A watchdog group voted Tuesday to urge Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva to do more to distance his department from the work of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, saying the sheriff’s policies still allow for federal immigration contractors to take custody of inmates from inside...

Popeye has always credited spinach for his muscles, and now the leafy green is the star of a kooky new vegan ice cream flavor in his honor.

Van Leeuwen Ice Cream, the Brooklyn-based scoop shop mini-chain, is offering a new limited time flavor to celebrate the cartoon character’s 90th birthday and...

Melting Antarctic ice is becoming unstable.

That is the alarming take on the West Antarctic ice sheet, according to a new study released earlier this week.

Over the past quarter-century, an enormous volume of ice has melted off the sheet — and some areas are losing ice five times quicker than in...

One night in November 2012, I stood in the media line for a party launching the Uniqlo pop-up store in San Francisco. It was the Tokyo-based retailer’s first shop on the West Coast. It called for a dazzling premiere, with food and drinks and a star big enough to get a couple hundred mostly young,...