Populist and patrician, hustler and moralist, salesman and satirist, he embodied the tensions within his America, and ours.

CHANGSHA -- A team of students in China recently gave suggestions as to what rice might have tasted like in the country two millennia ago, with these suggestions based on their study of an ancient ...

SHETLAND'S only weekly newspaper is being put up for sale with fears it may face closure. Staff at the 153-year-old title were told last week that The Shetland Times Ltd, a company which also operates ...

Col. Archibald Gracie wrote the letter while traveling on the Titanic days before the ship sank and plunged him into the icy ...

Author and actor Jenny Slate stopped by the L.A. Times Festival of Books to answer our Very Important Questions about writing, living, and what candle scent her book represents.