- Opinion: Is Obama about to raise your taxes?
- IRAN: Ahmadinejad gets ready to 'stick heads to the ceiling'
- LEBANON: Walid Jumblatt's exit could weaken U.S.-backed coalition
- MIDDLE EAST: U.N. report finds many problems in Arab world
- The Morning Fix: Deconstructing `Funny People' box office; Gaspin in spotlight; Rahm Emanuel pressures networks; Schmidt off Apple board
- 'District 9' and the alienation of apartheid
- Found recipes
- Found recipes
- 'Forever Flamenco' at John Anson Ford Amphitheatre
- J.K. Simmons lists Hollywood Hills home at $1,795,000
- Composer Lee Holdridge sells Beverly Hills home
- Essex Public House is truly Hollywood, but not so crazy
- Tom Runyon dies at 89; fiction writer and actor shared name with Hollywood Hills canyon
- Bobby Wilks dies at 78; first African American Coast Guard pilot
- Schwarzenegger is unpopular but undaunted
- Some pros and cons of screening teenagers
- 'Aliens in the Attic'
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- NBC exec rises from supporting role
- Iran court warns against criticizing proceedings
- All the fun comes to abrupt halt
- Woods wins again as a front-runner
- 'Funny' business
- Burns' visit to national parks
- Trial and error
- First, the right diagnosis
- Taking 'ownership' of Afghanistan war
- Calorie-listing bill spawns industry fight
- Tackling race, one beer at a time
- Robson was the Berra of good tidings
- It's a long season, and it starts early
- OUTSIDERS IN
- The Emmys
- the idea took hold
- The week ahead, at a glance
- Clunkers still keeping dealers busy
- DELICATE BALANCE
- Go ahead, snooze
- PACKED WITH TALENT
- Colorado judges as prosecutors: How far is too far?
- Andre Ethier fulfilling power potential
- Laxative habit needs a doc's help
- FACE IT: HE'S EXPRESSIVE
- 4 QUESTIONS FOR . . . SETH MACFARLANE
- Democrats walk a careful line on healthcare
- U.S. identifies remains of pilot missing in Persian Gulf War
- Yankees' Cabrera hits for the cycle
- NATIONAL BRIEFING / AND FINALLY . . .
- WORLD BRIEFING / COLOMBIA
- NATIONAL BRIEFING / NATIONWIDE
- CALIFORNIA BRIEFING / ROSEMEAD
- NATIONAL BRIEFING / WASHINGTON, D.C.
- THEATER REVIEW
- WORLD BRIEFING / PERU
- Deeper into water use
- PASSINGS / Stanley Middleton
- 2,500 FLEE FIRE IN BRITISH COLUMBIA
- August angst: Where's my therapist?
- On the road to learning
- Gates jokes about his arrest at Massachusetts book festival
- Third time's final charm for Querrey
- Morales provides yet more muscle
- Pension plan threatens city budget
- Sex, drugs and rocking chairs
- Unpopular but undaunted
- Iraqi army officers pulled $4.8-million bank heist, police say
- Tough on corrections
- Christians, Muslims forging new bonds
- 'Forever Flamenco' title is true
- Feeling down? Exercise
- He was the first black aviator in Coast Guard
- The sound of one boy healing
- Weaver gives a strong effort
- Debating the role of prevention
- Michael Phelps accomplishes goals in and out of the pool
- Billingsley's night short but sweet
- Text messages from press row . . .
- What's so great about private health insurance?
- California steps up efforts to prevent heat-related deaths among farmworkers
- It's too little, too late against the Red Stars
- Sprint Cup race postponed a day
- Fighting to get a COBRA subsidy
- DRAMA QUEEN
- Audiences hold applause
- Right way to organize
- Mary Lou Retton wins all-Around competition
- It's Hollywood, but not so crazy
- State agency resumes review of fumigant
- A Canadian diagnosis
- Lopez gets big hit in Brewers' victory
- MORE DRAMA THIS TIME
- Core values
- Victor Martinez leads Red Sox hit parade
- Rachel Alexandra wins Haskell
- Venus Williams upset at Palo Alto
- 'Cold' hard facts about life in chilly climes
- A test to predict a drug's success?
