Новости за 04.01.2018

What’s in “Fire and Fury,” the new book that prompted President Trump to disown his former chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon?

To the editor: The Dec. 31 headline “As 2017 ends, Republicans struggle to counter a Democratic wave” should send shivers down the spine of any experienced Democratic voter. It implies the race is over in 2018 and Democrats will surely return to power in Congress, meaning Democrats can now do what...

With Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA winding down, our critic asks, what's next? Here's his recommendation on what should follow this year's exploration of Latin America art.

Hundreds of brittle concrete buildings face a 25-year law-mandated deadline for seismic retrofits, but experts warn that a major quake could strike first.

To the editor: I applaud The Times Editorial Board for highlighting the stark fact that recent sexual harassment revelations and the backlash in response have not yet reached economic sectors with cultures of perhaps the highest dysfunction and disenfranchisement. (“A #MeToo moment for the poor...

For roughly 15 years, the Echo Park art space has served as a site of artistic experimentation, including avant-garde plays and surreal installations made of trees. It is now coming to an end.

Have you heard? Gretchen Carlson, the former Fox News anchor who took down her boss, sexual harasser Roger Ailes, is the new chair of the Miss America pageant, whose crown she won in 1989. She hopes to “move this iconic program forward,” she wrote on Twitter, after the fallout from the revelation...

The shape and soul of the Los Angeles River will change in the coming years and decades. Dynamic alteration of the riverscape has already begun, and by most indications, the pace of transformation will soon increase.

I look at crime stats the way I used to look at baseball statistics when I was a kid. Now, instead of checking on Sandy Koufax’s strikeouts, I check the homicides in each Los Angeles police division.

The U.S. Constitution requires the federal government to conduct a national census every 10 years, a tally that is used to apportion various benefits among the states, including seats in the House of Representatives. It’s a difficult task, and a magnet for disputes. The first census, conducted...

The Los Angeles man accused of placing a prank call that resulted in the fatal police shooting of an innocent man in Kansas last week was the target of an ongoing LAPD investigation into similar hoaxes and had a reputation for helping others gain revenge on online enemies, law enforcement officials...

All 2017 had to do was go away quietly, but no. It left us a nasty New Year’s gift: “Swatting” is now officially a thing, with an innocent Wichita man shot dead by police in his own home a week ago for opening his front door, and an apparently callous Los Angeles gamer in jail pending his transfer...

The strains between China and Australia accentuate a central tension countries from New Zealand to the U.S now face: how to engage with an increasingly powerful, one-party state without sacrificing their democratic interests or stirring up xenophobia.

As California’s legal cannabis industry heats up, officials in Los Angeles and other cities say they want to make sure early players in the pot business who were selling it when it was still illegal aren’t pushed out of the market.

Nicholas Andrew Flores swatted at the flies orbiting his sweat-drenched face as he picked alongside a crew of immigrants through a cantaloupe field in California’s Central Valley.

A magnitude 4.5 earthquake shook up the San Francisco Bay Area early Thursday.

No winning tickets were sold for the $460 million Powerball drawing Wednesday night.

Oct. 29, 1970: Jess Unruh, campaigning for governor in Huntington Beach, kids communications advisor Bob Cheny, left, by taking off a shoe and pretending to talk into it.

A Zimbabwean court has freed “for now” an American woman charged with subversion for allegedly describing the former president on Twitter as a “sick man.”

A dramatic increase in new housing near transit stations could be on its way across California under new legislation proposed by a Bay Area legislator.

Bradie Tennell confirmed for her rivals at the U.S. Figure Skating championships that she’s for real — and that she will be a major player in the battle for the three U.S. women’s singles berths on the Pyeongchang Olympic team.

Point guard Lonzo Ball sat out his sixth straight game because of a left shoulder sprain. But the Lakers, who have lost eight straight games and 11 of 12, got some good news on the injury front Wednesday.

On Wednesday morning, minutes before Paul George denied any tampering occurred between him and the Lakers, before he talked about the hurt feelings that arose in Indiana over his telling the organization he wanted to play for the Lakers, and before he shared what it meant to him to have a relationship...

Terry Rozier scored 20 points in 20 minutes, stealing the spotlight from LeBron James, Kyrie Irving and Isaiah Thomas in a rematch of the Eastern Conference finals and leading the host Boston Celtics to a 102-88 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Wednesday night.