Новости за 15.03.2018

Before sentencing notorious pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli to seven years in prison, the federal judge presiding over his criminal trial ordered him to turn over “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin,” the Wu-Tang Clan album of which only a single copy exists. Shkreli paid $2 million for the album,...

Gina Haspel, President Trump’s choice to take over the CIA, is a well-respected figure within the intelligence community, by most accounts. But she is inextricably tied to two very dark elements of the spy agency’s past: She ran a secret, post-Sept. 11 overseas “black site” where detainees were...

Last week, when the Trump administration sued California over its so-called sanctuary laws, Gov. Jerry Brown and Atty. Gen. Xavier Beccera made it clear that Sacramento would resist any effort to force the state to take on federal immigration enforcement responsibilities. Instead they would do...

We get it that tech billionaire Vinod Khosla is annoyed that local authorities and the Coastal Commission demanded that he allow public access through his 89-acre beachfront property in northern California, continuing a nearly century-long practice of the previous owners. He has battled officials...

Many of us would rather not think about the possibility of President Trump getting reelected, but there is little doubt that he is thinking about it.

It all happened in less than a minute. Three police officers arrived outside a small house with a chain-link fence near the University of Arizona campus in Tucson. They were responding to a “check welfare” report of woman hacking at a tree with a knife. They saw a young woman emerge from the house...

Consider for a moment the welter of unconscious judgments and adjustments you make every time your hand reaches for an object — say, a tall drink of water. Eyes, muscles, brain and digits coordinate with exquisite speed and subtlety to ensure the cup is reached, grasped around the middle, held...

To the editor: As Native Californians, we are saddened by the skirmish involving a rich man in Northern California who owns property next to Martins Beach. (“With Supreme Court challenge, tech billionaire could dismantle beach access rights — and a landmark coastal law,” March 6)

To the editor: Thanks to John Grisham and the Innocence Project for explaining some of the reasons innocent people end up in prison. (“Eight reasons for America's shameful number of wrongful convictions,” March 11)

To the editor: Thank you so much for your March 2 article, “EPA chief's clean-water rollback shaped by secrecy, luxury travel and handpicked audiences.”

To the editor: The March 12 article “Garcetti still struggling to expand the number of female firefighters” would have us believe that the reason that we have so few women as firefighters in the Los Angeles Fire Department is a need for more aggressive recruitment programs. That is not the reason...

The Trump administration is pushing forward with a colossal public works project in Northern California — heightening the towering Shasta Dam the equivalent of nearly two stories.

On this day in 1962, President Kennedy laid out in a speech to Congress the framework for a consumer bill of rights and the crucial role the federal government must play in protecting those rights.

The Senate Intelligence Committee will hold a confirmation hearing on Thursday for Lt. Gen. Paul Nakasone, President Trump’s nominee to lead the secretive agency that conducts overseas surveillance and cyber-espionage around the globe.

Imagine if “Sixteen Candles” got a modern-day ’hood makeover. New wave has given way to hip-hop, bullies are gang members, not jocks, and geeks aren’t just great at science — they can determine a weapon’s caliber, sight unseen.

North Korea's foreign minister is due to visit Sweden on Thursday, a surprise move that could be seen as a first step toward a meeting in the Scandinavian country between U.S. President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

For his “Scout Party” travelogue column, Los Angeles Times Outdoor Editor Lynn J. Rogers took this image while driving between Las Vegas, Nevada, and Mt. Charleston.

A state assemblyman wants to create a new felony offense to penalize organized retail theft, a crime some have called an unintended consequence of a 2014 ballot initiative that reduced drug possession and some theft crimes to misdemeanors.

Hard-liners who want to deport all immigrants living here illegally should visit a California farm at harvest. In fact, that’s especially a good idea for President Trump.

The Ducks needed this one badly, and they responded with the kind of “desperation” Randy Carlyle called for on the heels of a three-game losing streak.

Watching Juan Martin del Potro the last few years became an exercise in wondering what might have been.

DODGERS 11, COLORADO 6

AT THE PLATE: Enrique Hernandez hit a three-run home run and a two-run double off right-hander Jon Gray, the Rockies’ ace. Hernandez, a utility man who usually does not start against right-handed pitchers, has one career regular-season at-bat against Gray. How sick is Hernandez...

A campus safety officer shot and wounded a coyote Wednesday evening at Cal State Los Angeles shortly after the animal bit a small boy, officials said.

Oklahoma plans to start carrying out executions with nitrogen gas, a method that has never been used in the U.S. but that some states have already approved amid difficulties with lethal injections.