Новости за 17.04.2018

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It was supposed to be Shohei Sunday.

The weather didn’t cooperate. The temperature in Kansas City dropped to below freezing, causing the Royals and Angels to postpone a game that had been eagerly anticipated because it would have featured Shohei Ohtani’s third major league pitching start.

So now...

The pregnant hip-hop star recently released her No. 1 album, "Invasion of Privacy."

A roundup of community events in and around La Cañada Flintridge. To submit items, email carol.cormaci@latimes.com.

As angry as UFC President Dana White was with Conor McGregor in the minutes following the former champion’s frenzied attack of a bus carrying new lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov and several other fighters on April 5, White’s calm two days later is what struck Paul Daley.

Inspectors from an international agency sent to collect air, water and ground samples from the site of a suspected poison gas attack in Syria this month were blocked Monday by Russian and Syrian forces for security reasons, the watchdog group’s director said.

The Sacramento Police Department on Monday released more than 50 new video files of officers responding to the shooting of an unarmed black man, an incident that sparked weeks of demonstrations and heightened already simmering tensions between police and the city’s black community.

Director Milos Forman was shaped by European sensibilities but his films were shrewd and intimate portraits of the yearnings, transgressions, politics, sexual fascinations, rebelliousness and complicated conformities that soothed, rattled and challenged the American spirit.

The U.S. and British governments on Monday accused Russia of conducting a massive campaign to compromise computer routers and firewalls around the world — from home offices to internet service providers — for espionage and possibly sabotage purposes.

Brick-and-mortar businesses in Los Angeles would get a chance to oppose vendors planning to set up shop on adjacent sidewalks, but would not be able to turn them down outright, under a revised proposal for new regulations announced Monday at City Hall.

Elon Musk’s tunnel-digging venture the Boring Co. raised $112.5 million in a recent funding round, according to a document filed Monday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

As the Rams prepare for the NFL draft, the Los Angeles Times will examine their roster. Part 5 of 8: offensive line.

Investors shrugged off geopolitical jitters Monday, sending U.S. stocks broadly higher and extending the market's gains from last week.

An American pastor facing up to 35 years in prison on terrorism and espionage charges appeared in a Turkish court Monday in the opening of a trial that has become a centerpiece in the increasingly fractured relationship between the U.S. and Turkey.

The black-tie UNICEF Ball featured performances by the Dream Dancers, the Broadway Boys and 11-time Grammy winner Pharrell Williams.

Former FBI Director James Comey’s first television interview since being unceremoniously fired by President Trump in May was billed by “20/20” as an “explosive” interview that might “change everything.”

Defenseman Rasmus Dahlin of the Swedish team Frolunda and Russian-born right wing Andrei Svechnikov of the Barrie Colts of the Ontario Hockey League were the top-ranked international and North American skaters in the Central Scouting Bureau’s final rankings for this year’s NHL draft.

The launch of NASA’s TESS spacecraft, planned for launch Monday afternoon, has been delayed until Wednesday, SpaceX and NASA officials said.

A man who in a racist tirade threatened to kill Rep. Maxine Waters, spurred by her criticisms of President Trump, pleaded guilty Monday to a felony charge of threatening a U.S. official.