Новости за 15.12.2017

Five years after Colorado legalized marijuana a handful of cities in the state do not allow it to be sold. Among them: Colorado Springs, the state's second most populous city. Why? A mix of conservative politics and religious values have kept this city from raking in big bucks from legal pot.

Key holdouts on the GOP tax bill fell in line Friday, boosting momentum as Republicans finished the final version of their tax overhaul before next week’s vote.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson took the rare step on Friday of sharing a public stage with a senior North Korean official but fanned confusion about the Trump administration’s stance toward formal negotiations with Pyongyang over its nuclear arms.

The United Nations’ monitor on extreme poverty and human rights accused the Trump administration Friday of promoting a “double whammy” of tax reform and welfare cuts that he said will fuel “the single most dramatic exercise in inequality that could be imagined.”

The White House and Republican lawmakers are pressing for an end to multiple investigations into the Trump campaign’s dealings with Russia, aiming to clear the president as soon as possible before the taint of scandal further damages his presidency.

Illuminating the late Philip Seymour Hoffman's longtime struggle with addiction, Mimi O'Donnell, his partner and mother of his three children, opened up about their relationship in a heartbreaking new essay for Vogue.O'Donnell also wrote about the triggers that led to Hoffman's relapse after two...

The rumors have been going around for weeks, if not months, regarding Santa Ana Mater Dei junior quarterback J.T. Daniels, a USC commit. From supposedly being too old to play high school football in 2018 to leaving for IMG Academy, Coach Bruce Rollinson has heard them all. The big one of late is...

The college bowl season begins and ends in Atlanta, opening with the Celebration Bowl on Saturday morning and running through the College Football Playoff championship game on Jan. 8. Here is a look at the matchups.

When a Burbank theater’s sound system failed during the opening night screening of “The Last Jedi,” outraged fans — some in costume — stormed the theater lobby Thursday, prompting a response by police.

“Star Wars: The Last Jedi” is already doing stellar business.

The Lucasfilm movie grossed $45 million from Thursday night screenings in its domestic opening, making it the second-biggest box-office preview ever, according to studio estimates.

No surprise, the record holder remains 2015’s “Star...

Matthew Spencer Petersen, a lawyer nominated by President Trump to be a federal judge, struggled to answer basic legal questions before the Senate Judiciary Committee. So what were those questions?

Republicans finished the final version of their tax overhaul Friday, slightly expanding a child tax credit to win support from holdout Sen. Marco Rubio, but also scaling back aspirations to create a simpler code that would allow Americans to file returns on a postcard.

Thanks for the memories.

The airport on North Hollywood Way in Burbank has officially rebranded itself the Hollywood Burbank Airport, putting an end to the former title that paid tribute to the comedian and showman Bob Hope.

Airport officials this week unveiled a new logo and the name Hollywood...

The Angels announced Friday that they have signed infielder Zack Cozart to a three-year contract, and the team plans to move him to third base.

For a team that is currently 0-13 and has not won a game since Christmas Eve last year, you wouldn’t expect too much next season. But for new Cleveland Browns general manager John Dorsey, he already has set lofty expectations for his winless Browns.

The Trump administration announced tighter screening and security measures Friday at airports in Britain, Japan and other countries whose citizens are allowed entry into the United States without obtaining visas before they travel.

You might not believe it. I read or re-read more than 500 novels this year, to make an epic interactive map of our literary nation with regional fiction. There are 737 novels on that map, which I made for Granta. In choosing specific locations for each novel, I often stayed up all night re-reading...

You might not believe it. I read or re-read more than 500 novels this year, to make an epic interactive map of our literary nation with regional fiction. There are 737 novels on that map, which I made for Granta. In choosing specific locations for each novel, I often stayed up all night re-reading...

I was late to reading Paul Beatty’s “The Sellout” but loved it as I knew I would, having been a fan since his 2001 novel “The White Boy Shuffle.” He wrote so many lines and deployed so many ideas I wished I had, beginning with the legal case that begins the novel: Me vs. America.

I’ve loved and admired Mary Gaitskill’s essays over the years as they’ve appeared in between her novels and short story collections, and here, collected at last in “Somebody with A Little Hammer,” with a cover she designed herself, I felt like I had not just a collection of her essays but an essential...

“We Are Never Meeting in Real Life,” Samantha Irby’s collection of candid, funny and deliberate essays will make you laugh until you pee and cry and ache in your belly. It’s like nothing you’ve ever read, because Irby is like no one you’ve ever met, although you will never really know, because...

Republicans finished the final version of their tax overhaul Friday, slightly expanding a child tax credit to win support from holdout Sen. Marco Rubio, but also scaling back aspirations to create a simpler code that would allow Americans to file returns on a postcard.