Новости за 31.07.2017

Scorching heat, muggy conditions and the possibility of thunderstorms will return to Southern California, making this week uncomfortable and sticky.

U.S. stocks are starting the week higher as media companies gain.

Scripps Networks, the company behind HGTV and the Food Channel, rose 1.1% Monday after it agreed to be bought by Discovery Communications. Discovery shares slid 4.2%.

Charter Communications jumped 6.1% after the Wall Street Journal...

Saga Cruises has designed a Mediterranean itinerary with art lovers in mind. The British small-ship line will stop in ports to see masterpieces by Gadi, Dali, Picasso and others next February.

Discovery Communications and Scripps Networks Interactive have reached an $11.9-billion deal to combine, a move aimed at creating a bulwark to withstand the challenges facing the television industry.

To prepare for his role as Ted Kaczynski in the miniseries “Manhunt: Unabomber,” Paul Bettany spent some time alone in a remote forest home, unplugged from technology, reading books.

Trout and Old World charm blend on six days of fly fishing in the Eastern Pyrenees of Spain hosted by guides Barry and Cathy Beck and Frontiers International Travel.

Jon Jones says he’s learned from more than two years of travails that life is best navigated by making good decisions “one by one.”

On his way to work one day, drone photographer Alexey Goncharov sat on a bench near Moscow’s Mercury City Tower, searching for the best angle to capture the perfect reflection off the soaring, pinkish-bronze mirrored windows.

The $84-billion back-to-school shopping season is back just in time as far as beleaguered mall merchants are concerned.

A suicide bomber targeted the Iraqi Embassy in central Kabul on Monday, followed by gunfire, Afghan police officials said. There were no immediate reports of casualties.

I’m Christina Bellantoni. Welcome to the Monday edition of Essential Politics.

It took decades for John Chiang to hustle into the top ranks of California politics, and he relished all the schmoozing along the way.

Every weekend throughout June, July and August, basketball fans across Southern California swarm to King-Drew High in Compton to watch the Drew League.