The Los Angeles Times

The tie that binds John and Rebecca Jackson is about 4 feet by 14 feet, woven of herringbone twill linen. It once led to their romance; years later, it still...

President Hamid Karzai on Saturday denounced an airstrike by U.S.-led forces that his government said killed 76 Afghan civilians. Civilian casualties are an extremely sensitive subject in Afghanistan, where the...

Milan, Italy's Osteria L'Intrepido restaurant won Wine Spectator magazine's award of excellence this year despite a wine list that features a 1993 Amarone Classico Gioe S. Sofia, which the magazine...

Jesus Suarez, a Santeria priest, had slit the throat of one goat that June afternoon. He had three more goats, two sheep and 44 chickens to go. But before he...

An emboldened Iraqi government has launched an aggressive campaign to disband the Sons of Iraq, a U.S.-funded force of Sunni Arab fighters that has been key to the country's fragile...

A platoon of double-crested cormorants took flight from the eastern shore of the Columbia River, skimming the sun-sparkled surface as two slender white egrets stood in the nearby shallows, hunting...

Maybe it was that neighbors didn't roll out the welcome wagon when she began filming her new reality TV show at home, or maybe she wants to be closer to...

Texas billionaire Harold Simmons, a major backer of Republican Arizona Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign and of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth four years ago, is the sole donor...

You can count the pieces of furniture on your fingers. In the living room, one bench and two tiny tables. In the dining room, another bench. And in one bedroom,...

Russian troops pulled out of occupied Georgian lands Friday, loosening a chokehold on strategically crucial towns, railroad routes and roadways. Although the withdrawal was the most dramatic Russian concession to...