Новости за 21.02.2018

“You might already know this …,” Central Valley farmer Sarah Woolf offered politely, before launching on a primer on California’s convoluted water system.

It is a sad fact of this modern world, and my work in it, that there is too much television. Too much good television, in fact, which only makes the situation worse.

Students who survived the deadly Florida school shooting are inspiring others to speak out, but not without being assailed too.

After heated criticism of Facebook’s role in disseminating “fake news,” Mark Zuckerberg has declared that he wants to make the social media company “good for people's well-being.”

Print this editorial and hang onto it for the next time someone shoots up a school or a workplace or a country-western music festival. We can fill in the blanks together as political leaders compose thoughts and prayers before doing nothing about gun violence:

El Camino Real, the steamers that whipped around Cape Horn during the Gold Rush, the Big Four, I-5, Uber — all are testaments to California’s obsession with cutting down on travel time. Every generation has hailed a new savior for our traffic woes, only to eventually complain about it. I’m sure...

Despite the Trump administration's best efforts to undermine and bad-mouth Obamacare, it is not collapsing, as the president often claims. The state exchanges where insurers sell policies to Americans who don’t get health benefits at work are stabilizing, and enrollment remained about the same...

At about this time last year California was reveling in good news: The drought was over. Some parts of the state actually had so much water they were flooding. The governor ultimately lifted emergency regulations that restricted things like watering lawns during a rainstorm or letting the hose...

Over the years, Baez's voice has changed, but her passions have not.

The city of Los Angeles has a mounting backlog of requests from the public to clean homeless encampments, prompting the city’s Bureau of Sanitation to seek millions of dollars more to pay for the sweeps.

On Oscar nominations morning, Yance Ford sat on his couch with his partner, Amanda, watching the telecast. One hundred seventy documentary features had qualified for consideration last year, and Ford’s “Strong Island” had already made it to a pre-nominations shortlist of 15.

To the editor: Every so often, the Los Angeles Times publishes articles that detail the schemes employed by various public servants to pick the pockets of the long-suffering taxpayers. (“Veteran L.A. cops and firefighters can work one shift, then collect double pay for years,” Feb. 18)

To the editor: In the wake of the Feb. 14 mass shooting in Parkland, Fla., President Trump has directed his ire toward the FBI for failing to act on a tip about suspect Nikolas Cruz. (“FBI says it failed to properly investigate January tip on teen accused in deadly Florida school shooting,” Feb....

To the editor: Metro’s board of directors should take a deep breath, which by the way will be much harder for communities in the "diesel death zone" if the wrong decision is made, and vote "no" on the staff recommendation to widen the 710 Freeway from Long Beach to East Los Angeles. Perpetuating...

First, Uber framed itself as an alternative to taxis. Now the San Francisco ride-hailing company is rolling out a new service that sounds kind of like a bus.

Pope Francis created a commission to investigate allegations of sexual abuse by priests, but critics say he largely ignored the panel's recommendations in the past.

My column last week on a nearly 500-pound Norwalk man whose health insurer won’t cover doctor-ordered weight-loss surgery stirred quite a response from readers.

Kaleb Havens could have given up candy, pizza or tacos for the 46 days of Lent.

President Trump was right Tuesday in insisting that the federal government ban “bump stocks.” But there’s less than meets the eye to the directive he sent to the Justice Department to rush through a new regulation, already in the works, that would ban the devices, because sure as shooting there...

In the shadow of the roaring 110 Freeway in West Carson, Jennifer Morris stepped out of the portable restroom and washed her hands in a nearby sink.