Новости за 05.10.2016

Did you know that Spandex was invented in 1958? That was one of the pieces of fashion trivia in the Balenciaga show notes. Here’s another one: Around the same time, the label’s namesake founder, Cristobal Balenciaga, was developing a fabric called silk organza gazar. Creative director Demna Gvasalia,...

A Syria monitoring group and a Kurdish news agency say overnight airstrikes, suspected to be Turkish, have hit a village in northern Syria, killing at least 18 civilians.

Campaign 2016 updates: Mike Pence came out on top in last night's VP debate, our analysts say Oct. 5, 2016, 4:26 a.m. Mike Pence took the win in the vice presidential debate, our analysts said. But Tim Kaine and Pence spent most of the night bickering to little effect. Tim Kaine and Mike Pence...

Campaign 2016 updates: Mike Pence came out on top in last night's VP debate, our analysts say Oct. 5, 2016, 4:26 a.m. Mike Pence took the win in the vice presidential debate, our analysts said. But Tim Kaine and Pence spent most of the night bickering to little effect. Tim Kaine and Mike Pence...

Campaign 2016 updates: Mike Pence came out on top in last night's VP debate, our analysts say Oct. 5, 2016, 4:26 a.m. Mike Pence took the win in the vice presidential debate, our analysts said. But Tim Kaine and Pence spent most of the night bickering to little effect. Tim Kaine and Mike Pence...

Campaign 2016 updates: Mike Pence came out on top in last night's VP debate, our analysts say Oct. 5, 2016, 4:26 a.m. Mike Pence took the win in the vice presidential debate, our analysts said. But Tim Kaine and Pence spent most of the night bickering to little effect. Tim Kaine and Mike Pence...

Campaign 2016 updates: Mike Pence came out on top in last night's VP debate, our analysts say Oct. 5, 2016, 4:26 a.m. Mike Pence took the win in the vice presidential debate, our analysts said. But Tim Kaine and Pence spent most of the night bickering to little effect. Tim Kaine and Mike Pence...

A conversation on abortion took a turn when Tim Kaine questioned Donald Trump's ability to lead by criticizing his past statements on Mexican immigrants.

In South Los Angeles this weekend, protests erupted over the LAPD killing of a black man long before there was enough information to say why, exactly, the officer had used lethal force or if he was justified in doing so. About two weeks earlier, the police killing of a black man in Charlotte, N.C., also...

How serious is Hollywood about stopping presidential candidate Donald Trump? The Avengers have been summoned, a beloved sitcom cast reunited and calls have been sent out across space and time to both the women of Shondaland and the entire “Star Trek” universe.

“The unfairness of the tax laws is unbelievable,” Donald Trump told supporters in Colorado this week. “I’m a big beneficiary. But you’re more important than my being a beneficiary, so we’re going to straighten it out and make it fair for everybody.”

Scandals have cut short many a political career. In 1998, as Congress was deciding whether to impeach President Bill Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky matter,  Louisiana Republican Bob Livingston — who was just about to become speaker of the house —  acknowledged that he had had an extramarital...

Alan Huffman is an oppo research guy - someone who is hired by candidates and would-be candidates to look privately for the kind of stuff politicians would not want to become public. Sometimes they research the other guy. Sometimes they research their own guy. Either way, it's all about finding...

Frenchman Jean-Pierre Sauvage, British-born Fraser Stoddart and Dutch scientist Bernard "Ben" Feringa on Wednesday won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing minuscule machines at the molecular level.

With the measured tones of a former radio host and the policy chops of a veteran politician, Mike Pence in Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate delivered the performance Donald Trump failed to achieve in his recent meeting with Hillary Clinton.

Barely a month has passed since Brazil's Senate voted overwhelmingly to remove President Dilma Rousseff, putting an end to both 13 years of Workers' Party rule and a controversial impeachment process that seemed to drag on and on.

In the special skills section of every actress’ resume, she ought to consider adding the phrase “gives good phone.” That’s because even the most gifted women in Hollywood are all too often called on to deliver a prosaic phone scene — worrying about, cheering on, pining for —  their men.

Essential Politics: Dems tie California congressman to Trump, state Democratic Party blasted for comment about Loretta Sanchez Oct. 5, 2016, 3 a.m. This is Essential Politics, our daily feed on California government and politics news. Here's what we're watching: Ads tying Central Valley Republican...

The story I’m about to tell does not quite match the one two years ago about Stella and Savely Goreshter, the Van Nuys condo dwellers who lived in dread after receiving a Los Angeles Department of Water and Power bill for $51,649.32.

If these walls could talk. A scenic retreat built for legendary singer and actor Frank Sinatra in the mountains above Palm Desert has come back on the market in its entirety for $3.9 million.

Maybe the Republican National Committee knew something we didn’t when it accidentally went live with claims that Mike Pence won the vice presidential debate — 90 minutes before he stepped out on stage.

Wang Zhan drives three hours out of Beijing’s smog, past gray-brick towns and yellowed hills to reach a place where he can hear birds.

All through training camp, Luke Walton insisted he just didn’t have the time to think about how cool it was to be the head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers. Even just one hour before the Lakers played the Sacramento Kings in their exhibition opener Tuesday night, the butterflies hadn’t hit. 

Vice presidential debate updates: The winner? Our analysts say Pence came out ahead Oct. 4, 2016, 10:43 p.m. With no lack of interruptions, rivals Tim Kaine and Mike Pence defend their respective top-of-the-ticket partners in the election's only vice presidential debate.Was there a winner in tonight's...

At some point, Clippers Coach Doc Rivers knew the question was coming during his pregame presser with the media, so he patiently waited and waited until he was asked about his team’s unsuccessful pursuit of Kevin Durant.