Новости за 15.03.2016

“I can’t stress enough how work-in-progress parts of it are. You will very quickly see that this is not semantical trickery. It’s not … done yet.”

They say everybody is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day, so an Arab leprechaun should fit right in, especially along the Las Vegas Strip.Brian Thomas, a little person who has been the goodwill ambassador for O’Sheas Casino for the last 10 years, will lead two parades Thursday through the Linq promenade.Thomas,...

The son of the first retired NFL player diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, was not impressed Monday that the league finally acknowledged a link between football and the degenerative brain disease.

Explore the Amazon rain forest by dugout canoe and enjoy the wildlife that thrives there on an 11-day tour that visits Ecuador and Peru.

Johnny Cueto is a lucky guy.

At first on Monday night, though, it didn't seem that way. San Francisco's prized free-agent pickup from the off-season had just thrown his first pitch of the Giants' spring training game against Oakland when Athletics batter Billy Burns smacked a line drive that hit...

Syrian refugees have found an unlikely ally in Cersei Lannister. 

In news that is bound to irritate Donald Trump, the cast of "Game of Thrones" is partnering with HBO and the International Rescue Committee on a campaign in support of displaced people around the globe.

The goal of the campaign,...

If it's true, as Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, that earth laughs in flowers, Washington state's Skagit Valley is a side-splitter.

Cooking shows. News reports. Musical performances. Tips and tricks on sports and video games. The mishmash of live programming was meant to attract millions of viewers to the website Justin.tv and turn the young online video service into an advertising machine. A decade later and under a different...

Pasadena Muir High is one of 15 schools around the country to be awarded a $50,000 grant to establish an athletic training program to improve youth athlete safety in underserved high schools.

A man who broke into a home in Ontario early Tuesday was shot by the homeowner, police said.

India knows how to do spring.

Holi, which is March 24 this year, is the annual Hindu religious festival in which people fling vivid colored powders and scented water at one another. Joy and giddiness collide in a fog of pigments.

"You can't be unhappy at the Festival of Colors, it's impossible,"...

Steep drops in gas prices pushed down retail sales in February, while shoppers continued to spend frugally. 

NBC has ordered another round of shots -- "Little Big Shots," that is. 

SAN FRANCISCO — In another bid to make shipping a less annoying experience, Shyp announced a partnership with EBay on Tuesday that will give EBay sellers the option to send goods via its on-demand packing and mailing service.

If you love baby anything, spring could be your season. Newborns often arrive in spring because the animal kingdom, in its infinite wisdom, knows that conditions usually are better for new life to flourish then. Too nervous for newborns? You may prefer the animal equivalent of toddlers, in which...

Since the 1990s, U.S. law enforcement has expressed concern about "going dark," defined as an inability to access encrypted communications or data even with a court order.

Ever since a series of winter storms began dumping rain and snow in Northern California last year, officials have been looking for tangible signs that all those storms were making a dent in the state's four-year drought.

Meeting for the first time since Oscar night, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences’ board of governors will gather Tuesday morning to discuss the organization’s path forward on the topic of diversity.

For Alfonso Escobar, the Internet was once out of reach.

The 55-year-old retired bread baker from Bell had limited computer skills and couldn't afford the monthly service charge.

"It's like you can't see if you don't have glasses," said Escobar, who recently began taking an Internet skills class...

On Tuesday night, Bruce Springsteen will begin a sold-out three-night stand at the L.A. Sports Arena. The shows will be the last concerts at the half-century-old venue in Exposition Park before it's razed to make room for a new soccer stadium.

Job losses have carved a grievous wound into the eastern flank of Ohio, and particularly into this iconic city halfway between Cleveland and Pittsburgh in what used to be America's Steel Belt, now rusted through.

As George Varghese tells it, he was walking along a sidewalk in West Los Angeles when he tripped on a crack and fell to the ground, spraining his wrist.

Natalie Riggs was sickened by the sight of the carcasses of cherished pets ravaged by a mountain lion.

A war has been raging in Turkey's southeast for the last several months — though it has gone largely unnoticed in the West. Tens of thousands of people have been displaced as Turkish forces clash with an increasingly fierce Kurdish insurgency.

Nearly 30 years after cash-rich Japanese companies began snapping up prime U.S. real estate, Chinese companies are following suit at a record pace as they search for solid international investments to make up for slowing growth at home.