Experts say his death should not be interpreted as a failure of COVID-19 vaccines in the broader population.

The Justice Department files an emergency appeal urging the Supreme Court to suspend the Texas law that has banned most abortions there.

Colin Powell, the first Black secretary of State and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, dies of COVID-19 complications after bout with blood cancer.

Passing President Biden's agenda would be a huge test for Nancy Pelosi, one of the most effective House speakers in history.

The piñon nut is a beloved snack of the American Southwest, surrounded by traditions. But the harvest is getting smaller and smaller.

Despite campaign promises on Cuba, President Biden has not opened paths on the remittances and travel some say would most help islanders.

Antiabortion groups lure in women by advertising abortions. Then the pressure campaign to continue pregnancy begins.

From the Philippines to El Salvador, there is a long history of American missionaries facing violence while trying to spread their religions abroad.

Since spring, actor Matthew McConaughey has been considering a run for governor of Texas, but he has not committed.

Humanitarian aid groups have experience countering myths and misinformation to overcome vaccine hesitancy in low-income countries.

Several U.S. missionaries including children were kidnapped in Haiti, according to the Ohio-based Christian Aid Ministries.

Clinton, 75, was admitted to UC Irvine Medical Center on Tuesday after feeling fatigued.

Monument removals and a replica of the Templo Mayor pyramid infuriated critics, but can Mexico's populist government spark an Indigenous cultural renaissance?

The popularity of "Squid Game" is inseparable from South Korea's very real crisis of mounting household debt, gaping inequality and a weak social safety net.

The State Department is trying to relocate the some of the family members to the United States. Ten people, including seven children, were killed in the blast.

U.S. health advisors unanimously endorsed Johnson & Johnson's request to offer a second dose to its single-shot COVID-19 vaccine.

Opponents of the plan say the settlement lets the Boy Scouts off the hook for billions in damages from decades of abuse.

Barbara Easley-Cox describes what she experienced as a member of the Black Panther Party, from California to Algeria to North Korea and beyond.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is with the 42nd president of the United States at UC Irvine Medical Center, sources confirmed.

Thousands of miles of inactive oil pipelines have been abandoned on the seafloor. Aging platforms pose an additional risk.

Older Americans — experienced Americans — owe it to themselves and their kids and grandkids to push the nation in a better direction.

Biden administration tries to build on Trump-era accords between Israel and a few Arab or Muslim nations as Blinken hosts Israeli and Emirati officials.

A long-standing tradition of keeping pregnant women out of clinical trials is having serious consequences with regard to COVID-19.

House votes to lift debt limit, but only for a few months. A redo in December will be harder.

Bunche Hall's namesake, Angeleno and UCLA grad Ralph J. Bunche, was the first Black person to receive a Nobel Peace Prize, for bringing about an armistice in Palestine.

U.S. officials called the errant drone strike that killed 10 in Afghanistan a 'tragic mistake.' The family is still waiting for it to be rectified.

The pandemic pushed the world's poor into direr straits, but for some young people it launched careers and improved chances for wealth. The diverging fates of young adults point to the increased inequalities the pandemic has revealed in a world facing dramatic change.

Oil spills are likely to increase as fossil fuel use tapers, and oil companies put off upgrades to aging infrastructure, experts say.

Here are three bipartisan steps Congress could take right now to reduce the harm social media platforms cause. Will they act?

The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to two journalists for their fearless reporting resonated in newsrooms worldwide.

U.S. homicide rates have jumped during the COVID-19 pandemic. Milwaukee has one of the biggest increases. Today, we visit the city's most affected community.

The Biden administration's anticipated arrangement with Mexico would tackle the most violent drug cartels and migrant smugglers.

Centrist Democrats, led by Sen. Joe Manchin II, drive a debate over whether Biden's large government expansion bill is too generous to the wealthy.

With Washington unable to act because of partisanship and enmity, many Americans are hunting for solutions.

Federal lawmakers are demanding more information on the massive oil spill off the coast of California as a legislative battle looms over whether to include a ban on future offshore drilling in a scaled-down $3.5-trillion bill.