- Paramount takes 'G.I. Joe' straight to the heartland
- Israeli gays mourn in shock
- 'Let's Make a Deal' will return; Wayne Brady will host
- Tom Runyon dies at 89; fiction writer and actor shared name with Hollywood Hills canyon
- 6 U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan
- It's not all glamour
- Church tests policy on gay clerics
- Yoga mats in the outfield
- Marlins stun Cubs with consecutive homers in the ninth
- Holes in the plan?
- WORLD BRIEFING / PAKISTAN
- Spielberg hops to 'Harvey' remake
- POP MUSIC REVIEW
- CALIFORNIA BRIEFING / SAN CLEMENTE
- Budget cuts that hurt
- Beware the 'birthers'
- THEATER REVIEW
- CALIFORNIA BRIEFING / INDUSTRY
- NATIONAL BRIEFING / NATIONWIDE
- THE ENVELOPE
- Judging LPs by the covers
- Finishing strong
- CALIFORNIA BRIEFING / INGLEWOOD
- PASSINGS / Stanley Lebergott
- WORLD BRIEFING / IRAN
- WORLD BRIEFING / IRAQ
- For the record - Aug. 3, 2009
- For the Record - Aug. 3, 2009
- Hybrid U.S. prison considered
- 'Entourage': Schwimming with sharks
- Wes Craven is 70 today -- let's look back in horror at 13 of his films
- 'The Next Food Network Star:' A come-from-behind win
- Dodgers' Billingsley leaves early with cramp
- Melanie Oudin qualifies for LA Women's Tennis Championships
- Tennis' typical problem, the late withdrawal
- Dance review: 'Forever Flamenco' at Ford Amphitheatre
- Demi Lovato gets up close with fans at meet-and-greet
- Theater review: 'The First Wives Club' at the Old Globe
- Theater review: 'Guys and Dolls in Concert' at the Hollywood Bowl
- TCA Press Tour: The bad news and the good news for PBS
- Bryan brothers win fifth L.A. Open doubles title
- Nissan's greener-than-chlorophyll EV: The LEAF
- UCLA football preview: Running backs
- What does this painting sound like?
- Steven Spielberg finds his next project at Fox
- 'Funny People' off to a mixed start, divides the sexes
- Designs revealed for West Hollywood's House of Blues project
- REVIEW: Tonight's 'Defying Gravity' has shaky (but promising) launch
- Kathy Goodman: Winning ugly is still winning
- First look: 'Funny People' neither hits nor misses
- How a party dance for Elton John made it to Broadway
- New gene mutation for ovarian cancer found
- 'Battlestar Galactica' and 'True Blood' finally get trophy love
- 'Re-Animator' star Jeffrey Combs is the 'definitive' Edgar Allen Poe
- 'In This Way I Was Saved' by Brian DeLeeuw
- 'Stupid Hope' by Jason Shinder
- Real estate agents: They aren't all the same
- Santa Ana winds stir dusty premonitions
- 'Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector' by Benjamin Moser
- Consumer Financial Protection Agency: an overview
- 'Inherent Vice' by Thomas Pynchon
- 'Feathered Edge' info
- More about the Hatherall House
- When injury results from maintenance lapses, homeowners group may be liable
- PASSINGS
- 'Mouroir' and 'Voice Over,' both by Breyten Breytenbach
- Los Angeles Times bestsellers for the week of August 2, 2009.
- 'Ground Up' by Michael Idov
- Ball-Nogues makes architecture for the moment
- What $800,000 buys in the South Bay
- Los Angeles Times bestsellers for August 2, 2009.
- Baatin dies at 35; rapper co-founded progressive hip-hop group Slum Village
- Travel on the cheap
- Trouble with a South L.A. gang-intervention agency
- Harvest Crusade at Angel Stadium takes on new urgency after the death of pastor's son
- Hatherall House in Shadow Hills
- Army Capt. Kafele H. Sims, 32, Los Angeles; dies of unknown cause in Iraq
- Billy Post dies at 88; Big Sur's resident authority
- PASSINGS
- 'The Peep Diaries': Everybody's watching
- For so-and-so, with love
- Where few men dare to tread
- A friend to L.A.'s best old buildings
- L.A.'s gold medal event is still a winner 25 years later
- Photoshopped images: the good, the bad and the ugly
- Doctor's aide dies of unknown cause
- Swatch: Time for a comeback, company says
- No mistaking this for some musty artifact
- Architecture in brief
- Making this place into a city
- Sign up and speak up
- Nigeria unrest toll raised to 700
- Wake up and smell the espresso
- THE $340 DEAL
- 'Paper sons,' hidden pasts
- Blagojevich clings to a bit of Chicago
- Snake experts hunt down an Everglades invader
- No longer available on EBay: Mediocre English soccer team
- For Edwin Moses, it's still about overcoming barriers
- Taking in Copenhagen in slo-mo
- What's next for credit cards
- Acceptance at the altar
- Malaysians protest law on indefinite detention
- Judge hinders proposed Wal-Mart supercenter in Rialto
- L.A.'s gold medal event is still a winner 25 years later
- Josh Beckett shuts down Orioles
- The NASCAR speed trap
- A telenovela star is reborn
- It takes two to make 'The Soloist' perform
- A quick prayer stop in hard times
- An issue in black and white
- A painful goodbye to Dae'von
- Different paths to the rich and famous lifestyle
- Underrated/Overrated
- The devil on his shoulder
- Sucker punch
- Till the cows come home . . .
