NEW YORK (Reuters) - Earnings are set to take center stage again next week as more marquee US companies line up to report their quarterly scorecards and investors decide whether to keep pushing stocks higher.

July 18 (Bloomberg) -- Bank of America Corp., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Citigroup Inc., the three biggest US lenders, reported a total of $10.2 billion in profits for the second quarter that relied on investment banking and asset ...

JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley are talking with other banks about a debtor-in-possession loan, used to fund a company's operations after it seeks court protection from creditors, according to the ...

"As 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince' opens, we are once again reminded of the characteristics that make him something of a Christ figure," Connie Neal writes for the evangelical Christianity Today.

This week Mischa Barton was hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center under an involuntary psychiatric hold (also known as a 5150) by the Los Angeles Police Department.

-- Authorities have not ruled out homicide. Los Angeles Police Cmdr. Patrick Gannon told People magazine that Jackson's death "is considered undetermined at this point as to whether it was a homicide or accidental or some other cause of death.

By Los Angeles Times, Journal Sentinel staff The pandemic swine flu virus unexpectedly is continuing to spread easily through the United States during the summer, and health authorities expect a bump in transmission in about six weeks, when school goes ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A sweeping healthcare reform bill being pushed by Democrats in the US House of Representatives would increase already swollen federal budget deficits by $239 billion over 10 years, according to a government analysis released on ...

The AIDS Healthcare Foundation, an advocacy group in Los Angeles, filed a lawsuit against county health officials, accusing them of failing to regulate condom use in the pornography industry to protect actors and actresses from ...