Новости за 13.02.2018

Peter LaPrairie se despertó el domingo por la mañana después de que una noche de vientos fríos azotara su saco de dormir cerca de la carretera. Caminó, tal vez un kilómetro, hacia D Street, donde las tiendas y los carros de compras estaban rodeados por una valla.

Healthcare companies led stocks broadly lower in Tuesday’s early trading on Wall Street as the market gave back some of its big gain from the day before.

Embattled South African President Jacob Zuma is expected to step down Wednesday after being “recalled,” or dismissed, by the highest decision-making body in the governing African National Conference, the party’s secretary general said Tuesday.

The paintings are a departure from more staid portraiture. Artist Kehinde Wiley painted the former president; Amy Sherald captured the former first lady.

Las Vegas will celebrate Chinese New Year, which begins Friday, with lion dances, lucky charms and dogs. Hotel-casinos go all-out for what will be the Year of the Dog, the 11th zodiac animal in the Chinese zodiac.

Bonjour, fans of the ABC-TV show “The Bachelor.” You can book your own "Rose" package on a new eight-day Seine River cruise itinerary in France offered by U by Uniworld.

Vanessa Trump, la esposa de Donald Trump Jr., fue llevada a un hospital el lunes después de abrir una carta dirigida a su esposo que contenía una sustancia de polvo blanca no identificada.

Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Tuesday, Feb. 13, and here’s what’s happening across California:

In the Sierra Nevada, snowpack levels are running below even the darkest days of the drought, with cross-country ski resorts closed and mountain biking becoming the sport of choice until the snow returns.

Each year, California invites students who are in the country without legal permission to apply for the same financial aid packages available to others. But officials once again are concerned that fears are keeping those they want to help from seeking the funding.

Mayor Eric Garcetti and his five appointees on the Police Commission have a daunting task ahead: finding L.A.'s next police chief.

Most of us think of time as a way to measure things like the length of our days and the span of our lives. But if you had access to a pair of extremely high-precision clocks, you could use time in a different way — to measure the height of mountains.

Becky Van and Kale Novalis knew exactly when and where they were going to tell each other, “I love you,” for the first time.

L.A. is getting some rain showers this week, but climatologists say they’re not nearly enough.

For a city suffering from a housing crisis, the subject of real estate development has somewhat oddly become a wedge issue in Los Angeles. Despite the constant refrain from economists that an increase in supply is key to solving the region’s woes, anti-growth advocates have countered that the bulk...

President Trump’s infrastructure plan isn’t a plan. It’s fantasy. The outline the administration put forth Monday is essentially this: The federal government will offer a diminished amount of money — $200 billion over 10 years — for building or repairing roads, bridges, airports, seaports, energy...

A report on the Los Angeles County Probation Department that comes before the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday makes many astute observations, but one in particular stands out: So many reports, studies, motions and reviews of the troubled department have been filed and shelved in the last several...

More than 100 years since the only surviving public bank was established in North Dakota, the nation’s largest state has begun exploring the option. California Treasurer John Chiang — a gubernatorial candidate — and Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra told reporters last week that they would study how to...

Last month, I dismissed as “hogwash” concerns that the recall of Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky could impair judicial independence.

To the editor: I read with tears in my eyes about the combined Korean delegation at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. As a Vietnamese refugee, I couldn’t help but profoundly admire the peaceful way that the two Korean governments are treating reunification, even if only symbolically....

To the editor: As a retired 36-year veteran public defender, trial attorney and attorney manager, I was sad to read your editorial on the current state of the Los Angeles County office. (“Is the new public defender ending or stoking office turmoil?” editorial, Feb. 9)

To the editor: I can only guess that President Trump must fear some terrible truth coming out in the Democratic memo from the House Intelligence Committee regarding his campaign and the investigation of certain figures by the FBI. (“Trump says he told Democrats to ‘re-do’ their ‘very political...