- 'Black Swan' author Taleb sees government debt as 'pure Ponzi scheme'
- Dodgers' offense continues to shrink by the game, as they fall to Padres, 6-1
- Kanye West joins Twitter -- doesn't realize others tweet too?
- California poll: support for climate law, opposition to oil drilling
- Poll shows top ticket races are still close
- More of the Rummy and Helen Deese story
- The logic behind Guillermo del Toro's madness
- Thursday's TV Highlights: “On the Road With Austin & Santino,” on Lifetime
- Thursday's TV Talk Shows
- Pennsylvania racehorse trainer accused of giving horses performance-enhancing drugs
- Baseball: Aaron Brown pitches Chatsworth into title game
- Animal rights activist advocating vegetarianism in a lettuce gown is briefly held in Jordan
- Tanner Foust expects 'carnage' in first year of superrally
- Opinion: Bahrain (and 8 other countries) have more connected homes than U.S., study says
- ABC's biggest mystery: Why did Steve McPherson leave?
- USA Basketball: Krzyzewski on Eric Gordon
- Dodgers acquire outfielder Scott Podsednik from Royals for pair of minor leaguers
- State GOP has beef with Dems over cow shooting
- Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt buy $40-million Italian villa
- UCLA football: Bruins land linebacker Aaron Wallace Jr.
- Your recipe for the day: Stuffed summer squash
- USC grants linebacker Glen Stanley a release
- Theater review: 'Young Frankenstein' at the Pantages
- Hollywood is being invaded by ... alien invader movies
- Oscar the octopus will predict Saturday's Juan Manuel Marquez-Juan Diaz winner
- Verizon smart-phone users average more data usage than AT&T's, study says
- Catalonia becomes second Spanish region to ban bullfighting
- Betsy Sharkey's film pick of the week: Ernst Lubitsch's 'Heaven Can Wait'
- Hollywood Foreign Press gives (another) $75,000 to LACMA for film program
- Apple's iAd will help developers advertise their apps -- from inside other apps
- TCA Press Tour: William Shatner thinks '$#*! My Dad Says' should spell it out
- Opinion: How much worse could it have been?
- Have a question? Facebook may have an answer
- Travis Preston to head CalArts theater school
- Kiehl's and celebrity supporters to cruise the California coast for a good cause
- Icahn loses latest round in feud with Lions Gate
- This week's on-sales: Florence and the Machine, Rob Zombie & Alice Cooper, Jimmy Eat World and more
- A new Harvey Weinstein?
- L.A. Times review of 'Nightmare' blasted as 'an insult to all' Avenged Sevenfold fans
- Global warming: battle over California ballot initiative heats up
- TCA Press Tour: 'Sopranos' producers sing a different tune with 'Blue Bloods'
- Angels' bullpen breaks down in eighth inning of 7-3 loss to Red Sox
- PREACH IT! Harsh Lady Justice wants Lindsay Lohan to stay pale and lonely
- Are America's fattest states starved for fine restaurants?
- Isaiah Mustafa cast in Jennifer Aniston movie 'Horrible Bosses'
- Singaporean restaurant Spice Table to open downtown
- TCA Press Tour: 'The Defenders' gets a scripted makeover
- Daniel Radcliffe on his tearful 'Harry Potter' farewell -- and his scary acting future
- Anaheim Ducks sign draft pick Cam Fowler
- Angels pitcher Joel Pineiro to be sidelined 6-8 weeks
- Celebrity zookeeper Jack Hanna uses pepper spray to ward off grizzly bear in Glacier National Park
- Michael Cera, Jason Schwartzman, Kieran Culkin battle the red carpet for 'Scott Pilgrim vs. the World'
- Cubs first baseman Derrek Lee confirms reports he nixed trade to Angels
- Live review: Sahara Smith, Villagers at Hotel Cafe
- Antonio Margarito applies to California for reinstated boxing license
- Rep. Diane Watson's mother dies at 100
- Opinion: Rendell says Obama shouldn’t go on “The View”; compares show to Jerry Springer
- Brown, Whitman each have had tax issues
- Tom Jones' 'Praise & Blame' gets praise .... after blame
- Lakers' Lamar Odom, Clippers' Eric Gordon make cut as finalists for USA Basketball world championship team
- TCA Press Tour: Sara Gilbert, Julie Chen and Sharon Osbourne target moms with 'The Talk'
- Should Haim Saban really be telling CBS to get rid of Oliver Stone?
