Новости за 25.01.2016

Call it wish fulfillment: With an opening track titled "Victorious," the new album from Panic! at the Disco beat the competition to enter the Billboard 200 this week at No. 1.

A year after Amazon Studios announced its plans to join the fray of producing and distributing movies, the Seattle-based company is opening its wallet in a big way at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

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With three weeks until the Grammy Awards, the organization has released a stirring new short film featuring Kendrick Lamar.

Two deadly Northern California wildfires that scorched more than 140,000 acres, ravaged homes and devoured firefighting resources in September have amounted to at least $1 billion in insured losses so far, according to a state insurance department report.

As the search for a trio of escaped Orange County inmates entered its third day, law enforcement officials called on the local Vietnamese community to aid in the hunt after an investigator said he believes the escapees may be hunkered down in the area.

You know spring training is starting to grow close when the Dodgers begin their annual community caravan – now apparently dubbed “Love LA Tour” – and the non-roster invitations go out.

Curtis Stone, chef at Maude in Beverly Hills, has just opened his second restaurant. But it's not the Beverly Hills project he's been working on with Chi Spacca alum Chad Colby. It's called Share and it's on board two Princess Cruises ships. 

The UCLA football team’s biggest problem area on offense has received a boost.

Beach Boys founding member and creative leader Brian Wilson will undertake a 2016 world tour celebrating this year’s 50th anniversary of the release of his group’s widely hailed 1966 masterpiece, “Pet Sounds,” during which the album will be performed in its entirety.

Former USC quarterback Cody Kessler and fullback Soma Vainuku are scheduled to arrive in Mobile, Ala., by Monday to participate in workouts leading up to Saturday’s Senior Bowl at Ladd-Peebles Stadium.

Ted Cruz was 31 and working in the George W. Bush administration, yet he felt his career had flat-lined. The Ivy Leaguer with the superstar pedigree and no shortage of confidence had figured he’d be a top presidential advisor by then, but by his own later admission, he had alienated too many colleagues.

As part of its effort to keep the public apprised of the facts underlying policy prescriptions, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has issued a new primer deconstructing one of the oft-heard ideas to improve Social Security's finances: raise the retirement age.

Five years ago, Tahrir Square became the watchword for change in the Middle East. On Monday, it echoed with the voices of the status quo.

In a victory for environmentalists and the Obama administration, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that federal energy regulators may press for lower electric rates for businesses, colleges and other large consumers who agree to conserve power during peak periods.

Denver's Peyton Manning and Carolina's Cam Newton are at the opposite ends of their NFL careers as they lead their teams into Super Bowl 50. Manning is playing in his fourth and very possibly last Super Bowl. He already has one ring and also was that game's MVP. He's won the league MVP trophy five...

Hilton Worldwide, the hotel giant know for upscale lodging, is launching a more affordable brand, targeting millennials, families and business travelers.

The committee bidding to bring the 2024 Summer Olympics to Los Angeles shifted gears Monday, announcing that it wants to place its athletes village on the UCLA campus.

You know nothing, Thomas Barrow.

"Downton Abbey" gets a blast from the past when Mrs. Harding, nee Gwen, returns more than a decade after leaving her job as a maid to fight with the free folk beyond the wall -- wait, sorry, wrong show -- to pursue a career as a secretary.The fact that barely anyone...

Oregon occupiers may be in violation of important archaeological laws. Islamic State militants destroy a historic monastery. Battle over a Picasso bust. Plus: Why the Neighborhood Integrity Initiative is bad for L.A., colorful images of Victorian Bunker Hill and designing downtown’s newest park....

With their Saturday night loss to the Portland Trail Blazers, the Lakers have just nine wins in 46 tries, slotting the team last place in the Western Conference.

Investigators have fanned out across Southern California on Monday searching for three inmates who pulled an elaborate escape from the Central Men’s Jail in downtown Santa Ana three days ago.

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President Obama on Monday waded more deeply into the contentious Democratic primary race than he ever has, touting the strengths of both leading candidates while intimating that Hillary Clinton is the stronger contender.

Economists at U.S. companies are less optimistic about the nation's economic growth but are upbeat about wage increases for workers, according to results of a closely watched private survey released Monday.