Новости за 04.12.2015

Now that the Supreme Court has found a constitutional right to marry for same-sex couples, it seems logical that the parallel national debate over same-sex parenting might also be over. After all, the two issues were proxies for each other. Social conservatives had argued that marriage equality...

It's safe to assume that none of the engineers who helped create the first large-scale network of computer networks for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in the late 1960s would have predicted that their work would ultimately blossom into today's global Internet. But then, no one back...

Good morning. It is Friday, Dec. 4. What can we learn from the Rain Room at the L.A. County Museum of Art? Here's what is happening in the Golden State: Subscribe to the newsletter TOP STORIES Stockpiling weapons The Redlands home shared by the assailants in Wednesday's shootings contained thousands...

Very few cars are completely satisfying. That one has plenty of performance but no perks. This one has lots of room but not enough zoom.

Around 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Vanessa Nesic, a stay-at-home mom, walked into Get Loaded, a gun shop five miles south of the Inland Regional Center, where 14 people were slain Wednesday in yet another horrific gun attack.

I'm Davan Maharaj, editor of the Los Angeles Times. Here are some story lines I don't want you to miss today. Subscribe to the newsletter TOP STORIES A Massacre With No Clear Motive A large cache of ammunition, weapons and pipe bombs. Possible contacts with alleged extremists. Could it have been...

Long part of the cultural lexicon, "straight out of central casting" describes the stereotypical characteristics of a particular type of person or character.

Authorities revealed new details Thursday about the mass shooting in San Bernardino that left 14 people dead.

The woman who helped kill 14 people at a holiday party in San Bernardino on Wednesday arrived in the United States last year on a special visa reserved for the fiancés of U.S. citizens.

For a dozen Chinese investors, the building at Martin Luther King Boulevard and Norton Avenue in Lynwood was supposed to be a ticket to the United States.A Redlands doctor turned developer promised to use their combined $6 million to convert the former adult day-care center into a nursing home,...

San Bernardino police Lt. Mike Madden was the first officer to arrive at the scene, said police chief Jarrod Burguan. He was nearby, on his way to lunch, when dispatchers sounded the alarm that there was an active shooting incident in San Bernardino.

We're having the wrong debate about the 710 Freeway.

To put it another way: The debate we're having about the 710 Freeway should be a whole lot broader and more imaginative than it's been so far.

State and local transportation planners announced last year that they were finally abandoning the controversial...

On the presidential campaign trail, in the White House and on Twitter, it was as though politicians were responding to completely different events.

The state that spawned a generation of activists committed to shutting down nuclear reactors and crippling the industry has lately become a hotbed of advocacy and financial support for fighting global warming with, of all things, nuclear power.

Starting in February, a group of California districts will begin evaluating their schools on more than just test scores.

Subscribe to the newsletter This is Susan King, a 25-year veteran of the Los Angeles Times and guardian of the Golden Age of Hollywood galaxy. Every Friday in my Classic Hollywood newsletter, I share my passion about everything vintage, including movie and TV milestones, notable births and deaths,...

Scott Weiland, the charismatic rock vocalist who first gained fame with 1990s rock band Stone Temple Pilots, has died, according to his wife.

“Metal Gear Solid” mastermind Hideo Kojima was a no-show, EDM star Deadmau5 performed, a new Batman game was unveiled and massive fantasy role-playing game “The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt” was the night’s big winner. The Game Awards, held at downtown L.A.’s Microsoft Theater, were a casual affair, one...

Private talks are continuing at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change near Paris. There are 150 world leaders gathering with an ambitious goal: to limit rising global temperatures this century to no more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. In the  first days of the conference...

Occidental College President Jonathan Veitch met with students and staff Thursday, engaging in a sometimes tense question and answer session while also saying he had spent too much time away from campus while tensions rose.

So now we know: It’s much easier to successfully stage a famous musical on live television if you cast a group of multi-talented, high-energy and personally kinetic performers who know how to own the spectacle rather than the other way around.

Lt. Mike Madden was on his way to lunch and happened to be nearby when the first 911 calls came in.

Early Wednesday morning, Syed Rizwan Farook asked his mother for the sort of favor grandmothers love to grant: A few hours of baby-sitting. Farook told her that he and his wife, Tashfeen, had a doctor’s appointment and didn’t want to take their 6-month-old daughter.In an account of the conversation...

Girls don't play trumpet, they told her.

Cynthia Robinson had an answer to that — one that would later resonate in the hit song she recorded with Sly and the Family Stone: "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again)."

More than any other lyric coined by the iconic hippie-funk band of the 1960s, that's...

For a second or two, UCLA's players stood motionless.

They didn't know what to do. Prince Ali lay on the ground, but he was not hurt. Kentucky's Alex Poythress lingered above him, shoulders sagging. The Bruins needed a moment to process it: Ali's dunk, UCLA's dominance and the upset that all now...