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By David G. Savage, Washington Bureau
The Supreme Court justices spoke with disdain about liars who claim to have earned military honors, but they sounded less sure how to handle...
By Ian Duncan, Washington Bureau
Construction has begun on a landmark African American history museum on a National Mall site, a mile from where Martin Luther King Jr. spoke...
By David G. Savage, Washington Bureau
The Supreme Court on Wednesday threw out a lawsuit against two Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies over a raid at a South L.A. home that...
From the Associated Press
Jurors found a former University of Virginia lacrosse player guilty of second-degree murder Wednesday in the slaying of his ex-girlfriend...
By David G. Savage, Washington Bureau
Since the retirement of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, conservatives have looked forward to the day when the Supreme Court would take up a new...
By Mitchell Landsberg, Los Angeles Times
Rick Santorum is winning the hearts of conservative voters with uncompromising social views that, he says, are drawn from the same well as...
By Kim Murphy
The head of the Army’s Madigan Healthcare System, one of the largest military hospitals on the...
By Seema Mehta and Mitchell Landsberg, Los Angeles Times
Stung by Mitt Romney's accusation that he's a big-spending Washington insider, Rick Santorum responded Tuesday by calling himself an...
By David G. Savage, Washington Bureau
Redondo Beach lost a bid to reinstate its ordinance barring day laborers from gathering on busy street corners to solicit work from...
Associated Press
An Arizona sheriff is asking authorities in a neighboring county for a comprehensive, independent investigation into allegations made...
By David G. Savage, Washington Bureau
Xavier Alvarez told of playing hockey for the Detroit Red Wings, marrying a Mexican starlet, piloting a helicopter in Vietnam and...
By Paul West, Washington Bureau
Suburban mom Judy Dlugosielski is a liberal Republican who favors abortion rights.
By Paul West, Seema Mehta and Mitchell Landsberg
With a new poll hinting at a tightening race in the pivotal Michigan primary, Republican presidential contender Rick Santorum tried to stoke...
By Melanie Mason, Matea Gold and Ian Duncan, Washington Bureau
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney and a "super PAC" working on his behalf spent more than twice as much as they raised in January,...
By Alana Semuels, Los Angeles Times
The future of the labor movement may very well rest in the hands of a man who was sitting over a paper plate piled with spaghetti, amusing...
By Matea Gold and Melanie Mason, Washington Bureau
Last May, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka stood a few blocks from the White House and issued a stern warning: Union members could not be...
By Mitchell Landsberg and Melanie Mason, Los Angeles Times
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum denied Sunday that he had questioned President Obama's Christian faith, but said the...
Associated Press
— Three skiers were killed Sunday when an avalanche swept them about a quarter-mile down an out-of-bounds canyon at a popular resort,...