Новости за 12.06.2017

Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Monday, June 12, and here’s what’s happening across California:

You’re in trouble now. In fact, you’re going to get kicked off your ship. Why? Because you stayed in your cabin reading a book during the muster, that inconvenient but mandatory safety briefing that cruise ships demand you attend at the beginning of each cruise.

Road trips make me antsy. As a hiker and runner, I build in as many stops as my buddies will tolerate on the four-hour or so drive between L.A. and Morro Bay. BUT WHY THESE DESTINATIONS? DO YOU GO THERE ALL THE TIME?

Following the lead of other California cities, Mayor Eric Garcetti two years ago proposed charging a fee on construction and using those funds to build affordable housing in Los Angeles.

A veteran Torrance police officer has accused the city’s police chief of interfering in an internal investigation and retaliating against the officer by denying him a promotion, according to a recently filed federal lawsuit.

The corpses had been tossed on both sides of a virtually deserted side road leaving the village of Hamam Alil, 15 miles south of Mosul. Shriveled and discolored by the summer sun, they barely registered a glance from drivers rumbling past.

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By the time Cole Hartman arrived at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, he was in grave condition. The 8-year-old had gone into cardiac arrest after nearly drowning in a washing machine at his Castaic home. Paramedics had gotten his heart beating again, but he remained in a coma and on a ventilator.

It may be “apprentice week” at the White House, but elsewhere it’s still about the Russia investigation. I'm Davan Maharaj, editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Times. Here are some story lines I don't want you to miss today.

Gift cards remain perhaps the most ubiquitous redemption option available among credit card issuers. But for cardholders, they can be a miss.

Mohammad Mohaqeq's decision to post pictures with his wife and daughter was a rare example of an Afghan politician putting females front and center. His motivation is a source of debate.

It’s the end of the world as we know it – at least that’s what some people would have us believe about President Trump’s education budget.

After years without an eye exam, patients would show up at Dr. Lauren Daskivich’s clinic suddenly unable to see. They were diabetics who had bled into their eye, marring their vision.

Since the U.S. income tax was established in 1913, Americans have been able to avoid paying federal taxes on money they already paid out in state and local tax. But the Trump administration and congressional Republicans are looking to change that.

For years, Republican-controlled state legislatures have claimed to be protecting women’s health when they passed laws such as those requiring that abortion clinics be outfitted like surgical centers and that doctors obtain admitting privileges at nearby hospitals. But federal courts haven’t bought...

A statewide apartment owners association has filed a lawsuit accusing the city of Los Angeles of illegally setting trash pickup rates.

Inequality is a brute fact of American life and Broadway, increasingly divided between blockbuster hits and struggling also-rans, is hardly immune. But the Tony Awards tried to impose some justice on Sunday night by widely distributing the statuettes as though they were loaves of bread in a socialist...

A Minuteman III missile inside the silo known as Foxtrot 2 in Montana was on alert for nearly half a century, ready to fire a more than 300-kiloton hydrogen bomb to an adversary anywhere in the world in about 30 minutes.

The storied Los Angeles Pride Parade this weekend was replaced with what can best be described as a symbol of the Trump era — a protest march, complete with a hashtag in its name: the #ResistMarch.