Новости за 21.02.2016

Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies shot and wounded a driver and arrested him and two passengers after a deputy was struck by the suspects' vehicle during a confrontation Saturday night in Paramount, authorities said.

Anybody who has tried to use wireless Internet on a commercial airplane knows that the speeds can be frustratingly slow.American Airlines, the world's largest carrier, said it has had enough of slow onboard Wi-Fi. For that reason, the Fort Worth-based carrier has filed a legal petition to break...

A pair of Christians in Sony’s “Risen,” a sorceress in A24’s “The Witch” and a barrier-breaking track star in Focus Features’ “Race” were no match for the foul-mouthed superhero of Fox’s “Deadpool.” In its second week, the Ryan Reynolds-led picture grossed an estimated $55 million in the U.S and...

Ron Rogers, a public relations executive who was influential in L.A. civic affairs, died Friday from respiratory complications related to cancer. He was 72.

The attorney representing Apple in its battle with the FBI over helping with the San Bernardino terrorism investigation said the demand could "destroy the iPhone as it exists."

A slightly thinner field of Republicans are racing to Nevada for their caucuses as the next GOP nominating contest comes just three days after Donald Trump's win in Saturday's South Carolina primary.Donald Trump rejects the idea of a contested Republican nominating convention in JulyTrump declares...

Huntington Beach, the defending Southern Section Division 1 champion, gets the nod as the No. 1 team in The Times' preseason top 25 prep baseball rankings.

Marley Natural's bid to become the first global cannabis lifestyle brand started in a rented house in the Hollywood Hills. That's where L.A. insiders got a first look at its hemp seed body care products and artfully arranged smoking accessories the day before the label's official launch — the 71st...

A battle is heating up between online travel sites and U.S. hotels over the best way to book your hotel room.Like most things in business, the feud comes down to money.The American Hotel and Lodging Assn., the trade group for hotels in the U.S., is pushing for legislation to crack down on fraudulent...

Pay-as-you-go roadside assistance could become the new security blanket for road trippers.

Hillary Clinton usurped much of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ message and benefited hugely from the power of women and minorities in the Democratic Party as she reasserted command of the presidential nomination race with her victory in Nevada.

Stone Island plants a U.S. flagship

Italian technical menswear brand Stone Island has opened its first permanent bricks-and-mortar store in the U.S. on the stretch of La Brea Boulevard we've come to call "guy's gulch." And by technical we don't mean gadgety, but envelope-pushing manufacturing processes...

Driver's licensesand air travel

Just read Catharine Hamm's "On the Spot" column about air travel and California driver's licenses ["You Have License to Be Frustrated," Feb. 14]. Very simple answer: Require a federally issued passport for all air travel. No cost to states. Uniformity. Leaves states'...

TRAVEL

Presentation

Learn strategies for packing for your trip, getting through security smoothly and staying healthy and comfortable on your flight.

When, where: 7:30 p.m. Monday at Distant Lands, 20 S. Raymond Ave., Pasadena

Admission, info: Free. RSVP to (626) 449-3220.

MT. WHITNEY

Workshop

There are more than 12,000 chronically homeless people in Los Angeles, living in third world conditions next door to expensive restaurants and first-class accommodations. Most of us turn away when we pass them in the street; we pretend they don't exist.On Sundays, when the city is quiet, I talk...

Will originalism survive Justice Antonin Scalia? Will he be remembered, as President Obama suggested just hours after his death, as “one of the most consequential judges and thinkers to serve on the Supreme Court”? Initial comments have for the most part seconded the president's kind words: Scalia...

The United States has for 86 years banned the import of goods produced using forced labor — unless, as the Tariff Act of 1930 put it, the goods “are not mined, produced, or manufactured in such quantities in the United States as to meet the consumptive demands of the United States.” That's right,...

When dreams of building a football stadium in downtown Los Angeles died last year, Mayor Eric Garcetti and the City Council decided to charge ahead with Plan B — a taxpayer-funded expansion and renovation of the city's 45-year-old convention center, which has long been considered a money-losing...

The number of refugees, asylum-seekers and other displaced persons exceeded 60 million globally last year. More than half of the refugees have been uprooted not for months, but for years upon years.

The sight of hundreds of freely elected members of Myanmar's Parliament — former political prisoners among them — at the opening of its legislative session earlier this month was testament to the Southeast Asian country's extraordinary journey from military-run pariah state to would-be democracy....

Tabakika was once a tobacco factory. Now it’s a dust filled, dimly lit, altogether dreary overflow center for refugees on the Greek island of Chios where many spend their first night, huddled around space heaters like the ones you might find at a restaurant, stretched out on broken down cardboard...

Sixteen-year-old Angie Paola Castro gave birth last month to an apparently healthy boy. It has been a month of both celebration and anguish: In her eighth month of pregnancy, Castro contracted the Zika virus, which researchers say may trigger serious neurological problems in the womb.

 Menacing, crudely written signs hung from highway bridges or left with mutilated corpses have delivered the message: Mexico's fastest-growing drug trafficking group, Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion, is now in Tijuana — and fighting to expand its influence.

Before the Saturday morning service, mourners slowly made their way up to the small lavender casket inside Judson Baptist Church in Carson.

After years of staying put in jobs that may have been uninspiring, unrewarding or even flat-out soul-crushing, more Americans are choosing to say sayonara to their current place of work. The Labor Department reported recently that 3.1 million people voluntarily quit their jobs in December, the...