Новости за 24.01.2018

The Santa Clara County judge who sentenced a former Stanford University swimmer to six months in jail for sexually assaulting a woman after a fraternity will be up for a recall vote later this year, the Registrar of Voters announced on Tuesday.

Serena Williams, who has not competed on the women’s tennis tour since the 2017 Australian Open, is among the entrants for the BNP Paribas Open, to be held March 5-12 at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden in Indian Wells.

Meg Whitman, who stepped down as chief executive of Hewlett Packard Enterprise in November, has been picked to head a new mobile-first media company launched by Hollywood mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg.

The Universal Pictures movie studio had its most profitable year ever in 2017, driven by major commercial hits such as “Fate of the Furious,” “Despicable Me 3” and “Get Out.”

A 15-year-old sophomore in the small village of Benton, Kentucky, walked onto his high school campus Tuesday morning and opened fire with a handgun, killing two fellow students and wounding 14 more, according to authorities. It’s a measure of how inured this nation has become to school shootings,...

Pope Francis is denouncing "fake news" as evil and is urging journalists to make it their mission to search for the truth.

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva remains popular, but judges say his conviction on corruption charges will stand.

Retired Major Leaguer Mark Grudzielanek, whose MLB career included five years with the Los Angeles Dodgers, has parted ways with his oceanview town home in the Encinitas beach community of Cardiff-by-the-Sea.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg talks about her 'RBG' documentary during the Sundance premiere.

The physical and emotional well-being of Billy, an Asian elephant kept at the Los Angeles Zoo for nearly three decades, is again being debated at City Hall.

Rams coach Sean McVay, who turned the NFL’s worst offense into the league’s highest-scoring unit, added to his staff Wednesday, hiring former UCLA offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Jeff Fisch as a senior offensive assistant.

SpaceX performed a static fire of its long-awaited Falcon Heavy rocket Wednesday at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and Chief Executive Elon Musk expects the rocket to launch in about a week.

The off-duty Los Angeles police officer who fired his gun during a confrontation with a group of teenagers last year in Anaheim will not face criminal charges, prosecutors said Wednesday.

SpaceX performed a static fire of its long-awaited Falcon Heavy rocket Wednesday at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and Chief Executive Elon Musk expects the rocket to launch in about a week.

In an asteroid belt near Jupiter, there is a planet named Eliza McNitt. Its namesake is a 26-year-old filmmaker making her Sundance debut this week with the 13-minute virtual-reality experience “Spheres: Songs of Spacetime,” which plunges participants into a cosmic collision of two black holes.

In an asteroid belt near Jupiter, there is a planet named Eliza McNitt. Its namesake is a 26-year-old filmmaker making her Sundance debut this week with the 13-minute virtual-reality experience “Spheres: Songs of Spacetime,” which plunges participants into a cosmic collision of two black holes.

Kicking off what will likely be a long legal battle over the Trump administration’s push to reshape Medicaid, 15 low-income Kentucky residents sued the federal government Wednesday, challenging the recent move to allow states to impose work requirements on some Medicaid enrollees.

Minnesota Public Radio has released further information about its investigation into former “A Prairie Home Companion” host Garrison Keillor, rebutting claims by its onetime associate that he was fired for putting his hand on a woman’s bare back while comforting her.