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BRANDON, Miss. — A prison guard was killed during a riot that left five other correctional officers and three inmates injured at a...
By Mitchell Landsberg, Los Angeles Times
CINCINNATI — The Rev. Chris Beard is a theological conservative, make no mistake about it. He believes the Bible is the word of God....
By Lisa Marscaro, Barbara Demick and Andrew Tangel, Washington Bureau
NEW YORK — After years of detention and a bold escape to the U.S. Embassyin Beijing, blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng arrived...
By David G. Savage, Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court, after a four-year break from terrorism issues, is set to decide as soon as Monday whether to again...
By Hector Becerra, Los Angeles Times
Handsome, youthful, Cuban American and Republican, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida has been mentioned repeatedly as a potential running...
By Matt Pearce, Special to the Los Angeles Times
JOPLIN, Mo. — Arielle Speer started to cry. She was having a panic attack, and the movie hadn't even started.
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CHICAGO — Three activists who traveled to Chicago for a NATO summit were accused Saturday of manufacturing Molotov cocktails in a plot...
By Lisa Mascaro, Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — Aiming squarely at GOP critics of Wall Street reform, President Obama said Saturday that investment bank JPMorgan's...
By David Zucchino, Los Angeles Times
GREENSBORO, N.C. — The jurors who will decide the fate of former presidential candidate John Edwards deliberated for more than four...
By Dalina Castellanos
On the day three men were charged with conspiracy to commit terrorism at President Obama's campaign headquarters and other Chicago-area...
By Ian Duncan and Lisa Mascaro, Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — Wading into the gay marriage debate, the Republican-led House tacked a provision banning same-sex marriages at military...
By Kathleen Hennessey and Christi Parsons
WASHINGTON — Whatever else they achieve, back-to-back summits of world leaders this weekend hosted by President Obama will showcase...
From the Associated Press
Family and friends gathered Saturday at a modest stone church in a hamlet north of New York City for the funeral of Mary Richardson Kennedy,...
By Richard Fausset, Michael Muskal and Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times
ATLANTA — On the night George Zimmerman fatally shot unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida, a witness said he saw some of...
By Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times
In an age of long commutes, late sports practices, endless workdays and 24/7 television programming, the image of Mom hanging up her dish...
By Dalina Castellanos, Los Angeles Times
Sister Simone Campbell doesn't wear a habit.
By Mark Z. Barabak and Matea Gold, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — "Super PACs," the free-ranging groups formed to exploit a new era of unbridled campaign spending, have dominated the 2012...
By David Zucchino, Los Angeles Times
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Both sides in the John Edwards trial gave detailed closing arguments Thursday to a federal jury that will decide...