Новости за 05.05.2016

A downtown Los Angeles jury has reached a verdict in the trial of a former police garage attendant accused of killing nine women and a teenage girl in the so-called Grim Sleeper serial killings that spanned more than 20 years beginning in the mid-1980s.

California politics updates: Gov. Brown's parole initiative in the hands of the state's high court, Clinton arrives for campaign events May 5 2016, 11:11 AM Welcome to Essential Politics, our daily feed on California politics and government news. Here's what we're watching: The California Supreme...

The upcoming “Power Rangers” film has revealed the redesigned costumes for the roving band of “teens with attitude” and they are not great.

Richard Florczak left his career as a celebrity chef (Tom Cruise, Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Garner are just a few of his former clients) to open a pizzeria in a mini-mall in the San Fernando Valley last year.

With Leicester City having clinched the English Premier League earlier this week, Juventus capturing Italy’s Serie A last month and Paris Saint-Germain winning France’s Ligue 1 before Easter, titles remain up for grabs in just two of Europe’s major soccer leagues entering the penultimate weekend...

A trailer for Academy Award best picture winner “Spotlight” took the Best of Show Prize and the best independent trailer honor at the 17th annual Golden Trailer Awards on Wednesday.

New court documents reveal that Sumner Redstone’s former girlfriends received $150 million from him over a five-year period.

California politics updates: Gov. Brown's parole initiative in the hands of the state's high court, Clinton arrives for campaign events May 5 2016, 11:11 AM Welcome to Essential Politics, our daily feed on California politics and government news. Here's what we're watching: The California Supreme...

As the movement to legalize pot for recreational use heads closer to a November ballot initiative, California law enforcement leaders are taking some very different positions on the matter.

“When you talk about me to other people, could you call me ‘they’?” That comment carries the central point of “A Singular They,” which ended its Blank Theatre run last weekend   — and will linger in the minds of many who saw it.

California politics updates: Gov. Brown's parole initiative in the hands of the state's high court, Clinton arrives for campaign events May 5 2016, 11:11 AM Welcome to Essential Politics, our daily feed on California politics and government news. Here's what we're watching: The California Supreme...

An airstrike on Thursday hit a crowded refugee camp in Syria close to the border with Turkey, killing at least 28 people, according to Syrian pro-opposition activists. Images posted on social media, said to be of the aftermath of the strike, showed at least a dozen tents burned to the ground and...

Writing is thought to be a solitary enterprise: Picture Ernest Hemingway, sleeves rolled up, banging out manly sentences at his desk against a backdrop of snow-capped mountains. But within the myth, the truth is a little more complicated. In this occasional series, Collaborators, we'll talk to...

Dorsey High is holding weekly Friday night seven on seven passing competitions beginning tomorrow. The competition will be held at Jackie Robinson Stadium next to the school and begin at 5 p.m.

The California Supreme Court appeared inclined Thursday to clear the way for a ballot proposal that would allow for the early release of some state prisoners.

A political showdown between North Carolina and the federal government loomed Thursday as Republican state leaders vowed to defy the U.S. Justice Department’s deadline to repeal the state’s contentious new bathroom law.

Who is more capable of expressing authentic emotion: a trained actor or a lunatic? Some might argue it’s a trick question because there’s no difference between the two. And though there may be ample evidence to support that position, playwright David Bridel and Four Clowns theater company explore...

California politics updates: Gov. Brown's parole initiative in the hands of the state's high court, Clinton arrives for campaign events May 5 2016, 11:11 AM Welcome to Essential Politics, our daily feed on California politics and government news. Here's what we're watching: The California Supreme...

Janet Jackson released a new music video late Wednesday that played into rumors she and husband Wissam Al Mana are expecting a child. "Dammn, Baby" is the third single from her most recent release, "Unbreakable."

The L.A, Film Festival will close with the U.S. premiere of Jonás Cuarón’s immigration thriller “Desierto,” starring Gael Garcia Bernal and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.

California politics updates: Gov. Brown's parole initiative in the hands of the state's high court, Clinton arrives for campaign events May 5 2016, 11:11 AM Welcome to Essential Politics, our daily feed on California politics and government news. Here's what we're watching: The California Supreme...

Raging wildfires in the Canadian province of Alberta have moved south, forcing three more communities to evacuate and an emergency operations center to move again — taking it far from the devastated oil sands city of Fort McMurray.

Reseda Cleveland has hired Jason Porter as its boys' basketball coach.

After meeting with Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell on Wednesday, Muslim leaders said they are ready to work with law enforcement officials to move past the racist emails forwarded by one of McDonnell’s top aides.The aide, Tom Angel, resigned last weekend under pressure from those Muslim...

San Francisco city leaders unanimously granted landmark status to a tall, slender pine tree that a San Francisco property owner wants to cut down but that neighbors rallied to save.