Новости за 09.06.2016

The perception is that the Dodgers’ draft last year was a disaster. The first pick, Vanderbilt pitcher Walker Buehler, underwent  elbow ligament-replacement surgery before throwing a professional pitch. The second pick, Louisville pitcher Kyle Funkhouser, rebuffed the Dodgers and returned to college...

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American Grit In the season finale the teams must conquer difficult obstacles to secure a spot in the final, where they will make their way across a wire while suspended above a waterfall. 8 p.m. Fox

Chris Parmelee homered twice in his first start for the Yankees, Carlos Beltran added two more big hits to his huge series and New York's bats broke loose late in a 12-6 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Wednesday night. 

A political newcomer running for a seat on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors staged an election-night surprise, inching past several better-known and better-funded opponents and possibly securing a spot in the Nov. 8 runoff, according to initial results.

Playwright Rajiv Joseph defies categorization. His most famous work, “Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo,” is an absurd anthropomorphic romp that blurs the line between animals and humans, humor and pathos, life and death.

The New York Mets reacquired Kelly Johnson on Wednesday, getting the utility man from the Atlanta Braves for right-hander Akeel Morris. 

The UCLA Film & Television Archive continues its “Marquee Movies: Movies on Moviegoing” series with a pair of 1930s pictures. Starring James Cagney as a Broadway producer getting creative after the encroachment of talking pictures, “Footlight Parade” followed in the footsteps of Warner Bros. backstage...

Gov. Jerry Brown said Wednesday that he will allow an advisory measure to be put on the November state ballot without his signature to let voters weigh in on the role of undisclosed donors in politics.

It’s the sort of reveal that might prompt Quinn King to throw her trusty walkie-talkie across the room: someone confessing an affinity for “Cupcake Wars.”

The Dodgers’ never-ending television blackout is already costing the majority of Los Angeles the opportunity to listen to Vin Scully in his farewell season.

Television producer Luke Neslage, whose credits include such reality series as “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,” has bought a home in historic Los Feliz for $1.396 million.

Don't make the mistake I almost did. Don't neglect seeing Rebecca Miller's deft "Maggie's Plan."

Hollywood has a tendency to overlook and ignore a number of people in the quest for box-office dollars and cinematic masterpieces. As evidenced by the #OscarsSoWhite dust-up, those people are often women, people of color and LGBT folk. In response, The Times published a list of 100 people in Hollywood...

Millions of Californians walked into a polling place Tuesday and some of them came out pretty annoyed. The vote-counting machines were broken. Their polling sites opened late or had been moved. They weren’t on the voter rolls. Complaints accumulated throughout the day: in polling stations, on Twitter,...

Felicity Huffman returned for Season 2 of “American Crime,” the often gritty limited series from John Ridley, as part of what has become the show’s repertory company. And while her new character in the show, Leslie Graham, is substantially different in personality from Season 1’s Barb Hanlon, Huffman...

California primary live updates: Rematches and Democratic battles take shape for fall June 8, 2016, 7:31 p.m. Welcome to a special California primary edition of Essential Politics. Kamala Harris has nabbed first place and Loretta Sanchez second place in California's U.S. Senate primary, according...

Republicans back away from Trump as Democrats urge Sanders to head back to Senate June 8, 2016, 2:20 p.m. Hillary Clinton seizes the Democratic nomination and a decisive victory in California's primary. Analysis: What could go wrong with Trump -run campaign Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker distances...

German automaker BMW has beaten California-based Tesla Motors Inc. by winning a contract to supply the Los Angeles Police Department with 100 electric cars.

It’s official: Hollywood leading man Tom Cruise has sold his home in Beverly Hills in a deal completed off-market. The sale price was $39 million, according to agents not authorized to comment on the sale.