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It has been a year of celebration and controversy in world soccer, with the U.S. winning the largest and most competitive Women's World Cup in history while FIFA, the sport's world governing body, was embroiled in chaos after the U.S. Justice Department unsealed 41 indictments against high-ranking...

Fifteen years after U.S. regulators started assessing damage and health risks at an abandoned Nevada copper mine, the Environmental Protection Agency is moving to designate the contaminated land a Superfund site, a step the state could still oppose.

The true spirit of Islam will be the focus of an annual Islamic Convention in Chino on Saturday that's expected to draw at least 1,500 people, including local officials and law enforcement representatives.

They line the walls of the gallery, regal in bearing, majestic in attitude, wet of nose.

'The Voice' host Carson Daly wed longtime girlfriend Siri Pinter in a private Christmas Eve ceremony attended by family.

Authorities say a fire that caused minor damage to former President Clinton's childhood home in Hope, Ark., was apparently set deliberately.

Like a tractor beam sucking up errant spaceships, "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" used its powers to pull in more than $49.3 million in box office receipts on Friday. This puts the total domestic cash haul for Disney and Lucasfilm's blockbuster "Star Wars" sequel at $440 million since it opened...

Two people were killed in a house fire on Christmas night in Riverside, authorities said.

In the last 25 years, Kevin Martin has been a curator, a compiler, a writer, a musician, a producer and an ambient presence. On more than 150 recordings, he's channeled his obsessions into the studio, then slowly built a reputation as a live artist.

The assassination of a top Syrian rebel commander who led one of the most powerful groups battling President Bashar Assad's forces has dealt a significant setback to the opposition that could reshuffle the lineup of key players on the ground ahead of the planned peace talks in Geneva next month.

Jason Ostro walks the narrow alleyways off Beverly Boulevard near downtown L.A. and beams at the explosion of color around him. Until recently, these passages were strewn with litter, discarded mattresses and rusty bikes.

Here are five takeaways from the Clippers' 94-84 win over the Lakers on Christmas Day.

Dee liked painting lone, standing birds on small canvases. They looked melancholy, all in brown tones, but soon after we met, she granted them vibrant colors, adding cute titles for each: "Charles looks askance." "Rita has a friend." She sold them by the dozens at an artists' co-op in Venice.

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I've visited Bangkok a number of times in recent years, and it remains one of the most reasonably priced, tourist-friendly cities in the world. My personal favorite is the small Swiss Lodge hotel, which draws many business travelers. It's adjacent to a Catholic girls school in central...

A shallow magnitude 3.6 earthquake was reported Saturday morning 24 miles from Lenwood, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 12:04 a.m. Pacific time at a depth of 0 miles.

Oprah Winfrey has dropped $14 million on a high-tech ski home in Telluride, Colo. — well within construction supervision range of the 60-plus acres she bought last year for $11 million.

New Year's Day is grounded in tradition — resolutions, bowl games and the Tournament of Roses Parade. And for more than three decades, Rose Parade anchors Bob Eubanks and Stephanie Edwards have been an integral part of that tradition.

Elsewhere called. It misses you. In fact, it wants you to hit the road soon. Here are 16 destinations (alphabetically arranged) that look especially pleasing in 2016.

You know you're in trouble when you're at an all-tuba holiday concert, and your date for the evening — in this case, my buddy Big-Wave Dave — leans over during the audience singalong and tries to get you to harmonize.

Fountain Valley High has come up with a Trinity League vs. Sunset League baseball challenge in February that will culminate with a celebration dinner entitled, "A Night of Baseball Tales and Champions."

It's Dec. 26 — do you know where your mojo is? If you lost it somewhere between Black Friday and the buffet table, you're not alone. Following weeks of seasonal celebration, the resulting disarray at home can make the room spin. It's a holiday hangover of sorts, but luckily, there's a cure. We...

Perhaps your neighbor is an Anglophile and has invited you to a Boxing Day party. Or you've seen it referenced in a cookbook while looking for a recipe for plum pudding. But what, exactly, is Boxing Day, and why would anyone in Los Angeles want to celebrate it?

As 2015 comes to a close, we're taking a look back at some of the photos and stories that readers loved best. Our home-and-garden stories garnered the most interest, based on Web traffic: From small cabins to large backyards, colorful gardens to sprawling Southern California locales, readers devoured...

To the editor: In analyzing why she ponied up 30 bucks to see “The Force Awakens,” the latest installment in the mega-blockbuster “Star Wars” franchise, Ann Friedman quite aptly concludes that the movie “is so popular because everyone knew it would be so popular.” This comes as no surprise in a...

To the editor: Steve Yetiv claims that reduced oil prices are good for American and global economies, but bad news for the climate because consumers tend to use more gas when prices are low yet continue to resist increased fuel taxes. ("There is a downside to cheap oil. Really," Opinion, Dec. 21)