Новости за 08.02.2017

Five circus performers were seriously injured in an accident while practicing a high-wire act Wednesday, authorities said.

Everyone in “Dark Night” seems terribly alone — even the ones who aren’t. In the opening moments, a teenager stares blankly out at a mall parking lot, her eyes reflecting, but barely registering, the flashing red-and-blue lights of a police car. In another scene, two skateboarding kids keep slipping...

Sessions will face a tough job at Justice - and Trump isn't making it any easier Feb. 8, 2017, 12:35 p.m. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals judges sharply questioned lawyers from the Department of Justice and Washington state over a moratorium on immigration from seven predominantly Muslim counties....

President Trump staged another tweet attack on an American corporation on Wednesday, this time raking Nordstrom Inc. for the supposed crime of dropping his daughter Ivanka’s fashion line.

So much water was tumbling out of Lake Oroville this week that it gouged a 200-foot-long hole in the reservoir’s concrete spillway.

Harvey Weinstein is currently basking in the awards glow of “Lion,” nominated for six Academy Awards, including best picture. But his company’s Oscar-season celebration has been crashed by a new lawsuit related to its two January flops, “The Founder” and “Gold.”

Anniversary story interviews often open with one predictable question: “Can you believe it’s been X number of years?”

The world may be overrun with selfies, Snapchat confessionals and so, so many pictures of brunch, but what if the social media elite used their #blessed cachet for actual social change? What if oversharing could be put towards doing good? Enter comedian couple June Diane Raphael ("Grace and Frankie,"...

President Trump’s effort Wednesday to influence the federal appeals judges who are considering whether to reinstate his restrictions on entry into the U.S. was notable for both the highly public setting — a televised speech — and the vitriol that Trump aimed at sitting judges still deciding the...

They rev their engines and race on a battered land.

They are five Palestinians in what’s billed as the first all-female race car team in the Middle East. They roar beyond checkpoints of Israeli soldiers and zip through the glare of Islamists who curse their humming pistons and blowing hair. Shifting...

The clock had just struck midnight at the Black Cat tavern on Sunset Boulevard on New Year’s Day 1967. As singers performed “Auld Lang Syne” in the Silver Lake bar, gay men kissed and embraced, celebrating the new year. 

As court arguments start, Trump administration lawyers face skeptical questions on travel ban Feb. 8, 2017, 12:09 p.m. This is our look at President Trump's administration and the rest of Washington: Trump administration faces tough questions in appeals court on travel ban Does the law back Trump's...

City records released Wednesday show that various Oakland officials visited the Ghost Ship warehouse scores of times and investigated at least 10 code enforcement complaints in the years before a massive fire killed 36 people last December.

Professional basketball coach Scott Brooks, now in his first season with the Washington Wizards, has listed a home in Corona del Mar for sale at $2.6 million.

A Russian opposition leader who planned to challenge President Vladimir Putin in next year’s election was found guilty Wednesday in the retrial of a 2013 fraud case, formally eliminating him as a candidate.

As court arguments start, Trump administration lawyers face skeptical questions on travel ban Feb. 8, 2017, 7:23 a.m. This is our look at President Trump's administration and the rest of Washington: Trump administration faces tough questions in appeals court on travel ban Does the law back Trump's...

Lorraine Ali has been named a television critic for the Los Angeles Times.

Stocks are opening slightly lower on Wall Street, a day after the Nasdaq composite notched another record high.

The judge’s ultimatum came 67 years ago: Enlist in the military or face juvenile detention for repeatedly skipping classes at San Diego High School.

Inexplicably, the Kings have seen their hottest streak of the season dissolve into the most frigid of cold spells in the space of consecutive 5-0 losses. The second came Tuesday in Tampa, where a fast start that featured 19 first-period shots fizzled, allowing the Lightning to sweep the season...

“Writing novels is so much more satisfying than writing television,” says Sarah Dunn. It’s an expertly tossed-off bon mot that practically defines the aphorism “know your audience.” The author of “The Arrangement,” a novel that won’t be out for months, is seated between two bookstore owners at...

Norwegian Cruise Line is doubling down on Cuba. Its Norwegian Sky will be adding more round-trip cruises from Miami to Cuba through December, the line announced Tuesday.

Yemen's foreign minister said the government has asked for a "reassessment" of a U.S. raid last month that killed several women and children, but denied reports that it has requested a suspension of American ground operations.

After enduring an unusually bitter confirmation battle for a sitting U.S. senator, Jeff Sessions will barely have time to settle into his fifth-floor office at the Justice Department before he takes center stage in some of the nation’s most acute controversies.

A two-acre compound in La Quinta includes five houses grouped around a tennis court, an outdoor bar and a kidney-shaped pool with a spa. Wrap-around mountain views enclose the walled desert oasis. The grounds include lawn space for badminton or perhaps a putting practice.