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By Jean Merl, Los Angeles Times
Daniel Mintz recently had a chance to see California's new election system up close, and it was an eye-opener.
By Tina Susman, Los Angeles Times
NEW YORK — A man who claims to have abducted and strangled Etan Patz, who vanished 33 years ago Friday, has suffered from bipolar...
By Tony Perry, Los Angeles Times
CAMP PENDLETON — Marine Staff Sgt. Joseph Fankhauser had been inAfghanistan'svolatile Helmand province for barely two weeks when he...
By Brian Bennett, Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — In an aggressive effort to boost deportations, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has begun to increase by nearly...
By Rene Stutzman and Jeff Weiner
ORLANDO, Fla. — Evidence released last week in the second-degree murder case against George Zimmerman shows four key witnesses made...
By David Zucchino, Los Angeles Times
GREENSBORO, N.C. — The federal judge in the John Edwards trial closed her courtroom Friday afternoon to deal with what she called a...
By Lisa Mascaro, Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — The Senate Ethics Committee publicly admonished Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) for improperly meeting with a lobbyist and...
By David G. Savage, Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court limited the Constitution's protection against double jeopardy in cases involving multiple charges and a...
By Tina Susman, Los Angeles Times
NEW YORK — A New Jersey man who was a teenage store clerk when 6-year-old Etan Patz vanished 33 years ago Friday told police he...
By Lisa Mascaro, Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — Stirring the lingering debate over storing nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, President Obama tapped Yucca critic...
By Lisa Mascaro, Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — In a momentary flash of bipartisanship, the Senate approved legislation that would allow Americans speedier access to...
By Paul West, Washington Bureau
PHILADELPHIA — Making a rare inner-city campaign stop, Mitt Romney preached the merits of traditional two-parent families and touted...
By David Zucchino, Los Angeles Times
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Jurors in the John Edwards campaign finance trial on Thursday ended a fifth day of deliberations without reaching a...
By Amina Khan, Los Angeles Times
Scientists dissecting the remains of the disastrous 1980 explosion of Mt. St. Helens in Washington state say that crystal formations trapped...
By Brian Bennett, Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — The prostitution scandal that has embroiled the Secret Service is not evidence of a wider culture of boozing and paying...
By Kim Geiger, Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — In the months after the U.S. militarymission that killed Osama bin Laden, Pentagon officials met with Hollywood...
By Christi Parsons, Washington Bureau
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — President Obama pushed back against the idea of U.S. influence being in decline — and against...
By Paul West, Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — Targeting an issue popular with women, a key voter group, Mitt Romney assailed President Obama's leadership on...