Новости за 21.02.2017

Lakers legend Magic Johnson has been promoted to president of basketball operations, the team announced Tuesday.

Essential Education: Big money flows to L.A. school board races Feb. 21, 2017, 10:21 a.m. Welcome to Essential Education, our daily look at education in California and beyond. Here's the latest: More than $3.3 million in outside spending has poured into the L.A. school board race. A new California...

What do a 10-year-old boy with fairy godparents, a half-ghost teenager, an anthropomorphic animal secret agent and a pint-sized beast have in common? They’re all characters hatched from the mind of Butch Hartman.

Competitive cheer becomes a CIF sports during the 2017-18 school year, and El Dorado High in Placentia can't wait.

To the editor: Thanks to Max Boot for voicing many of my own concerns about President Trump’s ties to and admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s oligarchy, which has quashed democracy and impoverished that country in many ways. (“Kremlingate: What did President Trump know and when did...

To the editor: It is deplorable for the Trump administration to be strategizing how to end the dreams of 750,000 young immigrants who were brought here illegally by their parents. (“The White House has found ways to end protection for 'Dreamers' while shielding Trump from blowback,” Feb. 16)

To the editor: This headline might as well be, “Why fixing climate change won’t be easy.” (“'This is the worst I have seen': California's roads are in dire shape, says former Caltrans director,” Feb. 12)

To the editor: I must respond to a letter writer who suggested that the leaks by “unelected and unnamed bureaucrats to bring down officials is what happens in a police state.” (“Constant revelations about the Trump administration and Russia bring back memories of Watergate,” Readers React, Feb....

Whittier Police Chief Jeff Piper says the man suspected of shooting an officer to death on Monday is an example of how statewide efforts to reduce incarceration of certain criminals can have tragic consequences.

Wayne Shaw was hungry, so he ate a meat pie.

The problem with that is he did so while serving as a backup goalie for Sutton United during a Football Assn. Cup match against Arsenal — and with the knowledge that a betting company had 8-1 odds that he would grab a snack on the sideline during that...

Today in Entertainment: Seth Meyers and Stephen Colbert harpoon Trump's Sweden gaffe Feb. 21, 2017, 10 a.m. With the Oscars around the corner and much of Hollywood still focused on the twists and turns of the presidency of Donald Trump, here's what's new and interesting in entertainment and the...

The body of a man was found Tuesday morning in the center median of the northbound 101 Freeway in Thousand Oaks, according to the California Highway Patrol.

David Cassidy is suffering from memory loss due to dementia, he says, and will stop touring to focus on his personal life. 

The Times’ MMA rankings for February, as complied by Todd Martin:

Heavyweight

1. Stipe Miocic

2. Fabricio Werdum

3. Cain Velasquez

4. Alistair Overeem

5. Junior Dos Santos

6. Derrick Lewis

7. Ben Rothwell

8. Vitaly Minakov

9. Francis Ngannou

10. Travis Browne

There was some question as to who Stipe...

For years, Waddh Mubarez has helped people get home.

Mubarez works at a popular travel agency for New York City’s Arab American community, whose members visit the cramped yellow storefront to book trips for friends and family. The requests range from months-long trips to hometowns in Yemen to once-in-a-lifetime...

Vince Staples, “BagBak” (Def Jam). The smart, agile Long Beach rapper seems to float across the futuristic synth bars on his new track. Staples, who is only 23, has been on a thrilling run since his “Stolen Youth” mixtape in 2013.

One month down, 47 (or 95) months to go.

As President Trump celebrated his first month in office Monday, late-night hosts lined up to take on his latest round of headlines.

Seth Meyers found plenty of reasons to break out his keenly honed Trump impression on Monday's "Late Night," opening the show...

DeMarcus Cousins got emotional Monday night when addressing a group of people in Sacramento, the city he no longer represents after the Kings traded him to the New Orleans Pelicans two days earlier.

Hi, my name is Houston Mitchell, and welcome to another edition of Dodgers Dugout. It just really hit me the other day that we won't be able to hear Vin Scully this season. 

From a closing at Grand Central Market to new tasting menus from an L.A. veteran, here’s what’s happening in the Los Angeles food-and-drink world. 

South Sudan's president said Tuesday his government will ensure "unimpeded access" for all aid organizations, a day after famine was declared for more than 100,000 people in the country suffering from years of civil war. President Salva Kiir's remarks to the transitional national assembly came...

The Tuolumne River is expected to rise above flood stage by Tuesday and likely swamp low-lying communities, according to the National Weather Service.

Northern California was battered by another atmospheric river that produced record rainfall and wind gusts that reached 199 mph.

Elections have consequences, as the saying goes, and here’s another one arising from conservative Republicans taking complete control of the federal government: The Endangered Species Act, which played a significant role in saving the bald eagle and the California condor from extinction, is now...

President Trump keeps reiterating his pledge to build a border wall between the United States and Mexico. He and his supporters have in mind a barrier that will keep Mexican immigrants out of the country. They should be thinking instead of a wall that will keep them in.