Новости за 07.07.2017

To the editor: As a Los Angeles Police Department officer, it’s not uncommon for strangers to thank me for my services. Now, it’s my turn to thank a group of strangers.

What’s in season: Fig season is short, appearing for just a few weeks during the hot summer months. While there are many varieties of figs, the fruit — actually, a fig is an inverted flower — can be divided into two classes: green and black. Here in California, black figs, including smaller Mission...

More than 120 countries have approved the first-ever treaty banning nuclear weapons at a United Nations meeting boycotted by all nuclear-armed nations.

Neither Noralyn Bangon nor her husband were home when the airstrikes began — fortunate for them, because their house was among the first hit.

Cleveland Indians manager Terry Francona underwent a heart procedure Thursday and will not manage the American League All-Star team next week, the Indians announced Friday.

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U.S. stocks bounced back Friday morning after the government said hiring grew at a stronger pace in June. Technology companies were making some of the biggest gains, while energy companies declined with oil prices. A day earlier, stocks took their biggest loss since mid-May following a disappointing...

It’s possible that the best thing that ever happened to Jimmy Iovine was getting fired by Foghat.

Sherman Alexie keeps running into his mother on book tour, catching glimpses of the woman at the center of his new memoir, “You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me.” He sees her in the quilt decorating his hotel in Boston, a vivid reminder of her artistry and industry. And then there are the sirens that...

Danny Feldman is the new leader of the theater company, which celebrates its 100th birthday this summer with some serious questions about its future.

Hi, and welcome to another edition of Dodgers Dugout. My name is Houston Mitchell and I remember when the All-Star game was your only chance to see some great players on TV.

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‘The Good Place’ on NBC: An excellent streaming option while waiting for “Game of Thrones” to return, this newcomer created by Michael Schur of “Parks and Recreation” starts off slow, with a superficial, breezy look at the afterlife amid some mistaken-identity comedy for star Kristen...

The World Boxing Organization will re-score the Manny Pacquiao-Jeff Horn welterweight title fight because of the contentious unanimous decision awarded to the Australian challenger, but there is no plan to change the result.

If you find yourself in a more money-spending mood while shopping at the Target store in West Hills next week, that might be no coincidence. The chain’s San Fernando Valley branch is one of two-dozen Southern California Targets being outfitted with audio systems and specially curated music to shop...

The annual Fiesta de San Fermin, made famous by the Ernest Hemmingway novel "The Sun Also Rises," involves the daily running of the bulls through the historic heart of Pamplona, Spain.

Buy a smartphone, use it for a couple of years, then ditch it for something new and improved.

After the nation’s homeland missile defense system successfully intercepted a mock enemy warhead high above the Pacific on May 30, the director of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency said the test had been held under “very realistic” conditions, faithfully simulating an attack by North Korea.

Since President Trump has taken office, reporting in the public interest has seen an encouraging resurgence. There is a renewed sense of purpose among reporters covering the White House and a renaissance in investigative journalism. All this should help burnish the media’s tarnished credibility.

For the better part of a decade, “repeal and replace” has been Republican gospel, a political talking point and policy manifesto.

Slip a fresh $20 bill under the bulletproof teller window of Donnie Anderson’s Medex marijuana dispensary on Century Boulevard — perhaps for a gram of cannabis or some THC-infused toffees — and the legal tender is transformed into something else: drug money.

Since joining UCLA’s faculty in 1988, urology researcher Arie Belldegrun has developed a specialty: starting companies with the university’s help.

A Virginia man who killed a hospital security guard and a sheriff's deputy after escaping from custody in 2006 was executed after an unsuccessful campaign to spare the inmate's life over concerns about his mental health.

Egyptian officials said at least 10 security troops were killed when a car bomb struck a military checkpoint followed by heavy gunfire in northeastern Sinai Peninsula.