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Friday's box office brought some good news and some bad news for Paramount, the studio behind "Transformers: The Last Knight," the late...

Their Sept. 16 fight in Las Vegas will determine a title that can’t be shared — the world’s best boxer in the post-Floyd Mayweather Jr. era — so inherent tension exists between Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin.

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Tribe quest: After hovering near .500 for 2½ months, the defending AL-champion Cleveland Indians have hit their stride, moving into first place by winning eight of nine games in which they outscored the Dodgers, Minnesota and Baltimore by 68-23 from...

The evacuation of hundreds of London public housing residents from their apartments rolled on Saturday as the fallout from Britain's deadliest fire in generations continued to intensify and turn into a full-blown crisis.

A surging Sierra Nevada snowmelt caused the Kings River to overflow near the Central Valley town of Kingsburg on Friday night, forcing mandatory evacuations.

It’s becoming a common refrain.

A new social networking technology takes China by storm. Its users outsmart the censors, ushering in an era of relative freedom. And then, almost inevitably, the Communist Party begins to feel threatened and shuts it down.

Thus is the story of live-streaming apps....

A Texas woman told investigators that she left her 2-year-old daughter and 16-month-old son in a hot car where they died last month to teach the girl a lesson and that they didn't lock themselves in, as she initially reported, according to sheriff's officials.

Astrid Saenz has always wanted to be a police officer and is among the most decorated cadets in the Los Angeles Police Department’s signature youth program.

Old crime fighters never die. They just reappear as their younger selves in prequels. As "Inspector Morse" brought forth "Endeavour," so has "Prime Suspect," which ran intermittently from 1991 to 2006, given birth to "Prime Suspect: Tennison," premiering Sunday on the PBS series "Masterpiece."

"The Inner Eye: Vision and Transcendence in African Arts" is curiosity-inducing exhibition with exceptional works. See it before it closes July 9.

Imagine taking a rifle to the end zone of a football field, peering through your scope at a target 38 football fields away, then squeezing the trigger and hitting that target. That’s a two-mile shot.

British officials are investigating a cyberattack on the country's Parliament after discovering "unauthorized attempts to access parliamentary user accounts."

Two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova beat Lucie Safarova in the Aegon Classic semifinals on Saturday in Birmingham, England, to reach the first final since her playing hand was injured in a knife attack at her home.

A 125-pound gentle giant named Martha has been crowned the winner of the World's Ugliest Dog Contest.

“Boys, I have the most fantastic news to report,” Beatles manager Brian Epstein announced one day in 1967 to his most famous clients. “You have been selected to represent England in a television programme which, for the first time, ever, will be transmitted live around the world via satellite....

A big movie had a big crisis, a tenacious band had a big win, a late-night host asked for trouble, a reality show got rolling again and a Hollywood institution made plans to expand. Here’s all that news and more from this week in entertainment.

Two news items jumped out at me in the last several days.

Item one: The U.S. Senate, after conducting its business behind closed doors, burped up a healthcare reform package that is likely to throw millions of people off the health insurance rolls.

Item two: The Los Angeles Department of Water...

New rules set to expand federal student loan forgiveness for borrowers who believe that they were defrauded by their schools have been put on hold until further notice, according to the Department of Education.

Hi. I’m Carolyn Kellogg, book editor of the L.A. Times, with this week’s newsletter.

As the summer heats up, the pleasures of Southern California farmers markets intensify, especially if you head out early in the morning when the farmers — and your neighbors — are in a conversational mood. So we have our weekly market report, in which we consider the joys of zucchini and summer...