The Miss Navajo Nation Pageant showcases deep knowledge of culture, customs and language along with skills needed to thrive in the modern world.

The debt is real. If Americans are taxed to pay for the trillions already spent, they'd be less likely to say spend more.

Afghans short-listed for the prestigious scholarship say they've been forgotten since the Taliban took power. Deadlines loom to apply to U.S. schools.

A new study confirms the dramatic erosion of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine's protection against breakthrough infections.

Freshman Sen. Kyrsten Sinema campaigned as an independent and is acting that way.

Puerto Rican Kemuel Delgado hates having 'one foot in and one foot out' of America. But race wasn't on his mind when he began pushing for statehood.

Conservative legislation and executive actions confounded expectations for Texas as it diversified and attracted Californians.

Sudden blackouts have highlighted vulnerabilities in China's power sector and economy: overreliance on coal and overemphasis on growth, which coincided with rising coal prices this year to create a nationwide energy shortage.

President Biden and many Democratic lawmakers wanted the biggest social investment in history. Here's a look at what compromise could mean.

Many Haitians headed to the U.S.-Mexico border have lived for years in Chile. But life in the South American nation has not been easy for many.

In September, Los Angeles Times photojournalists covered the fallout of the U.S. withdrawal of Afghanistan as the Taliban took control, watched as fire threatened California's giant sequoias, followed the candidates in the final days of the state's recall election, stood on the red carpet of the Emmys and saw a mother recovering from COVID-19 finally connect with her newborn son.Below are the stories behind these photos and others published over the last month as told by the photographers who took them.

A journey of friendship travels through a country of pain and beauty

People desperate to end their pregnancies travel hundreds of miles to Trust Women Wichita. One tells her story. We also hear from staff and antiabortion activists.

Drugmaker Merck says its experimental COVID-19 pill reduced hospitalizations and deaths by half in people recently infected with the coronavirus.

Will Trump's appointees risk the court's standing and establish their reputations as partisan hacks? Watch the Mississippi abortion case to find out

Rep. Adam B. Schiff and Sens. Charles E. Schumer and Bernie Sanders wade into Hollywood's biggest labor fight, telling AMPTP to negotiate with IATSE crews.

A lower court had given the Biden administration until Thursday to halt its use of Title 42 to expel migrants meanwhile the lawsuit proceeded.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi cancels planned vote on President Biden's infrastructure plan as Democratic negotiations continue.

Five-time Olympic medalist Klete Keller stood out in his U.S. Olympic team jacket amid the crowd that entered the Capitol rotunda on Jan. 6.

Approving COVID-19 booster shots seemed like a slam dunk, but two influential advisory boards raised a host of complicated questions.

The Philippines introduces an all-female coast guard radio unit as it challenges Chinese aggression in the South China Sea after years of inaction.

Britney Spears' team returns to court for a hearing that will address her father's role in her 13-year conservatorship saga. Here's what to expect.

It's shocking that local Chinese authorities are immunizing people against their will. That violates a bedrock principle of bioethics.

At least 400,000 Americans have received a COVID-19 booster shot and nearly 1 million have scheduled appointments, White House officials say.

ABC reporting project takes a comprehensive look at inequities in America.

Top U.S. military leaders testify the war in Afghanistan ended in 'strategic failure' after a long series of Pentagon mistakes and miscalculations.

After a new documentary raised surveillance allegations, Britney Spears' attorney, Mathew Rosengart, isn't cutting Jamie Spears any slack.

Novelist Min Jin Lee discusses leaving her legal career, expressing Asian pride at a time of hate crimes, dealing with people whose stances you dislike and working to change the world, five minutes at a time.

My first trip overseas since the pandemic offered a stark reminder of how workers are being replaced by robots and automation.

Young people around the world on Friday spilled onto streets, city squares and local parks to demand a recognition of the threats climate change poses

President Biden spoke from the White House the morning after federal regulators endorsed COVID-19 booster shots for many Americans.

