Новости за 18.05.2017

Michael Vick may have retired from the NFL in February after sitting out the 2016 season, but the one-time star quarterback isn’t done playing football just yet.

Chris Cornell, an icon of the ’90s hard rock grunge movement and the anchor of Soundgarden and Audioslave, was never quiet about his need to perform.

Roger Ailes, the controversial founder and longtime head of Fox News — who also worked as an advisor to Republican presidential candidates from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump — died Thursday at 77, according to a statement released by his wife.

President Trump has cited the MS-13 gang in his war of words about illegal immigration. This week, authorities conducted a large sweep that officials hope will further break up the gang.

Health insurers across the country are making plans to dramatically raise Obamacare premiums or exit marketplaces amid growing exasperation with the Trump administration’s erratic management, inconsistent guidance and seeming lack of understanding of basic healthcare issues.

Restaurateur Caroline Styne on minimum wage and other issues facing L.A. restaurants

Phone companies led U.S. stock indexes modestly higher midday Thursday, the day after the market posted its biggest loss in eight months. Materials and energy stocks fell. Wal-Mart Stores rose after delivering better results than analysts were expecting.

A driver plowed into a crowd of pedestrians in New York’s bustling Times Square on Thursday, killing one person and injuring at least 22 others, four of them critically.

A limited liability company tied to actor-producer Tobey Maguire was the buyer of architect Clive Wilkinson’s West Hollywood home, which sold last month for $3.375 million.

In the latest fallout from the Russian doping scandal, the World Anti-Doping Agency is moving toward stricter penalties for national teams in cases of systemic cheating.

Five years after a trilogy of “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” movies were released in rapid succession, “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul,” is hitting theaters with a completely new cast. Adapted from the Web-comic-turned-kids-novels by Jeff Kinney, the films feature the kinds of embarrassments and toilet...

The DNA sample taken from a Catholic priest who died in 2001 does not match evidence from the unsolved 1969 killing of Baltimore nun Sister Catherine Ann Cesnik, Baltimore County police said.

Aided by a drone and scent-trained dogs, dozens of law enforcement officers scoured a South Pasadena park Thursday morning as they searched for a 5-year-old boy who has been missing since last month.

The $2.6-billion stadium for the Rams and Chargers in Inglewood, originally scheduled to open in 2019, will be delayed almost a year and is now scheduled to be ready for the start of the 2020 NFL season.

Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Thursday, May 18, and here’s what’s happening across California: