Rich get richer: Bill Gates tops Forbes list, Zuckerberg plunges
Bill Gates has been the richest person in the country for an entire generation, cinching the top spot on Forbes’ list of the 400 wealthiest Americans for the 19th consecutive year. That’s what a net...
View ArticleMadison Square Garden is a logical bidder in AEG sale
NEW YORK -- The Madison Square Garden Co. may be a logical bidder for Staples Center, but would not likely win an auction for the sports and entertainment venue, an analyst said. Anschutz...
View ArticleChait nears deal to open Manzke's Republique in Campanile space
Landmark Los Angeles restaurant Campanile, founded by Mark Peel and his then-wife Nancy Silverton 23 years ago, may be closing by the end of the year. In its place is expected to rise Republique, a...
View ArticleFood stamps and Fanta shouldn't mix
To those who don’t much care for Mitt Romney (and perhaps for those who can’t decide), his railing about the 47% who don’t pay taxes blah blah blah clinches it: The guy just doesn’t get it. But there...
View ArticleNHL cancels preseason games through Sept. 30
It was no surprise at all. The NHL announced on Wednesday that the preseason schedule, through Sept. 30, had been canceled. This was Day 4 of the NHL-imposed lockout, and the league and the players...
View Article'Homeland's' Claire Danes says she has no imminent film plans
It's been a while since Claire Danes appeared on the big screen -- nearly three years, when she had a supporting dramatic part opposite Zac Efron in the niche release “Me and Orson Welles.” Don't...
View ArticleAll about billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong, potential AEG bidder
The whispers started right away: Was Patrick Soon-Shiong, a Los Angeles billionaire-doctor-philanthropist-businessman, on the shortlist of potential buyers for entertainment giant AEG? Soon after the...
View ArticleSome video games can help fight cancer, obesity
This could be your brain on video games: getting smarter, feeling stronger. In an article that perhaps doesn’t surprise gamers, researchers say that games like Dance Dance Revolution can help fight...
View ArticleTop Chef loves L.A., again
Southern California must be full of top chefs. Or at least those who wish to be. The lineup for this season’s "" television show on Bravo again is well-larded with Angelenos. Competing in Season 10...
View ArticleNew Wisconsin polls bolster Democrats
Two new polls of Wisconsin voters bear welcome news for Democrats, suggesting the Paul Ryan effect has worn off on the presidential race in his home state and that an earlier Republican edge in a...
View ArticleChick-fil-A promises to stop giving money to anti-gay groups
Chick-fil-A has pledged to stop giving money to anti-gay groups and to back off political and social debates after an executive’s comments this summer landed the fast-food chain smack in the middle of...
View ArticleJustice Department report due on Fast and Furious
WASHINGTON -- Nearly two years after a U.S. Border Patrol agent was shot and killed in southern Arizona, the Department of Justice's Inspector General will issue its report into the ATF’s Fast and...
View ArticleObama discusses Romney, Libya and home brewing on 'Late Show'
In his appearance Tuesday on David Letterman's “Late Show,” President Obama discussed the now-infamous video of rival Mitt Romney as government mooches. But given that Obama was the only guest on the...
View ArticleSome Latinos see hint of a compliment in Romney video
When Mitt Romney’s secretly recorded comments to donors went public, his description of President Obama’s supporters as government dependents who do not pay income tax created an instant furor. The...
View ArticleMedia analysis: negative TV coverage of Mitt Romney going up
If you thought Mitt Romney was taking a flogging in the news since the revelation that he believes nearly half of Americans feel like they are “victims” who won’t take personal responsibility, you...
View ArticleJustice Department releases Fast and Furious report
WASHINGTON – Fourteen federal law enforcement officials – from field agents in Arizona to top managers in the ATF and Department of Justice in Washington – created a “significant danger to public...
View ArticleRomney ad features miners allegedly forced to attend rally
WASHINGTON -- On Wednesday, the Mitt Romney campaign released an ad spotlighting President Obama’s putative ‘War On Coal,’ despite a controversy in Ohio about the coalminers’ rally featured in the...
View ArticleRomney says he would represent `100%' of Americans
CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Mitt Romney said Wednesday that he would represent “100%” of Americans, striving to dampen a controversy that has dogged him since Monday, when video surfaced of him saying nearly...
View ArticleRomney says it's a compliment to be called grandfather of 'Obamacare'
CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Mitt Romney said it was a compliment to be called the grandfather of "Obamacare" — a statement likely to anger conservatives already skeptical of his Massachusetts health...
View ArticleRomney falling behind even before 47% video surfaced
If Barack Obama is re-elected in November, the video of Mitt Romney remarks to a private fundraiser will inevitably be cited as a “turning point” in the 2012 campaign. Narratives of presidential...
View ArticleRomney: 'I do' care about the poor and middle class
ATLANTA — After two days of being derailed by a secretly recorded speech to donors, Mitt Romney sought Wednesday to reframe the presidential contest, insisting that he does care about all Americans,...
View ArticleSuu Kyi to meet with Obama, receive highest Congressional honor
President Obama will meet Wednesday with Myanmar activist Aung San Suu Kyi, the White House said. The human rights advocate and member of the Myanmar National Assembly is visiting the U.S. for the...