A magnitude 6.1 earthquake was reported Friday morning at 4:52 a.m. Pacific time 114 miles from Adak, Alaska.

About 20 million German voters were expected to turn to their phones or other online devices for app advice on which candidates to pick on Sunday.

Angela Merkel, a once-obscure scientist who claimed the global spotlight, leaves a mixed legacy as her 16-year tenure as Germany's chancellor ends.

Restless Kabul residents ponder what remains and what changes in the Afghan capital after more than a month of Taliban rule.

U.S. Special Envoy to Haiti Daniel Foote resigned with a scathing letter criticizing the treatment of Haitian migrants and deportations from a Texas border camp.

Vice President Kamala Harris invoked familial ties to India as she pressed Prime Minister Narendra Modi on human rights in a departure from the Trump administration.

As Central Americans wait in Mexico for the U.S. to hear their asylum cases, Haitians in the U.S. are being expelled.

U.S. authorities are allowing Haitian migrants at a massive camp in Texas who hold blue and yellow numbered tickets to remain in the country.

A letter sent to President Biden on Wednesday criticized the White House's immigration policies for inflicting "cruelty on Black, Brown and Indigenous immigrant communities."

As word spreads of expulsions, Haitians in the U.S. stream back across the Rio Grande to Mexico to avoid being put on a plane back to their homeland.

Central American migrants are waiting in Mexico, hoping the U.S. will grant them asylum. Here's what it's like for them.

If you're 25 years old, you grasp the near certainty of climate catastrophe. Then you fight it, because what choice do you have?

Migrants say they've been forced to traverse the river daily to buy food because they're not allowed to cook in the camp and the U.S. has failed to provide any real sustenance.

The "In America: Remember" art installation, a concept by artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg, includes blocks of small white flags planted across 20 acres of grass at the National Mall in Washington.

Haitian migrants continue to pour into Texas. But hoping to avoid deportation, many decide to cross the Rio Grande back to Mexico.

At the United Nations summit, President Biden must attempt to repair damaged U.S. credibility and alliances after Afghanistan and amid COVID.

Some Latin American countries are loosening or scrapping their abortion laws, even as access to abortion shrinks in the U.S. It's a dramatic flip of circumstances.

The House committee is playing for keeps against the GOP's falsehoods — that there was no insurrection, that the mob was peaceful and that the 2020 election was stolen.

In the five states with the lowest levels of vaccination, the COVID-19 death rate this summer was more than triple the rate in the five states where vaccination is most common.

Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett 100 days into the job.

The Border Patrol confronts massive, growing camp of Haitian migrants in Del Rio, Texas.

Homicides have skyrocketed across the country during the COVID-19 pandemic. Milwaukee has seen one of the largest spikes.

A series of myths keep white America from owning up about race, bias and ourselves.

China Evergrande is struggling with more than $300 billion in debt. At its Shenzhen headquarters, angry suppliers and investors demand overdue pay.

The new Texas law restricting abortions has prompted local legislators to pursue new measures on gun rights, immigration and other divisive political issues.

Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine does a significantly better job of preventing COVID-19 hospitalizations compared with Pfizer's shot.

There are so many Haitians in Tapachula that the Mexican city can seem like a slice of the Caribbean. Under U.S. pressure, Mexican authorities won't let them leave.

The Pentagon has retreated from its defense of a drone strike that killed multiple civilians last month in Afghanistan.

Propelled by a very restrictive abortion law, Texas women are traveling farther afield for abortions.

Analysts say the ratcheting up of military might between North and South Korea raises the possibility of misunderstandings that could spiral to dangerous consequences.

Months after the Feb. 1 coup, citizens are fighting back against Myanmar's brutal military. Many say international pressure has yielded no results.

Afghanistan's rural areas bore the brunt of the last 20 years of war. The Taliban's takeover has brought calm, but a humanitarian crisis is brewing.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken defends a U.S.-Australia submarine deal, seen as part of President Biden's strategy to counter China's influence.

The context matters, but if the Woodward and Costa allegations are true, Gen. Mark Milley flouted the bedrock principle of civilian control of the military.