Новости за 12.05.2016

Deontay Wilder says he takes seriously the “world” part of his title as heavyweight world champion, so going to the homeland of his May 21 Russian opponent Alexander Povetkin is just doing the job.

The Orange County Sheriff’s Department released dramatic video this week of a suicidal man firing on deputies with a rifle last month, blowing out the rear window of a cruiser and prompting the lawmen to dive for cover.

California politics updates: State Senate abandons fundraising blackout, Villaraigosa stumps for Hillary Clinton May 12 2016, 11:11 AM Welcome to Essential Politics, our daily feed on California politics and government news. Here's what we're watching: The state Senate voted to rescind its fundraising...

In a move sure to please Southern California race fans, California Chrome trainer Art Sherman has laid out a schedule that would have North America’s all-time leading money-winner running twice at Santa Anita and twice at Del Mar this year.

The leader of Latin America's largest country has been removed from office against her will, and Dilma Rousseff remained defiant as she left the Presidential Palace on Thursday, repeating accusations that the new conservative government took power through a non-military “coup.”

When it comes to mental health and cognitive function, the importance of rapid eye-movement sleep — that deep, restorative stage of sleep that we cycle in and out of throughout the night — is so well established that experiments depriving humans of it would be considered unethical.

While still recuperating from double pneumonia in February, Merle Haggard returned to the studio for what turned out to be the final time to record a new song, “Kern River Blues,” which premieres at 2 p.m. Thursday on SiriusXM satellite radio.

The names are big — George Clooney, Julia Roberts, director Jodie Foster — but the results are meager in “Money Monster,” a film that is both less entertaining and less significant than it imagines.

An online auction for the pistol that former Florida neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman used to kill unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin was halted without explanation Thursday.

Donald Trump and Paul Ryan call their meeting a 'positive step toward unification' May 12 2016, 11:11 AM Donald Trump meets with Republican Party leaders Thursday as Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton fight for the last few primaries ahead of the Democratic convention. Paul Ryan says he is optimistic...

He did not sound like a man who was contemplating other NHL options or even planning to raise cattle full time.

California politics updates: State Senate abandons fundraising blackout, Villaraigosa stumps for Hillary Clinton May 12 2016, 11:11 AM Welcome to Essential Politics, our daily feed on California politics and government news. Here's what we're watching: The state Senate voted to rescind its fundraising...

California politics updates: State Senate abandons fundraising blackout, Villaraigosa stumps for Hillary Clinton May 12 2016, 11:11 AM Welcome to Essential Politics, our daily feed on California politics and government news. Here's what we're watching: The state Senate voted to rescind its fundraising...

Charter Communications has cleared a final regulatory hurdle in its nearly year-long quest to clinch its $71-billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks.

The pinpoint precision that is palpable in "Pavlova's Dawg and Other Works by Gallery Artists" distinguishes this eight-artist exhibition from most group shows, whose organizing principles tend to be based in sloppy approximations, vague similarities and laissez-faire laziness. Ron Nagle's "Pavlova's...

Fans that placed $100 deposits for Rams season tickets will begin to receive notices from the team, the Rams announced Thursday.

More NFL clips are coming to YouTube.

The National Football League and YouTube announced Thursday a multiyear renewal of their partnership.

The NFL will post three of the most memorable games for each of the 32 franchises to its official YouTube channel prior to the start of the 2016-17 season....

Activision Blizzard Inc. wants to make eSports mainstream by bringing the video game competitions not to TV, but rather to the world’s largest social media company.

Ballast Point, the popular San Diego-based brewery, best known for Sculpin IPA and all its flavorful variations, is opening a restaurant in L.A. County.

In answering whether the NFL would allow betting in Las Vegas should the Oakland Raiders relocate to Las Vegas, the director of the largest sports book operation on The Strip may have created the town’s new catchphrase.“You come to Vegas, you take Vegas the way Vegas is,” said MGM Resorts’ Jay...

If you’ve ever forgotten where you parked, and you wandered, with increasing desperation, around the ramps of a parking structure, you’ll be delighted — or scared silly — by John Knight’s installation at REDCAT. The L.A. artist has transformed the contemporary art gallery into what the space used...

Cannes 2016: 'Café Society' premieres, but a renewed scandal rains on Woody Allen's parade May 12 2016, 10:10 AM Amid the usual excitement and unusually heightened security, the 69th Cannes Film Festival kicked off Wednesday with the world premiere of Woody Allen's "Café Society," starring Jesse...

An overturned big rig has triggered the closure of the 10 and 110 freeways transition near downtown Los Angeles until 9 a.m. Thursday.

For members of the Ali family, Wednesday was the day they lost 6-year-old Yaqeen in a bomb blast in the Iraqi capital.She was among those who died when a bomb in a pickup truck detonated at an outdoor market in Baghdad’s Sadr City district, killing at least 63 people and injuring at least 85.“We...

Early in the game “Severed,” one of the more striking images you'll see this year in a video game appears. A woman of mixed-race descent stands before a mirror, her yellow dress bloody, her arm a stub and her eyes wide in shock.