The US surgeon-general has decided that drinking is hazardous to our health. Alas, no official has warned of the dangers of credit scores. Touted as a signal of financial virtue, credit scores, in ...

Financial writer discusses potential privatization and restructuring of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac under Trump administration ...

By Alida Becker Bookshop, a site that lets independent, bricks-and-mortar bookshops sell their books online, is launching an app that will allow the sales of e-books, too. In “The Killing Fields ...

Personal finance: It is time to call out credit scores for what they are, writes former FDIC chair Sheila Bair, a hazard to our financial health. Gaps in California’s insurance system could lead ...

Investors showed Electronic Arts stock a red card on Thursday after the videogame maker warned of slowing demand for its soccer-related titles. Shares in the Madden NFL publisher plummeted 18% to $117 ...

MANILA, Philippines — Sheila Crisostomo, a reporter for the Philippine Star for over 30 years, died on Wednesday at East Avenue Medical Center in Quezon City from a stroke. “We are saddened to ...

In Kwame Alexander’s new verse novel and Karen L. Swanson’s nonfiction picture book, Black girls pursue their dreams of playing big-league baseball. As spooky season approaches, the master of ...

Welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. Hello, fellow readers. I’m culture critic and fervent bookworm Chris Vognar. Another year of reading has come and gone, leaving mental trails of ...

The latest book in the phenomenally popular romance-fantasy Empyrean Series finds Violet Sorrengail leaving Basgiath War College, where she’s been studying to be a dragon rider, and venturing ...

West Midlands Police said finding Sheila Fox after she vanished from Coventry in 1972 solves one of its longest-running missing person investigations. At the end of December, the force published a ...

Sheila Fox was last seen in the centre of Coventry at just 16 years old in 1972. At the time of her disappearance, she was living with her parents and was possibly involved with an older man. The ...

The best part about starting a new year? Forgetting all the books you never got around to reading in the past 12 months and discovering all the ones you can look forward to during the next 12.