Новости за 28.07.2017

After a series of delays, SpaceX’s heavy-lift rocket is now set to lift off for the first time in November, Chief Executive Elon Musk said Thursday night.

D.L. Menard, an ambassador for Cajun music and culture whose song "The Back Door" is among the most popular in the genre, has died at 85.

It was a dramatic moment, as dramatic moments go in the U.S. Senate. In the midst of an early-morning vote on a measure that would have crippled the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), Arizona Republican John McCain walked to the front of the Senate floor and cast an emphatic “no” vote, eliciting...

So what does it take to get approved for a mortgage to buy a house this summer, whether you’re a first-timer, planning to move up or downsize? Maybe not all that you think.

Wells Fargo & Co. says that it charged hundreds of thousands of auto loan customers for insurance they did not ask for or need — in some cases causing those customers’ cars to be repossessed — and that it’s taking steps now to try to make things right.

Venezuela's chief prosecutor is reporting at least 114 deaths in nearly four months of protests against President Nicolas Maduro's government.

When Chris Grayson pointed his Web browser in the direction of Georgia’s elections system earlier this year, what he found there shocked him.

Early Friday morning, the U.S. Senate came within one thin vote of dropping a megaton legislative bomb on the health insurance markets serving roughly 1 in 10 Americans. Republican senators were so eager to keep their promise to repeal the 2010 Affordable Care Act, yet so unwilling to compromise...

The grass was green.

For most people setting foot on the grounds of an NFL practice field, this is a given. But for Chargers general manager Tom Telesco, it’s an important detail — one of many he and his colleagues deal with.

“Everything is brand new,” Telesco said as he sat under a tent at the...

You have managed to land a reservation at Felix Trattoria. You find a parking space on the crowded north end of Abbot Kinney. You ease your way through the clot of Negroni enthusiasts at the bar, check in at the hostess stand, and are led into the airy main dining room, the longtime bistro Joe’s...

A five-judge panel of Pakistan's Supreme Court on Friday disqualified thrice-elected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from holding office over allegations of corruption and ordered criminal charges be filed against him and his family.

Officials at the University of Southern California are now in full damage-control mode. Facing growing anger that the university ignored or mishandled reports alleging that the former medical school dean took drugs and partied with a circle of criminals and drug abusers, USC President C.L. Max...

After a day and night of Washington theatrics, the Senate voted down the “skinny repeal” of Obamacare. 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.

Deciding how to give people water to drink and grow food — and to do so without damaging the state's economy or the environment — shouldn't have been this hard. For the last dozen years and more, California has been entangled in heated debate over updating the state's water system. But now we're...

Republican senators spent the week rummaging through scraps of healthcare legislation hoping to stitch together a scheme that would keep alive their effort to repeal Obamacare. At 1:30 a.m. Friday in the Capitol, they attempted to pass a bare-bones “skinny repeal” bill, but Arizona Sen. John McCain,...

To the editor: Paul Kahn’s opinion piece is plausible and terrifying. Perhaps we as a nation should work on ways we can change the political conversation so as not to push an unstable narcissistic president over the edge into the abyss of Armageddon. (Re “The president’s dangerous endgame,” Opinion,...

We’ve seen so many books about the fall of our civilization, dystopian novels that focus on the ramifications for small and large communities alike. But what would happen to a community that’s relatively self-sustaining, that already lives apart from the rest of the world? That’s the subject of...

To the editor: Laura King’s article on the new communications director Anthony Scaramucci couldn’t be more wrong. (Re “Trump’s new surrogate sets a softer tone,” July 24)