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Walt Disney Co. plans to buy much of the media assets of Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox. If approved by regulators, the deal would create an entertainment powerhouse and transform the Hollywood landscape. Here is a breakdown of what Disney would acquire.

Walt Disney Co. has finalized a $52.4-billion stock deal to buy much of Rupert Murdoch’s entertainment empire, a blockbuster union that would radically transform Hollywood into a land of fewer giants.

Walt Disney Co. has finalized a $52.4-billion stock deal to buy much of Rupert Murdoch’s entertainment empire, a blockbuster union that would radically transform Hollywood into a land of fewer giants.

In defending his proposed rollback of federal net neutrality rules, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai has repeatedly said that he’s merely trying to return to the “light touch” regulation that helped make the internet what it is today.

As Gov. Jerry Brown took a climate-change advocacy lap around Europe last month, he had reason to hope that one glaring flaw in California’s fossil-fuel-emission policies would escape notice: For all of the state’s laudable efforts to reduce demand for fossil fuels, it has done nothing to reduce...

One infection known as dracunculiasis can cause people to suffer a burning blister that bursts as a parasite called the Guinea worm breaks through the skin.

Five years ago today, Adam Lanza shot and killed his mother in Newtown, Conn., then took two semiautomatic handguns and a semiautomatic rifle from her cache of firearms to massacre 20 children and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Of course, people declared at the time, such a...

Trying to score a fashion-brand bargain at the outlet level usually requires expending a good deal of shoe leather because luxury labels such as Prada, Gucci and Armani usually showcase their discounted merchandise in these malls in mono-brand environments that require shoppers to pop in and out...

Sunbaked and wind-battered Los Angeles, blessed and burdened city of extremes, is home to those with everything and those with nothing.

Latin America hasn’t had the kind of “color revolutions” that swept across Eastern Europe and the Middle East in the 2000s. But Honduras’ recent descent into authoritarianism may have created the conditions for one.

The outcome of the U.S. Senate race in Alabama is a source of both encouragement and dismay. The good news, of course, is that Democrat Doug Jones, an out-of-nowhere former prosecutor, beat former Republican state Chief Justice Roy Moore in an election that hung on issues of character. Moore’s...

Petra Axolotl knew her chances of getting an H-1B visa were slim. She had an MBA from Wharton and a job offer at Twitter, but luck would decide the Dutch data scientist’s fate — and in 2016, it did not fall in her favor.

More than a week after the Thomas fire ignited in Ventura County, destroying hundreds of homes and displacing thousands as it grew into a massive inferno, firefighters are now in a race to protect the pristine coastal communities of neighboring Santa Barbara County before a shift in powerful winds...

From 1919 until 1940, San Pedro served as the home port for the United States Navy’s battle fleet. On Christmas day, 1922, many ships invited local children to attend parties.

An Islamic extremist suicide bomber killed at least 17 people and injured 20 at a police academy in Somalia's capital Thursday, police said.

When he’s lecturing about climate change, Gov. Jerry Brown sounds like a street-corner preacher shouting: “Repent. Change your ways. The end is near.”

An Islamic extremist suicide bomber killed at least 10 people at a police academy in Somalia's capital Thursday, police said.

Jalen Brunson had 22 of his career-high 31 points in No. 1 Villanova’s dominating first half and Omari Spellman scored 27 to help lead the Wildcats to an 87-67 victory over Temple on Wednesday night in Philadelphia.

With the way Mike D’Antoni has handled Houston’s rotation lately, there are times Chris Paul is left to run the Rockets’ offense against second-team defenses.

Nearly 1 in 3 high school seniors say they used a vaping device in the past year. Use of pot remained stable, but fewer teens disapprove of regular marijuana use and daily use is more popular than daily tobacco smoking. Abuse of opioid painkillers is down, partly because they are harder to get.

Miami has agreed to trade left fielder Marcell Ozuna to the St. Louis Cardinals, a person familiar with the negotiations told the Associated Press, the third All-Star jettisoned by the Marlins this month in a payroll purge under new Chief Executive Derek Jeter.

The New England Patriots beefed up Tom Brady’s receiving corps for Sunday’s game against the Pittsburgh Steelers, adding veteran Kenny Britt.

A shallow magnitude 4.2 earthquake was reported Wednesday evening 13 miles from Fort Bragg, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 8:57 p.m. Pacific time at a depth of 3.7 miles.

Fewer Americans are putting off doctor visits or struggling with medical bills, according to a new report examining the effect of the Affordable Care Act.

The Clippers are two-plus months into their injury riddled regular season and coach Doc Rivers is still in the development stages of building a relationship with Milos Teodosic.