The FDA will likely make a decision about approving Pfizer's vaccine "shortly after" an advisory committee meeting on Thursday. The agency has found "no specific safety concerns" about the vaccine.

After returning from a recording session with his wife Yoko Ono on December 8th, 1980, legendary Beatles frontman and songwriter John Lennon was shot four times in the back and shoulder as he returned to The Dakota apartment complex where he and Ono lived on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

With in-person dining suspended across L.A. County due to spiking coronavirus case numbers and many restaurants shut down or on the brink of shutting down due to financial troubles, it may seem to some like an inopportune time for The Los Angeles Times to release its annual list of 101 restaurants that define how L.A. eats.

A retired British shop clerk received the first shot in the country’s COVID-19 vaccination program Tuesday, the start of an unprecedented global immunization effort intended to offer a route out of a pandemic that has killed 1.5 million.

In our continuing series looking at the latest medical research and news on COVID-19, Larry Mantle speaks with Dr. Shruti Gohil, professor of medicine at UC Irvine.

George Gascón took the oath of office Monday as Los Angeles County's 43rd district attorney, announcing a dizzying array of policy changes that include vows to lock up fewer people, end cash bail and seek the early release of thousands of state prison inmates whom he said are unfairly serving overly long sentences.

When the coronavirus pandemic is finally over, experts across the board say it’s likely Americans will have a very different view of what aging and retirement looks like.

Dec. 8 is known as the "safe harbor" deadline for states to certify their results. Past the deadline, Congress has significantly less latitude to intervene in the election results.

Holiday tourism is off sharply in New York. Businesses are looking for other ways to break even this holiday season because they usually count on a big bump in tourist revenue this time of year.

Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, says people in some of the highest-risk groups will likely be starting vaccinations this month.