Новости за 08.04.2018

Telegram, the most popular social media app in Iran, will be blocked nationwide, state media reported Sunday, a move expected to deal a severe blow to communications and commerce across the Islamic Republic.

President Trump vowed Sunday there would be a “big price to pay” for a suspected poison gas attack that killed dozens of Syrian civilians, and he issued a rare public rebuke to Russian President Vladimir Putin for backing Syrian President Bashar Assad in the country’s vicious civil war.

A case of food poisoning felled Dodgers pitcher Alex Wood and hampered first baseman Cody Bellinger on Saturday. The illness forced Wood to push back his next start and led to Bellinger spending Sunday’s series finale against San Francisco on the bench.

Few musicians can take the simple act of walking across a stage and imbue it with as much meaning as Nils Frahm.

Dozens of people were killed in an apparent poison gas attack on a suburb of the Syrian capital as troops loyal to the government pressed an offensive to take back one of the last rebel-held bastions near Damascus, opposition activists and aid groups said Sunday.

Susan Anspach, an actress who had several acclaimed film roles in the 1970s and 1980s and who later had legal and personal disputes with her onetime lover and co-star, actor Jack Nicholson, died Monday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 75.

Sebastian Vettel just held on to win a dramatic Bahrain Grand Prix from pole position on Sunday and extended his championship lead over Lewis Hamilton, who finished third behind teammate Valtteri Bottas despite starting from ninth.

The Kings will open the Stanley Cup playoffs on Wednesday against the Golden Knights at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, followed by Game 2 there on Friday. Both games will start at 7 p.m.

After so much uncertainty surrounding the Ducks’ chances to qualify for the playoffs, they emerged with home-ice advantage in the first round.

The Clippers were eliminated from playoff contention when they lost for the fourth time in their last five games, to the Denver Nuggets, 134-115.

Now that he’s replaced Conor McGregor as UFC lightweight champion, Khabib Nurmagomedov wants it known his reign will be different.

Standing in the batter’s box, Johnny Tincher of Birmingham is chewing gum. Crouched behind home plate wearing his catcher’s mask, Tincher is chewing gum. Walking out to the mound to talk to the pitcher, Tincher is chewing gum.

When John Krasinski took to the stage after the world premiere of his movie “A Quiet Place” last month at the South by Southwest Film Festival, he seemed startled and surprised not only by the intensity of the audience’s response but also, perhaps, even by the movie itself. “Who made that film...

After an intense tropical storm caused flooding in roads and rivers throughout Yosemite Valley on Saturday, the national park is expected to reopen to vehicles and visitors at noon on Sunday.

An investigation was underway Sunday after someone stole an ambulance in downtown L.A. and drove it to the Westlake district, where police ultimately found the crashed emergency vehicle — but not the person who took it.

Paramount Pictures' dark thriller "A Quiet Place" debuted in first place with $50 million in domestic weekend ticket sales, crushing the most optimistic industry expectations of $25 million, according to figures from measurement firm ComScore.

Una vez más, el presidente Trump habló sobre los violadores en México y dejó consternación y confusión a su paso.

The Ducks played like they wanted to finish second in defeating the Arizona Coyotes 3-0 on Saturday night.

The train ride that is the 82-game regular season finally rolled to a stop and left the Kings off in Las Vegas.

El secretario del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional, Kirstjen Nielsen, ha comunicado a las autoridades mexicanas que las tropas de la Guardia Nacional desplegadas en la frontera no estarán armadas ni participando en tareas de inmigración o aduanas, según el Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores...

I’m L.A. Times books editor Carolyn Kellogg — welcome to this week’s newsletter.