Новости за 05.01.2018

Eighteen states and nineteen cities increased their minimum wages on Jan. 1, raising salaries for an estimated 4.5 million U.S. workers. California’s minimum jumped fifty cents to $10.50 an hour for smaller employers and $11 an hour for companies with more than 26 employees.

The German Bundesliga and France’s Ligue 1 are still on winter break but there will be some big games played in the rest of Europe this weekend, with the race for the Serie A title heating up in Italy and two of England’s longest-running rivals meeting in an FA Cup match.

Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions’ decision to withdraw an Obama-era directive discouraging the enforcement of federal marijuana laws in states that have legalized pot shouldn’t surprise anyone familiar with Sessions’ views on drug laws.

Los Angeles can lord it over New York even without pointing to the paradisal weather. Yes, the traffic is still terrible, and the basketball is only getting worse. Angelenos, however, have Mayor Eric Garcetti, an embodiment of pragmatic politics. New Yorkers have Mayor Bill de Blasio, an ideologue...

The concept of stargazing in the desert takes on new meaning at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, a celebrity-studded cinematic oasis that unfolds over two weeks every January. That those two weeks (which end Jan. 15) overlap almost precisely with the voting period for Academy Awards...

This is the year privacy safeguards finally kick in for consumers after outraged lawmakers wasted no time passing legislation in the wake of the Equifax data breach, which exposed the personal information of more than 145 million Americans.

Rep. Brad Sherman says he’s changing the way his office operates in response to sexual misconduct allegations against a former senior aide.

He has led an Internet venture, chronicled the New York media world and told the “inside story” of moguls like Rupert Murdoch — all the while making bold claims that, whether embraced or rejected, were impossible to ignore.

Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions’ decision Thursday to scrap an Obama-era policy that offered legal shelter for state-sanctioned marijuana sales may not necessarily lead to a wave of federal drug busts. But it could crimp California’s budding pot industry in another way: by cutting its already-tenuous...

U.S. businesses likely closed out 2017 with a strong month of hiring fueled by growing optimism among companies about the economy's momentum.

After losing the 1950 NFL championship game to the Cleveland Browns, the Rams gained a measure of revenge by beating the Browns in the 1951 championship game.

The top two Republicans running for governor met for their first debate Thursday, clashing over their records, who was the true conservative, and which one of them could bring change to Sacramento.

A woman who alleged that former Assemblyman Raul Bocanegra harassed her co-worker when he was a top legislative staffer says she’ll run for the district seat he vacated.

Aaron Holiday crouched in discomfort when the game ended, limping his way through the handshake line after absorbing a hit to his calf.

The short-handed Clippers lost another body Thursday night when point guard Milos Teodosic was unable to play in the second half because of an injury to his left foot.

Not a single step of this journey has been easy for Adam Rippon. Not growing up “a little gay kid from the middle of nowhere in Pennsylvania,” feeling he had to repress his true self until he came out in late 2015. Nor was it easy missing the 2014 U.S. Olympic figure skating team after he was weakened...

Afghan police said Friday that the death toll from the previous night's suicide attack in Kabul has jumped to 20, with 27 other policemen wounded.

Authorities are searching for more possible victims in connection with an Olympic gold medalist and boxing coach accused of committing lewd acts on a child.

Stephen Curry is well aware that Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey has crafted his team specifically to try to beat the Golden State Warriors.

Bleary-eyed and tired from perhaps the longest, ugliest 20 minutes of hockey this season by the Kings, Anze Kopitar got right to the point.

Everitt Aaron Jameson had a plan: He would travel to a remote campground in the mountains, where he would build explosives out of PVC pipe, gunpowder and nails.

Nick Rakocevic had a career-high 19 points and seven rebounds, and USC beat California 80-62 on Thursday night.

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins scored the shootout winner and the Edmonton Oilers snapped a four-game skid with a 2-1 victory over the Ducks on Thursday night.

Jacob Evans III hit the winner with .4 seconds to play for Cincinnati and the No. 19 Bearcats got a needed assist from a soaring water bottle to beat Temple 55-53 on Thursday night.