Новости за 01.12.2017

Obesity is set to become the new normal in America.

By the time today’s kids reach the age of 35, 57% of them will be obese, a new study predicts. That means that if present trends continue, an American child’s chances of having a normal weight when they grow up — or of being merely overweight...

California Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra sued an Orange County janitorial company, alleging the firm engaged in a conspiracy to defraud its workers who clean the stores of major retailers throughout the state.

It’s time for Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) to step aside — at least until the House Ethics Committee concludes its investigation into allegations that he sexually harassed and verbally abused a number of subordinates. The multiple women who’ve come forward with similar accusations suggest a...

Investors are exuberant and for good reason: the global economy is strong, corporate earnings are solid, Washington appears closer to delivering lower taxes on corporations and is signaling less restrictive oversight of the financial sector.

Jared Goff and the Rams improved to 8-3 after defeating Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints 26-20 at the Coliseum.

Gerald Casale of Devo fame has listed his home in Palm Desert for sale at $1.495 million.

American Airlines acknowledges that a computer error allowed too many pilots to schedule vacation time during the Christmas holiday, but it remains unclear how many flights might be without pilots during one of the year’s busiest travel periods.

LA Weekly was sold Wednesday, with all its top editors and all but one of its writers laid off as the deal closed. A day later, the alternative newsweekly’s buyers are still shrouded in secrecy.

In the same way that not every novel should be made into a movie, not every true-life story warrants the big-screen treatment. Witness “Drawing Home,” a creaky recount of the relationship between affluent, New England-born painter Catharine Robb (Julie Lynn Mortensen) and her rural-Canadian artist...

A Los Angeles police captain is on paid leave as the department investigates whether he is involved with an alleged marijuana warehouse in Sun Valley.

U2 isn’t kidding about the adventures and ordeals hinted at in the title of its new album.

Supporters of Honduran presidential candidate Salvador Nasralla clashed with police in the capital of Tegucigalpa Thursday after partial vote returns showed incumbent Juan Orlando Hernandez taking a lead.

The amusing indie “A Bad Idea Gone Wrong” is like a decent late-night supper thrown together with random items from the back of the fridge and a cupboard or two. It can be a nice surprise, but show up too hungry and you might be left wanting.

A key U.S. senator indicated Thursday that the Republican tax bill was all but certain to keep a limited deduction for property taxes — a partial victory, but at the same time, a major loss for Californians.

A Bay Area school district acted properly when it suspended five students who “liked” or commented on racist images on another student's Instagram account that included nooses drawn around the necks of a black student and coach and comparisons of African American women and students to gorillas,...

A filmmaker’s brutal encounter with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department compelled him to make “What Happened in Vegas,” a documentary profile that blows the whistle on a disturbing pattern of excessive force and corruption within its ranks.

Saoirse Ronan is already racking up wins for her performance in Greta Gerwig's "Lady Bird." This week she was named best actress by the New York Film Critics Circle and at the Gotham Awards. She talks with Amy Kaufman about her search for home, her relationship with her mam, plus "Lizzie McGuire."

The stirring, masterfully constructed documentary “Apache Warrior” makes intriguing use of three recovered flight tapes from a squadron of U.S. Apache fighter helicopters that launched a deep attack in Iraq at the start of the war in March 2003.

After some key GOP holdouts fell in line, the Republican tax plan appeared headed for Senate passage by late Thursday or early Friday — even as last-minute revisions were still being negotiated to assuage lawmakers.

Magic flows freely if not infinitely in “Mary and the Witch’s Flower,” an effortless animated charmer from the gifted Japanese director and Studio Ghibli veteran Hiromasa Yonebayashi.

The century-old L.A. Auto Show, which opens its 10-day run Friday, is one of the largest, longest-running and most popular car exhibitions in the world.

Documentarian Adam Bhala Lough tackles the intersection of digital rights and the far right in his provocative, problematic film “The New Radical.” Lough sets his sights on Cody Wilson, the libertarian provocateur fighting for his constitutional right to provide diagrams of 3-D printed guns on...

Given that it’s a tribute to artists, the artlessness of “Extraordinary Ordinary People” is at first jarring. But as this survey of creativity outside the mainstream jumps from subject to subject — from bluegrass to Tejano to gospel, from quilter to woodcarver to circus aerialist — the clunky organization...