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When food is accessible anywhere from supermarkets to drive-throughs, why is the movement to grow your own food becoming so popular?

Members of the former Iraqi dictator's tribe, the Albu Nasr, have had their assets frozen since 2003. The tribal leader says people can't get jobs or use bank accounts, leaving the 2,800 members in dire straits with no help from the Shiite government in Baghdad.

Art Linkletter, whose "People Are Funny" and "House Party" shows entertained millions of TV viewers in the 1950s and '60s with the funny side of ordinary folks and who remained active as a writer and speaker through his ninth decade, died Wednesday. He was 97.

Consumer advocates are wondering what's next with healthcare reform. Governor Schwarzenegger says he'll veto a Democratic reform bill, and call a special session of the legislature to deal with the is

It was a momentous day in American political history as the Democrats lost the House of Representatives and barely kept their hold on the Senate. When the dust settled, what exactly did we learn about our leaders and ourselves? We turn to scholars and strategists for some answers.

Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer (AOD Productions)

"Self (the remix)" is a spoken-word, hip-hop play that mixes together stories, movement and music to tell the tale of an American child of Iranian and Guatemalan immigrants growing up in California in the 1970s and 80s in the shadow of the Iranian Hostage Crisis. Acclaimed playwright and performer Robert Farid Karimi, accompanied with a soundscape created by Filipino DJ D Double, tells a "remixed" autobiographical tale of a boy struggling to learn about manhood, nationhood, and neighborhood with the voices and music of his environment helping him along.

Almost three-quarters of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are younger than 30. Most have never left the tiny, Hamas-ruled coastal territory, have never met an Israeli, and have never known a time when there wasn't a conflict outside their doorstep.

The San Diego Union-Tribune is being sold to a Beverly Hills-based private equity firm, it was announced today.It wasn't disclosed how much Platinum Equity would pay The Copley Press for the newspape

The Supreme Court reinstated the death sentence of a neo-Nazi who shot and killed three people and seriously wounded a fourth during a 1980s murder spree in Ohio. Frank Spisak, 57, was convicted during a sensational trial in which he grew an Adolf Hitler-style mustache, gave Nazi salutes to jurors and carried a copy of Hitler's Mein Kampf.