Новости за 09.03.2016

Who says runway beauty is unattainable? The truth is—with the exception of a crop of avant-garde shows—most designers (working in conjunction with beauty brands) try to keep...

Most of what Donald Trump has to say is either ignorant, offensive or both. That's especially true when it comes to foreign policy. Yet when he's pushed to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — among the more politically charged issues in this election cycle — Trump actually makes some sense.During...

The battle between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders hasn't turned into a playground brawl like the Republican campaign, but it has still pitted Democrats against each other, sometimes bitterly. Sanders has slammed Clinton as a candidate in the pocket of billionaire donors. Clinton has dismissed...

In the coming weeks, California's Legislature will consider a bill sponsored by Democratic Assemblyman Evan Low that would ban most government-funded travel to states that discriminate, or allow private actors to discriminate, on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression....

If a biotech researcher developed a drug that could reverse the effects of Alzheimer's disease, few people would care if he or she was motivated by a love of mankind, a love of science or the desire to make a fortune. Why should they? All sorts of people do good and bad in the world for all sorts...

It's a growing list, the people who've called Donald Trump another Hitler, from Anne Frank's stepsister to comedian Louis C.K. Now, Robert O. Paxton, a Columbia professor emeritus who wrote the book on fascism, assesses whether they're right - or if Trump is just playing one on television. Take...

Killings in Los Angeles have surged 27.5% so far in 2016 compared with the same period last year as the city continues to see a rise in violent crime, LAPD officials said Tuesday.

I'm Davan Maharaj, editor of the Los Angeles Times. Here are some story lines I don't want you to miss today.

Turkey, a key U.S. ally and a member of NATO, continues to travel down a disturbingly authoritarian path. Last week, police in Istanbul stormed the offices of Zaman, the country's most widely circulated newspaper, subjecting employees and supporters to tear gas and water cannons. Earlier, a court...

To the editor: I am so sorry for reader Linda Loding, whose 24-year-old son died during the 1992 Los Angeles riots trying to save a burning building. It seems to me, and perhaps to her, a senseless tragedy. ("25 years later, Rodney King's beating stirs emotions in L.A.," Readers React, March 5)

To the editor: The “Just Say No” club program promoted by First Lady Nancy Reagan has been maligned for years as “naively simplistic and ineffectual.” This is typically an opinion voiced by those with little knowledge of the subject. ("'Just Say No' anti-drug campaign helped define Nancy Reagan's...

To the editor: Wade Graham's piece was a curious polemic replete with self-defeating falsehoods. ("Are we greening our cities, or just greenwashing them?" Opinion, March 6)

Good morning. It’s Wednesday, March 9. Here's what’s happening in the Golden State:

To the editor: Michael Hiltzik's reasons for supporting California's bullet train are perplexing. He lays out all the valid arguments as to why this unnecessary and wasteful project should not be built. Then in some weird about-face, he concludes that “it's necessary.” ("The bullet train is troubled,...

“Fascist.” It’s just about the foulest insult in the political thesaurus, and lately Donald Trump’s been hearing it about himself from people as different as George Clooney, a former president of Mexico, comedian Louis C.K, and Anne Frank’s stepsister. But apart from Hitler himself, which is who...

A school which opened less than two years ago is so oversubscribed it is already set to expand - and take on younger children.

A £4.8m eight-month project to widen the eastern overbridge at junction 4 of the M20 is due to start after Easter.

It was standing room only last week at a meeting to discuss ways to improve the safety of that stretch of Highway 20 connecting Corvallis to Albany.

The FBI is aggressively pursuing Apple for refusing to make its iPhone security software available to investigators. We can only wish the FBI pursued Hillary Clinton’s use of an unsecured email server with the same vigor and priority.

On Leap Day, Feb. 29, the Gazette-Times featured an article with the headline "Carbon Tax Faces Action by Lawmakers."

The Gazette-Times brushed off the “Coal to Clean” measure, House Bill 4036, as too complicated for a short session. Everything in the 20 pages is a compromise among many competing interests and compromises tend to be complicated.

One technician is warning investors not to be fooled by the recent run in Apple shares.

The Portugal international was on target as los Blancos booked their spot in the Champions League quarter-finals and his coach admits he can play in any position

A recent article by the TheGuardian.com ranked Johannesburg as one of the most affordable cities in sub-Saharan Africa.

CAT owners who think of their pets as people may be closer to the mark than the rest of us think, according to scientists.