents universal access to healthcare.
Joanne Heyler steps off the long escalator that runs through the belly and onto the third floor of the cavernous new Broad museum in downtown L.A. She sweeps her arm toward the gleaming white galleries. With heavy wooden crates containing art clustered along walls and in corners, she beams, even...
Los Angeles City Council President Herb Wesson spent the last 10 days sounding a lot like a mayor.
A music video featuring the rapper Snoop Dogg and an Iranian pop singer has become the subject of a legal battle in India, where members of the Parsi community say it should be banned because it demeans their Zoroastrian religion.
Yanis Varoufakis, Greece's flamboyant finance minister, abruptly resigned Monday morning despite a national referendum that delivered a rousing endorsement to his anti-austerity policies just hours earlier.
An emergency agency official says 44 people were killed by two bombs that exploded at a crowded mosque and an elite Muslim restaurant in Nigeria's central city of Jos.
A four-hour search for two girls who went missing at Los Angeles International Airport ended after police learned that their parents knew of their plan to separate from a tourist group visiting from Vietnam.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is investigating a deputy-involved shooting Sunday night in a residential area of Hawaiian Gardens.
Vice President Joe Biden reveled in the U.S. World Cup victory Sunday, even if his pre-game prediction proved overly conservative.
For a time when she was younger, Carli Lloyd wasn't sure she belonged on the U.S. national team.
Even on a bad day, it is usually good to be Mike Trout on a baseball diamond, but it was hard to imagine life getting much better in a midseason road series than it was on Sunday.
It was 16 years of frustration poured out in 16 minutes across stunned Japanese players strewn upon the Canadian turf, a storm of empowerment, a statement of self.
When the final whistle sounded, Carli Lloyd dropped to her knees, felled by a combination of exhaustion and euphoria.
Burt Shavitz, the co-founder of Burt's Bees - a natural-cosmetics giant built on lip balm and other body-care products - died Sunday. He was 80.
Words failed Yangchen Dolkar as she tried to explain why it was so important for her to bring her three young children Sunday to see the 14th Dalai Lama speak in Anaheim.
A blaze in the Florence area that injured four firefighters and caused more than $1 million in damage, may have been sparked by illegal fireworks, according to reports being investigated by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
The man suspected of fatally shooting a woman at a popular tourist spot in San Francisco last week, a five-time deportee with a criminal record, has spoken to a reporter about how the shooting unfolded, where the gun came from and why he kept returning to the U.S.
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