Twin brother taken into custody after 29-year-old's body found in south Perth home

A Hong Kong news commentator accused of violating the national security law has denied exposing police intelligence operations, telling a court that details of his meeting with officers were already public knowledge before he posted them online. Wong Kwok-ngon, 72, who ran a YouTube commentary channel under the pen name Wong On-yin, stood trial at the District Court on Friday. He is the first person in Hong Kong to be prosecuted for allegedly prejudicing an investigation into national security...

Nic Maddinson's struggles end off the bowling of Marco Jansen.

President Trump touted his administration’s investment accounts for children on Wednesday, as millions of American kids will now be automatically enrolled in the program. Flanked by administration officials, business leaders and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) in the Oval Office, the president said the “Trump Accounts” will help children build wealth. “If all goes well, which...

The rise of multimillion-dollar "nuclear verdicts" involving the Los Angeles Police Department has caused payouts over officer misconduct, traffic accidents and workplace discrimination to soar in recent years, according to a Times analysis of data from the city attorney's office.

The FBI said six people were arrested Wednesday for allegedly extorting money from a business in Pomona and ordering the shooting of a man who owned a debt to gangsters affiliated with the Mexican Mafia.

Victims of sex abuse in line to receive payouts from L.A. County are being approached by private companies that offer a lump sum in exchange for the right to collect their future checks.

Every year, hundreds of animals die trying to cross State Route 62, connecting L.A. and Joshua Tree. The research to fix it is a bit unconventional.

The recording that exposed the quartet's machinations ultimately destroyed the type of ethnic politicking that made the careers of too many self-serving power grabbers. The transcript of their back-and-forth now reads as prophecy.

The blistering heat that has baked Southern California for days is coming to an end, with rain on tap for the weekend and early next week, along with a risk of potentially damaging coastal flooding.

South Africa regrettably chooses not to review a Nic Maddinson lbw shout.

China’s central bank rejected claims that the yuan is undervalued, rebutting a key European argument amid crunch negotiations ahead of a possible trade war. “China has no need or intent to gain competitive advantages through currency devaluation, nor has it ever resorted to competitive devaluation,” the People’s Bank of China said in a policy paper on Thursday, printed in both Chinese and English (see the full paper on SCMP Plus). “China’s trade growth is driven by its growing industrial...