The Los Angeles Times

A let's-get-a-few-friends-together soiree begs for party snacks with a few surprise ingredients. Bite-size turnovers have personality and go down perfectly with either a glass of crisp, cool white wine or...

Tensions between Western forces and the government of President Hamid Karzai flared anew Monday when the Afghan leader and a provincial governor accused the U.S.-led coalition of killing 14 Afghans...

Adults have Larry David. Eleven-year-olds have Greg Heffley. Greg's the hero of Jeff Kinney's children's book series "Diary of a Wimpy Kid," a lazy, judgmental, inadvertently hilarious 6th grader enduring...

Iranian authorities on Monday released on $200,000 bail a California graduate student who was arrested last month, according to her father. Esha Momeni, a U.S. and Iranian national who was...

The credit crunch and global economic recession have squeezed many independent filmmakers, who were already struggling from a glut of films and a shortage of funds even before the global...

Start chilling the champagne. Jimmie Johnson all but locked up his third consecutive NASCAR Sprint Cup title Sunday by winning a record third consecutive Cup race at Phoenix International Raceway...

Jong Min Kang's South Korean relatives are exactly the kind of travelers American hospitality and retail businesses are yearning for during this time of financial despair: free-spending foreigners on vacation....

At a tense point in Barack Obama's campaign, his closest friends got together and decided that, whatever it took, they would make him laugh. It was May, and Obama was...

Along the sides of the road, people comb through the grass looking for edible weeds. In the center of town, a boy about 9 wears a tattered army jacket hanging...

The U.S. military acknowledged Saturday that 37 civilians were killed and 35 injured during fighting last week in Kandahar province between insurgents and coalition forces. Although the American statement stopped...