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A triumphant Lakers championship team entered the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum today to thunderous applause as the city paid tribute to the team.

Cotto, who returns to the ring tonight against Joshua Clottey at Madison Square Garden, said he has never been hit as hard as he was by Margarito.

The New York Times leads with the U.S. depending on foreign intelligence services to do its dirty work in the war on terror. The current approach, which began under George Bush and continues under Barack Obama, relies on foreign governments "to capture, i

The Twitter world has been abuzz today over a false report that the California Supreme Court had overturned Proposition 8, the voter-approved ban on gay

The New York Times leads with word that President Obama will soon start discussing the country's immigration system. Knowing full well that the issue could be particularly controversial during a recession, the administration plans to include discussions a

The Los Angeles Times and Wall Street Journal banner, while USA Today, the New York Times, and the Washington Post lead with, news that the Obama administration forced the head of General Motors to resign and has put both GM and Chrysler on notice that th

Thenew iTunes pricing scheme is set for an April 7 launch, says the Los Angeles Times. They do good work over there. Apple hasn't revealed this date publicly, but April 7 is supposedly what Cupertino is telling record labels. Remember: prices now top out

The Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and New York Times lead with the Federal Reserve's surprise announcement that it would inject the financial system with an additional $1.15 trillion to push down interest rates on mortgages and other consumer and bu

The Wall Street Journal leads with, and NYT and WP front, bankers' worries about nationalization. The Obama administration suggested yesterday that it would not try to nationalize banks, but the markets, led by Citigroup and Bank of America, plunged anywa

“Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, people don’t pay for the software. Someday they will, though,” Gates told an audience at the University of Washington. “And as long as they’re going to steal it, we want them to s

Ryan Adams is furious at the L.A. Times over a recent concert review that suggested the singer, who has been sober for more than two years after a substance abuse problem, was under the influence during the performance.

Republicans John McCain and Sarah Palin accused the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday of protecting Barack Obama by withholding a videotape of the Democrat attending a 2003 party for a Palestinian-American professor and critic of Israel.

A few hours after the stock market took yet another plunge the presidential candidates met in Nashville for a town-hall-style debate last night, where the economy quickly became the dominant issue. The quick verdict seems to be that there were no game-cha

Current and former Los Angeles Times staffers have sued Sam Zell and the Tribune Co. over allegedly illegal and irresponsible actions since Zell's leveraged buyout of Tribune Co. last year.

"There's an interesting line building on Obama that somehow success and intelligence are a handicap," said Mark Sawyer, a UCLA political scientist. "If he wasn't extraordinary, he wouldn't be there."

One problem with managing a bunch of print journalists is that when you fire them, they are still journalists, prone to grumbling about whatever they consider unfair.

Murano, Gingergrass and Canelé toss the secrets to greens success

OMAHA -- -- Billionaires Warren E. Buffett and Charles T. Munger say the pain many financial institutions are feeling because of the credit crunch is well deserved.The chairman and vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. said Sunday that the financial co

The newly installed editor of The Los Angeles Times, Russ Stanton, opened an investigation today into a report linking Sean Combs to the shooting of Tupac Shakur at a Manhattan recording studio in 1994.