At first glance, a decision last week upholding the conviction of a Maryland child molester might seem to undermine the Supreme Court's...
Now we know the truth. The infamous "Compton Cookout" at UC San Diego, where members of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity invited guests to...
The Los Angeles Unified school board looked transformation in the eye -- and blinked. By overriding several recommendations of its top...
Acase to be argued in the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday poses a dilemma for supporters of civil liberties who also believe in gun control....
Los Angeles began February with revenues falling drastically short of projections, a $212-million budget gap that must be closed by June...
Bricklayer Orlando Zapata Tamayo didn't commit murder. He didn't plot an assassination or the violent overthrow of the government. He was...
Lawmakers insisted that it was a one-time thing, a special law for a special circumstance that would never be repeated. How often, after...
The Turkish military has long served as the guardian of secular rule in Ankara, even when it meant staging a coup to do so. Turkey's elected...
Tom Campbell, the moderate California Republican who hopes to challenge Sen. Barbara Boxer in November, might make a good U.S. senator, or...
The televised healthcare reform summit that President Obama convened Thursday didn't produce any Kumbaya moments or ground-breaking...
Oh heck, why dither: The proposal by state Sen. Dean Florez (D-Shafter) to create a registry of animal abusers -- to be funded by a new...
General Motors' tank-like Hummer is known in China as Han MaHan Ma, which translates as "fierce horse." This week, the...
Liberal groups and the American Bar Assn. are opposing President Obama's nomination of Sharon Browne, an attorney at the Sacramento-based...
In September 2006, four students at a school in Turin, Italy, beat and humiliated an autistic classmate....
Three years have passed since the housing bubble burst, and yet the number of mortgage defaults and foreclosures continues to increase....
The Netherlands has become the first NATO ally to announce that it is quitting the fight in Afghanistan, following the collapse of the...
The notion that the hot dog should be redesigned inspires a variation on the mad-scientist-movie line: "Man was not meant to tamper in God's...
President Obama unveiled a detailed proposal Monday for reforming the U.S. healthcare system, confirming that the bipartisan summit Thursday...
Arespected career Justice Department official has concluded that two George W. Bush administration lawyers who wrote memos authorizing the...
Two years ago, the question of whether the two runways on Los Angeles International Airport's north airfield should be rebuilt farther apart...
It is one of the most memorable opening sequences on film: A small craft is being pursued through outer space by a massive triangular...
It sounds counterintuitive, but since the failure of comprehensive immigration reform in 2007, the prevailing wisdom in Washington has...
When President Obama nominated Michele Leonhart to head the Drug Enforcement Administration last month, those hoping for a sensible federal...
Arnold Schwarzenegger could not do it. Neither can Meg Whitman, Steve Poizner, Jerry Brown or anyone else running for governor. And if...
The stubbornly high unemployment rate has many lawmakers on Capitol Hill fearing that they too will find themselves without a job after...
When most Americans hear that it's illegal to supply "material support" to foreign terrorist groups, they probably assume that the...
During the Middle Ages, pogroms throughout Europe were instigated by rumors that Jews were poisoning the wells. Then during the Cold War,...
The Supreme Court unconscionably overreached last month when it ruled -- in a case that didn't require it to address the issue at all --...
The federal government took a tentative step toward solving its long-term budget problems Thursday when President Obama issued an...
