Новости за 06.03.2016

Unlike Iran, North Korea has been impervious to international efforts to force it to forswear the use of nuclear weapons. But new sanctions approved by the United Nations Security Council last week offer at least the possibility of altering North Korea's behavior. Much will depend on whether China,...

Two days before primary voters go to the polls in Michigan, Democrats will bring the Bernie Sanders-Hillary Clinton debate road show to the put-upon city of Flint on Sunday, where they will doubtlessly discuss the city's well-publicized water crisis. Sanders and Clinton can take turns blaming Republican...

Architecture and urban design are in the throes of a green fever dream: Everywhere you look there are plans for “sustainable” buildings, futuristic eco-cities, even vertical aquaponic farms in the sky, each promising to redeem the ecologically sinful modern city and bring its inhabitants back into...

The house my wife found in Venice was close to the beach. It was also alarmingly close to Division Six: a 3.5-acre bus depot ringed by tall fencing and barbed wire. On the sidewalk out front, happy people walked by, carrying surfboards or shopping bags. Just as continuously, in and out of the depot,...

In the NFL, defense is king.

The Denver Broncos made a strong case for that in the Super Bowl, at least, when their smothering defense dropped a sledgehammer on Cam Newton and the high-scoring Carolina Panthers.

And this class of draft prospects is loaded with defensive talent.

See the most-read...

For more than 150 years after the celebrated Civil War ironclad Monitor sank off Cape Hatteras, N.C., the engines and pumps that drove history's first mechanized warship have been silent.

People share many different things at work to try and brighten the drudgery of office life. They append moral quotes to an email signature line. They sit little statues of Buddha or other religious icons on their desk. They thumb-tack quotes from Martin Luther King Jr. or Winston Churchill to the...

The chemical train didn't come this morning.

So Gerardo Juarez tinkers in his frontyard in Wilmington, talking to his neighbors, trimming his nails with a pocket knife. He throws buckets of laundry water on his lawn to keep it lush for his grandchildren's soccer games.

Juarez, 64, lives on a block...

All this fuss over a child.

Hang around D'Angelo Russell for five minutes and realize that the last five months of heated discourse and polarizing debate about the Lakers' draft king are really sort of silly.

He's a skinny kid not yet even old enough to legally drink, and already he can be called...

The Beverly Center, a grand dame in Los Angeles retailing, is placing a $500-million bet on food and sunshine.

The gig: Nicole Sanchez, 43, is vice president of social impact for software building platform GitHub. She joined the San Francisco start-up, which has a $2-billion valuation and nearly 500 employees, in 2015 to help the company evolve into an inclusive workplace that also has a positive effect...

Question: The homeowner association board at our town home development says garage sales are tacky and is threatening to make rules preventing owners from partaking in such sales. The association's covenants, conditions and restrictions are silent as to residents having garage sales.

Eye scanners have long been the stuff of sci-fi and action flicks, safeguarding everything from classified data to secret lairs.

African American voters steadied Hillary Clinton's campaign in the South and now are poised to propel her forward in a corridor of Northern industrial states where voting kicks off with Tuesday's Michigan primary.

A federal immigration judge believes migrant toddlers can defend themselves in court, according to a deposition in a court case brought by advocates seeking government-appointed attorneys for the youths.

Hello! I’m Mark Olsen, and welcome to your weekly field guide to a world of Only Good Movies.

Elevator maintenance men returning to work after a month-long break for Chinese new year made a horrific discovery last week when they opened the cab of a broken lift and found the body of a woman who had been trapped inside since late January and starved to death.

Apple-FBI dispute: An article in the March 4 California section about court briefs filed in the legal dispute over whether Apple can be ordered to help the FBI access a locked iPhone said several law enforcement unions had made a court filing in support of the government's argument. The amicus...

To yank DeAndre Jordan or not to yank him?

That was the question facing Clippers Coach Doc Rivers on Saturday night at Staples Center as the fouls and the missed free throws mounted in the fourth quarter.

Rivers finally pulled his center, replacing him with Wesley Johnson as part of a small lineup...

For a program that thrives on competition, Palisades certainly didn't get much in this year's City Section girls' playoffs.

Early in the first quarter of Saturday's Southern Section Open Division championship game at Honda Center, Chino Hills students started throwing around beach balls and a plastic green alligator in the seating area while their No. 1-ranked basketball team began to dismantle another opponent.

In a split decision, Ted Cruz and Donald Trump each captured two victories in Saturday's four-state round of Republican voting, fresh evidence that there's no quick end in sight to the fractious GOP race for president. On the Democratic side, Bernie Sanders notched wins in Nebraska and Kansas while...

SOUTHERN SECTION BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS

Saturday

Boys' Open Division: Chino Hills 105, Sierra Canyon 83

Boys' Division 1AA: Riverside North 61, Long Beach Poly 58

Boys' Division 1A: Santa Monica 66, Temecula Valley 60

Boys' Division 2AA: Ayala 63, Edison 49

Boys' Division 2A: Santa Barbara 75,...

CITY BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS

Saturday

Boys' Open Division: Westchester 51, Narbonne 42

Boys' Division I: Crenshaw 61, Los Angeles Hamilton 52

Boys' Division III: Lincoln 80, Los Angeles Kennedy 75

Girls' Open Division: Palisades 65, El Camino Real 44

Girls' Division I: Garfield 58, Westchester...

SOCCER

CITY CHAMPIONSHIPS

Saturday

Boys' Division 1: Palisades 2, Granada Hills 1 (OT)

Boys' Division 2: Fremont 2, South East 1 (OT)

Boys' Division 4: Fulton 7, Elizabeth 2

Boys' Division 5: Sun Valley 1, Community Charter 0

Girls' Division 1: Taft 3, El Camino Real 2

Girls' Division 2: South...