Новости за 17.01.2018

Humpback whale-watching tours are in full swing in Hawaii, and some visitors are discovering the giant mammals to be curious creatures.

Your mileage (and opinion) may vary.

But in more than a year of roaming the state to compile our bucket list of 366 (and counting) compelling California destinations and adventures, my Travel section colleagues and I have found that some of our most memorable moments have happened while we were...

American Airlines, the world’s largest carrier, has formed a partnership to access up to 549 million potential passengers in China.

The Afghanistan war film "12 Strong" is the latest movie to try to unseat Sony's "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle."

Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Wednesday, Jan. 17, and here’s what’s happening across California:

"Corporate," premiering Wednesday on Comedy Central, is a dark show, with an outlook so dreadful and dour that merely to describe it might sound like a criticism. Bounded by hopelessness on every side, it is the opposite of an inspirational comedy – a “despair-ational” comedy, as it were. Its first...

An L.A. County sheriff’s deputy is accused of using his position to provide safe travels for narcotics.

Since 2011, trucking companies at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have been ordered by the state to pay drivers more than $45 million in wages and restitution for illegally classifying the workers as “independent contractors” instead of employees — a move that allowed the companies to avoid...

To the editor: The Jan. 8 article, “Why the United States is ‘the most dangerous of wealthy nations for a child to be born into,’” reiterates the dreary facts about healthcare in the United States — facts that have been known since I completed medical school in 1979.

“The Assassination of Gianni Versace” and “The People v O.J. Simpson” have much in common: Both series are part of FX’s “American Crime Story” anthology, both are scripted dramas that revisit 1990s celebrity crimes, and both are the work of mastermind Ryan Murphy.

To the editor: Actor James Franco allegedly used his power and position to find girlfriends, stage orgies, teach a “master class” on sex scenes, solicit nudity and have unprotected oral sex with various women. Now, he says “If I have done something wrong, I will fix it — I have to.” (“Five women...

There was always a risk that the roughly 700,000 DACA beneficiaries would become pawns in our larger immigration policy wars. For all his past expressions of support for the “Dreamers,” President Trump appears to see protecting them mainly as a lever for extracting hard-line, anti-immigration measures...

After three churches in Texas were damaged last year during Hurricane Harvey, they discovered they were ineligible for federal disaster aid under a policy of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Last week, the Trump administration came to their rescue — by abolishing a rule that prohibited...

It was usually after midnight when Mike Clifford spotted the children from the house across the street.

Congressional Republicans breathed new life last year into the all-but-ignored Congressional Review Act, using it to reverse a wide range of Obama administration regulations on the environment, consumer protection and workplace issues. Now Senate Democrats are trotting out the act to undo a Republican...

President Trump is scheduled to host a farce of a media celebration, a Fake News Awards presentation, on Wednesday. It’s as though, once the Hollywood awards balloting got underway, he wished desperately for his own party with golden statuettes and an adoring audience. At the White House press...

“They are sending out emergency calls for shoes, underwear, sleeping garments, household equipment, mattresses, springs and bedding,” a Los Angeles Times story reported from Southern California. Do-gooders were doing what they could to help the destitute. “They have no sanitation,” a volunteer...

For days, crews have filled dozens of dump trucks with tangled metal, tire tread, mud and tree branches they cleared from the mudslide wreckage in Montecito.

The Aziz Ansari cultural moment was inevitable.

Ansari, the immensely talented actor who just won a Golden Globe for his work on “Master of None,” has been very publicly accused of unwanted sexual aggression during a first date by an anonymous 23-year-old woman who met him at an Emmy after-party...

Even in an era when the discourse surrounding the presidency has been remarkable, this sentence in the White House press briefing room stands out.

Retailer Mark Werts was dining in a Hong Kong restaurant a few years ago when he noticed most people were doing more than chewing.

In the heat of his unlikely presidential campaign, Donald Trump declared himself free of the “shackles” of the Republican Party, promising to “fight for America the way I want to” and insisting he would never wish “to be in a foxhole with a lot of these people.”

Feb. 7, 1978: A buried Ferrari, stolen in 1974, is dug up from a backyard on West 119th Street, still in good condition.

Hidden in the folds of the Santa Ynez Mountains, the Reagan Ranch is a spawning ground for the nation's young conservative movement and the Young America's Foundation. Foundation alumni include Trump strategist Stephen Miller and U.S. Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions.