Новости за 31.03.2016

The editor-in-chief of China’s Global Times, a tabloid closely tied to the Communist Party and known for its often-rabid nationalism, isn’t exactly the kind of guy you’d expect to be calling publicly for more freedom of speech and less censorship.

Most stories of shootings by police have the same ending: The officers involved won’t face criminal charges.

Federal biologists on Thursday confirmed the presence of a lethal fungus known as white-nose syndrome in Washington, the first occurrence in western North America of the disease that has killed roughly 7 million bats.

Denzel Valentine of Michigan State is The Associated Press player of the year, edging out Oklahoma's Buddy Hield by three votes. Valentine is the first Spartans player to win the award. Bill Self of Kansas won coach of the year after leading the Jayhawks to a 12th straight Big 12 title and the...

Sheriff’s deputies shot and killed a man who barricaded himself in an East Los Angeles home Wednesday after authorities contacted him about a kidnapping investigation.

"Rush Hour," the Jackie Chan-Chris Tucker big-screen martial-arts action-comedy franchise, has now given birth to a noisy and likable TV series, premiering Thursday on CBS. And why not? In a world where "Fargo," "Ash vs. Evil Dead," "From Dusk Till Dawn," "Damien" and "12 Monkeys" are converting...

California’s minimum wage increase to $15 an hour over the next six years passed its most critical legislative test Thursday morning, with the state Assembly approving the deal, sending it on a path to reach Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk by the end of the day.

A judge in Albuquerque on Thursday spared former Ultimate Fighting Championship light-heavyweight champion Jon Jones from continued jail time that could have imperiled his scheduled main-event fight to regain the belt April 23 in Las Vegas.

California's traditionally ho-hum primary election is about to get whipsawed by the frenzy surrounding the 2016 presidential campaign. Because California may decide Donald Trump's fate as the possible Republican nominee, the high-stakes contest is expected deliver a surge in voter turnout that...

Zaha Hadid, the celebrated Iraqi-born British architect whose bold and swooping designs punctuated cities around the world and made her the first woman to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize, died Thursday. She was 65.

The newest carrier at Long Beach Airport plans to start its service with routes to the Bay Area.

Zaha Hadid was a celebrated Iraqi-born British architect whose designs can be found around the world, including a 8,450-square-foot visitors' center for the 1999 State Garden Show in Germany. Hadid died Thursday. Here's our 1999 review of the visitors' center:

As scientists work to unravel the mysteries of Zika, a scientific visualization firm has created a realistic 3D model of the mosquito-borne virus that lets you see it up close and extremely personally.

Perhaps no team does symmetry and history quite like the Ducks. 

Trying to tie a record only previously achieved by the 1986-87 Philadelphia Flyers, the Ducks paid homage to those freewheeling, high-scoring days of 1980s hockey with an 8-3 win Wednesday over Calgary.

Their 23rd consecutive regular-season...

In his latest gambit to capture the news cycle, Donald Trump said Wednesday that "there has to be some form of punishment" for women who abort. (His Director of Retractions shortly thereafter issued a clarification.) The Republican front-runner's misguided notion contradicts historical legal strategies...

Teddy Atlas is obsessed with finding ways for his fighter, Timothy Bradley, to defeat Manny Pacquiao, and the proof of that exists on what he pulls from his pocket.

Bee prepared true bee-lievers. For this is an "Arrow" episode with a veritable hive of dramatics as Oliver Queen suffers the sting of having to rely on a new ally to take down a swarm of enemies he can't simply kung-fu his way past, all while having to listen to other characters drone on about...

An uncle and nephew who were killed when their Ford Mustang wrapped around a light pole in Pasadena on Wednesday were carpooling to work with coworkers, police said.

Donald Trump’s stumble over whether women seeking abortions should be criminally punished provided a sobering look at the vulnerability of a candidate more likely than anyone else to be the Republican nominee.

Tesla Motors is taking its first pre-orders for its new Model 3 -- envisioned as an affordable electric car for the masses -- from customers who show up today at Tesla retail stores. Online pre-orders will start at 8:30 p.m. Pacific time, timed to coincide with Chief Executive Elon Musk's personal...

Five players from the World Cup-winning U.S. national team have accused the U.S. Soccer Federation of wage discrimination in an action filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Alex Morgan, Carli Lloyd, Megan Rapinoe, Becky Sauerbrunn and Hope Solo maintain in the EEOC filing they...

Roy Thurston traffics in perceptual ambiguities at the busy intersection of painting and sculpture. The sensation of being in a gallery yet not being quite sure what you’re looking at is strange but rewarding.

Pastor Tim (Kelly AuCoin) and his indiscreet wife, Alice (Suzy Jane Hunt), know an explosive truth about the parents of teenager Paige Jennings (Holly Taylor). Namely that her dad, Philip (Matthew Rhys), and mom, Elizabeth (Keri Russell), are Soviet spies.

If property owners who rent out homes and apartments on the popular home-sharing site Airbnb were to pay taxes as hotels do, the city of Los Angeles would collect an extra $41 million each year.

As climate change has heightened concerns about the global decline of mangroves, a study released this week found that such ecosystems along the desert coast of Baja California may be more important than previously thought for keeping heat-trapping carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.