Some presidential candidates who once worked for an institution reviled by conservative voters might try to make you forget that period in their life. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) can't stop talking about it.
A sigh of relief? That MRI on Brett Anderson's sore Achilles' tendon Wednesday could have been extremely bad news.
It's been nearly a month since Tom Brady appealed his four-game Deflategate suspension, and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has yet to announce whether he will uphold or modify the four-time Super Bowl winner's punishment.
Can a police officer order you out of your car during a routine traffic stop as a Texas trooper did to Sandra Bland? And what about ordering you to put out a cigarette while you are still in your car?
Greece's dramatic debt crisis has drawn media attention from the world over, as the depression-racked country flirts with bankruptcy and a possible exit from the euro currency. Inevitably, reporters and editors (including those at this newspaper) have reached for their dog-eared school copies of...
There was a time not so long ago when it would have been inconceivable for a sitting president to visit any late-night talk show, much less one on basic cable. But President Obama did just that Tuesday night - for the third time as chief executive - to bid farewell to Jon Stewart, who leaves "The...
Whispery and wise and flecked with eccentric humor, Garrison Keillor's baritone has long seeped across a nation that, despite its perpetual restiveness and cravings for trends, has found comfort in his brand of Midwestern pragmatism, schmaltz and slow-motion charm.
Welcome to Trail Guide, your daily tour through the peaks and valleys of the 2016 presidential campaign. It's Wednesday, July 22, and here's what we're watching: Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is touring a pregnancy center in South Carolina Bush is toeing the line when talking about Donald Trump...
The so-called sharing economy is fast emerging as a 2016 presidential battleground, exposing fundamentally different approaches over how to embrace new technologies without hurting American workers.
Los Angeles city officials are asking a judge to prohibit gang members from entering or staying at a Watts home they say has emerged as a dangerous stronghold used to store guns and sell drugs a few blocks from two elementary schools and a church.
A new sheriff is coming to clean up U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the nation's largest law enforcement agency.
Nearly two years ago, President Obama proposed a federal system to rate the nation's colleges and universities, one that would provide families with an objective and unified tool to compare schools and for taxpayers to determine whether the massive investments in scholarships and other government...
They packed the house.
To Jonathan Ming Ren Liu, assistant president of America Asia Travel Center, the recent Chinese stock market crash is just a distant story on his television.
Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei regained his passport on Wednesday afternoon, more than four years after it was seized by authorities apparently in retaliation for his social and political activism.
Fellow swelterers, Right now Los Angeles feels more like Houston than the dry, sunny summer weather we love so much. Although we can all acknowledge that, yes, "the farmers need the rain," with temperatures at my house in the 80s and the humidity above 50%, about the only thing I can find the energy...
A panel chaired by Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom hopes to guide the debate on the legalization of marijuana in California with an emphasis on limiting children's access to cannabis, reducing illegal activity and tightly regulating the drug's growth and sales.
In an episode of "The Middle" last season, Sue Heck (played by Eden Sher) couldn't figure out why the guide on her college tour kept steering her to the school's Native American programs. Turned out, when asked for her race, Sue had checked the wrong box.
A police video of Sandra Bland's arrest during a dispute with a Texas state trooper contains a number of continuity problems and anomalies, raising questions about whether it represents a continuous record of the controversial encounter. The dashboard video, released Tuesday afternoon by the Texas...
I'm Davan Maharaj, editor of the Los Angeles Times. Uber and the sharing economy emerge as a rallying cry for Republican candidates; and the death penalty bumps up against governors who won't sign execution warrants. Here are some story lines I don't want you to miss today. Subscribe to the newsletter...
Mike Trout started every one of the team's first 92 games, 89 in center field and three at designated hitter, playing 805 of a possible 817 innings at the break-neck pace he's maintained for four years.
What happens when the world's best soccer team is forced to play a game without two of its best players?
A former professional boxer pleaded no contest Tuesday to killing his manager in 1987, closing the book on a once-cold case that was resolved with the help of DNA evidence, authorities said.
Saying their crowded campus needs to expand, UC Merced leaders Tuesday presented plans to construct new classrooms, dorms and labs over the next five to seven years - and to enroll nearly 4,000 more students.
E.L. Doctorow, an elder statesman of American letters, whose best-known works weaved historical figures such as Harry Houdini, Emma Goldman and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg into imaginative retellings of a distinctly American tale of class, race and fragile truths, died Tuesday in New York City....