By Monte Morin Los Angeles Times (TNS) Global warming will bring the” risk of a decades-long mega-drought in the American Southwest and Great Plains during the second half of the century, researchers...

By Julia Rosen Los Angeles Times (MCT) In the blue half-light of the Antarctic autumn, a thin film spreads across the continent’s coastal waters. It’s an embryonic form of sea ice: a mush of microscopic...

By Michael Doyle McClatchy Washington Bureau (MCT) WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court seemed split down the middle Monday, and occasionally lost in the fog, as the justices confronted a challenge...

By Louis Sahagun Los Angeles Times (MCT) A new study broadens a notion held by the earliest criminologists: Periods of higher temperatures — on an hour-by-hour or week-to-week basis — are...