Новости за 09.05.2016

Uber and Lyft on Monday suspended their ride-hailing services in Austin after voters decided against overturning city requirements that include fingerprinting their drivers.

If you're running a political campaign and want an effective ad attacking your opponents, you need not only to be clever, you have to get the timing right.

Donald Trump says his tax proposal was misrepresented May 9 2016, 10:10 AM Bernie Sanders is making stops in northern California on Monday and Tuesday. Donald Trump says he won't raise taxes on the rich Hillary Clinton's supporters are fighting attacks against her by taking on the Internet Sarah...

Gov. Jerry Brown issued a sweeping executive order Monday that permanently prohibits certain forms of water waste and makes monthly water-use reporting an ongoing requirement.

California politics updates: Uber and Lyft's Sacramento victories, Sanders to campaign in Sacramento May 9 2016, 10:10 AM Welcome to Essential Politics, our daily feed on California politics and government news. Here's what we're watching: Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is scheduled to hold a public...

Los Angeles County and Orange County breweries took home top honors last week at the World Beer Cup awards in Philadelphia. Beachwood Brewing in Long Beach was awarded Champion Large Brewpub and Noble Ale Works in Anaheim earned the title of Champion Small Brewery. Several other L.A.-area breweries...

Singer-actress Selena Gomez, who appears in the upcoming film “Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising,” has sold her house in a gated Calabasas community for a loss at $3.3 million.

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Here's an impressive figure: 852,000.

That's how many copies Drake sold of his new album, "Views," during its first week on sale — enough by a wide margin to give the Canadian rapper his sixth straight No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, according to the trade magazine. The number also reflects the...

North Carolina’s governor sued the Justice Department on Monday over the state’s so-called “bathroom law,” firing back at the Obama administration in a politically sensitive case that could produce a protracted legal battle.

Bernie Sanders has plenty of sound reasons for continuing his presidential campaign, but now that Donald Trump is the apparent Republican nominee, he needs to make a change in tone.Sanders still has a chance — albeit a vanishingly small chance — of winning more pledged delegates to the Democratic...

Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc. shareholders got a caffeine boost after coffee giant JAB Beech Inc. said Monday that it is acquiring the doughnut chain.

A man threatening to jump from an elevated connection of the 91 and 57 freeways in Orange County has brought traffic to a grinding halt in Anaheim, according to the California Highway Patrol.

California politics updates: Uber and Lyft's Sacramento victories, Sanders to campaign in Sacramento May 9 2016, 10:10 AM Welcome to Essential Politics, our daily feed on California politics and government news. Here's what we're watching: Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is scheduled to hold a public...

Rodrigo Duterte, a tough-talking mayor who has drawn comparisons to Donald Trump, appeared to be headed to victory in the Philippines' presidential election Monday as his chief rival conceded defeat.

A federal judge has ruled that the extradition of drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman can move ahead, Mexico's Judicial Council said Monday. But the country's foreign ministry must still approve it and the defense can appeal.

Think of a pirozhki as a tricked out, Russian-made, artisanal hot pocket. This is, of course, oversimplifying the addictive, Moscow-originated bread buns, but you kind of get the idea.

With performances scheduled by the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and Paul McCartney, among other icons of classic rock, the upcoming Desert Trip festival is being marketed as a once-in-a-lifetime event.

The business model of companies like the ride-matching services Uber and Lyft is based on flouting regulations that taxi companies and other competitors have to meet. So when the the city council of Austin, Texas, voted last year to mandate fingerprint checks for the services' drivers, Uber and...

A $5,000 reward is being offered for details leading to the arrest and conviction of three men who went on a drunken rampage involving gunfire, vomiting, skinny dipping and the death of a tiny endangered fish in Death Valley National Park, officials said Monday.

Can reading "Harry Potter," "The Hunger Games" and "The Lord of the Rings" cause brain damage in children?

Read his lips: Ventriloquist and comedian Terry Fator, who won the second season of “America’s Got Talent,” is ready to part ways with his home in Las Vegas. He’s put the roughly two-acre estate on the market for $1,999,900.

Tribune Publishing Co.'s board has adopted a shareholder rights plan to defend itself against Gannett Co.'s unsolicited bid to buy the newspaper company.

Jake Heggie’s latest opera, “Great Scott,” given its West Coast premiere by San Diego Opera on Saturday night, is a farce about the opera world. A financially struggling Texas company, American Opera, underwritten by an opera-loving wife’s football team owner husband, needs a sensation to survive....

In 1962, powerful Hollywood columnist Hedda Hopper held a strange and intimate dinner party, hosting rival movie stars Joan Crawford and Bette Davis for a truce meal at her home on Tropical Avenue in Beverly Hills, an elegant brick colonial Hopper winkingly called "the house that fear built."