Новости за 28.09.2017

Goaded by President Trump, Republican leaders outlined a tax-reform plan this week that is marginally less generous to the wealthy than many conservatives would like. As the GOP struggles to cobble together an actual bill that can unite their fractious party, it’s tempting for Democrats to sit...

Pop culture is in the midst of a full-on Stephen King boom. Again.

On the heels of the historic box office success of Warner Bros.’ $478 million-grossing “It” remake — now the biggest R-rated horror movie in history — come a cluster of King adaptations led by Netflix’s “Gerald’s Game” and “1922,”...

U.S. airstrikes across eastern Syria have hobbled Islamic State's deadly drone program, U.S. officials say, but commanders warn that proliferation of the inexpensive technology may allow terrorist groups to launch other aerial attacks around the globe.

Snap Inc., the biggest technology company to go public this year, has seen the value of its shares nearly slashed in half as investors realized, among other things, that Facebook’s Instagram could marshal its considerable resources to simply copy Snapchat’s features.

Among the nearly two dozen events occurring throughout October as part of the Red Bull Music Academy Festival are a number of one-of-a-kind happenings.

Broadcast giant CBS Corp. is pondering the sale of its historic Television City studio complex in the Fairfax district as the Los Angeles construction boom propels developers in search of new places to build.

One night last year at an army barracks in Tehran, a tormented young conscript rousted his sergeant from bed and marched him outside at gunpoint.

Perhaps it’s the juice that propels energy drink giant Red Bull’s marketing initiatives into such far-flung realms. In service of its brand, the Austrian conglomerate has underwritten lifestyle activities including cliff diving, air racing and surfing competitions, bridge tournaments, soapbox derbies...

It’ll be close, but it looks like women will be allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia with some time to spare before the automobile industry converts entirely to self-driving cars.

Two chimpanzees, owned by John A. Haeseler, played with a typewriter for a 10-picture layout in the Feb. 2, 1936, Los Angeles Times Sunday Rotogravure photography section. Most of the images were taken with a special high-speed camera.

Two Malaysian teenagers have been charged with murder after being accused of intentionally setting a fire at an Islamic boarding school that killed 23 people, mostly students.

The potential repeal of the state and local tax deduction would hit especially hard in California, setting up another political dilemma for Republicans facing tough reelection battles.

President Trump repeatedly exhibits two traits that are self-defeating. But he apparently can’t help himself.

Jail expansion: In the Sept. 27 California section, an article about a protest over Los Angeles County’s planned jail expansion said that about 63% of people in state prisons had not been sentenced in 2015. The statistic referred to people in jails across California, not state prisons. Also, a...

A man wearing a vest with wires protruding from it barricaded himself inside a Hawthorne Wells Fargo bank branch Wednesday evening, prompting a SWAT team and bomb squad response, officials said.

The NFL has asked a federal appeals court to dismiss Ezekiel Elliott’s entire lawsuit in its bid to lift an injunction that blocked the star Dallas Cowboys running back’s six-game suspension stemming from a domestic violence case in Ohio.

Dodger manager Dave Roberts has kept his cards close to his vest when discussing the possible makeup of his playoff roster. But before Wednesday’s 10-0 win over the San Diego Padres, he discarded an ace from that deck, announcing that first baseman Adrian Gonzalez is done for the year.

Nicky Delmonico hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the 10th inning to give the Chicago White Sox a 6-4 victory Wednesday night that eliminated the Los Angeles Angels from playoff contention.

The father and son have endured the innuendos, put up with the disparaging remarks and heard the calls of nepotism.