Новости за 15.09.2017

They range from hardcore “Star Trek” fans to those who wouldn’t know a phaser from a tricorder, but, to a one, the actors on “Star Trek: Discovery” are thrilled to have gained admittance to Starfleet.

Johnny Hekker is punting with a new deal, and a new spin.

The Rams punter, ranked first in the NFL in punting yards the last two seasons, spent the last year perfecting a technique introduced to him by Australian Nick Porebski, who punts for Hekkers’ alma mater, Oregon State.

“Nick said, ‘Check...

Greetings! I’m back from Toronto, meaning I no longer need to google “peameal” and other strange Canadian cured meats and can concentrate on building my vitamin C levels back up and, of course, focus on the Oscar races.

One of the core tenets of the myriad versions of “Star Trek” over the last 50 years has been peaceful conflict resolution and examining why people — and various alien species — battle over differences instead of celebrating commonalities.

Mark Lilla’s new book begins with a statement that is brutal and bracing, all the more so because it happens to be true: “Donald J. Trump is president of the United States.” In the pages that follow, Lilla plumbs truths that are less obvious, but not less comforting. Most of those have to do with...

A judge acquitted a white former St. Louis police officer of murder in the 2011 killing of a black drug suspect, a decision that could spark protests.

See Cassini's last views of Saturn before the spacecraft crashed into the ringed planet.

Mailbags, like Jonas brothers, can often peak on the third go-round (shouts to Nick Jonas). There were no mailbags in weeks 1 or 2, but despair not.

The 10 finalists for the National Book Award in fiction have been announced: Eight of the 10 are female authors. It’s the first time since the National Book Foundation started using longlists in 2013 that women have appeared in such a majority.

In the dark of the early morning, planetary scientist Andy Ingersoll stood alone and slightly stooped at a coffee cart at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. More than 900 million miles across the solar system, the 2-ton Cassini spacecraft that he worked on for more than 20 years was being ripped...

Mike Cagney, the co-founder and chief executive of financial services start-up SoFi, stepped down from the company Friday amid allegations that he fostered a culture at the company that enabled sexual harassment.

Hi, and welcome to another edition of Dodgers Dugout. My name is Houston Mitchell, and I told you that my lucky socks would do the trick.

Low fares to China are opening the way for exploration of more corners of that country. China Southern is offering a round-trip from to Xian, home of the terra-cotta warriors, for $430, including all taxes and fees.

It was a little more than four years since my husband passed away and I had yet to dive into the world of dating. Up to that point, the whole idea of 21st century dating terrified me. I mean, I hadn’t gone out with a man who wasn’t my husband since 1994. With the prompting of my therapist, I decided...

Jeff Bauman was on his way to gamble at Mohegan Sun when he first heard from a group of Hollywood producers who said they wanted to turn his life story into a movie. And at that point, the odds of the deal actually happening felt about as low as winning a million dollars playing penny slots.

U.S. stock indexes were inching mostly higher in early Friday trading on Wall Street as more gains for Boeing sent the Dow Jones industrial average above the record high it reached a day earlier.

CroisiEurope on Saturday will launch its newest riverboat on the Mekong River in Cambodia. Indochine II, which holds 62 passengers, joins four other ships in the cruise line’s fleet dedicated to sailing the Southeast Asian river that flows through six countries.

A shallow magnitude 3.1 earthquake was reported Friday morning two miles from Morettis Junction, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 6:22 a.m. PDT at a depth of 6.2 miles.

A multi-car crash in Sun Valley early Friday killed one person, damaged a sheriff’s patrol vehicle, set two other cars on fire and shut down the southbound 5 Freeway, the California Highway Patrol said.

Aspen Snowmass ski resort in Aspen, Colo., is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a gift for all: $6.50 single-day lift tickets on Dec. 15, the same price the resort charged when it opened in 1967.