View ArticleHouse bill allows taxpayers new way to donate to government for debt reduction
WASHINGTON - Feel your taxes are too low? House Republicans have devised a new convenient way for those worried about government red ink to donate more to the Treasury. And in a dig at President...
View ArticleEx-Bush aide: Romney must drop his focus on 'the 47%'
The furor over “the 47%” may go down as one of the defining moments of campaign 2012, with many conservatives — such as Rush Limbaugh, Erick Erickson and Mary Matalin — urging Mitt Romney to fully...
View ArticleRomney supporters try ads that don't mention their candidate
Mitt Romney hasn’t been doing himself any favors lately, but a lot of voters out there dislike President Obama. So some Romney supporters seem to be trying a new tack with Romney ads: not mentioning...
View ArticleRepublicans shelve Obama's proposed Veterans Jobs Corps
WASHINGTON -- President Obama’s proposal to create a Veterans Jobs Corps to stem high unemployment among recent military veterans was shelved Wednesday after Republicans in the Senate balked over the...
View ArticleRomney's '47%' presents challenge for Republican candidates
WASHINGTON -- Republicans are having a hard time handling the fallout from a videotape that showed Mitt Romney declaring that 47% of Americans – those who don’t pay federal income taxes – are lost to...
View ArticleHouse to Vote on Republican ‘Buffett Rule’ Tax Measure
Warren Buffett has the name Congress just can’t stop dropping. When the billionaire said he shouldn’t pay a lower tax rate than his secretary, President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats seized...
View ArticleHouse passes Republican take on 'Buffett Rule'
WASHINGTON -- The House on Wednesday afternoon passed by voice vote the Republican version of the BuffettRule. The bill, which probably won't be picked up by the Senate until after the November...
View ArticleRoman Polanski to make Broadway play 'Venus in Fur' his next film
Roman Polanski is headed back to the Broadway well. The Polish-born director, who last adapted the stage hit “God of Carnage” for the screen, will tackle “Venus in Fur,” David Ives’ Tony Award-winning...
View ArticleWhat's America's fave burger? Hint: It's not In-N-Out [Video]
Which burger chain is tops? We ran down one market researcher's list on today's KTLA-TV Consumer Confidential segment. It was a great showing for Five Guys. Not so much for Mickey D's. We also looked...
View ArticleGoldberg: No more boring white guys for the GOP
"A friend of mine, a Hispanic entrepreneur, asked me a question some time ago. He said, 'When is the last time you saw an Hispanic panhandler?' I think it's a great question. I'll tell you, in my...
View ArticleOff the campaign trail, a milestone meal for Obama and Biden
WASHINGTON -- It was the rare day Wednesday when both President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden were together at the White House, considering the stepped-up pace of the presidential campaign that...
View ArticleFormer Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty to head bank lobbying group
WASHINGTON -- Former Minnestoa Gov. Tim Pawlenty, a onetime Republican presidential candidate who was considered a finalist to be Mitt Romney's running mate, was named Thursday as the new head of a...
View ArticleNews Corp. defends James Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. expressed gratitude over a British regulators’ finding that the company remains a “fit and proper” holder of a broadcast license, but it vigorously defended the mogul's...
View ArticleAmanda Bynes wants to start a fashion line
Amanda Bynes, who is facing DUI and hit-and-run charges, says she is retired from acting and plans to start her own fashion line. Sounds as if she might be following in Lindsay Lohan's footsteps. Beth...
View Article"Medal of Honor: Warfighter" game used active-duty Navy Seals as consultants
Matt Bissonnette, the author of the best-selling Bin Laden raid book “No Easy Day,” along with two dozen other active and retired special forces soldiers consulted with Electronic Arts to help make...
View ArticlePoll watch: Making sense of conflicting polls
The last few days have brought a raft of new polls about the presidential race -- and some sharp conflicts in the data. One widely followed poll, , has Republican Mitt Romney 1 point ahead. Two...
View ArticleHouse bill allows taxpayers to donate to Treasury
WASHINGTON - Feel your taxes are too low? House Republicans have devised a new convenient way for those worried about government red ink to donate more to the Treasury. And in a dig at President...
View ArticleHousing starts, home sales climb in August
WASHINGTON — The rebound in the U.S. housing market accelerated in August as residential construction starts increased 2.3% and sales of existing homes rose 7.8%. The National Assn. of Realtors said...
View ArticleRomney says he sympathizes with needy Americans
CORAL GABLES, Fla. -- Mitt Romney has repeatedly refused to back down from controversial statements he made to donors that those who support President Obama don’t pay federal income taxes, consider...
View ArticleFast and Furious: Democrats, Republicans disagree on new report
WASHINGTON -- Democrats on Capitol Hill insisted a new independent report into deep failures in Operation Fast and Furious on the Southwest Border vindicates the top leadership at the Department of...
View ArticleRepublicans Are Pushing A New Bill That Would Make It Easier For Rich...
IRS backs off on warrantless email surveillance Senate finally passes McConnell’s Thatcher resolution Menendez removes language about defeating terrorism in Thatcher resolution Louisiana Republican...
View ArticleFormer trader to Congress: stock markets 'in a crisis'
A former Wall Street trader plans to tell a congressional panel investigating computerized trading that the stock market is in a "crisis.""U.S. equity markets are in dire straits," David Lauer, now a...
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