Новости за 22.12.2015

Striking back legally against one of his many accusers, Bill Cosby on Monday filed a defamation suit against model Beverly Johnson, saying that she lied about him in an attempt to "resuscitate her own career."

Ozell Sutton, who marched with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and worked as a mediator in Los Angeles in the aftermath of the 1992 riots, has died. He was 90.

Students who enter Los Angeles charter schools are more academically advanced than their peers in traditional public schools, according to a study released Monday by researchers at UC Berkeley.

A U.S. lawmaker is calling on the Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate Olympus Corp. in response to a Times article that detailed how the company kept selling its scopes despite warnings from a 2012 superbug outbreak in the Netherlands.In a letter sent Monday, Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Torrance)...

Lessons from the last week in the NHL:

No one is untradeable

Columbus Blue Jackets Coach John Tortorella brought things to a head with center Ryan Johansen by making him a healthy scratch last Thursday, increasing the chances that Johansen will be traded. Tortorella previously made examples of...

Kobe Bryant revealed the top five players he faced in his career, and at least one came as a surprise.

Chelsea Clinton is already running for a second term - as a mom! "Next summer, Charlotte is going to be a big sister! Feeling very blessed & grateful this holiday season," the former first daughter said Monday on Twitter. She and husband Marc Mezvinsky had their first child, Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky,...

Gov. Jerry Brown, Starbucks and Tom Selleck drove the nationwide curiosity and concern over California’s fourth year of dreadful drought conditions, according to a survey of billions of online search engine records.

A 70-year-old nun who was critically injured when she was struck by a hit-and-run driver in Boyle Heights last week has died, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

As the holiday season revs up, so too does awards season. And with nominations already in for both the Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild Awards, all we wait for are the coveted nominations for the industry's top prize -- the Oscars. To hold us over until they're announced on Jan. 14,  the...

California has lured "Mistresses" from British Columbia, Canada.

The ABC drama is relocating from Vancouver to film its fourth season in California to take advantage of the state's expanded film and TV tax credit program. The drama was approved for a $5.7 million tax credit, the California Film...

Oscar Watch, charting the smiles, the frowns, the ups and downs of the awards season, comes to you every Monday from now through the end of February. LIKE MEH DISLIKE "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" Oscar voters -- they're just like us! At the same time that lines were snaking around multiplexes...

Donald Trump leads the GOP presidential field in polls of Republican voters nationally and in most early-voting states, but some surveys may actually be understating his support, a new study suggests.

I’m not a believer in God, but that’s never stopped me from reveling in holiday cheer. Jewish by birth, I’ve never met a latke I didn’t love. I’ve found that lighting a menorah and attending a midnight Mass afford me an opportunity to meditate on the humanist values I hold dear: inclusiveness,...

President Obama narrows the list of potential architects for his presidential library as Los Angeles winnows the list of architects to remake Pershing Square. Plus: New Orleans removes Confederate statues, critic Jerry Saltz considers the pluses and minuses of public-private space, and Joanne McNeil...

New York Giants receiver Odell Beckham Jr. has been suspended one game by the NFL after drawing three unsportsmanlike conduct penalties during his team's 38-35 loss to Carolina on Sunday. He has the right to appeal.

Raechel and Jacqueline Houck had a five-hour drive from their mother’s Ojai home north to Santa Cruz. They wanted to see some friends along the way and Raechel had to work that evening, so the sisters hugged their family and, with Raechel behind the wheel, drove off in their rented PT Cruiser.

Dwayne Johnson is the proud, gushing, emotional father of a baby girl named Jasmine. The "San Andreas" and "Furious 7" star shared the first photo of his second-born on Sunday, not only officially announcing her arrival but sharing her name and several details of the birthing process. Johnson and...

Stan Kasten has an active mind. A brilliant mind, many say. Zack Greinke was so impressed with the Dodgers president that when the right-hander signed with the team in 2012, he called him “the smartest guy I’ve ever talked to.”