Новости за 25.01.2016

The Lakers lost all three of their contests through Week 13, and six in a row dating back to Jan. 14.

"Harry Potter" meets "Gossip Girl" in "The Magicians," Syfy's new adaptation of a Lev Grossman trilogy, and it's a good match. Following a New York college senior transported to a grad school for magic, "The Magicians" doesn't just tell another story of a fantastic dimension existing outside the...

In the small town of Newtok, Alaska, a Yupik village of about 350 people, children once played on endless fields of frozen permafrost. Now, they splash in salt water pools and teeter on boardwalks as the permafrost below thaws and the Ninglick River chips away at the community. Soon even the boards...

In her first days on the job, L.A. Unified's new superintendent, Michelle King, suggested that single-sex education might attract more families to the district and improve student achievement. She wouldn't be the first district leader to vest hope — not to mention public funds — in all-boys and...

I'm Davan Maharaj, editor of the Los Angeles Times. Here are some story lines I don't want you to miss today.

When household budgets are tight, people tend to put off expensive maintenance projects. So a leaky roof gets patched instead of replaced, or paint is left to peel for a season or two or three longer than a homeowner (not to mention the neighbors) would like.

In Fox's new supernatural procedural "Lucifer," based on a character from Neil Gaiman's "Sandman" comic and later spun off into a book of his own, the Prince of Darkness, tired of running Hell and a little resentful to have been stuck with the job in the first place, has retired to Los Angeles.

Sexually transmitted diseases are on the rise across the nation, but the problem is particularly acute in Los Angeles County.

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Thursday night at the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood, a packed crowd got its comedy ripped from the headlines.

A giant Hebrew version of the Coca-Cola sign signals the entry to this city, a center of ultra-Orthodox Judaism in Israel.

It looks like the schematic for a new theme park ride: plummet from a lofty height through a series of stomach-churning twists.

Locked in a tight battle to win next week’s opening nominating contest of the 2016 election, the two leading Democratic presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, will seek whatever edge they can in front of voters Monday at a town hall in Des Moines.

At a packed hearing at City Hall more than a year ago, South Los Angeles residents argued that oil drilling had caused foul smells, thunderous noise and other nuisances in their neighborhood west of USC.

Kelly Reichardt and James Schamus are stalwarts of the independent world, and both debuted excellent films Sunday at the Sundance Film Festival. And though Schamus is, in his own words, "at the tender age of 57 a first-time director" and Reichardt is a veteran who has been behind the camera for...

In a drumbeat that gets more insistent every week, viewers in early primary states have been subjected to a ceaseless cycle of ads for presidential candidates, courtesy of the big checks donors pour into super PACs and "dark money" groups.

Mark Lindquist needed just 66 seconds. That was all it took to persuade a judge to sentence William Grisso to prison for the next 31 years.

Julian Castro, a rising star in the Democratic Party, was stumping for Hillary Clinton in southeastern Iowa on Sunday when a union leader extended a hand and a question in Spanish.

Elaine Harmon was one of about 1,000 female pilots who served stateside during World War II to free up male pilots for combat. After the war, she fought to persuade Congress to recognize the women's service and grant them veteran status and benefits. Harmon died last year at 95. Her ashes are sitting...

I'm Christina Bellantoni, rested and ready to go as your Essential Politics host after a little vacation. Subscribe to the newsletter I'm back stateside after eight days in South Australia, and it turns out Donald Trump is the hottest political story in the Land Down Under, too. Just about every...

Unlike other governors, if Jerry Brown had his druthers about the annual State of the State address, he'd probably just skip it.

Authorities in Santa Ana are searching for a driver suspected of killing a pedestrian and fleeing the scene before crashing the vehicle a second time.

Victoria Azarenka couldn't get off court quickly enough to check the score after reaching the Australian Open quarterfinals. To her elation, it was a Broncos win. The two-time Australian Open champion had just beaten Barbaro Strycova 6-2, 6-4 in the fourth round on Monday — continuing a three-year...

It was shaping up as a lost weekend for the Kings, down a goal with seconds remaining in Sunday's game against their nearest pursuers in the Pacific Division, the San Jose Sharks.

Sunset Boulevard was closed in both directions Sunday night after three vehicles and a truck collided in East Hollywood, sparking a fire that threatened businesses in the area, authorities said.