Новости за 19.12.2015

Here are five takeaways from the Clippers' 115-107 loss to the San Antonio Spurs on Friday at AT&T Center.

A Sikh American nonprofit organization is hosting a holiday food drive Saturday for 500 low-income families in Pacoima.

Burbank and airport officials are headed to Washington, D.C., next week to lobby for a long-sought mandatory nighttime curfew at Bob Hope Airport.

Egyptian photojournalist Esraa Taweel has been released from jail on medical grounds after spending more than six months behind bars awaiting trial on charges of belonging to a terrorist group and spreading false news with the aim of harming national unity.

Greetings from Toronto, where there were a few snow flurries in the air Saturday morning. The weather has been extraordinarily warm and snow-free during this trip, and Kings Coach Darryl Sutter said he was hoping to walk through a foot of snow on the way to the Air Canada Centre. Winter wonderlands...

Very few actors can point to one character or film to which they owe their entire career. But Anthony Daniels can. Since 1977, he's played and voiced one of the most integral characters to the "Star Wars" franchise: fan favorite droid C-3PO.

Jedis, Stormtroopers, padawans and denizens of this galaxy and perhaps some far, far away turned out for "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" Thursday and Friday, amassing recording-breaking box-office numbers and further bolstering the seventh installment of the beloved sci-fi series.

A shallow magnitude 3.3 earthquake was reported Saturday morning 15 miles from West Bishop, Calif., near Mammoth Lakes, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 9:45 a.m. Pacific time at a depth of 9.9 miles.

Porter Ranch residents suffering from headaches, nausea and other symptoms from a natural gas leak that has displaced thousands are assigning blame to a damaged well in the Santa Susana Mountains north of Los Angeles.

All it takes is a keystroke, maybe two, to hurt your chances of borrowing money from online lender Basix.Like a growing number of personal and small-business lenders, Basix looks at much more than your financial history when determining whether you're likely to repay a loan.Among thousands of factors...

President Obama said he was inspired after meeting the families of the victims of the San Bernardino terrorist attack.

The hunt for a deadly superbug that sickened 22 patients at a Dutch hospital began just before noon on a spring day in 2012.

Recent events involving scope-related outbreaks of antibiotic-resistant superbug infections

Memorial services for three victims of the San Bernardino massacre are scheduled Saturday.

We sat in 405 traffic after making the foolish decision to drive to the Griffith Park Observatory at 6 on a Thursday night. Nothing like a little infatuation to mess with a girl's mind and cause her to forget about rush hour traffic.

A century has passed since San Francisco took a step toward becoming a cultural center of the West Coast by hosting the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition. This world's fair celebrated the opening of the Panama Canal and showcased the city's recovery after the earthquake of 1906.

On our fifth day in Rome, we went to see the pope. St. Peter's Square buzzed with anticipation. The line for security screening stretched along Bernini's colonnade, and tourists and pilgrims, once scanned and searched, hurried for the best of the folding seats.

An envelope containing s white powder that was mailed to and opened at the Burbank police station Friday afternoon was deemed safe, police said.

At the shooting range, Miguel Alejandro Santana selected an M4 assault rifle.

After extraordinary success early in his campaign, Bernie Sanders has not had many big breaks lately.

And so we have Christmas. We need this Christmas.

Not all is right with the holidays, of course. There are those insipid Wham! songs, and somehow the Beatles couldn't write a decent Christmas tune to save their lives.

I also sense in Christmas — I may not be the first to notice — a creeping commercialism....

It was a bright Saturday morning in Hollywood and my friend Liz and I were about to embark on a giant treasure hunt known as the Fantastic Los Angeles Race. But first, we sized up the competition.

For an alternative to the Golden Door spa in San Marcos, Calif., that is closer and a little less expensive ($6,800 a week instead of $8,850 a week), you might try the Ranch at Live Oak in Malibu. It's three miles above the ocean in the Santa Monica Mountains on what used to be Hopalong Cassidy's...

We're betting you've already "treated yourself" a little too much this holiday season — hey, who can resist that extra reindeer cookie?

Do it. Now.

If you're like most of us, you want to lose weight in 2016. The experts we spoke to suggest that you start now.

As in, today.

"There's no need to wait for January 1st," said Jocelyn Shaw, a Weight Watchers personal coach and leader. "The very next decision you make can turn it around...