Новости за 30.12.2015

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Wearing a floor-length fur coat as she belts out "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman," Aretha Franklin undeniably draws the eye in the above video clip from the annual Kennedy Center Honors, which aired Tuesday night on CBS after taking place earlier...

The Dodgers signed Scott Kazmir to a three-year, $48-million contract on Wednesday, filling the hole in their starting rotation created by the departure of Zack Greinke.

Two important independent cultural venues in Cairo were raided by Egyptian authorities earlier this week in what has been construed by some activists as a crackdown on spaces that promote free expression. 

When it was announced in 2013 that Seth MacFarlane, the man behind "Family Guy" and "Ted," would executive produce an animated project on Fox that would tackle cultural shifts in the U.S. through the prism of a town on the Mexican border, Latinos were more than a little anxious.

Eva Longoria's return to prime-time television on the NBC comedy "Telenovela" comes four years after she said goodbye to her career-defining role as wealthy Gabrielle Solis on "Desperate Housewives." And in this particular moment, it's a role that has her drenched in water.

With New Year's Eve, one of the biggest tourist draws of the year, still to come, Las Vegas has already shattered a visitation record set just one year ago.The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority announced Wednesday morning that the number of visitors during 2015 has topped 42 million....

Actor Stephen Amell, who stars on the CW series “Arrow,” has bought a Hollywood Hills home for $3.62 million.

Bill Cosby was charged Wednesday with sexually assaulting a woman who told authorities the actor drugged and abused her at his Pennsylvania home 12 years ago.

Chris Cooper remembers, as do most Americans who were alive that day.

He was a long way back then from winning an Oscar, just a 12-year-old at school in Kansas City, Mo., who got shocking news after lunch that Friday afternoon in November.

"We had a full hour because there were, at that time, kids...

A father who triggered a frantic search in Los Angeles after he disappeared with his 2-year-old daughter during a supervised visit on Christmas Eve has been charged with kidnapping the girl, prosecutors announced Wednesday.

Laura Carmichael was relaxing in her trailer on the set of "Downton Abbey" when a disembodied voice suddenly boomed from the other side of the wall: "Have you got hot plans for tonight?"

Every season since 2000, there has been a Woodland Taft High graduate on USC's football roster, according to former Taft Coach Matt Kerstetter.

Americans place a higher priority on preserving the religious freedom of Christians than for other faith groups, ranking Muslims as the least deserving of the protections, according to a new survey.

Before it began crushing box-office records this month, “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” set a new record in Los Angeles when it shut down nearly half a mile of Hollywood Boulevard for five days for one of the largest movie premieres in Hollywood history.

WEDNESDAY'S BOWL GAMES

Birmingham Bowl

MEMPHIS (9-3) vs. AUBURN (6-6)

When: 9 a.m. PST (ESPN). Where: Birmingham, Ala.

Line: Auburn by 3. Series: Memphis leads, 2-0.

Story line: Auburn is trying to avoid finishing with a losing record two years after making the national championship game. Memphis...

Los Angeles police officers involved in a standoff with a murder suspect Tuesday night at a Rosemead home have shot the man, authorities said.

The U.S. Coast Guard says it is searching for a missing scuba diver off Catalina Island. The Coast Guard said in a statement that it received a report from a 48-foot boat called the Sundiver Express that the female diver went missing about noon Tuesday near Isthmus Cove. A Coast Guard patrol boat,...

With the debate over capital punishment in California poised to intensify again in 2016, state corrections officials provided a rare glimpse Tuesday of death row, where hundreds of condemned men await the outcome of legal and political fights that have blocked any executions for nearly a decade.

Just call this Dustin Brown's house of pain.First there was his own hurt after taking a puck in the face, followed by the pain he inflicted upon Edmonton on Tuesday night. The Kings captain scored once on the power play and added two assists in their 5-2 victory over the Oilers at Rexall Place.They...

State Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson (D-Santa Barbara) had been working on a bill to strengthen California's equal pay laws for months when she tuned into the Academy Awards and saw Patricia Arquette use her Best Supporting Actress speech to call for an end to the pay gap between men and women.

Despite Lonzo Ball picking up four fouls in the first half, unbeaten Chino Hills (12-0) yawned and moved on en route to a 124-93 victory over Georgia Jonesboro to advance to the championship game of the MaxPreps Holiday Classic at Rancho Mirage.

Savannah Mayorga, 5, was born in a dry year.

"We didn't know then how dry it was, that it was the beginning of the drought," said her father, Robert Mayorga.

This week she sat on a log, a padded pink pumpkin in a snowsuit her parents bought her years ago but that had never been worn because there...

A British hotel operator has purchased a historic building in downtown Los Angeles for $30 million and plans to transform the decaying structure into a hip, stylish hotel, according to JLL, the brokerage involved in the deal.

A state criminal investigation into the California Public Utilities Commission centers on former President Michael Peevey's persistent intervention into the process to assign costs for the failure of the San Onofre nuclear power plant, newly released court documents show.

Despite a slowing economy, China's box-office receipts jumped nearly 50% between 2014 and 2015 — the most sizzling pace of growth in the last five years.