- Opinion: John Podesta writes probing foreword for new book on UFOs
- Opinion: Social media wrap: Brewer, Issa, Thompson and others react to Arizona immigration law
- TCA Press Tour: Don't dare call 'Hawaii Five-0' a remake
- Federal judge voids key parts of Arizona immigration law
- Daydreaming with Robert Duvall -- but not Bill Murray -- at the 'Get Low' premiere
- L.A. Phil unfurls a new banner for a new season at Walt Disney Concert Hall
- David Fray and Pablo Heras-Casado make 'heroic' Hollywood Bowl debuts
- Reports: Cubs first baseman Derrek Lee nixes trade to Angels
- Cooking along with Gordon Ramsay
- Meryl Streep will be Tina Fey's mom (on the Sony lot)
- Most state workers will face more furloughs under new executive order by Schwarzenegger
- Anthony Bourdain comes to KCRW for Guest DJ Project
- Race for governor degenerates into playground taunts
- Fed report on economy shows signs of slowdown
- Melissa Rycroft is pregnant with her first child
- Joel Pineiro scratched because of rib cage injury; Scot Shields starts against Red Sox
- Ivy Bean, oldest known Twitter user, dies at 104
- Dan Haren throws in bullpen and is on track for Saturday's start
- Wednesday: Molly Ringwald at Vroman's
- Day off for Torii Hunter is more of a mental break than a physical one
- Condoleezza Rice backs Aretha Franklin on piano in Philly
- Your morning adorable: Dog shows baby how to high-five
- Schwarzenegger to order more furloughs for state workers
- Dear Kanye West, welcome to Twitter, but . . .
- Wet Seal CEO to step down in October
- Sports Legend Revealed: Did NBC send an employee on the field to delay an NFL title game?
- Motocross vet Travis Pastrana drops out of best trick at X Games
- Polish museum debuts 3-D movie about World War II
- California Pizza Kitchen shares jump on deal rumors
- TCA Press Tour: The meat and bones of 'Mike & Molly'
- NASCAR team owner Jack Roush in serious but stable condition after plane accident
- Seed exchange and potluck at Gardenerd test garden
- One in five Californians say they need mental health care
- LACMA, Michael Govan party in the Hamptons
- 'Get Low' rolls out a red carpet premiere for Robert Duvall and friends in Beverly Hills
- TCA Press Tour: 'S#*! My Dad Says'? CBS advertisers are OK with the old man and the 'Bleep'
- Football: Kennedy Pola has local ties
- TCA Press Tour: Love is in the air on 'The Big Bang Theory'
- Dick Dale: Surf guitar king riding the wave back from cancer
- Consumer Confidential: A Google-style Facebook, iPhone killer, self-boarding jets
- Report: Newlywed Miranda Kerr is pregnant
- Wall Street Roundup: The biggest paydays. Snooki rings the bell
- Piers Morgan mum on whether he's succeeding Larry King
- Baseball: Nearly 100 comments and counting on Reitz
- LEBANON: Supermarket chain won't sell Melitta coffee filters with Hebrew writing on package
- Your morning fashion and beauty report: Vera Wang, Oscar de la Renta or both for Chelsea Clinton's wedding? And do you want to fake Rihanna's hairstyle?
- Wall Street Roundup: Obama comes to New York. Getting ahead of regulation
- IRAN: Ahmadinejad slams Paul the 'psychic' octopus
- Question of the day: Does Cincinnati have the best receiving corps in the NFL?
- REVIEW: 'Addams Family: An Evilution' is a dark, winking delight
- Monster Mash: Ansel Adams photography debate; lawsuit filed over Hungarian art collection
- Painful memories of the 1980 Moscow Olympics
- VIDEO: Marvel's 'Avengers' get animated
- CB2 to lure the budget-modern masses to renovated Santa Monica Place
- Football: Steven Manfro ready for another big season
- First Take: Controller to audit Bell books. Will Obama voters return for 2010?
- TCA Press Tour: What can we expect from 'Parenthood's' Braverman family this season?
- 'The Great Gatsby' video game: not so great
- Bridal diapers: The next big wedding trend?
- The Morning Fix: ABC's McPherson out! Comcast earnings slip. Some pilots face turbulence. Haim Saban takes on Oliver Stone.
