Новости за 02.01.2016

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has ordered the installation of an isolation barrier to make sure that an underground fire does not reach buried nuclear waste at a suburban St. Louis landfill.

Save your outrage. Don’t go ballistic.

If fans want Arizona Coyotes bruiser John Scott to play in the NHL All-Star Game — and they voted for him often enough to make him the top vote-getter in the Pacific Division — then they should get to see him play at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville on Jan....

The livelihood of a billion-dollar industry largely rests on a single question: Are daily fantasy sports a game of chance or a game of skill?

Authorities say a firefighter with the Santa Clara Fire Department has been placed on paid administrative leave following his arrest on suspicion of killing his pet German shepherd at his home.

Twins in San Diego are getting some attention because, though born just minutes apart, one has a birthday in 2015 and the other in 2016.

"Titanic" and "Jurassic World" have been toppled by the Force, and it looks as though "Avatar" is the next target. 

The Inland Regional Center complex in San Bernardino will reopen Monday with heightened security for the first time since a mass shooting there last month that left 14 people dead.

A Lyft driver was killed Friday morning after his car was broadsided by the vehicle of a suspected drunken driver in Hawthorne, police said.

M.I.A.'s single, "Borders," isn't the official theme song for journalist Atossa Araxia Abrahamian's nonfiction debut, "The Cosmopolites" (Columbia Global Reports: 162 pp., $12.99 paper), but we can pretend it is. In the first verse, M.I.A. asks, "Borders — what's up with that?" "The Cosmopolites"...

Everyone on 9th Street in central Kabul’s Taimani neighborhood knew of the high-priced French restaurant that dominated their simple, unpaved road.

The Palm Springs International Film Festival got started Friday night with two screenings of “The Fencer.” The festival’s typical opening-night venue at a local high school auditorium was unavailable due to renovations, so instead there was one screening at the Annenberg Theater at the Palm Springs...

The residents of the sprawling Dadaab camp in northern Kenya are living paradoxes: nationals of no nation, refugees who in many cases are also natives — born and raised in a state of anguished waiting.

Yesterday you devoured the leftover party meatballs and washed them down with a double-chocolate fudge milkshake, thus shattering your day-old resolution to shape up in 2016. Slacker. Maybe it's time to put your money where your mouth is, so to speak, and try a fitness camp vacation.

To the editor: History will not remember kindly The Times' stance in support of deporting families back to extreme danger and death in Central America just because a judge ordered them out of the country. When we prioritize enforcing a broken bureaucracy over embracing the basic humanity of people...

To the editor: The article interestingly states that the number of Latinos in California receiving flu shots drops dramatically from 61% of first-generation Latinos to only 15% of third-generation Latinos. ("California Latinos, reluctant to get flu shots, have much to risk," Opinion, Dec. 29)

To the editor: Your article on prisoner life on California's largest death row shows that it's time to accept that the decision on capital punishment in this state has been made — not by democratic referendum or legislation, but by the veto of a minority, either motivated by moral compunctions...

To the editor: As a member of the second graduating class of Fontbonne Academy, a Roman Catholic girls' high school in Milton, Mass., I share your criticism of the school for withdrawing a job offer as food services director to Matthew Barrett when it learned that he was in a same-sex marriage....

Al Qaeda's East African affiliate has released a recruitment video targeting American blacks and Muslims that includes a clip of presidential candidate Donald Trump calling for Muslims to be banned from entering the United States.

The Lakers (7-27) won their second game in a row, defeating the Philadelphia 76ers (3-32) on Friday night.

He took me to a park bench on our first date.

That September night I was doing dishes after a community dinner and he pulled me aside. "Can you get away for a while? I want to show you something special." I was living the social worker life at a shelter for homeless people in Boyle Heights. César...

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We recently discovered Filoli while on an outing to see the Pulgas Water Temple not far from San Mateo. Filoli is a historic site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The restored estate was once the home of the Roth family, owner of the Matson passenger and shipping company,...

Without the massive wall of concrete called Hoover Dam, Boulder City, Nev., wouldn't exist. The town sprouted during the Great Depression to house thousands of workers, mainly men, who had headed west to help build the dam. People now often bypass the town on the drive from Las Vegas to visit the...

Like millions of other consumers, Evan Hartstein was fed up with pay TV.

Militants wearing army uniforms stormed an Indian air force base near the Pakistani border early Saturday, setting off a daylong battle that left five assailants and three Indian soldiers dead, according to officials and media reports.

Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep, but she's replaced them with a popular new back-rub device, which she hooks over her shoulder like a shepherd's staff.