World War I (1914-1918)

Scale of government's AP records seizure surprises many

2013-05-19 20:41:00

WASHINGTON — Three years ago, the Obama administration brought criminal charges under the Espionage Act against Thomas Drake, an Air Force veteran and intelligence expert at the National Security Agency in Maryland. He was not accused of aiding...

'Downton Abbey' gets Diddy-fueled makeover in Funny or Die spoof

2013-05-16 17:05:00

Diddy's rather confusing Twitter announcement that he'll be appearing as a series regular on the wildly popular British aristocracy drama "Downton Abbey" has manifested itself as a mediocre Funny or Die video. And aren't we all a little relieved? We'...

Vietnam veterans' new battle: getting disability compensation

2013-05-11 18:10:00

Vietnam veteran John Otte did his best to forget the war. He got married, raised two sons and made a career working at credit unions. But as Otte neared retirement, memories of combat flooded back. Starting in 2005, he filed a series of claims with...

Kenneth Branagh's 'The Magic Flute' to screen stateside

2013-05-10 07:01:00

After a trip to Amsterdam in the summer of 2008, Los Angeles Times music critic Mark Swed brought back a curious souvenir: a three-disc Dutch edition of Kenneth Branagh's "The Magic Flute,” which he’d spotted in a remote record-store window....

Water war between Klamath River farmers, tribes poised to erupt

2013-05-07 00:00:00

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — For decades this rural basin has battled over the Klamath River's most precious resource: water that sustains fish, irrigates farms and powers the hydroelectric dams that block one of the largest salmon runs on the West Coast....

Dr. Christian de Duve dies at 95; Nobel-winning scientist

2013-05-07 16:52:00

For the first half of the 20th century, the cell was a mysterious, unfathomable entity. Nutrients went in and hormones, wastes and other products came out. But what happened in between was anybody's guess. Light microscopes could reveal the rough...

Bertie Carvel gives his all as 'Matilda's' demonic Miss Trunchbull

2013-04-28 07:00:00

NEW YORK — Miss Agatha Trunchbull, headmistress of Crunchem Hall school, hates pigtails. They're good only to serve as handles by which she can toss a rebellious child into the air — a feat this one-time Olympic hammer-throwing champion...

A 'red line' on Syria

2013-04-25 00:00:00

President Obama has followed a commendably restrained policy in refusing to intervene militarily in Syria's civil war. But if the U.S. confirms that the regime of President Bashar Assad has used chemical weapons, the president should adhere to his...

Goldberg: 'Right wing' doesn't equal 'terrorist'

2013-04-23 00:00:00

"If history were to repeat itself," warned President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his 1944 State of the Union address, "and we were to return to the so-called normalcy of the 1920s, then it is certain that even though we shall have conquered our enemies on...

William Wilson dies at 78; former Times art critic

2013-04-23 00:00:00

For William Wilson, the former Los Angeles Times art critic who died Saturday at the age of 78, art was a childhood refuge, a teenage survival mechanism, and, finally, a career that saw him chronicle the city's rise in art-world stature from his first...

17 outlandish garlic dishes: Celebrate National Garlic Day with garlic chocolate and garlic beer

2013-04-19 12:07:00

Garlic cloves dipped in dark chocolate? Garlic cheesecake? Garlic beer? Bam! It's National Garlic Day, a day set aside on the foodie calendar to celebrate all things Allium sativum. Garlic, a species of the onion family, has been with humankind for...

Old Globe's 2013-14 season to include extra helpings of the Bard

2013-04-26 06:00:00

The Old Globe’s new artistic director, Barry Edelstein, is a noted Shakespearean, and its 2013-14 season, the first he’s picked, will give extra emphasis to the Bard, beyond the separate summer series that typically offers at least two...

The Chalice of Antioch, center, on display at the Hall of Religion at the Century of Progress International Exposition, the World's Fair, held in Chicago. The cup, originally thought to be a Holy Chalice after being recovered in Antioch just before World War I, is no longer identified as a chalice.

2013-05-16 15:24:47

1919: World War I darkens the day for cartoonist John McCutcheon.

2013-05-10 11:48:00

"War Horse," the Broadway hit and tearjerker from British author Michael Morpurgo about a boy and his half-Thoroughbred Joey naturally attracted the directorial eye of Steven Spielberg in 2011.

2013-05-06 00:00:00