- What $800,000 buys in the South Bay
- Sporty makes the 'A' Team
- FC Barcelona edges Galaxy
- Monday through Wednesday: Brewers at Dodger Stadium Thursday through Aug. 9: Braves at Dodger Stadium
- Fighting his way back
- Venus Williams advances to finals
- Lusk is still on the minds of many
- Gospel according to Sam Phillips
- Paul Giamatti goes in search of his soul
- Crossing the borders
- Can I get a witness?
- 'B-movie' director raised his game in the 1980s
- Lautner's view of the future
- Mapping an ocean of life forms on the move
- Big Sur sage was related to area's early settlers
- Congress' own healthcare benefits: membership has its privileges
- Critics of Nicaragua leader are shut out, attacked
- Barcelona's tradition sets it apart from others
- Mier is in full swing after a near disaster
- The real woman behind 'Clarice'
- Voice coach hits the key of 'Grey Gardens'
- Personal loans, with a twist
- Members of state workers union grant authorization for strike
- Parker steps up for Sparks at the end
- Sherrill's independent spirit
- You can go solar -- without going broke
- Can Obama recover on healthcare?
- Leveraging lowbrow
- The (political) party is over
- Internet parasites
- Pakistan's zoo animals are low priority
- Heroic lengths
- Dodgers fall to Derek Lowe and Braves
- DOWN THE LINE
- FEEDBACK
- A portable hospital sails around the globe
- CONSUMER BRIEFS / RECALLS
- Smaller airline, tougher problem
- WORLD BRIEFING / SPAIN
- Whispers
- Wrong subject for money makeover
- What happens when lightning strikes -- your car
- Shiite Muslims seek out a place, vision in America
- WORLD BRIEFING / CUBA
- YOUR SCENE / EDITOR'S CHOICE
- Ask Hillary to call her
- With the people, without a map
- The chili's all gone but the giant bowls are still standing
- Up next for Sol: Sunday at Chicago
- Photoshopped to perfection
- Angels crank up power
- Nights like this are the best hope for the future of MLS
- Tiger Woods leads at Buick Open
- 'Automatic IRA' plans: How they might work
- Military deaths
- Another casualty of state budget crisis?
- Wyland, Conan and 'Big Sleep'
- Bird takes wing
- Those bright young things
- Union stands between teacher and students
- Time on Padres' side after all
- Portal to Jewish history
- Iran confirms three Americans are being detained
- Griffey hits homer No. 622 in victory
- A poet's 'Hope' and the rites of dying
- THE SKY'S THE LIMIT
- Into the haze of '60s noir
- Comedy contenders and Kattan
- Reflections of memory, reflections of humanity
- Complicated, bizarre . . . so hard to resist
- On motocycle, the thrill is definitely on.
- At least 21 die in building collapse
- Rookie relievers step up
- Tuesday through Thursday: White Sox at Chicago Friday through Aug. 9: Rangers at Angel Stadium
- Trials start for 100 reformists, moderate politicians in Iran
- New Orleans cool
- Gunman attacks center for gay teens in Israel, killing three
- Briscoe slips past Carpenter to win Kentucky 300
- A motivated Michael Phelps wins 100 butterfly
- A historical peep, um, perspective
- Famous church, besieged pastor
- What's next? Spanx?
- On race, Harvard still must learn
- McCutchen hits three home runs
- Restoring L.A. landmarks
- Film workers claim illnesses rooted in soil Mystery surrounds cases