Новости за 23.12.2016

One year ago, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System board cautiously moved to shore up its $300 billion pension fund in the face of dwindling returns on its investments. It agreed to lower the amount it expected those investments to earn, which in turn would force the employers in...

In Santa Ana, not long ago, on a tired commercial stretch west of downtown, stood a church, a burnt-out motel and something harder to see: one key to alleviating the region’s housing crisis.

When Donald Trump refused to release his tax returns during the presidential campaign, it was an affront to transparency and long-held tradition. But it wasn’t illegal, just suspiciously secretive.

Two hijackers diverted a Libyan commercial plane to Malta on Friday and threatened to blow it up with hand grenades, Maltese authorities and state media said. 

When President Trump’s nominee for Homeland Security secretary, John Kelly, takes over, he will be greeted by briefers with binders full of information about the department’s daunting responsibilities, from hurricane response to border control. In the Department of Homeland Security world, risks...

She had gone to the emergency department because she had had difficulty taking a deep breath. It wasn't quite pain that was affecting her breathing, she said. It was discomfort, a feeling that "something was there."

There’s something unusual in the mix in Southern California this weekend, along with the usual rain-caused traffic gridlock and airport delays, according to one climatologist — a sense of optimism.

Like many secular Jews in the United States, I celebrate Christmas. My wife, who is nominally Christian in much the way that I am nominally Jewish, bought a little fake tree with lights, and on the 25th we'll hang stockings and exchange presents. Why not? My Judaism isn’t central to who I am. I’m...

In 2003, at age 21, I wrote an op-ed for my hometown paper arguing that the Montpelier, Vt., City Hall should remove its Christmas tree. I argued that Christmas decorations symbolically told Jews like me, and other non-Christians, that city government stood more for the religious majority than...

Signs around the Hotel Bel-Air, where Martin Scorsese likes to stay when he’s in Los Angeles, make their decorous hopes known. The painted-on directives throughout the canyon retreat strongly encourage quiet — an apt message for a man who just made a movie called “Silence.”

Hoping for a strong finish after a tepid start to the crucial holiday season, retailers are gearing up for a last-minute rush of shoppers. But due to the timing of Christmas this year, 11th-hour turnout is less predictable than usual. 

THREE RIVERS, Calif.  It was two years back, toward the end of summer, that the bears came. Families of them. Droves of them. More of them than most residents of this small Tulare County town of 2,500 ever had the pleasure of watching frolic in the Kaweah River or the frustration of seeing topple...

The Times’ NFL writer, Sam Farmer, examines this week’s matchups. Lines according to Pregame.com (O/U = over/under). Last week’s record 12-4 (.750); season 148-74-2 (.667). Using point spreads with the scores Farmer predicted, the record against the spread last week would have been 6-9-1 (.400);...

The Tunisian man suspected of driving a truck into a crowded Christmas market in Berlin was killed early Friday in a shootout with police in Milan, ending a Europe-wide manhunt, Italy's interior minister said. 

People make New Year’s resolutions with the best of intentions, but odds are slim that they’ll pan out. Only 8% of people report accomplishing these goals, according to a study conducted by the University of Scranton.

Chris Paul suffered a left hamstring strain late in the third quarter and never returned in a game the Clippers won, 106-101, over the San Antonio Spurs on Thursday night at Staples Center.

USC’s undefeated march through overmatched non-conference opponents continued Thursday night in the Las Vegas Classic. 

The Golden State Warriors knew they would need energy and were missing the guy who often provides it, so they weren't totally surprised by their poor first half. 

No matter where Shaquille O’Neal is honored, his history is inextricably linked with the Lakers.

“Feels like I’ve been here before,” Trent Reznor sings on the new EP by Nine Inch Nails, and that’s probably because he has.

Each Miami Heat run took something out of the Lakers on Friday night. Each time the lead the Lakers built started to dissipate, they forgot what they’d done to get that lead.

Planning on traveling through Los Angeles International Airport over the holidays? You might have better luck hitching a ride on Santa’s sleigh.

Troy Caupain rebounded his missed shot and made a short jumper with 0.7 of a second left in overtime Thursday night, rallying No. 24 Cincinnati to a 93-91 victory over visiting Marshall. 

The New York Giants will have to wait a while to make the playoffs. 

Malcolm Jenkins had the second two-interception game of his eight-year career, returning one for a touchdown, and the Philadelphia Eagles snapped a five-game slide by beating the Giants, 24-19, on Thursday night. The loss handed...

Matt Linehan threw for 381 yards and four touchdowns and ran for a another score to help Idaho beat Colorado State, 61-50, on Thursday night in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl in the third-highest scoring game in bowl history.