Новости за 18.05.2017

And now, the special counsel takes charge. 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.

Charter Amendment C, which voters approved Tuesday, undermines a key component of the Los Angeles police discipline system by granting officers an option to choose a historically more lenient group of judges when they’re accused of violating department policies. Worse, though, is that it locks...

An experimental composer who once created a new piece of music every day for a year. A video artist whose surprising work grapples with complex issues relating to the human mind. And a choreographer whose ritualistic pieces explore the nature of the human body. Those are just some of the recipients...

The history behind the famous Hollywood handprints.

Horseshoe theory, or the idea that the far right and far left meet at the extreme ends of the political spectrum, is more in vogue than ever as pundits warn against the “populism” animating the alt-right and its close cousin, the dreaded alt-left. Tossed around in this way, the term “populism”...

I follow the president.

This means that I receive his tweets when he tweets them. Which is all the time.

It’s a lot of stuff, may I say? He tweets as two people, first of all: Donald J. Trump and President Trump. Donald T. tweets more than President T., but often they tweet the same thing. Both...

As the vote totals trickled in Tuesday night and his opponent conceded defeat, Nick Melvoin grabbed a microphone and told his supporters that, by electing him to the Los Angeles school board, they had “awoken a sleeping giant.”

The extraordinary just happened: A well-liked and dedicated incumbent on the Los Angeles school board — the president of the board, no less — was ousted from his spot in Tuesday’s election, and by a large margin. Or maybe it wasn’t so extraordinary. Millions of dollars were spent to keep Steve...

Rocker Chris Cornell, who gained fame as the lead singer of the bands Soundgarden and later Audioslave, has died at age 52, according to his representative.

The second-ranking official at the Justice Department heads to Capitol Hill on Thursday to brief the Senate about his appointment of an independent special counsel for the Russia investigation, the firing of FBI Director James B. Comey and reports that President Trump asked Comey to end a criminal...

We asked several actors, writers, producers and directors for their special recollections of the famed movie palace celebrating its 90th birthday on May 18.

The legendary Chinese theatre celebrates its 90th anniversary in May. We look back at its historic history

The lauded Silicon Valley venture capitalist Bill Gurley who, along with his partners at Benchmark Capital, was an early investor in companies such as Instagram, Uber, Stitch Fix, and Snap Inc., spent a recent afternoon scrolling through the neighborhood social network, Nextdoor, studying the ways...

The note arrived at the Los Angeles County clerk’s office about a week after the March 5, 1950, death of famed Hollywood theatrical producer and entrepreneur Sid Grauman.

The "fabulous" Forum in Inglewood opened Dec. 30, 1967, and the Los Angeles Lakers played their first game there the next day.

The way Gov. Jerry Brown is proposing to spend — or not spend — the hefty new tobacco tax is an example of why citizens are so cynical about government and politics.

A jury on Wednesday acquitted a white Oklahoma police officer who says she fired out of fear last year when she killed an unarmed black man with his hands held above his head.

Some years, it has taken him until the summer. The earliest he had ever done it was June 1.

Conor McGregor has announced on his website, TheMacLife, that he has struck a deal with the UFC on terms between those parties for a possible fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr.

South Coast Plaza: In the May 14 Image section, an article about the 50th anniversary of South Coast Plaza said that Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche opened its first Southern California boutique at the center in 1982; it was the first in Orange County.

Authorities said a driver died on a Santa Clarita freeway after a tire flew off another car and smashed through his windshield.