Новости за 17.04.2018

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

The widening tragedy that is the U.S. drug-overdose epidemic could have an improbable silver lining: for the 120,000 desperate Americans on the waiting list for a donated organ, the line could get a little shorter.

The Southern California News Group, which includes the Orange County Register and Los Angeles Daily News, is pushing back against its owner, Digital First Media, calling for public support in the face of steep cuts that have hollowed out its newsrooms.

No, you probably couldn’t make this up.

TOP STORIES

What’s Behind Client No. 3?

It was a courtroom drama made for TV, though no cameras were present: A judge ordered President Trump’s lawyer/fixer Michael Cohen to reveal the name of his mysterious third client. The answer: Sean Hannity. Though...

At the Los Feliz gallery Jenny's, 17 intensely intimate drawings reveal a shared sensibility of punks and hedonists alike.

President Trump was right to punish Syrian President Bashar Assad with air strikes on Friday.

You do know the water temperature of the Los Angeles River, right?

98.6 degrees.

That little joke among L.A. River enthusiasts is a bit of a head-scratcher at first, until you take a minute to think it over. During most of the year, water that flows down the river and out to sea comes from the ...

Late last month, Gov. Jerry Brown introduced a “deputy first dog” named Cali Brown. A brief video clip — posted on the Twitter feed of actual first dog Colusa Brown — showed the 2-month old puppy running through the governor’s office; the tweet drew more than 750 likes.

In his state of the city speech Monday, Mayor Eric Garcetti eloquently conjured the image of a child who sees a homeless woman sleeping on a bench and asks whether she has someone to take care of her. “The answer is yes,” Garcetti said. “The city of Los Angeles is going to take care of her and...

Born in Beijing in 1983, filmmaker Chloé Zhao wasn’t exposed to any American movies until the mid-1990s, when China began to open itself up to the West. Once she was, she quickly became entranced. “When Western culture came in, it was like a tsunami because we’d been closed off for so long,” Zhao...

To the editor: Steve Lopez writes about the sad, serious demise of newspapers, citing his experience with a number of small daily newspapers that are disappearing. Far more dramatic is the demise of large daily metropolitan newspapers in Los Angeles. (“The staggering body count as California newspapers...

To the editor: With all the ado about removing statues of past figures, including presidents, I am reminded of Mark Antony’s oration: “The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones.” (“When the fight to remove statues becomes a struggle against history,” editorial,...

To the editor: Op-ed article author Bill McKibben is a climate champion. He’s like a physician telling his patient, “I know you feel pretty good right now, but unless we treat the malignancy soon….” (“Jerry Brown’s work to seal his climate legacy is only half done,” Opinion, April 11)

The Supreme Court will hear a multibillion-dollar tax dispute on Tuesday and decide whether online merchants can be required to collect sales taxes regardless of where they are located.

States that have passed laws legalizing recreational marijuana in recent years appear to have found some new, unexpected supporters: Republican politicians.

If the stakes weren’t so high, it would be incredibly fun watching financial firms and their Republican allies repeatedly make the case that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is a rogue agency determined to undermine capitalism, democracy and the American way of life.

Mohamed Nasheed, the former president of the Indian Ocean archipelago of the Maldives, is intent on ending his exile and going home. But when he considers the practicalities, his thoughts turn to another politician who staged a defiant return to his country.

El Segundo was created by Standard Oil and is still dominated by the refinery that gave the town its name. The little seaside community - soon to be the new home of the Los Angeles Times - is a peculiar combination of Mayberry and industrial wasteland. And El Segundans are just fine with that.

After frustrating news photographers by hiding behind his trademark hat, L. Ewing Scott was captured behind bars with a miniature camera, which Scott had failed to notice, held by Times staff photographer Howard Maxwell.

As the state has rolled back sentencing laws through legislation and voter initiatives, a growing victims' rights movement is pushing for alternatives to incarceration, with greater investment in rehabilitation services and a reevaluation of what it takes to make communities safe.

This was as thorough a meltdown as an NHL team can stage in 60 minutes, a complete failure offensively, defensively, in goal and — as has long been the Ducks’ downfall — in discipline. Why they bothered going on a late-season push to get into the Stanley Cup playoffs is baffling because they’ve...

A collective roar resounded from a corner of the visitors’ clubhouse at Petco Park on Monday afternoon. Gathered inside the food room, a group of Dodgers were watching the Washington Nationals play the New York Mets. The players erupted when Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper launched a home run...

Patty Rodríguez es conocida a nivel nacional por sus facetas de empresaria, productora, personalidad de la radio, co fundadora de la editorial de libros infantiles Lil Libros, y fundadora de MALA By Patty Rodríguez.

Auston Matthews got the go-ahead goal in the second period, Patrick Marleau scored twice, and the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Boston Bruins 4-2 on Monday night in Game 3 of their Eastern Conference first-round series.

With a day off Thursday, the Dodgers will give each member of the starting rotation an extra day of rest.