- 'Louie': Slices of life
- Some theatrical wedding advice for Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky
- The Deal: Designer Tag Sale in Brentwood on Saturday
- Exclusive 'Jersey Shore' video: 'Snooki' slings dirt about cleaning
- One year ago: The Rev. Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter II
- Maury Chaykin dies at 61; Canadian actor played studio exec on 'Entourage'
- Book review: 'Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century'
- On the Media: Let's put more public documents online
- Women use social networks more than men do, study says
- CB Richard Ellis Group swings to $54.8-million profit in 2nd quarter
- Two young Chino Hills brothers found fatally shot
- Health apps for children: Cast your vote in the USDA competition
- New Orleans responds to strife, as always, with song
- FBI agents cheated on surveillance tests, director says
- Obesity trend means more people are using canes and walkers
- Polygamist leader's conviction reversed
- Wednesday's TV talk shows
- Wednesday's TV highlights
- Concern still high about volume of oil in gulf
- BP reports record loss of $17.1 billion
- Dodgers falter against Padres, 6-1
- Geezer Bandit's popularity: sort of an old story
- A salute to Kim Novak
- Quick Takes: Jack Hanna versus the bear
- Cuts loom for L.A. County health programs
- Boeing profit falls as Pentagon scales back
- Comcast quarterly profit down on NBC Universal deal costs
- Healthcare law has more doctors teaming up
- Summer Camp Campaign: Sarah, the fireside thespian
- Report finds increase in anti-Semitic incidents in California
- Drug abuse and HIV
- 'Plain Jane' details
- Pakistan's Taliban ties may be key to U.S. Afghan goals
- Israel razes homes in Bedouin village
- Federal judge blocks key parts of Arizona immigration law
- Toyota appears to do an about-face on reliability of black boxes in its vehicles
- USC stripped of 2004 BCS title? That's so last month
- Thursday's Farmers Classic schedule
- Pakistan plane crash kills all 152 aboard
- L.A. union members, activists to caravan to Arizona to protest immigration law
- L.A. City Council delays review of Google e-mail contract
- California, New Mexico and 3 Canadian provinces outline regional cap-and-trade program
- In Cairo, keeping a musical tradition alive
- Bush tax cuts: Keep some, allow others to expire
- Republicans block campaign finance measure
- A federal-state law inconsistency shouldn't stop Californians from legalizing marijuana
- Afghan war documents point to overuse of government secrecy
- Compression-only CPR found effective
- Blake makes quick work of Mayer
- Islamic group denounces planned Temecula mosque protest
- Lakers' Andrew Bynum has knee surgery
- L.A. County residents living longer, but old disparities persist
- Dodgers acquire Scott Podsednik from Royals
- Reference to missile-downed helicopter in leaked Afghanistan reports highlights a threat
- Dodgers might have a legitimate gripe about their schedule
- A season like no other for Pac-10 hopefuls
- Army private charged in earlier leak had access to latest WikiLeak papers
- Who the heck is WikiLeaks?
- Former NBA player Lorenzen Wright is found dead in Memphis
- War funding OKd after debate detour
- Maury Chaykin dies at 61; Canadian actor played studio exec on 'Entourage'
- Barnes connects with Bryant and the Lakers
- Cubs' Derrek Lee rejected a trade to the Angels
- Leftovers for the needy: It's not that hard
- Disney to buy Playdom Inc. for $563.2 million
- Jack Tatum dies at 61; Oakland Raider safety whose hit left Darryl Stingley paralyzed
- 'Furious Love' info
- Album Reviews: Best Coast's 'Crazy for You'
- Lawmakers grill Internet firms over privacy protection
- Obama signs cruise ship safety bill
- Scorekeeping by baseball fans appears to be a dying art
- Happening Wednesday: National Storytelling Conference, Squeeze and more
- Horoscope: July 28
- An ill win blows the Dodgers' way in San Diego
- 'Hello, Nathaniel': Obama welcomes Mr. Ayers to D.C.
- Ansel Adams negatives revealed? Fresno man makes his case
- House lawmakers, citing corruption, may block $4 billion in aid to Afghanistan
- City asks athletes for 'contribution'
- Missing U.S. Navy service member confirmed dead in Afghanistan
- Democrats hope first-time voters of 2008 turn out again
- Court ruling unlikely to change politics of immigration
- After 100 days, still a lot of work to do in gulf, officials say
- ABC exec steps down
- California clears hurdle for federal funding
- Giant panda killed by poisonous gas, Chinese officials say
- Australia's marsupials originated in what is now South America, study says
- Santa Cruz County Fair cancels planned rodeo
- Home prices tick up 1.3% in May
- Boy buried in sand for five minutes is rescued
- Four journalists who covered Mexico prison riot missing
- Angels' woes intensify in loss to Red Sox
- Shaun White is on board for X Games challenge
- Angels are swept by Red Sox, 7-3
- Television review: 'Plain Jane'
- Long Beach rocket launch company to be controlled by Russian firm
- Two large Chinese American banks report second-quarter profits
- Can Arizona's immigration law be stopped?
