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By Lisa Mascaro, Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — As a lofty political debate over taxes and spending plays out on the presidential campaign trail, a more practical one is...
Associated Press
— A woman dying of leukemia hopes her embarrassing airport experience changes the way the Transportation Security Administration...
By Ken Dilanian, Los Angeles Times
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Notre Dame law professor Mary Ellen O'Connell was in her office last month when Imran Khan, a former cricket star...
By Michael Muskal
By Maeve Reston and Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
LEXINGTON, Va. — President Obama's most heralded international achievement of his first term was his order to carry out the daring...
By Lisa Mascaro, Washington Bureau
OWENSVILLE, Ohio — Paul D. Ryan was plucked from Congress to be Mitt Romney's running mate largely on his reputation as the wonkish...
By Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times
Shatarka Nuby just wanted to be pretty.
Philadelphia Inquirer
BELLEFONTE, Pa. — Defiant and unrepentant, Jerry Sandusky accused his victims of lodging "false allegations" against him in a taped...
By David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — Earlier this year, voting rights advocates foresaw a cloud over this year's election because new voting laws in...
By Ken Dilanian
WASHINGTON ¿ The federal government should ¿view with suspicion¿ attempts by two Chinese telecommunications companies to expand in the U.S....
By Hector Becerra and Louis Sahagun, Los Angeles Times
KEENE, Calif. — President Obama is poised to make a bit of history when he visits this Tehachapi Mountain hamlet Monday to dedicate...
By Michael A. Memoli and Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times
President Obama mocked Mitt Romney on Sunday night for shifting his positions in the first nationally televised debate and added that his...
By Dan Weikel, Los Angeles Times
There is perhaps no greater American monument to the War in the Pacific than Ford Island in Hawaii's Pearl Harbor.
By Noam N. Levey, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — President Obama had reason to be hopeful in July 2009, as he met one afternoon in the Oval Office with Maine Sen. Olympia...
By Mitchell Landsberg, Los Angeles Times
Mitt Romney may know more about healthcare than any other presidential nominee in memory. As governor of Massachusetts, he dove deeply...
By Tina Susman, Los Angeles Times
NEW YORK — A radical Muslim cleric whose fiery sermons at a London mosque were blamed for influencing followers to embrace a holy...
By Maeve Reston, Los Angeles Times
APOPKA, Fla. — Mitt Romney's three-day Florida campaign swing this weekend underscored the state's importance to his heightened...
By Don Lee, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — The nation's unemployment rate fell below 8% in September for the first time in 3½ years, giving President Obama a...