Новости за 13.04.2016

Days after San Francisco mandated a dramatic expansion of family leave benefits in the private sector, Gov. Jerry Brown approved a comparatively modest upgrade in California's pioneering family-leave program that won't take effect until 2018. Yet the statewide measure, AB 908, is still a win for...

The assumption that a college education should take four years is baked into American culture. Colleges in the colonial days were founded on the premise of a four-year degree, a concept imported from Europe. Harvard University experimented with a three-year degree when it was founded in 1636, but...

At first blush, fashion designer Rachel Roy’s book, “Design Your Life: Creating Success Through Personal Style,” (Dey Street Books, $26.99), which hit bookstores March 15, feels like another in a long line of motivational “dream it and you can do it” self-help guides — the kind that suggest getting...

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

After being dropped from premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival, the controversial vaccination documentary "Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe” is coming to the Los Angeles area. The picture from Andrew Wakefield will open Friday at Santa Monica's Laemmle Monica Film Center and Pasadena's Laemmle...

Bernie Sanders will host a big rally in New York's Washington Square on Wednesday night ahead of next week's primary in the state.Hillary Clinton says she'll open an immigrant affairs office if she wins the presidencyDonald Trump's family brings out his softer sideTrump donates to the 9/11 museum...

Perhaps inspired by the recent record-breaking deposits for the Tesla Model 3, Ford said it would take online applications for its planned "ultra-high-performance" Ford GT Supercar.

The Gallup/Purina poll of 1,427 Republican household pets shows a dead heat across species for Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz. The nationwide poll — the first conducted with sensors attached to animals as they view videos of the candidates — has a 63% margin of error.

Since Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders last debated, we've seen a terrorist attack in Brussels, more fighting in Syria and Iraq, a huge leak of offshore financial records from Panama — and new forms of chaos in the Republican Party.

Bernie Sanders' promises are like music or candy to liberal Democrats. Free tuition for all. High-quality healthcare provided by the government as a matter of right, not charity. Help for the poor that would simultaneously reduce income inequality and increase fairness. Many Democrats — and especially...

In a groundbreaking attempt to bring environmental justice to polluted neighborhoods, the Los Angeles City Council is poised to adopt new land-use restrictions to ease health risks in communities where a heavy concentration of industry operates close to homes, schools and day-care centers.

For more than 30 years, Bernard Labadie has cultivated a reputation as "the 18th century man." As founding conductor of the chamber group Les Violons du Roy in his native Quebec, he has championed "performance practice" — performance technique appropriate to the era in which pieces were composed.

George Arzt has been around New York media long enough to know the presidential candidates were in for pain when they hit his city. Even he, however, a New York Post alumnus who went on to handle media for the late Mayor Ed Koch, has been astounded to see so many candidates resemble deer caught...

Individually, the members of Phases are veterans of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.

Perhaps it began with Banksy.

The street artist, after all, was at the center of "Exit Through the Gift Shop," the subversive documentary about identity and showmanship that became a phenomenon in 2010.

Or maybe it was 2012's "Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present," a well-regarded look at the...

On a Saturday in February, Chivy Ngo, who owns Mister Bo Ky restaurant in Brooklyn, took a rare three-hour lunch break, closed his restaurant and taped a sign to the door.

The children had gone off to school and the traders were still arranging their goods at the village market in the remote fishing town of Damasak when the Islamic fighters swept in, shooting as they pushed straight for the schoolhouses.

In the hours before Kobe Bryant's last game, they dined with Rick Fox, shot jumpers with D'Angelo Russell and posed for photos with Bryant himself.

Drivers across the nation this summer may pay less than they have in years at the pump and that goes for motorists in California, which consistently ranks as the most expensive place in the continental United States to gas up.

The California Public Employees' Retirement System is joining a growing number of investors calling on Exxon Mobil Corp. and others to disclose the financial risks of climate change and climate change policies.

Just before 4 p.m. Sunday, with sunshine filling the stadium and a gentle breeze wafting off the Pacific Ocean just a few hundred yards away, the chant begins.“To-ro! To-ro! To-ro!” They are calling for the bull.It has been months since the last bullfight, which many believe should have been the...

A six-part miniseries premiering Wednesday on Sundance Channel, "The Last Panthers" begins with a heist gone haywire. Things get worse from there.

I’m Christina Bellantoni, and this is Essential Politics.

Donald Trump may have scrapped his event in Rancho Palos Verdes last week, and he’s the only GOP candidate who hasn’t accepted an invitation to speak at the state party convention at the end of the month, but he’s starting to build a campaign.

Bike lanes: In the April 7 California section, an article about an environmental law that has hindered the creation of bike lanes misidentified the California Bicycle Coalition as the California Bicycle Assn.

A man was fatally shot late Monday near a Los Angeles gas station, police said.