Новости за 14.09.2017

Playwright Halley Feiffer is wearing a truly hideous sweater. Gaudy flowers crowd the neck, and festive green-yarn fringe spills like seaweed off the sleeves. The words “Mele Kalikimaka” are knitted into the waist.

To the editor: The growth of arbitration clauses is a result of Congress’ continuing fecklessness. (“The real outrage isn’t Equifax’s arbitration clause — it’s all the others,” Sept. 12)

To the editor: I got quite emotional reading Teresa Watanabe’s article on the resistance in Monterey to Japanese American internment. (“When California rounded up Japanese Americans for internment camps, Monterey emerged as the center of the resistance,” Sept. 10)

After dinner at the White House, top Democrats say they and President Trump have “agreed to enshrine the protections of DACA into law quickly.” Here are the stories you shouldn’t miss today:

To the editor: After endless promises that nuclear waste could be stored safely, we now learn that there is no place to safely store tens of thousands of tons of uranium and plutonium for hundreds of thousands of years. (“There's no great answer for nuclear waste, but almost anything is better...

L.A. roots country musician Sam Outlaw was nearly clotheslined in his own living room not long ago. That potentially bizarre mishap led to a moment of self-reflection that he turned into a song and, now, his latest video, “Dry in the Sun.”

To the editor: The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival program, enacted in 2012 by President Obama’s executive order and also known as DACA, gave hope to hundreds of thousands of young immigrants brought to this country by their parents in search of a better life. DACA was an interim solution...

It’s almost always the role of local school districts in California to create new public schools. Even charter schools start by seeking permission from their local school boards to operate. So a bill in Sacramento that would order the state to create a charter-like school specializing in the so-called...

When then-Gov. Ronald Reagan signed into law the California Environmental Quality Act in 1970, he and its authors could not have foreseen what the landmark legislation would become decades later: a law stretched so far beyond its original intent that it threatens to turn the Golden State’s economy...

More than 30 years after its mission was conceived and 20 years after its launch, the space probe Cassini will plummet early Friday to a planned death — a self-immolation, if you will, as friction from Saturn’s atmosphere turns it into a man-made meteor.

In announcing President Trump’s decision to roll back the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions cited the safety and jobs of American citizens and the need for a “system of immigration that serves the national interest.” In the past, Sessions said, failing to...

Carol T. Christ

For years, I worked with congressional Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to vigorously police Barack Obama’s presidency.

Toronto Mayor John Tory had just introduced Guillermo del Toro’s lush movie monster love story “The Shape of Water” at its Toronto International Film Festival premiere, ending with a couple of sentences in stilted Spanish, which Del Toro, taking the stage, translated for the audience: “He said,...

Last month, UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ issued a powerful statement reminding the university community that the 1st Amendment protects “even speech that most of us would find hateful, abhorrent and odious” and that “public expression of many sharply divergent points of view is fundamental...

In the midst of major global crises, from North Korean missile tests to the continuing fight against Islamic State, President Trump is seemingly obsessed with one foreign policy goal: undoing the July 2015 Iran nuclear deal, which eased international sanctions on Tehran in exchange for curbs on...

UC Irvine Chancellor Howard Gillman apologized Wednesday for the “unacceptable distress” caused to students after the campus abruptly rescinded nearly 500 admission offers this summer and pledged the mistakes would not recur.

As seems to be becoming faddish, Sundance Channel has added a by-subscription, premium streaming wing called Sundance Now. To tempt you to part with a portion of your monthly discretionary spending, it is offering the glittering bauble of "Riviera," a 10-episode conspiracy thriller packed inside...

The fresh-faced singer clutched the mic and looked conspiratorially at his audience, a few dozen young people several drinks down.

President Trump was set to travel to Florida on Thursday as death tolls continue to rise and hundreds of thousand of residents remain without power in the wake of Hurricane Irma.

What happens when the congressional representative of this uber-liberal enclave — who also happens to be leader of House Democrats — starts dancing with the devil?

A boat crowded with construction workers capsized in the Yamuna River in northern India early Thursday and at least 19 people have drowned, officials said.

A fire that blocked the only exit at an Islamic school dormitory killed 23 people, mostly teenagers, on the outskirts of Malaysia's capital early Thursday, officials said. A government official said a wall separating the victims from a second exit “shouldn't have been there.”