- End of the line for 73-year-old Fairfax-area nursery
- L.A. County D.A. expands probe into Bell government
- Inquiry finds no apparent crime by N.Y. Gov. Paterson
- Nationals scratch Stephen Strasburg just before start
- Only social dogs allowed at annual L.A. pooch party
- Blazes destroy 30-plus houses
- Employee suits alleging excessive 401(k) fees gain ground
- After heated debate, Catalonia bans bullfighting
- Blast kills 25 on bus in southern Afghanistan
- U.S.-South Korea war games raise China's hackles
- Firm doubles workforce fighting Michigan oil spill
- TCW agrees to split off Crescent Capital Group
- Book review: 'Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century'
- Schedule for X Games 16 in Los Angeles
- Turbulence
- GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman; Shirley Sherrod and the right wing; a boy's suicide
- California's clean energy future threatened by federal delays, state officials say
- Marcos Baghdatis battles his way to a win at Farmers Classic
- 'Make mine a newbie!' Who would say that when choosing a surgeon?
- Travis Pastrana has grim memories of failed trick
- Car sales are consumers' No. 1 gripe in survey
- Senate's energy bill: What a disappointment
- Epic legal battle over oil spill is about to begin
- No end in sight for Sacramento budget stalemate
- For the record - July 28, 2010
- Ben Keith dies at 73; steel guitarist known for work with Neil Young
- Kathy Goodman: Is two wins a streak?
- `Rescue Me:' The prodigal bum returns
- John Lackey says boos "won't be forgotten"
- A revamped resource website from the American Cancer Society
- Andre Ethier is what's ailing Padres in 2-0 Dodgers' victory; Chad Billingsley throws six more scoreless innings
- Missing Silver Lake parrot found in East Hollywood
- Did Ansel Adams take these photos? Are they worth $200 million? Depends who you ask
- Ponikarovsky helps Kings "recover," but will he help them move forward?
- Wednesday's TV Highlights: “Top Chef” on Bravo
- Wednesday's TV Talk Shows
- Fur flies over proposed ban on the sale of most pets in San Francisco
- Photos: Fairfax
- Apple selling rechargeable iBatteries
- Facebook and Amazon make shopping social
- Dodgers scratch Andre Ethier against Padres due to illness
- ABC Entertainment president Steve McPherson resigns
- Ye Coach & Horses: Where's Quentin Tarantino when you need him?
- CNN's ratings woes not limited to Campbell Brown and Larry King
- Whitman ups Facebook ante
- Climate change appears to be helping, not hurting, the yellow-bellied marmot (for now)
- Rockies closer Huston Street hospitalized following batting practice injury
- With offense slumping, Angels hold hitters' meeting
- Baseball: Cody Buckel reaches agreement with Rangers
- Photos: Eagle Rock
- Updated: A green answer to Vanity Fair's architecture poll has its own blind spot
- Album reviews: Best Coast's 'Crazy for You' and Wavves' 'King of the Beach'
- PREACH IT! The men of 'Jersey Shore' forgo shirtlessness for the sake of U.S. economy
- Album review: Tom Jones' 'Praise & Blame'
- USC's Johnson loses while other Americans fare well in first round of Farmers Classic
- Dan Haren said he "should be on track" to make next start
- The dragon tattoo who loved me?
- Album review: Food's 'Quiet Inlet'
- 'Robert Pattinson' revealed as Diablo Cody's talk-show sidekick
- Album review: Avenged Sevenfold's 'Nightmare'
- A 'Star Trek' communicator is born, via the iPhone 4
- The Twitter Effect: Not to blame for sinking bad Hollywood movies?
- Michael Hiltzik: Industry tries to buy a California election (part 23)
- DreamWorks Animation revenue up, profit down on release of 'Shrek Forever After'
- Dodgers' web doings: On the trade deadline, rumors, TV ratings and Nance Bea
- Don Draper was supposed to be watching hockey, not football, on Saturday night
- Marquez in Vegas or Mosley at Staples? Tough call for boxing fans on Sept. 18
- Wind installations drop 71% in the first half -- and the forecast past 2010 looks dreary
- YG releases a video for ubiquitous single 'Toot It and Boot It'
- Photos: Century City
- Kings sign winger Ponikarovsky as Plan C proves successful
- An 'eat-in' at Patina in the name of airport food
- Western Climate Initiative: California, New Mexico and 3 Canadian provinces push greenhouse gas controls
- Davis Elen Advertising tackles San Diego Chargers account for SoCal media blitz
- Photos: Brentwood, Los Angeles
- My L.A. Street Food Fest regret
- Mattingly to make managerial debut in Arizona Fall League
- Baja state official allegedly worked on both sides of the law
- Gulf oil spill: New spill in Gulf area after barge crashes into abandoned oil well
- From skid row to Disney Hall, and on to the White House
- A new knee or hip could mean pounds lost as well