Новости за 04.08.2017

Businessman Martin Shkreli, once dubbed the “most hated man in America” for raising prices for critical drugs, was found guilty Friday of two counts of securities fraud and one of conspiracy in a federal court in Brooklyn.

The launch site was the intersection of two deserted roads in a remote, wooded section of southern Georgia. At one point, as technicians tinkered with their rocket, a wild pig sauntered across a nearby field.

It was a little thing. Still, the more information explodes, the more we turn to understanding big events through the seemingly small. We follow, say, the progress of modern civilization through the development of the pencil, or we trace minuscule currents caused by smashing a gnat on Santa Monica...

A federal appeals court on Friday overturned the first-degree murder conviction of a former Blackwater security contractor, ordering a new trial for the man prosecutors say fired the first shots in the 2007 slayings of 14 Iraqi civilians at a crowded traffic circle in Baghdad.

Salon Los Angeles, which opened 80 years ago, has fended off threats from developers and new dance and music trends for decades.

Tom Singerhouse lives at the same southeast Portland address he did in 1965 when, rising late from bed, little Tom could dash to his nearby grade school and still beat the last bell.

More than 1,000 animals, many of them dead, were being removed from a Montclair industrial park Friday after authorities investigating reports of a rotten smell found the creatures in hoarder-like conditions, police said.

For more than a month, thousands of people who fled Islamic State in southern Syria have lived on the sandy banks of a lake full of water they cannot safely drink.

An internal review of the Los Angeles Police Department’s cadet program for local youths has found deficiencies that include inadequate supervision of cadets and a lack of formal training for the officers who run the program.

Insisting that a “culture of leaking” in the federal government must stop, Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions on Friday said that the Trump Justice Department had more than tripled the number of leak investigations it was conducting since the end of the Obama administration. That’s a striking increase, considering...

SUNDAY

Siblings get stuck in a public swimming pool overnight — then things get weird — in the new thriller “Trapped Sisters.” With Alexandra Park (“The Royals”) and “Saw’s” Tobin Bell. 8 p.m. Lifetime

The reboot of “Twin Peaks” moves to an earlier time slot to make way for the return of the...

The Los Angeles City Council is set to approve an agreement to host the 2028 Olympics without knowing the Games’ budget or receiving an independent evaluation of the spending plan.

Rep. Maxine Waters is reclaiming her time. And your time. And everyone’s time.

What’s in season: Southern California grape season is here, typically starting during the hot months of summer and extending into early fall, with stands featuring a wide variety of the fruit, from early-maturing Black Emerald to crisp Summer Royal, plump seedless Flame and seedless Thompson grapes....

A German Volkswagen executive pleaded guilty Friday to conspiracy and fraud charges in Detroit in a scheme to cheat emission rules on nearly 600,000 diesel vehicles.

Hi, and welcome to another edition of Dodgers Dugout. My name is Houston Mitchell, and it’s a shame most of us won’t be able to watch Yu Darvish’s debut on television.

UNDERRATED

“Exit 57”: Though TV sketch comedy feels like an endangered species in 2017 once past the orbit of “Saturday Night Live,” the genre’s history is a goldmine, particularly once you look past standard-bearers such as “Kids in the Hall,” “SCTV,” “The State” and, of course, “Monty Python.”...

Lindsay Hunter's new novel is a road trip story with too much junk food, "Eat Only When You're Hungry." She'll read from it in L.A. on Aug 10.

If you were among the 175 million people who downloaded “Serial,” the true-crime podcast phenomenon that went on to win a Peabody Award, the plinking piano chords in its theme song are probably still ringing in your head — musical glue that helped bond the riveting murder mystery.

Travis Lett has been thinking about broth a lot lately. The James Beard-nominated chef is barely two weeks into service at MTN, his new izakaya, where hearty bowls of house-made ramen anchor a seasonal Japanese-leaning menu, and broth, he is well aware, is “the centerpiece of making ramen.”

One hundred years ago, the United States entered World War I, the first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded, and Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin were among those who ruled the silent silver screen.