Новости за 25.08.2016

Essential Politics: Live updates as California's governor says he'll sign new climate change laws Aug. 25, 2016, 10:14 a.m. Welcome to Essential Politics, our daily feed on California government and politics news. We've got a number of big stories that we're following: Lawmakers finished work on...

Essential Politics: Live updates as California's governor says he'll sign new climate change laws Aug. 25, 2016, 10:14 a.m. Welcome to Essential Politics, our daily feed on California government and politics news. We've got a number of big stories that we're following: Lawmakers finished work on...

President Obama’s civil rights lawyers are seeking a potentially far-reaching ruling to hold that the Constitution forbids the common practice of keeping people in jail prior to a trial, even for minor offenses, just because they are too poor to pay for bail.

Katie Ledecky earned five Olympic medals in Rio last month. And those things weigh a ton - definitely not something she'd want hanging from her neck while throwing out the ceremonial first pitch for the Washington Nationals' game against the Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday night. Good thing Bryce...

To the editor: The appearance of posters financed by casino mogul Sheldon Adelson listing members of the group Students for Justice in Palestine at UCLA as “Jew haters” is appalling. (“How a casino tycoon is trying to combat an exploding pro-Palestinian movement on campuses,” Aug. 21)

To the editor: Sadly, nobody wins in the state Supreme Court’s decision not to revisit a lower court ruling allowing teacher tenure rules to stand. Students and parents don’t get protection from having weak teachers, and educators in the classroom do not shed the burden of protecting their own,...

To the editor: We hear a lot of ridiculous statements these days about what one candidate for president is going to do to stop immigration from Mexico. What he seems to ignore is that the reason most people come here from Mexico is to get a better job than they could at home. (“A manufacturing...

Henry Fonda as a dishy “Young Mr. Lincoln” hanging out with Marjorie Weaver's Mary Todd notwithstanding, first dates for future occupants of the Oval Office may not seem like ideal romantic movie material. But “Southside With You” shows how and why it can be done.

Campaign 2016 updates: Clinton targets Trump's ties to right-wing extremists Aug. 25, 2016, 9:30 a.m. Hillary Clinton travels to Nevada Thursday after a whirlwind of fundraising in California. Donald Trump holds his next rally in Manchester, N.H. Hillary Clinton hones in on right-wing extremists'...

Los Angeles is rife with film festivals of all sorts, but if the city has an underappreciated gem, it’s the Cinecon Classic Film Festival, a beloved event whose 52nd edition runs Labor Day weekend, Sept. 1-5, at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood.

To the editor: The oil industry excels at pitting poor people’s concerns against needed climate legislation. (“A big question complicating the climate debate: Are current policies only benefiting the rich?” Aug. 22)

The three-page statement accompanying Laura Lasworth's show at Lora Schlesinger Gallery is useful for learning about the sources of the work but entirely unnecessary to feel the sheer radiance of it. Lasworth paints in a dawn-light palette with such luminous clarity and devotional intimacy that...

Warren Hinckle, the writer who transformed Ramparts magazine from a small, quarterly Catholic publication in the 1960s to one that focused on political and investigative journalism, has died. He was 77.

Well, hello there, Amanda Bynes, and welcome back! 

The former child star showed up Wednesday afternoon on Twitter after a long hiatus and explained that she hasn’t had time to chat with her 3.4 million online besties because she’s been busy with fashion school.

Bynes — who was well-known for her...

Television and film actor James Spader, who stars in NBC’s espionage thriller “The Blacklist,” has covertly sold his home in Windsor Square for $4 million, property records show.

This week: Women gone Wilde, plus a sendup about the making of “Gone With the Wind,” and a hit musical comedy about “the change.” 

When the director Fede Alvarez’s harrowing new action thriller premiered earlier this year at the South by Southwest Film Festival, it was still untitled — until just a few days later, after its initial screenings, when Screen Gems and Ghost House Pictures announced that the movie would be called...

Loaded carne asada fries, excellent tacos, bacon ice cream sandwiches, fried chicken: These are the reasons why you typically spend  considerable time tracking down your favorite food truck. But four business partners, who have worked at some of the best restaurants in the country, are hoping you’ll...

A man wanted for killing his male and female lovers in the Midwest more than 30 years ago may be dressing as a woman and hiding in Los Angeles, a Michigan investigator chasing the cold case said Wednesday.

Hi, and welcome to another edition of Dodgers Dugout. My name is Houston Mitchell. There was this strange sight on TV last night: A bunch of guys wearing Dodgers uniforms running around and playing baseball. I haven't seen something like that on TV in ages.

With the clocking ticking on Notre Dame’s college football opener at Texas, Irish Coach Brian Kelly recently addressed the question that had been hanging over his team for months: Who will play quarterback, incumbent junior DeShone Kizer or now-healthy senior Malik Zaire?

Mylan is bulking up programs that help patients pay for its EpiPen emergency allergy treatment after weathering heated criticism about an average cost that has climbed more than 500% over the last decade.

Campaign 2016 updates: Clinton targets Trump's ties to right-wing extremists Aug. 25, 2016, 4:30 a.m. Hillary Clinton travels to Nevada Thursday after a whirlwind of fundraising in California. Donald Trump holds his next rally in Manchester, N.H. Hillary Clinton hones in on right-wing extremists'...

Campaign 2016 updates: Clinton targets Trump's ties to right-wing extremists Aug. 25, 2016, 4:30 a.m. Hillary Clinton travels to Nevada Thursday after a whirlwind of fundraising in California. Donald Trump holds his next rally in Manchester, N.H. Hillary Clinton hones in on right-wing extremists'...

Skid marks on a wilderness roadway led authorities to a more gruesome find: the skeletal remains of a person who may have been missing for years.