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After days of evading questions about Russian mercenaries killed in a U.S. air strike in eastern Syria, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs admitted Thursday that five of the dead were Russian citizens, but insisted they were not members of the military.

The ping of metal bats and the quirky dugout antics of college baseball return Friday. The 2018 season begins with several Southland schools seeking redemption, led by Long Beach State.

Travel experts cite a slew of reasons why the number of foreign visitors to the U.S. has been on the decline over the past two years.

Technology companies climbed Thursday as stocks rose for the fifth day in a row. Major U.S. stock indexes have now recovered about half of what they lost during the market's dramatic plunge this month.

Shocked, wordless, traumatized. That was the emotional condition Canadian actor and theater director Jonathon Young experienced after his young daughter died in an accidental fire. Young's Electric Company Theatre and the dance troupe Kidd Pivot translate the feeling into "Betroffenheit."

Being a black American sometimes comes with an identity crisis. After all, parts of African American culture are rooted in a land some of them will never know thanks to colonialism, imperialism and slavery. The result, hundreds of years later, is a generational distance.

The latest attempt at immigration reform, including protections to prevent “Dreamers” from being deported, collapsed in the Senate on Thursday as a bipartisan bill seen as having the best chance at passage failed to get enough support to advance.

Google, already one of the dominant players in the online advertising world, may soon have even more power in that space. It is now taking on the challenge of determining what's a good ad or a bad ad to decide which ones the majority of web users see.

The expelled student accused of killing 17 people at his former South Florida high school is “sad, mournful, remorseful” and “he’s just a broken human being,” one of his attorneys told reporters Thursday.

An appealing pair of leads, notable supporting players and a sincere story line still can’t make “Irreplaceable You” the authentic, deeply felt emotional ride it clearly aims to be, swinging and missing at a kind of nouveau, Brooklyn-set version of “Love Story.”

“Roy’s never been here?” Jai Nam Choi asks, surprised, as she walks into the L.A. Times Test Kitchen. “Oh, I have to look around.” She breaks into the widest smile.

A federal judge in San Francisco ordered the Trump administration Thursday to implement energy-use limits for portable air conditioners and other products — standards that were adopted during the last days of the Obama presidency.

The Aussie crime-thriller “Hidden Light” manages to be an involving ride despite its sometimes murky storytelling and elliptical character connections. Writer-director Aaron Kamp (he also edited) weaves an effective spell of dread as this dark tale of revenge, redemption and emotional unraveling...

It used to be an American ritual, like the State of the Union address only grimmer and far more frequent. Shots would ring out: at a movie theater, a nightclub, a church, a school, a school, a school. Bodies would be counted. And then, not too long after, President Obama would speak. Sometimes,...

Patricia Frustaci, who made national headlines in 1985 when she gave birth to seven children but struggled with the financial and publicity fallout and with the heartache of seeing four babies perish, has died. She was 63.

Stuff has meaning — that’s the not-quite-animating idea behind “Nostalgia,” a day-old news flash of a drama, delivered in weepy headlines posing as dialogue. An ensemble led by Jon Hamm, Ellen Burstyn and Catherine Keener finds unguarded moments of life, if not insight, as people grappling with...

Eric Lundgren is obsessed with recycling electronics.

He built an electric car out of recycled parts that far outdistanced a Tesla in a test. He launched what he thinks is the first “electronic hybrid recycling” facility in the United States, which turns discarded cellphones and other electronics...

The latest attempt at immigration reform, including protections to prevent “Dreamers” from being deported, collapsed in the Senate Thursday as a bipartisan bill seen as having the best chance at passage failed to get enough support to advance.

“Girl, don’t make me fall in love with you,” Cuco sang as he stood onstage Wednesday night before a full house at the El Rey Theatre.

If just hearing animator Nick Park's name doesn't bring an anticipatory smile to your face, watching a few minutes of the thoroughly amusing "Early Man" will do the trick.