Новости за 29.11.2015

President Obama’s efforts against the Islamic State should be “sped up and intensified,” and the U.S. needs closer alignment with Turkey and Saudi Arabia to prevail, former Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Sunday.

Thousands of people are expected to turn out Sunday evening for the 84th annual Hollywood Christmas Parade, which this year will feature the magic-comedy team Penn & Teller as grand marshals.

It will be interesting if any school still alive in the high school football playoffs elected to opt out of participating in the regional bowl games that begin at the conclusion of the section playoffs.

Authorities say a suspected burglar has died after getting stuck in a chimney in Central California.

A record cold snap continued across Northern California on Sunday, including more below-zero temperature readings. According to the National Weather Service, it was actually colder in Alturas, Calif., the seat of Modoc County in the far northeastern corner California, than it was in Barrow, Alaska,...

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Brick-and-mortar marijuana dispensaries and delivery services are now illegal in Newport Beach.

Tournament MVP Leaonna Odom of Chaminade scored 18 points to help the Eagles defeat Cajon, 57-54, in the championship game of the Palisades tournament on Saturday night.

Among the nation's biggest carriers, American Airlines has the worst record for losing and mishandling luggage.In the first nine months of 2015, the Forth Worth-based carrier lost or mishandled 4.04 bags for every 1,000 passengers, compared with an average rate of 3.31 lost or mishandled bags for...

“The Hunger Games: Mockingjay -- Part 2” proved to be a tough competitor at the holiday box office, as the finale of the young adult movie series led ticket sales for a second weekend and beat newcomers "The Good Dinosaur" and "Creed."

Despite the horrific terrorist attacks in Paris, nearly three-quarters of travel managers for major U.S. corporations say their travel plans to Europe remain largely unchanged.That is the finding of a survey of nearly 170 U.S.-based travel managers who were questioned by the Global Business Travel...

Frustrated by a ban on demonstrations during international climate talks, a few hundred protesters clashed with police Sunday in Paris’ Place de la Republique.

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It's been a great decade for music documentaries, and director Asif Kapadia's is one of the best of the bunch: an at times disturbingly intimate look at the life and death of pop-soul diva Amy Winehouse. Taking advantage of modern culture's tendency to document...

About a decade ago, Joe Nolan, a semi-retired electrical engineer from Palm Desert, could expect to hop on a flight at Palm Springs International Airport and arrive in San Francisco 55 minutes later.Now the flight is usually scheduled for about 90 minutes. Nolan suspects that airlines are allotting...

The Lakers (2-13) will play their second game in as many days when they host the Indiana Pacers (10-5) Sunday night after losing to the Trail Blazers (7-10) in Portland on Saturday.

Nonactors are vital to films and TV shows too

After reading this week's issue of the highly respectable and praiseworthy Sunday Calendar section with its two nice pieces about actors ["Leaping to the big time," "A haunting mom role," Nov. 22], I kindly want to remind you that movie and TV making...

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What we learned from the Kings’ 3-2 overtime victory over the Chicago Blackhawks on Saturday:

The College Football Playoff picture became clearer yesterday when most of the contenders continued their winning ways.

USC defeated UCLA, 40-21, on Saturday at the Coliseum. Here are five things we learned in the Trojans’ victory:

Conrad Ukropina always loved pressure kicks during his days at Loyola High and nothing has changed at Stanford.

Regarding "7 Tips on Trip Insurance," On the Spot by Catharine Hamm, Nov. 22: My husband and I recently returned from Europe, having spent a week in southern France followed by a 12-night Mediterranean cruise. I debated about purchasing travel insurance but then decided against it because I used...

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Mountaineer Sara Safari was climbing an ice wall on Mt. Everest when the Nepal earthquake devastated the region. She survived and will tell her story as well as discuss her work with the Empower Nepali Girls Foundation.

When, where: 7 p.m. Thursday at the REI store in Arcadia,...

There was good news last week, but you might not have noticed it, since it was the kind of news that doesn't normally get headlines: In a world transfixed by terrorism, life is getting back to normal.

Depending on how you look at it, a federal immigration program that offers foreign investors a shortcut to naturalization is either tantamount to selling American citizenship or a shrewd tactic to draw job-creating investments from overseas. In reality, it's a bit of both, and as a key part of...