Новости за 15.07.2016

In every national election cycle in recent decades there has been a segment of voters who say they are mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. But who would have predicted this year that there was enough anger out there to make real estate mogul turned reality TV star Donald Trump the presumptive...

Tom Morello, who is perhaps best known as the guitarist for Rage Against the Machine, has long paired music with activism. The artist, who has worked with Bruce Springsteen and has a new project, Prophets of Rage, touring this summer, was asked by The Times to express why politics and pop live...

Britain has a new prime minister – Theresa May – and much of the coverage this week has focused on her being only the second woman in the country’s history to run the government.

In the hullabaloo over the Brexit vote several weeks ago in Britain, while many commentators were obligatorily running through the implications for the European Union and the global market, a voice stood out.

Shooters. That’s what the most ubiquitous genre of video games are colloquially called. They are the reason critics constantly say that video games are obsessed with guns.

Music may be the food of love, but anger has long been its faithful foot soldier. 

As the presidential race moves into a key two-week period, with the announcement of running mates and the party conventions, Donald Trump has taken an apparent slim lead over Hillary Clinton, based on strong support from white voters, particularly men.

At 22, Wahabba Husain had never worn a headscarf. As she walked into the classroom at Al-Huda, an all-female Pakistani institute for Islamic studies, on a December afternoon in 2014, she felt a pang of worry.

The critically derided “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” has not been singled out for praise in many departments, its writing least of all. But there is one scene in which Zack Snyder’s movie appears to be on to something.

At a time when voters are by all accounts mad as hell and not willing to take it anymore, the conditions seem ripe for an American version of the Angry Young Men movement that transformed the postwar British theater.

Our screens and phones fume with righteousness. Our  superheroes have forsaken us and our fictions pale against our headlines. Social media taunts have poisoned our political discourse and disfigured our reality. We have become an angry, fractious lot, a “Game of Thrones” for a digitized and unsettled...

You want anger?

Go to the opera. Go to the symphony.

Classical music has, of course, a hard-won reputation for civility. Concert decorum typically involves a certain courteousness. Being a member of a symphony orchestra requires a remarkable cooperation. We turn to age-old classical scores to console...

The USC Dornsife/L.A. Times Presidential Election "Daybreak" Poll asks more than 400 people each day about their voting intentions. The poll is part of the Understanding America Study (UAS) at the University of Southern California's Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research. Each day's poll...

A trade group for online payday lenders has started to comb the Internet for sites making misleading claims, part of an  effort to clean up the reputation of an industry beset by complaints from consumer groups and regulators.

In 1995, O.J. Simpson case lead prosecutor Marcia Clark was fighting a battle against anger. Not the one roiling outside the courtroom, where years of police brutality turned the trial into a referendum on race.

When Beyoncé released her album “Lemonade” earlier this year, it took America by surprise, and not because she dropped it unexpectedly on a Saturday evening, or that it fueled speculation that her marriage was in trouble.

It has been burned. It has been memed. It has been stomped in protest. And it has  topped the heads of thousands of supporters of presumed GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.  It is the fire-engine-red baseball cap  emblazoned with the all-caps command, “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.”

Donald Trump debates his running mate choice amid widespread speculation July 14, 2016, 9:34 p.m. Donald Trump says he'll reveal this weekend who he's chosen as a vice-presidential candidate.Trump has narrowed his choices but put off an announcement after the terrorist attack in FranceAn anti-Trump...

A large truck plowed through a crowd of people celebrating Bastille Day in the French city of Nice, killing at least 84 people, according to French authorities, who are investigating the incident as a terrorist attack. What happened? Reports started to emerge at around 10.30 p.m. that a truck had...

Arizona Coach Rich Rodriguez brought in a whole new defensive staff this off-season, but that doesn’t mean his experienced offense is without a big question mark. 

Gaza Strip healthcare: An article in the July 13 Section A about Gaza Strip residents receiving medical treatment in Turkey said that about 3,000 patients from the area with life-threatening illnesses apply each month to get treatment at Israeli hospitals, according to the World Health Organization....

There was a split decision for the Pac-12 Conference on Thursday regarding broadcasts of its networks in Southern California: Frontier is in, and DirecTV remains out.

The Lakers said forward Larry Nance Jr. suffered a “probable” break in his right hand during an 88-80 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers on Thursday night in the summer league in Las Vegas.

The Boston Red Sox acquired All-Star left-hander Drew Pomeranz from the San Diego Padres in exchange for right-handed prospect Anderson Espinoza. 

Newport Beach water customers will soon be able to irrigate outdoors three days a week instead of two, but they’ll still have to conserve.