Новости за 16.10.2017

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Two weeks after Xi Jinping ascended to China’s most powerful post, he took his top lieutenants to a history museum.

Many people see chaos in the Trump administration and fear for the nation’s future. The president was duly elected, and yet this presidency has already been marked by lawsuits, an FBI investigation, policy confusion and escalating rhetoric with North Korea. Fortunately, the U.S. Constitution offers...

As an incident commander for Pacific Gas & Electric, Robert Cupp has seen the devastation fire can inflict on a community.

The Israeli military said Monday it struck and destroyed an antiaircraft battery deep in Syria after the installation had opened fire on Israeli jets flying over Lebanon — the first such incident of Syrian forces targeting Israeli planes since Syria’s civil war began in 2011.

California politics just got a lot more interesting.

ALL EYES ON SENATE RACE

Maybe Sen. Dianne Feinstein was hoping her reelection announcement last week would scare away potential challengers, but she appears to have no such luck. As Seema Mehta and Melanie Mason report, state Sen. Kevin de León...

Less than a year after Republicans gained control of Washington with President Trump amid heady promises of action, political pressures from multiple directions are bearing down on House and Senate lawmakers whose stalled agenda threatens to exact a toll heavy enough to endanger their majorities.

Cheryl Lynn de Werff was certain her Napa County house was going to burn when she was forced to flee as a massive fire sped toward her Circle Oaks community.

Film mogul Harvey Weinstein and President Donald Trump have become late-night TV’s newest, albeit unwitting, comedy duo.

U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein recalls Gov. Jerry Brown pitching her to support his costly twin-tunnels water plan. He showed her the environmental analysis and she was shocked.

The mojo between Anze Kopitar and Dustin Brown has reached a point where they can combine for a goal even though neither actually put the puck in the net.

If the Chicago Cubs are America’s cuddly little team, then Joe Maddon is America’s cuddly little manager, an affable baseball lifer who is well-read and has a wide range of interests that extend far beyond the foul lines.

Tony La Russa gets the credit, or the blame, for the invention of the modern bullpen — the closer, the setup men, the matchups against left-handers and right-handers.

The ball soared into the black sky, carried through the thick night air, dropped gently over the center-field fence, and the guy with the flowing red hair and bushy beard stuck out his thick arms as if they were wings.

Clay Helton watched his linemen punch a gap through Utah’s big front seven late in USC’s win on Saturday. He watched his running back, Ronald Jones II, flit through it, then flip over a defender and flop into the end zone.

There were no theatrics. No bat-licking or tongue or bat flipping. But Yasiel Puig did something Sunday in Game 2 of the National League Championship Series against the Chicago Cubs that he’d done only once before this season: He walked, and walked, and walked.

Los Angeles police are looking for a man who shot three people Sunday evening in a possible road rage incident in Panorama City, authorities said.