Новости за 23.12.2016

The Obama administration’s agreement to settle long-standing cases against two major banks stemming from the financial crisis eased at least one potential conflict of interest facing President-elect Donald Trump, resolving a huge government claim against Deutsche Bank, which for years has been...

Many Americans may feel as if Santa came a month and a half early to fill their stockings with a yuge lump of coal. The remarkably acrimonious campaign and Donald Trump’s surprising win continue to leave such a deep mark on the American psyche, it’s easy to forget the other notable people and events...

A Chinese state newspaper on Friday accused a trade advisor picked by President-elect Donald Trump of “anti-China alarmism” and warned both sides would suffer if commerce is disrupted.

In a time when college football has been overtaken by multimillion-dollar coaching contracts and lavish training facilities, emotions continue to run high concerning Idaho’s decision to take a less-expensive route.

The Federal Aviation Administration on Friday greenlighted the first of several large cranes to be used to help construct the $2.6-billion stadium for the Rams in Inglewood.

Transparency in executions picked up a partial win in Arizona this week.

During the bowl season, the Los Angeles Times’ college football experts — it’s how they refer to themselves — will make choices on the upcoming week of games. Warning: If they could accurately predict results, they wouldn’t be reporters or editors. Their picks for Week 2:

Essential Politics: 'Calexit' group opens Russian embassy, California members of Congress lobby Trump Dec. 23, 2016, 10:19 a.m. This is Essential Politics, our daily look at California political and government news. Here's what we're watching right now: Leaders of an effort to split California...

Essential Politics: 'Calexit' group opens Russian embassy, California members of Congress lobby Trump Dec. 23, 2016, 10:19 a.m. This is Essential Politics, our daily look at California political and government news. Here's what we're watching right now: Leaders of an effort to split California...

The morning after my last meal at Hatchet Hall, I cooked steak hash with the remnants of the big rib-eye. I seared the soft, gingerbread-scented chunks of winter squash in a bit of olive oil. I let the slices of grilled sweet onion, zapped with garlic and anchovy, come to room temperature. And almost...

Saturday’s bowl game

Hawaii: Middle Tennessee (8-4) vs. Hawaii (6-7), at Honolulu, 5 p.m., ESPN – Someone counted the miles Hawaii traveled this season and came up with 47,000. That’s a long way to go to finish with a losing record. The Rainbow Warriors have home-field advantage as they try to...

SUNDAY

Get toasty! Images of a blazing “Yule Log” are accompanied by holiday music in two annual telecasts. 6 a.m. KTLA,  KCAL

Get frisky! Puppies and kitties cavort in front of a “Super Cute Yule Log” to the strains of holiday music in this new special. 7, 8 and 9 a.m. Animal Planet

The annual...

Trump's transition teams asks State Department to identify programs that sought to help women Dec. 23, 2016, 9:50 a.m. This is our look at President-elect Donald Trump's transition and the outgoing Obama administration: Trump's transition team asks State Department to detail programs that helped...

To the editor: As I wind down my days in the U.S. Senate, I wanted to say thank you to The Times, its staff and its readers.

To the editor: So Assembly Republican Leader Chad Mayes (Yucca Valley) is “really old school,” according to The Times’ George Skelton. (“California Republicans have nowhere to go but up — and Assemblyman Chad Mayes could be the one to lead them there,” Dec. 19)

Alan Thicke famously dispensed reassurance, fatherly wisdom and hearty laughs as beloved patriarch Dr. Jason Seaver on the popular 1980s sitcom “Growing Pains.”

To the editor: Like the vast majority of Latinos, I am not a supporter of Donald Trump. But for Los Angeles city and county leaders to use $5 million in taxpayer funds for the legal defense of the undocumented is mind-boggling. It is overreaching decisions like this one by mega-liberals that awoke...

To the editor: Jonah Goldberg wrote that “not since Nixon have we had a leader less beholden to a fixed ideology.” Yet, when we see who his choices for cabinet positions are, we see nothing but ideologues. (“Is Trump the kind of Republican Obama said he wanted?” Sept. 20)

To the editor: We appreciated Antonia Malchik’s description of her small town of Whitefish, Mont., and how the local city council recently passed a resolution against hate and discrimination. It is laudable to stand up against hate, especially in a smaller town, and even particularly, when the...

We all have our holiday traditions: cutting down a Christmas tree, building a gingerbread house, listening to Christmas stories around the fire, sharing a "Mac Daddy Santa" shirtless photo on Twitter. Wait, what? When it comes to sharing holiday traditions, Tiger Woods is no different from the...

Shasta County sheriff’s major crimes investigators are looking for a killer who set a gas station attendant on fire for no apparent reason and then rode away on a bicycle.

The first of many dark ironies to emerge in the quietly devastating exhibition "Uprooted" at the Japanese American National Museum surfaces right near the entrance. A reproduction of a 1942 sugar company ad pictures an internment camp above an all-caps appeal that says, "You don't need to wait...

Millennials have produced plenty of anxiety for automakers. As the stereotype goes, entitled young adults would prefer to hail an Uber, take public transportation or even hitch a ride from Mom instead of driving; an unusually large number of young millennials haven’t even bothered to get a driver’s...

I’m Davan Maharaj, editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Times. Here are some story lines I don’t want you to miss today, including our weekend recommendations and weekly look back into the archives.

The stars shine brightly at night near the Furnace Creek Resort in Death Valley National Park. With my camera set at ISO 1600, a 16mm lens and the shutter opened for 30 seconds, I waited for passing cars to light the sides of the dead tree and tried a little bit of flash-fill.