Новости за 21.12.2017

Pacific Gas & Electric Co.’s stock took a dive Thursday after the utility company announced it will suspend quarterly cash dividends on its common stock, citing uncertainty over potential liabilities associated with the October wildfires in Northern California.

L.A. restaurants weigh in on how Instagram has changed their businesses.

L.A. restaurants weigh in on how Instagram has changed their businesses.

You might as well jump at the chance to grab this Cape Cod-inspired home in Beverly Hills. Listed for sale at $2.999 million, the single-story spot was once owned by rock icon Eddie Van Halen.

Three workers and a large union sued Facebook, T-Mobile, Amazon, Cox Communications and other companies this week, accusing them of using Facebook's ad-targeting tools to exclude older Americans from job opportunities.

Looking for homemade holiday gift ideas? We've compiled 25 great recipes, including quick and simple gifts (perfect if you're working with kids) and more intricate projects that call for a little extra time and patience. Some gifts will last for weeks, perhaps more. Others are best eaten within...

Stocks opened moderately higher on Wall Street on Thursday, led by gains in banks and technology companies. Solid gains for Goldman Sachs and Chevron sent the Dow Jones industrial average up. Wells Fargo also rose, and Finish Line jumped after reporting a narrower loss than investors were expecting....

In general I have no patience for the argument, popular among classic liberals and Fox News viewers alike, that American college students these days are coddled or protected from especially challenging ideas. Did you read that recent Huffington Post essay “Millennials Are Screwed,” the one illustrated...

A matriarch overthrown in what seems fairly described as a “putsch,” marauding gangs running attacks into neighboring territory, an hours-long standoff with a grizzly, a discarded water bottle — a rarity in the wilderness of a national park — tossed around and protected like a prized new toy. The...

Para los expertos en el clima, el otoño en el sur de California es "una verdadera competencia entre los elementos".

Jose Antonio Vargas, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and activist who in 2011 revealed that he was brought to the U.S. illegally as a child, will publish his debut memoir with HarperCollins imprint Dey Street Books.

For pure basketball entertainment, it was a first quarter reminiscent of the Chino Hills days with the Ball brothers. Joshua Christopher, a 6-foot-4 sophomore guard for Lakewood Mayfair, delivered three dunks and three NBA threes during an eight-minute flurry against Norwalk Glenn that also saw...

James Levine has been a conductor in steady decline. Parkinsonian tremors along with several falls requiring surgery have severely reduced his mobility, and a cancerous kidney had to be removed. During the last decade he was forced to cancel numerous engagements and greatly reduce his once prodigious...

As President Trump’s lawyers were preparing this week to meet with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, their client continued to undermine Mueller’s investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia in the 2016 election.

Catalans went to the polls Thursday to elect a new parliament in a vote overshadowed by the question of whether or not the northeastern region should try again to secede from Spain.

With flames illuminating a darkened showroom and a helicopter appearing out of nowhere, it’s clear that magic is as popular as ever with Las Vegas visitors. Three new shows recently opened and a fourth is set to launch in late January.

At the heart of “Darkest Hour” is a proposition, a writer's one: that words have the power to unite and, occasionally, can even be enlisted to change the world. Winston Spencer Churchill is the personification of this proposition. He lived by the pen and died having published more words than Shakespeare...

Dan Gilroy’s “Nightcrawler” is about as jaded a view of modern journalism as recent cinema has to offer. So hearing the writer-director’s “Roman J. Israel, Esq.,” starring Denzel Washington, is set at the intersection of litigation — with all its loopholes, compromises and questionable motives...

Mark Twain was ahead of his time — so much so that 140 years ago, he had a man cave. On the third floor of the house where he lived when he wrote “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,” Twain drank, smoked and played billiards with his friends.

Director Category Diversity

4 ‑ Number of black directors nominated in Academy Awards history. Also, number of women nominated for best director in Academy Awards history.

1 woman (Kathryn Bigelow, in 2010 for “The Hurt Locker”) has won.

0 black nominees have won.

2010 - First (and, so far, only)...